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praying for leaders

How important is it for us to pray for our government and our heads of state? Paul writes in 1 Timothy 2:1-2, "​... I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all people, for kings and all who are in high positions, that we may lead a peaceful and quiet life, godly and dignified in every way." On 12 August, I had the opportunity to join Thai Christian pastors at a multi-faith ceremony to pray for the Thai Queen Mother.

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Category: Serving in Mission
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Sfruit crossometimes in the missionary life, after facing adversity (like this past couple of years) and seeing not many people respond to the gospel, missionaries can resort to slightly unconventional methods. Angel decided to try something new for a change in the New Year and she began reading the Bible with...

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Have you ever wondered why missionaries need to spend so much time learning another language? Many people think that it’s simpler to just speak English with Thai people. “Surely enough Thais can speak English by now,” they say. “Why can’t we just share the Gospel in English? Even better – the smart phone translation apps are amazing these days! Can’t missionaries can just use this to communicate with Thais who can’t speak English?”  

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translation2With this in mind, I thought I’d check out the latest version of Google Lens yesterday at church. I took a photo of one of the preacher’s points on the screen. Then I looked at this in Google Lens. The resulting translation? “Live a life that allows God to change.” Obviously something went wrong with this!!

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grandparents generationIt’s a phenomenon we see all too often. The desire to earn enough money for “the good life” forces many parents go away to work and leave their children in the care of Grandma and Grandpa, often for much of the childhood years. Just this morning we were reminded of this as we saw the daughter of the owner of the house we just moved into, 16 months old, being taken care of by grandma while mommy works far away. She’ll be back to visit in 3 weeks time.

Whenever we walk past, her expression is always melancholy as she looks out on the world. She and many other children in similar situations are often left under the “care” of Youtube or Tik Tok for long periods of time as the grandparents are often tired out easily or have things to get done.

 

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Category: Life in Thailand
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Screenshot 2021 07 25 110410Meeting with other Christians became extremely challenging in 2021. Around the end of April, Thailand was gripped in it's third wave of COVID-19. New cases each day was soaring and meeting sizes were limited to 10. Some of the Christians in Pak Phanang didn't want to travel into town and the neighbours of the Pak Phanang ACTS Church didn't want anyone showing up anyway! ...

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Category: The Thai Church
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"I'll come too!", seven-year-old Lion announced eagerly. I was surprised, I had said I would walk my dog around the block while I waited for my take away sticky rice, BBQ pork and papaya salad to be ready but wasn’t expecting company. Lion's grandparents were happy for him to get out from under their feet while they cooked my order, so off Bella croppedwe set, walking down the road, Lion, Bella the dog and I. Lion chatted away happily in Thai. Bella, my golden retriever, loved having the extra company.

We walked along for a while, then Lion started looking anxiously at the trees by the road. The sun was going down but there was still plenty of light. Then Lion said "Aunty, don't go too far. I'm scared of the ghosts"...

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