Tuesday, February 17, 2026

We are expanding our ministries throughout South and Southeast Asia

January was a month with a lot of travel, and we were able to see.

In January, Sherri and I travelled to visit all of the American and Thai missionaries and team members in serving in Thailand. It was a great blessing to see the fruitful ministry at each of the locations.

Blessing Home TaPhraya is now back in full operation since a cease-fire between Cambodia and Thailand has been in effect for a few months. The schools are back open and everyone has been able to leave the refugee centers and churches where they were staying during the crisis. Thank you everyone who has prayed for peace. This is an answer to prayer.
All of the Pioneer Pastor Churches in Thailand and in Cambodia are now open. The border is still closed, but we are closer to finding a solution for bringing Pioneer Pastor training to the Cambodian pastors.
Mao and Nhia Wahn Her's new parsonage/church/ministry center building is complete and they have already started evangelistic outreach in their community with the goal of planting a new Pioneer Pastor church and Blessing Home Center.
Director May at the Abundant Life Training Center has now begun planting a new church and she has a small group meeting for worship each Sunday.

Missions Mobilization Training in the Philippines and then landing in the hospital in Bangkok.

The first week of February, Sherri and I travelled with our team to give Missions Mobilization training to pastors and leaders in the Philippines. This is our first time in this wonderful nation and we were blessed to meet godly Christians who want to make disciples and plant new churches in the Philippines.

The top picture is a group picture of all who attended the Engage! Missions Mobilization training.

The middle picture is Sherri's team for this training which included people who were born in India (Anup Rai), Thailand (Corn Prayongkham), Laos (Mao Her), and Kenya (Metrine Mudibo). Sherri's team reflects the growing leadership in missions coming from the Global South). Sherri's training team is standing in front of a banner that lists all of the nations in the world in bold print and then after each nation, the Unreached People Groups (UPGs) in each nation are listed in standard print. We LOVE this banner. People just come and read and think about the unfinished task of missions to reach all people groups, because EVERYBODY NEEDS JESUS!!!

The bottom picture is of one of our prayer breakout times, because the power for the mission that God has given to us comes from the Lord.

Part way through this training in the Philippines, I (Mike) became very ill. When I arrived back in Thailand, Sherri took me to Bumrungrad Hospital where I was admitted. I had a UTI (twice in the past, these infections have turned to sepsis - so Sherri really keeps an eye on me). I also had a stomach virus (astrovirus), asthma complications from the pollution in Bangkok and Manila. And I still was recovering from a respiratory infection as well. The combination of all of this just knocked me down, but praise the Lord, I feel much, much better now. Thank you for your prayers.

Pioneer Pastor Program expanding into Vietnam.

In February, we met with Pastors Ma Linh and Brep from Vietnam, who are Methodist leaders in Vietnam. Thailand NOW is now partners with the Vietnamese Methodists for planting churches and training pastors through the Pioneer Pastor Program.

In March, Thailand NOW will send two trainers to provide training for Methodist pastors in Wesleyan theology and to make concrete and detailed plans for how we can educate and train new pastors and leaders to plant churches in Vietnam.

Above are Thailand NOW missionaries Mao Her and Sherri Tabaka-Morrissey together with Pastor Ma Linh of Vietnam.

Prayers are needed for the Train the Trainer Church Multiplication Seminar in Bangkok

Next week, Church Multipliers from India, Nepal, Myanmar, Thailand, Philippines, and Bangladesh will be coming to Bangkok for a 4 day Train the Trainer event to multiply churches throughout Asia. Thailand NOW is hosting this event in partnership with The River Network, a ministry out of Pittsburgh that trains church multipliers throughout the world.

I believe this seminar will have a HUGE impact for the Kingdom of God and will begin mutually beneficial partnerships throughout Asia. Please pray for the Lord's blessing on this event. We can work in the fields and "plant crops and water them" but it is the Lord that makes things grow.

Your donations are very much needed

Your generosity makes this mission possible and we could not do it with you. Please help.

Checks can be sent to:
Thailand NOW
P.O. Box 56
Mannsville, KY 42758

OR give online at:
https://thailandnow.org/donate-2/

Wednesday, October 08, 2025

Some Great News!

We want to express our congratulations to Thailand NOW missionaries, Allie and David Houle on the birth of their daughter Lydia. Lydia arrived a few weeks earlier then expected and we give thanks to our Heavenly Father that Lydia and Allie are both doing well.

Abundant Life Financial Training

Ratchada "May" Kuntisa, Director of the Abundant Life Financial Training ministry has been busy training Thai Christians to manage their money through biblical principles. Through this training, Thai Christians learn how to budget their family and business finances, how to make an emergency fund, how to get out of debt and stay out of debt, and how to start an Abundant Life Savings Group in their churches.

Below are pictures of:

1 Seminar participants at Muang Thai Korat Church

2. May teaching the seminar at Muang Thai Church

3. Seminar participants learning the "envelope system" for tracking and controlling their finances.

Churches that have had Abundant Life Financial training AND have had an Abundant Life Savings Group in operation for over one year see very large positive changes. The members of these churches see people lifting out of perpetual debt and poverty and moving towards financial freedom. These churches see an increase in tithing and these churches become strong and self-sustaining.

