On October 9, we celebrated the Grand Opening of the Abundant Life Training Center and it was truly a joyous event that was attended by regional Christian pastors and leaders as well as local government officials.
(Above is a picture of Mike, Pastor Somsri (Mentoring Pastor of the Pioneer Pastor Program), and Sherri cutting the ribbon to enter the large meeting room.)
The Abundant Life Training Center gives our mission the ability to train many more people in the Abundant Life Financial Training Program and the Pioneer Pastor Pastors program and to do this much more economically too.
We give special thanks to our brothers and sisters of Rolling Plains Methodist Church of Zanesville, Ohio for sending a vision team and the funding needed for this Grand Opening celebration. This vision team of four women travelled with us to many ministries in Thailand, and they served as Prayer Warriors, praying individually with hundreds of Thai people. The prayers of God's people are the powerhouse of the mission
(Below is a picture of the Rolling Plains Methodist Church Vision Team at the Grand Opening Celebration)
Thailand NOW National Mission Rachada "May" Kuntisa serves as the director of the Abundant Life Training Center and her husband "Teddy" helps her in numerous ways to make things work. We are blessed to have them serve with us at the Abundant Life Training Center. (Below are pictures of us and Thai pastors praying for May and Teddy. and also a group picture.)
Our first training event will be a Pastors Training on October 21-24. We still do not yet have dormitories built so the pastors and their families coming to the training must stay at hotels. We are now in our final phase of fundraising to build two large dormitory buildings that can accommodate 72 people. This will allow us to save a lot of money, since we will no longer need to use hotels for trainees to stay at.
For the Final Phase of fundraising for these two large dormitory buildings, we need to raise $242,000, and we just began fundraising in September.
(Below is a graphic showing our progress, which is slow because we have just begun.)
Be sure to designate your gift to the Building Fund.
Blessings in the name of JESUS,
Mike and Sherri Morrissey
Executive Directors of Thailand NOW
