Jonathan Training/Church Multiplication

Jonathan Training at a Bible School.

Tanom & Chan

These 2 are brothers-in-law, by the way. Here they are during a break in in the training day. There were many ideas presented in this workshop that were a real challenge for the traditional church model most Thai pastors follow.

Jonathan Training

Kennedy, Tanom, Chan and Khrua all went up to Chiang Rai, Thailand's border city with Burma, to do Jonathan Training, a Church Multiplication week-long workshop for church planters. They really enjoyed the other attendees from all over Thailand. They said the weather was freezing cold. (For them, maybe, but comfortable for us westerners!)

There was lots of homework and everyone learned alot. Chan found it exciting that he was a tent-maker kind of church-planter.

Darts

• One of the new believing families has been feeling jealous of the attention that another new believing family is receiving and has stopped coming to church or cell groups.
• The owner of the center is giving us trouble; his relatives are putting pressure on him to break the 20-year contract on the center he has with us and make it into a motel to make more money. (He is doing fine financially.)
• Kennedy is in the hospital, tonight will be the third night, and the doctors have been unable to make a diagnosis. Sometime in-between hospital trips we had $130 dollars stolen from us.
• The missionaries who have been coming to learn Thai from our partners are leaving, meaning 3 of our Thai partners have a drastic income loss.

We sure appreciate your prayers!

Chan's House & Shop