It is time to give praise to God for many blessings.

First, we are very happy to announce that Pastors Nhia Wahn and Mao Her, have arrived in Thailand and are now serving as Thailand NOW missionaries, helping to train and mentor pastors and church planters.  It is great to have more missionary "hands on deck" for the Pioneer Pastor program.

(Above is our favorite picture of Nhia Wahn and Mao Her.... and no the cute dog did not come to Thailand wit them.)

 Please pray for Nhia Wahn and Mao as they are settling in and will soon begin to learn Thai language.  They will work closely with Rev. Dr. Somsri and Rev. Dr. Warin, who serve as Mentoring Pastors for the Pioneer Pastor Program.  

Last week, we worshipped at Fire of Glory Church with Pastors Somsri and Warin, and it was a blessing to see many missionaries there at the church serving with them at 5 different locations where churches are being planted.  Nhia Wahn and Mao Her as well as David and Allie Houle (who are all Thailand NOW missionaries) as well as Anup and Darcy Rai of World Gospel Mission were all there with us.  The Lord is answering our prayers to bring more workers for the harvest!

While we were there, Sherri and Pastor Somsri baptized 14 new believers and 5 of them were Blessing Home kids!

Above is a picture of Allie and David Houle with the 5 Blessing Home kids that were baptized.

Above is a picture of Gong, one of the teens from Blessing Home Sai Noi, being baptized by Pastors Somsri and Sherri.

We have a HUGE prayer request for Pastor Somsri who yesterday was taken to the hospital.  She had a heart attack from an arterial blockage and damage was done to her heart.  The doctors were able to restore some blood flow to the blocked artery and she is under observation.  It was also discovered that Somsri is diabetic and has very high cholesterol too, and these are also serious medical issues.  Please pray for healing for Pastor Somsri and for her to accept that she will need to get some rest.

Right now, the every Thai church has multiple Christmas evangelism outreaches planned.  Pastors Somsri and Warin had 7 outreach events planned in different Pioneer Pastor locations.  We praise God that there are now missionaries on site to help Pastor Warin, with these so that Pastor Somsri can rest and recover.

Finally, Sherri and I wish you a Blessed Christmas!  May the Lord fill your hearts with Joy and Peace!

Thailand NOW celebrates the Grand Opening of the Abundant Life Training Center

 

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.)

Donations can be given through the mail to:

Thailand NOW

P.O. Box 56

Mannsville, KY 42758

Or Online at: hptts://thailandnow.org/donate-2/

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

Final Phase of Construction of the Abundant Life Training Center

 Sherri and I are grateful for the generosity that is making this training center possible. This training center is an absolute necessity for our mission to keep up with the rapid growth and multiplication of the churches. The Abundant Life Training Center will greatly increase the numbers of clergy and laity we can train in the Abundant Life Financial Training Program and the Pioneer Pastor Program. Through your generosity, Phases 1 through 3 have been completed without incurring any debt:

• Land was purchased and was filled up with seven feet of landfill;
• A strong retainer wall was built;
• A house was built for the Director of the Abundant Life Training Center;
• A large meeting room that can seat over 200 people was contructed;
• A kitchen / restroom building was constructed;
• 220v - 3 phase electricity was brought in and a large transformer was installed;
• City water was brought in and a special filtration system with water storage tanks was built.

Now we are in the process of building a security wall and two large front gates and signage.  The funds have already been received for this.  Now we will begin fundraising for the Final Phase of construction, which are 2 large dormitory buildings that can accommodate 36 people in each building. 

Above is the blueprint (I know it is difficult to view).  Each building is made to have women on one side and men on the other with separate restrooms that include showers.  We are using the best of insulation materials so that utility costs will be as low as possible.

The cost to construct each building will be $121,000 each for a total of $242,000.

As funds come in, we will first build the foundation for both buildings.  We must do both foundations at the same time because the foundations must rest upon very long reinforced concrete columns that are hammered into the ground to reach bedrock.  This hammering process shakes the ground, and would risk damaging any nearby building.  So that is why we have the foundation of the buildings in orange above.  

Then we will construct one building and then the next as funds come in.

Sherri and I are asking all supporting churches to take a special Christmas offering for this project.  Please be sure to designate your offering for the BUILDING FUND.

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

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