Missionary Newsletter

Dana & Cindy Bratton's Latest Adventures in Ministry

Missionaries to Thailand, Pastor Calvary Chapel at the Bridge August 2009

In This Issue	Our Websites
Rebuilding	Calvary Chapel at the Bridge
Planting trees	YWAM Outreach Locations
Upcoming events	California Computer.net
Happy Radio	More About Ministry in Thailand
Building Fund	Thailand Evangelism Commission
Prayer Requests
January letter	July letter
February letter	August letter
March letter	September letter
April letter	October letter
May letter	November letter
June letter	December letter

Rebuilding after the Fire in Thachatchai

Gypsy Village Fire

Last month I told you about the fire that burned 17 homes in a nearby community. I stopped by to see how they are doing last week. They have distributed all of the food and clothing, and with government aid are beginning to rebuild. Sea gypsy village rebuilding

Planting Trees

I serve under the foreign Tourist Police Cadets Volunteers, but am often invited also to participate with the Thai Tourist Police Volunteers who live in our village. One Saturday we joined with 51 young cadets in planting mangrove trees on the shoreline of a sea village on the south east side of the island. We met first at a special education school and then loaded up buses and cars and travelled to the village. They greeted us with flower lays, for the dignitaries, and for some reason thought I was one, and lots of ice water. It was an all day event. I think we planted about 400 trees in the mud. The Moslem community we served really appreciated all the volunteers coming, they participated in the planting too and prepared a nice lunch.

We had 40 military police living in the Community Center for one week during the ASEAN Summit. Five of the them attended church on Sunday. Security was really beefed up on the island, there were soldiers and police everywhere, with automatic weapons, riot gear, and there were multiple road check points. Thankfully there were no problems.

Upcoming events

The national YWAM Thailand annual conference is in Krabi August 1 -4. Cindy and I are looking forward to a time of fellowship, worship, and some good teaching. It is also a changing of the guard, Sam Sarvis is stepping down as National Director and his assistant Phil Porter has been chosen to replace him.

Our one year visas are expiring the end of August, so we plan to fly to Kuala Lumpur, the capital of Malaysia August 24 -27 to apply for new visas at the Thai Embassy there.

In mid September Calvary Chapel will have a SE Asia missions conference in Hong Kong which we are hoping to attend and must make our hotel reservations by August 14.

I am meeting monthly with the other Phuket pastors and with a special committee to plan a large joint Christmas celebration. I made some suggestions and then was asked to write out a drama script to share a Christmas message. I wrote about a Thai family who comes into a shopping mall and sees Santa and lots of shopping and then a school choir singing Jingles Bells. The children in the family ask about each scene, is this what Christmas is really about? Then there is a Baby Jesus in the manger scene and the reading of Luke chapter 2 and the family of four believes.

Happy Radio and God's Word for Today

More than a year ago I was first invited to speak regularly on a local radio station. I hesitated because of my lack of Thai fluency and frequently not having a translator. We bought our truck from the station owner and he is a tourist police volunteer whom I rode with to plant tress. James from Myanmar came to visit us and help for four days. While he was with us, I revisited my friend at the radio station, to confirm dates and times and details of what he would allow. The program is called God's Word for Today and airs every Saturday and Sunday morning from 7:30 - 8:00 a.m. We start with a song a bit of a greeting and introduction and I then share simply and informally from the Word of God which James translated. Gahn will normally translate for me each week. This coming weekend while we are gone to Krabi, I gave the station two radio broadcasts from J. Vernon Mc Gee that have been nicely translated into Thai.

Thachatchai Community Center Building Fund

We have a promised donation of $1000 toward the building projects. We still need some additional donations for a handicapped ramp, that should be finished this month.. We also still need an acoustic tile ceiling, ten more mattresses, and to build a partition wall separating men's and women's sleeping quarters. Donations for the Thachatchai Community Center building project can be made to YWAM Montana designate Thachatchai Community Center Project number 3601501 Blacktail Road Lakeside, Montana 59922 U.S.A note: this is for the building not for our regular support, and will not be taxable income for us.

Our Prayer Requests

Pray for the financial needs of the Calvary Chapels in Ban Nam Khem and Phuket. Last month we personally had to borrow $450 dollars to pay staff and other church expenses. Because Calvary Chapel Ban Nam Khem could not support our church as they normally do for that amount. Ban Nam Khem has had to cut staff salaries there in half and cut back on the area served by their Burmese school.

Pray for the Lord's provision for us to make our visa renewal trip and to attend the Calvary Chapel missions conference.

Praise the Lord for Cindy who has been doing a fantastic job preparing meals for Wednesday and Sunday, and operating the sound system and video projector.

Praise the Lord three more kids accepted Christ in Kid's Club!!

Pray for funds to replace our video projector lamp which is growing very dim, and costs over $200.

Pray for Cindy as she leads worship with her guitar and sings out in transliterated Thai. Our two Thai Bible students have gone across the bridge to help Jum in her new Burmese school.

Pray that Cindy will have more opportunities to teach English and disciple women.

Pray for Gahn as she translates my teaching and preaching and teaches Kid's Club on Saturdays with Cindy. She also does other outreach with the children in our neighborhood.

Pray for the YWAM Thailand national conference in Krabi August 1 - 4

Pray for contacts made throughout Phuket via the internet, that people will be receptive to the Gospel

Pray for our village of Thachatchai, that many more people will come to faith in Christ.

Pray for the recovery and rebuilding of the sea gypsy community

Pray for the Mallawong family who are raising mission support to be able to join us soon.

Praise the Lord, the ASEAN Summit went well without protestors in Phuket last month

Praise the Lord for the Emmanuel Baptist Church in Bangkok and other Christians who came to visit

Praise the Lord many more Bibles have been given out free at the Se-Ed bookstore

Thanks for partnership with us, we greatly appreciate your support through prayer and financial giving. God bless you, Dana and Cindy Bratton

YWAM Thailand missionary. Support may be sent to YWAM Montana 501 Blacktail Road Lakeside, Montana 59922 U.S.A. Project number 3454. or through PayPal

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93/101 Moo 5 Soi Thachatchai 9
Mai Khao, Thalang
Phuket, Thailand 83110

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