Church Multiplication "Train the Trainers" event in Bangkok in February 23-26.

We have church multipliers coming in from India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, Vietnam, Cambodia, and Thailand (and possibly other Asian nations as well) to learn to become Church Multiplication Trainers. We believe this event will be a watershed moment for our ministry and for the Pioneer Pastor Program, as we seek to expand our efforts across Asia.

Please lift this event in your daily prayers. Many of the church multipliers being trained at this event serve in nations where Christians are persecuted and church multipliers and evangelists (and their families) are in constant danger. They are the heroes of the church and we consider it a great honor to serve together with them.

Your donations are very much needed

Your generosity makes this mission possible and we could not do it with you. Please help.

Checks can be sent to:
Thailand NOW
P.O. Box 56
Mannsville, KY 42758

OR give online at:
https://thailandnow.org/donate-2/

Friday, September 12, 2025

It is a great blessing to have prayer warriors lifting up our needs and praises to the Lord. We are grateful for your faithfulness to Thailand NOW mission.

Mike's knee surgery was a success.

For the past eight months I have had constant pain in my left knee. At first I thought it was getting better, and then I would re-injure my knee (doing simple things like turning over in bed at night). After several months, the pain was constant and not getting better, so I waited until getting back to Thailand to have surgery. Fortunately I only needed arthroscopic surgery, but I need to use crutches for several weeks to allow the knee to heal. Praise God! I do not have knee pain anymore, and I have been sleeping through the night for the first time in months. God is good!

Red, a Blessing Home Isan graduate, passes his teachers exam and is now certified by the Ministry of Education

Congratulations to Red! This past Spring, Red, one of our kids from Blessing Home Isan graduated with his B.A. in Education from Nakhon Ratchasima Rajabhat University. Since that time, Red has been studying for the Teachers Exam so he can become certified and licensed as a teacher through the Ministry of Education of Thailand. The majority of students fail this test, and it is very difficult to pass. Last week, Red found out that he passed the test and is now certified to be a teacher. This is HUGE!! Red will now be able to be employed as a teacher, which has good compensation, a pension, and job security.

When one of our Blessing Home kids graduates from university, it is a game changer that lifts them out of poverty and provides a great future of good opportunities. We are very proud of Red!

Cambodia Update

The cease-fire between Thailand and Cambodia is holding and the border is still closed. Unlike in past years when an armistice was quickly formed which included opening the borders so commerce could commence, this time it looks like the border will remain closed for a very long time.

We have over 20 Pioneer Pastor Churches over the border in Cambodia just across the border, and these areas are closed off to us at this time. We are unable to do trainings and visits with these pastors and churches. Your prayers are needed.

Nhia Wahn and Mao Her are moving to Kalasin province to plant a Pioneer Pastor Church

Thailand NOW Missionaries, Pastors Nhia Wahn and Mao Her, are moving to Kalasin Province in October. Mao's sister generously purchased land in a community where they have relatives. There is an uninhabitable house on the property right now that has no water or electricity at this time. This house is in the process of being expanded in both the front and the back and renovated so that it can be used as a combination church and parsonage.

This new Pioneer Pastor Church is located in Don Chan District, and it contains 5 counties (sub-districts) , all of which are totally unreached. We are very excited because we know that when they plant this new church, it will result in many new churches being planted in this region of Thailand which is the most unreached area. In this area, only 1 out of 10,000 people are Christian.

Mao and Nhia Wahn have a lot of work to do over the next several months as they move up there and do the work of renovating this house and evangelizing in the towns around them.

The River Network: Training the Trainers for Church Multiplication in Asia

In February 2026, we will be hosting The River Network to provide training to Church Multiplication Leaders from India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, Thailand, Vietnam, and the Philippines. This training is "Train the Trainer", meaning the participants will be qualified to bring the training materials back to their home countries, translate the materials, and then provide the training to churches in their home nation. This training will take place in Bangkok at the Avana Hotel, a Christian-owned hotel.

We are excited to expand the ministry of Thailand NOW to encompass other nations in Southeast and South Asia. Our prayers are that a movement of church multiplication will make disciples and bring the Good News to the most unreached nations in the world.

Fundraising for two large dormitories for the Abundant Life Training Center

We have $21,810 of the $242,000 needed to build and furnish two large dormitories that will provide lodging for up to 72 people. These dormitories will make this ministry become self-sufficient, because we will no longer need to spend money on hotel rooms when we are training the trainers of the Abundant Life Financial Training program.

When we came to Thailand 20 years ago, 58% of Thai farmers owned their own land. But because of predatory loan practices, now only 15% of Thai farmers own their own land. This indebtedness leading to bankruptcy plagues those who live in the city as well. When Thai Christians learn how to manage their finances with biblical principles, they begin to save up for emergency funds so they don't have to borrow anymore. They get out of debt and stay out of debt. And when churches are filled with strong families, the church becomes strong.

Our goal is to have all of the funds needed by the end of 2025. This is the final capital campaign for this ministry. Please help this project to cross the finish line. If you give to this project, please designate for the Building Fund.