New Life Ministries Thailand
| September - October Prayer Letter |
Dear Friends:
What a blessing to be home once again here with our church and children. The older I get
the more tiring these trips become. The rain is letting up and construction has started on our
new girls dormitory, they say it may take five weeks but based on their work in the past I
doubt it. I am posting pictures almost on a daily bases on our website.
We are hoping to start this week on building a baptistery here at the church, in the past we
have always used the lake but to save time and fuel we are adding one here. August 24 I
preached my first message back at Hilltop Baptist and we had 31 people for our morning
service. That was a blessing to have the opportunity to tell these 10 new visitors that Christ
died for them, and what they must do to be born again.
All of the kids were waiting on our return so we could take them shopping for
underclothing. All of the girls went with Phyllis, Fon, and Asuma. The boys were with me,
Sutin, and Asupa. Naturally the boys finished their shopping long before the girls. During our
time of waiting on the girls we lost two of our boys (duh). We have a store sort of like a Thai
style Wal-Mart but it has two levels. The two boys walked downstairs when we got ready to
leave we started looking. We would go downstairs, they would go upstairs a different way, we
spent 30 minutes before we crossed each others path...What a day!
Bro. Sutin does a great job teaching Bible every night for an hour. I sat in a few nights
back and discovered he was teaching them the Doctrines of the Bible, what he had learned in
Bible School. He had already finished the Doctrine of Sin and is now on The Doctrine of
Satan. Jokingly I told my pastor by the time little Ahmee ( our youngest girl) finished
elementary school we would have to also bestow on her a DD degree. We may not have the
nicest Children's home in Thailand, but one thing is for sure when they leave here they will
know the Word of God, and that is the most important thing we can do for them.
Until our next prayer letter, continue to pray for this ministry, and for us, that God will
use us to reach more souls for His glory.
Thank you for your support and prayers
Bro. Jim Barlow
What a blessing to be home once again here with our church and children. The older I get
the more tiring these trips become. The rain is letting up and construction has started on our
new girls dormitory, they say it may take five weeks but based on their work in the past I
doubt it. I am posting pictures almost on a daily bases on our website.
We are hoping to start this week on building a baptistery here at the church, in the past we
have always used the lake but to save time and fuel we are adding one here. August 24 I
preached my first message back at Hilltop Baptist and we had 31 people for our morning
service. That was a blessing to have the opportunity to tell these 10 new visitors that Christ
died for them, and what they must do to be born again.
All of the kids were waiting on our return so we could take them shopping for
underclothing. All of the girls went with Phyllis, Fon, and Asuma. The boys were with me,
Sutin, and Asupa. Naturally the boys finished their shopping long before the girls. During our
time of waiting on the girls we lost two of our boys (duh). We have a store sort of like a Thai
style Wal-Mart but it has two levels. The two boys walked downstairs when we got ready to
leave we started looking. We would go downstairs, they would go upstairs a different way, we
spent 30 minutes before we crossed each others path...What a day!
Bro. Sutin does a great job teaching Bible every night for an hour. I sat in a few nights
back and discovered he was teaching them the Doctrines of the Bible, what he had learned in
Bible School. He had already finished the Doctrine of Sin and is now on The Doctrine of
Satan. Jokingly I told my pastor by the time little Ahmee ( our youngest girl) finished
elementary school we would have to also bestow on her a DD degree. We may not have the
nicest Children's home in Thailand, but one thing is for sure when they leave here they will
know the Word of God, and that is the most important thing we can do for them.
Until our next prayer letter, continue to pray for this ministry, and for us, that God will
use us to reach more souls for His glory.
Thank you for your support and prayers
Bro. Jim Barlow
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