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CEF Teaching Children Effectively (TCE) Training
As many of you know, Cindy and I
were missionaries with Child
Evanglism Fellowship for 11
years. For several years
we had been wanting to have TCE
training for the churches in
Phuket and Phang Nga.
Finally we were able to schedule
the five days of intensive
training July 25 - 29. Jan
Johnson the Asia Pacific
Regional director came as the
overseeing instructor. She
had been one of our instructors
at the Children's Minisry
Institute back in 1989.
Song the Thailand CEF national
director and Mon the CEF Chiang
Mai provincial
director and
Pireen their Thai /English
translator came. 
Cindy and
I gave the instruction for five
classes each under supervision
to be recertified as TCE
instructors since we haven't
taught the course for about ten
years. We were very
pleased to start the course with
eight students. A Phuket
pastor and his wife were unable
to continue beyond the first day
because of their busy scheule
and driving distance. Ehk
one of our local men did not
continue because of the
difficulty of the course.
Five did complete the week of
training, including our staff
member Ohn, and member Sim.
We also had Chert assistant
pastor of Calvary Chapel Ban Nam
Khem (brother of Pastor Phichai)
plus two young ladies from Trang
who cam with Pireen. Sim
led two girls to Christ the week
after the training. To
complete the course for
certification, the students must
sucessfully complete practicums
on teaching a memory verse,
teaching the Wordless Book, and
teaching a Bible lesson.
Then they must teach children
five times following the
training putting to use their
training in teaching verses,
sharing the Gospel, and Bible
lesson preparation and
presentation.
The subjects I taught were The
Child in the New Testament,
Bible Lesson Preparation 1, The
Importance of the Teacher,
Encouraging the Newly Converted
Child, and Teaching Children to
Pray. The subjects Cindy
taught were The Importance of
Conversion, Teaching with Music,
Bible Lesson Preparatioin 6,
Counseling for Salvation, and
Classroom Discipline.
The week of training was
intensive, requiring a lot of
preparation, study and prayer by
instructors and students but
very worthwhile and fun too.
How exciting it was to see the
progress of these children's
workers. The last class was a complete Good News Club (R) demonstration. We hope more will
be able to join us next time.
YWAM Thailand National
Conference in Chaam
Saturday morning following our
TCE training week, Cindy and I
flew to Bangkok and then rode by
van about three hours to Cha Am
for the YWAM conference which is
held every two years. This
time it was very well attended
about 450 people including many
children. Wonderful to see
friends and coworkers from
around the Nation, to fellowship
and worship together and hear
exciting reports from the
different ministry networks.
I especially enjoyed fellowship with the staff of Create International.
They recently produced a video for Northern Thai outreach, a great family drama
where a family comes to faith through friends and other family members and work
together to prepare for a coming storm. Filmed on location with Northern
Thai dialect but also with English and Central Thai subtitles. I also
purchased their latest training videos on missions and evangelism. There were also about ten
workshops offered.
I was a coleader of the one on
Web Evangelism with Create staff and shared the
video on Global Media Outreach.
There were ten people who
attended. Currently we
have five GMO online
missionaries answering emails
for Thailand, if we can increase
to at least ten workers Global
Media will begin massive
internet advertising in Thailand
and I am sure we will see
thousands of Thais come to faith
in Christ via their cell phones,
tablets, and computers. In
Viet Nam we have sometimes as
many as 3000 contacts per month,
and I believe we can the same in
Thailand with the advertising
but the laborers must come
first. No matter your
native language, English or
otherwise, you can be apart of
this online ministry, check out
www.missionaryfromhome.com
and
www.globalmediaoutreach.com. See
www.createinternational.com
www.indigitech.net and
www.createthailand.com
The conference began with worship which included Thai dancers. The
theme was come to the banquet table.
For more news and pictures from the conference see www.ywamthai.org/news/
Thank you Grandpa Joe!
Our dear friend and
co-laborer Joe Cochran came
down from Calvary Chapel Ban
Nam Khem for the Saturday,
Sunday, and Wednesday radio
programs with Ohn, and
preached at church on
Sunday. Thank you Joe!
We were back home yesterday
evening in time for the
Wednesday night Bible Study,
Deuteronomy 32. We
were joined by two guests,
Rick and Cynthia from New
New Zealand, who have just
moved into the area to teach
at the international school,
about a half hour away.
New Bridge is
Open
 The north bound bridge is finally open and the walking bridge with it's vantage
points is beautiful. For more see this
article in Phuket Gazette
Other News
We are nearly finished with Deuteronomy, starting Joshua
soon on Wednesday nights and Hebrews on Sunday mornings. On the radio
I am finishing Deuteronomy and starting in John for God's Word
for Today and easy English stories from the Bangkok Post
for Learning English
Together. Bible
study notes and PowerPoints can
be viewed and downloaded from
www.wdbydana.com/sermon.html
Cindy is back in the classroom teaching Englsh at the two schools. She
also got some additional music for leading worship in our church.
There was a grand opening of the library at Wat Pratikarum School here is the
school director with Petra who leads Happy Hearts Fund.
A recent project was having the students draw out their family tree
I am behind on weed cutting and
hoping for a team to come help.
The riding mower blade mount
broke about two weeks ago and in
has been in the shop.
There has been no time for
mowing anyway during that time
period.
Trucks are both running, we had
to replace the battery in
Cindy's truck.
To follow my Twitter news page
see the Dana Bratton
Daily and if you missing our
pictures please see Cindy's
Facebook
photo album..
Next month we will attend the Calvary Chapel Missions Conference in Hong Kong
September 5 -8, but due to our visa we will go September 2. (Every 90 days we
have to exit Thailand and reneter.)
Praise and Prayer Requests
Praise the Lord we are back up with 12 or more children attending Kid's Club on
Saturday plus often attending church on Sunday and even Bible study on
Wednesday!
Pray the Bangkok Phuket Hospital
will allow me to
make regular bed to bed visits when we return to Thailand in June.
Pray me as I preach and teach at church and on the radio
Pray for Bibles to supply other Se-Ed bookstores in Thailand. I hope to
join the Gideons this month.
Pray for Cindy as she teaches in the two schools in Thai Muang, Phang Nga
Pray for the volunteers we have scheduled this month.
Pray for the TCE students that God will use each of them in mighty ways to teach
and evangelize children.
Pray for healing for Taa Thon long term member of our church - age 90 homebound
for now.
Pray for more Global Media
Outreach online missionaries for
Thailand, speakers of both
English and Thai, see
www.missionaryfromhome.com
Thanks for your partnership with us, we greatly appreciate your support through
prayer and financial giving. God bless you, Dana and Cindy
Bratton
YWAM Thailand missionary. Regular 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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Mai Khao, Thalang
Phuket, Thailand 83110
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