"The 2nd update of COSC and 2015 TSP" (Last July 2015)

"The 2nd update of COSC and 2015 TSP" View this email in your browser "Evangelism retreat at the beach (Rayong) on June 20- 24 with 50 Thai students and staff and 27 American students" In His sovereignty: Thank you so much for your prayers.We had many opportunities to share the gospel!!!  We had meetings everyday and shared about God on different topics, then we broke into several small discussion groups. There were great opportunities to know more of what the non-believers think about God. Many opened their hearts and had many questions about theology! But, I know that some of them are against it even though they didn't show it in their actions. I really enjoyed sharing what we believe, but at the same time I felt sad in my heart because many are still blind spiritually. They don't understand what the truth is even though we explained it to them as simply as possible. God please open their eyes and open their hearts to understand Your truth. "Red team discussion group picture"    "Having fun at the Island called Samed"   Game night! In His timing: Rejoice with me!!!  Praise the Lord! We have more brother and sisters in Christ!!! Namwaan, Boy and Pingpong Boy is a freshman, he prayed to receive Christ the last day of our camp. Ping pong, the 2nd year girl, she studied the Bible with a campus staff after the camp ended. She would like Jesus to change her life so she prayed to receive Christ!!! Namwaan returns to God! Namwaan, she said she is a Christian but she didn't commit her life to the Lord. Her mom is a Christian. During the camp, she listened to many life changing stories from other believers, and learned a lot more of who God is. This made her want to come back and follow Jesus again!!! This made me think of these verses. “Suppose one of you has a hundred sheep and loses one of them. Doesn’t he leave the ninety-nine in the open country and go after the lost sheep until he finds it? And when he finds it, he joyfully puts it on his shoulders (‭Luke‬ ‭15‬:‭4-5‬) Praise the Lord for leading her back!!! In His Growing: Thai Summer Project 2015: "Inside Out" We have about 4 Christian male students and 10 Christian female students who attended the training this year. They have been trained about how to get in the Word and pray, walk daily with God, evangelize, how to be a leader, etc.  Even though there are less than last year but I am really excited for them and I believe that God will do His work in their lives just like Jesus. He poured His life on the 12 disciples and they impacted the world!  Even though the project has ended, please keep praying for them and also the new believers that are continuing to walk and grow in their faith, abide in Christ, love the Lord with all their hearts and hold on to the truth of God tight regardless of the situations they are in. Especially, when they visit their families in their hometowns.  "Mission day with the Autistic children"   "Evangelical training (FISH) : Teaching them how to engage with non-believers"   "The crazy And fun party" In His faithfulness:   I am so thankful for a wonderful birthday. My earthly and spiritually birthdays are on the same day. I'm so thankful for His faithfulness and His enduring love for the past 13 years that I know the Lord! Jesus is the best gift in my life!   The sweetest thing is that He knew me and loved me before I knew Him!!!   “Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.”   ‭‭Hebrews‬ ‭13:8‬ ‭   In your prayers:  - Please keep praying for Bookbig, she finished her bible study in Knowing God book. She believes in everything but she would like to tell her mom before she receive Christ.  - SOR 2015 ( Summer of Renewal) our staff retreat on July 20-30 at the beach. Please pray that we'll get to rest, just focusing on the Lord, and have a great fellowship time with our team members. - I got to know two girls named Tanyong and Botan (beside me). They are sisters. Botan studies 4th year in Law faculty and Tanyong studies 1st year in finance. Now we get closer. They used to study at a Catholic school so they have heard about God. I got to shared my testimony and the Gospel with Tanyong already. They visited our church last Sunday. Tanyong is really interested to attend the English camp in the next year! I'm encouraging them to study the Bible together. Please pray for them, that they will come to know Christ.   "Thank you so much for your prayers and financial support"       “I thank my God every time I remember you. In all my prayers for all of you, I always pray with joy because of your partnership in the gospel from the first day until now,”   ‭‭Philippians‬ ‭1:3-5‬ ‭   Love and prayers,   Honey   Fellowship and feasting with staff, staff wives and graduated girls ;)  Tanyong & Botan visited our church last Sunday and their first time baking!

