Dear Dana,

In This Issue	Our Website
Moved to Phuket	YWAM Outreach Locations
Church news	Church Density by Province
Prayer  Requests	More About Ministry in Thailand
Buy a Song Tao Project

Moved to Phuket

 Our last weekend in Bangkok was fun.  We were invited to our friend Jay's house for their monthly party.  This month was both a birthday party and going away party for us with about 15 of our Thai friends.  Then we were invited for dinner at the home of Alistair and M for Alistair's birthday.  He had joked in an email, "black tie for the gentleman and evening gown for the lady".  We happened to have a tuxedo and nice dress, so we surprised him by coming in our best attire.  We hired a large moving truck which our friend Darin helped us load along with a few Thais from the apartment complex.  We moved to Thachatchai village on Phuket island February 4 into a nice two bedroom duplex, near the sea. We are so grateful for the wonderful new home the Lord has provided and the rent is only about $100 U.S. per month.  The landlord was kind enough to replace the squatty potty with a regular flush toilet.  We have great Christian neighbors across the street, Som and Nit, who take very good care of us.  Som took us one day to Khok Kloy, a small town about 15 minutes away, to a furniture store where we bought a bed and two wardrobes.  A few days later we had a small air conditioner installed in our bedroom and an electric water heater in the bathroom. Other new friends and church members, Rolfe and Sim, loaned us the money to make that possible.   Som ordered satellite internet service which will be installed around the middle of the month for us.  It is very expensive, about $70 a month, but it is such an important tool to stay in touch.  We still need to buy two bookshelves for my office, a dining room table and chairs, plus a few more chairs for the living room and front patio. 

Thursday the 7th was a day off from school for the Chinese New Year.  We found there are many children living on our street.  We passed out large squirt guns we had left from our outreach team during the April Song Kran water festival and quickly made friends.  They came into the house later and enjoyed Cindy's keyboard, looked through all our books, used a Scrabble game to make houses with, and then watched a children's video with Thai subtitles.  We had a great afternoon.

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Church News

 

We will have one more Sunday 3:30 p.m. church service in the house the church plant has been renting, where Jum and Tak live, and then the next Sunday we will change to 10:00 a.m. We then plan to begin using the community center.  Our friends in Bangkok, Alistair and M, gave money to the church that will be used to buy several fans for the community center.  In the afternoon that Sunday we will start a baptism class for the twelve people who are waiting to be baptized.  The weekly teaching schedule is: Wednesday morning staff meeting and prayer, then cell group in Khok Khloy in the evening; two cell groups on Thursday in Khok Khloy afternoon and evening; one cell group on Friday at the church house with a meal, and then Saturday morning there is a children's meeting and a youth meeting.   Monday will be a day off and Tuesday a study and preparation day. Language study will be scheduled in soon.  It is a delight serving the Lord together with Jum and Tak.

Home from the parties with our friend Santee	Tak and kids at the church house
Jum	Kids at the sea shore near the church house
Thachatchai Community Center	Pastor James and Bua
Outside the church house	Sim, Nit and another lady talk with Dana before church
Golf checks out our library	Tayn checks out the keyboard
Our living room	Our bedroom
Our kitchen	Church service at the church house

 

Buy a song tao truck project

Alistair and M have a 2001 Nissan Frontier pickup with only 25,000 miles they want to sell to us for $8,000 U.S., and they will deliver it from Bangkok.  We will then add the song tao, which means two benches; there is a frame with an aluminum or canvas roof, like a camper shell but with open walls and two benches. That part costs $800.  So we need $8,800.  The truck will be our personal car as well as the church van.  Can you help us with this project?

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Prayer Requests

We need the Lord's wisdom in leading and overseeing this ministry which will probably also involve many new programs in the community center.  Pray for Southern Thailand and especially for the church plant in Thachatchai, Phuket.

Pray that God will enlighten the minds and understanding of Buddhists, to recognize God as the only true God.   Pray that the Lord will send more laborers for the harvest here.

We need some additional monthly support  Support may be sent to YWAM Montana 501 Blacktail Road Lakeside, Montana 59922 U.S.A. Project number 3454.

Pray the Lord will help us to become fluent in Thai so that we can be most effective in sharing the Gospel and training and discipling.  

Pray for the song tao truck project

Our sons and their wives have determined they cannot afford the monthly mortgage on our old home in Riverside.  They just replaced the heater and air conditioner, have done some painting and yard work and will now put it up for sale.  Pray that it will sell quickly and at good price that will benefit them and us.

Pray that Aaron will heal from his car accident and return to full time work.

Nathan and Denise our expecting their first baby in May.  Praise the Lord!

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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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