The Half Way Mark of COSC 2015 ( Last June 2015)

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Wow! I can't believe it is the half way mark of our COSC! Praise the Lord for how He has strengthened us! We did so many activities with students. The CO staff, Christian students, and CCPs had many opportunities to shared the gospel with non-believers!           I am in the red team this year. My goal is to support Ice, a staff girl who leads the team.   My high light is when we have team time! It was a fun time knowing the students more, sharing the gospel, and showing the love of God from our lives.  My personal learning: Depend on God every day. I pray from theses verses. I love you, O Lord, my strength.   The Lord is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer,     my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge,     my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold. Psalms 18:1-2          I felt God lift me up so much this year and not to stress in my financial role. Thank God for preparing my heart and reminding me often of our first RT team Value;   Jesus is my all before the camp and during the camp!

CCP girl & guy had the opportunity to share their testimonies.   We watched a video of the Hosea love story. Ice summarized the picture of God's love.   Group date night! Fun time at the Ton Tan Market.

Baking Workshop! I had so much fun teaching the students how to bake! They had fun and really enjoyed baking with each other. They were excited to eat their homemade cake. :) I also shared about  Manna, yeast, the bread and the wine from the bible. Thank God for the opportunities to put the gospel in the workshop. "Sharing the  gospel with Jam and BookBig" BookBig (in the middle) just started to have bible study with Ice. Pray that the truth will open her eyes and her heart to understand who God is. Jam (yellow shirt) seemed really interested in Christianity in the first week of the camp. She asked many of us how we became Christians and wanted to study about God more. But after that she stopped asking and didn't want to study the bible. Please pray for her. Maybe she heard enough and felt full.Pray for her that she will hungry for the gospel.

Pboon (Vee) came to visit our church! Thank God for the new friend (the 2nd from the left) that I told you about in the last update. She came to visit our church and got into the sermon service. On that day it was about the citizen of God. We can't do by our own self to be God's citizen and get salvation. She really paid attention to listen but I didn't know how she felt on the inside. She's kind of confident in herself. But I thank God for that she said she felt welcomed and loved from everyone. Praise God that she can see love from us :) Please pray for her. I heard that she is going to study in Australia in the next month. Pray that God will prepare believers to be around her and she will think more about God.   Please Pray for: - God will open the student's hearts to understand His love, they will realize that they are sinners and need the savior. Please give them faith to believe that Jesus is the only way!   - Evangelism retreat at the beach is on June 19- 24. God please lead your son and daughter to you. Our traveling. Pray that our staff, Christian students, and CCPs will get lots of opportunities to share the gospel there! - Following up with the students after the camp is done. - Our TSP is going to start on June 28.   Thank you so much for your prayers and support.   Love and pray, Honey

Honey's Newsletter ( March & April'15)

We had an event called “Open House” to recruit students for our COSC . Thank you for all your prayers. It went very well, and praise God, for many students decided to sign up at that day. More girls than guys ;) We trust and would like to see more guys to join the camp!         Last year I did the Basic Grammar workshop. This year is Baking workshop. I am very excited for that!!!! I know there are many details or lot of work to prepare but it is going to be fun! "Baking Workshop presentation" Songkran festival         We had Songkran at our church. It celebrates Thai new year and also is a time to respect our older people. At that day we asked the older people at our church to sit and we showed them love and respect by pouring the water on their hands and saying a blessing. I think this is a beautiful picture of relationship and community at our church. "Community team Songkran activities" "Galatians bible study group" My personal learning          I am having a  bible study in Galatians. I really love this bible study. This book points us to the real gospel. Paul helped the the Galatians to understand the real meaning of the gospel, that salvation only comes through believing in Christ. Not by following the law. And we can't follow the law and gain our salvation by ourselves. Through Jesus we are free from the control of the law and we are the children of God! Salvation is not only for the Jews, but for anyone who will believe in the gospel.          For myself I have felt so thankful for the abundance of God grace and His promises for us. I have learned to hold tight to His promises and my identity that is already in Christ. This helps me to walk in my daily life with him!           A gift-promise needs only to be believed to be received, but a law-wage must be obeyed to be received.         The law shows us as we really are. And  so the law points us to see Christ as He really is: our Savior, the One who obeyed the law on our behalf and then died in our place so that we might receive the promised blessing. The law allows us to love Jesus, and enables us to show our love in grateful obedience to Him. "Galatians for you" "Sunday Songkran at Church" New Friend!!!                  Thank God for a new friend. Her name is Pboon. She just opened her own shop in my neighbourhood and not far from our Church. Her place is named Grow Juice Bar & cafe. I went there and got to know her. We are the same age and get along well. I had an opportunity to tell her that I am a Christian and our church is near here.     I would like to keep a relationship with her and hope she will come visit church.  Some of our church members and I went there for fellowship and to have bible study. Maybe this will be good opportunity for her to see christian’s life. Please pray for her! "Community girls team time" Prayer requests: - Wisdom and strength for our COSC preparation. It's coming! - My health. Now I am just taking 2 pills per day for the Lupus. - My Raising support. Trusting God for $ 200 more in monthly support.   Thank you so much for being a part of our ministry and saving the lost people in Thailand. Your prayers and support are very valuable and huge blessing for us!   Honey Be a part of Honey's team, by clicking here!

The Powerful Love of God! ( Feb'15)

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Thank God for the opportunity to have our Resource Team retreat this past January. I have been encouraged by the values that God gave us at the retreat. These values will remind me of and help me focus on serving this year. 1. Jesus is our all. 2.   Serve like Jesus. 3.   Provide quality work. 4. Continue to develop our resources. how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our conscience from dead works to serve the living God. Hebrew 9:14 In the first week of February we had staff training with the director of CO Lexington & CO Memphis. We learned about how to be a healthy staff person and mobilization. The first encouraging thing from those topic is from John 12:24-26 Jesus is the grain of wheat who falls into the earth and dies for our sin and give us new lives. This a great example for us to follow. It is not easy to die to ourselves because it means you will face suffering and you may have to surrender something you don’t want to. The encouraging this is that God will transform you through the suffering. Our lives will be changed and be fruitful!

The 2nd thing I have learned is from hearing what they do in their mobilization. I am very excited about this because this training helps me see the big picture of how to help the students who are going to graduate. I want to encourage and help them to have heart like Jesus and help them to see that God can use their lives for the lost world. They can change the world! " Congratulations! for Ja ae & Loogmee "      "Fellowship time"    "Som & Som" Som & Som who are going to graduate and in the process to transfer in community team. We continue to talk with them about God’s design, their desire, vision and ect. Yelly, one of graduate girls who now works at the Science faculty. They have their fellowship every Wednesday for lunch with other believers who also work there. Thank God for preparing a great community for her. I have seen her desire to pour her life out and be a witness to people around her including the maids at her workplace. We had a birthday party for Nick, a 2nd year girl who joined English camp last year and who came to Christ last December. On that day, she said she felt warm and overwhelmed of the love she received from everyone. She never had a special birthday day like this before. What she said touched my heart. God used this to remind me that showing love like this is not normal because God‘s love is always powerful  as it can touch and fill anyone's heart. There was a girl named Apple at the party. She was the only one who is not a believer.  I was sure that God’s love through the body of Christ will touch her heart. And I would like to see her come to know Christ one day. Praise the Lord!!! The week after the party, I heard that Apple prayed to receive Christ!!!!!!! She is Bobby’s niece. She also participated in the English camp last year same as Nick. She heard the gospel many times there. I heard about her heart was very hard at first. But over time God began to soften it and change her heart and come to know him finally! Apple, Nick & Teoy God’s love is so powerful! This is encouraging me to keep showing God’s love and to pray for people who seem not interested in God or have very hard heart! This makes me think of my younger sister who has heard the gospel for a long time but her heart is still hard! So I will put my hope in the Lord and continue to pray for her. I would like to see her come to know Christ one day! Please pray for her also. Namfon & Me Please pray for: 1. The new believers: Wut, Nick and Apple. 2. Our staff meeting with Chiang Mai team on March 3-6. 3. Our preparing for COSC 2015 on June (CO Summer Camp).There are about 35 short term university students coming this semester! 4. And after COSC, we are going to have TSP (Thai summer project) for Christian students. COKK & COCM will attend together. In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us. 1 John 4:9-12   "Thank you for your prayers and support" Honey

Merry Christmas 2014!!!

Merry Christmas!!!

For to us a child is born,to us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God,Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.     Isaiah 9:6

4th-6th grades Christmas Party! Games,lunch,heard about the birth of Christ & went home with a Jesus storybook Bible. "Teacher's English class final" Testing the teachers on what they learned & handed out certificates & Christmas bags. "Movie Station" Jazma interviewed the teachers. 2014 Caroling in NonMuang Christmas party with the girls! Please pray for these names : Fluke, Tdaam & Bell. They are non-believers. Joy shared about Jesus is the eternal gift! She did very great job!

Thank you so much for all your love, prayer and support! Love & Pray Honey