YWAM Thailand National
Conference
The month of August for us, started with our YWAM
Thailand national conference in Ao Nang Krabi. The conference is held
every other year, and this was the first time that the conference was held
in the South. What a treat to be with our brothers and sisters in
Christ from throughout Thailand. The theme of the conference was
passing the torch, as our executive director resigned and the assistant
national director, Phil Porter was appointed to take his place.
A young man from Kono, Hawaii was our main speaker.
Keeping with the theme of passing the torch, he spoke on having a flame in
your heart springing from an intimacy with God and manifested in prayer and
worship. He spoke much on the history of different revivals. He
believes that Thailand is on the verge of a revival, that everything is in
place. One strong evidence of that is the National Plan for Evangelism
that all the churches and denominations throughout Thailand are working
together on. He prophesied that within the next ten years, 10 million Thai
people will receive Christ. I hope and pray that he is right. He
said, and I have said the same thing, Thailand can become the next South
Korea, sending more missionaries around the world, than any other nation,
besides the U.S.
Mike Pratt, a Calvary Chapel missionary serving in the
Ukraine, has asked fellow missionaries to write five devotionals using
Scripture and their experience in missions which he wants to publish as a
yearly devotional that would inspire more prayer for and involvement in
missions. His website is
www.livintheword.com Here is one of the devotionals I sent
to him.
Romans 10:14-15 How then will they call on Him in whom they have not
believed? How will they believe in Him whom they have not heard? And how
will they hear without a preacher? How will they preach unless they are
sent? Just as it is written, "HOW BEAUTIFUL ARE THE FEET OF THOSE WHO BRING
GOOD NEWS OF GOOD THINGS!" (NASB)
Do you have beautiful feet? Our feet are usually the least
esteemed part of our body. In Thailand you have to be careful in
crossing your legs so that you are not pointing the sole of your foot at
another person, thereby insulting them. Culturally you should not
point at things with your feet, kick things, and not point you feet at, or
step over another person. At a recent YWAM Thailand national
conference in Southern Thailand, intercessory prayer was offered for each of
us that are ministering in Southern Thailand. A number of people
prayed for my wife and me. One was a Thai national who I’d never met.
He knelt before me and hugged both my feet. He prayed in that position
at length for me. Tears streamed down my face as this dear brother
understood the beauty of my feet, because God has called me to “bring good
news of good things.”
During the conference we were able to meet
briefly with Prasit and his family.
He was my gracious host the very
first time I came to Thailand after
the Tsunami. They live in
Krabi Town about a half hour from Ao
Nang. Following the conference
we attended Wutt and Radt's wedding.
Radt is the director of YWAM Krabi.
Speaking of weddings, Tommi and Taru from Finland found our church on the
internet and have asked me to perform their wedding on our beach, September
9.
Mother's
Day, Happy Radio, and a new women's
Bible study
August 12 was
Mother’s Day in Thailand and the
Queen’s Birthday. She turned
77, the schools were closed for the
holiday and there were some fun
soccer games for children, followed
by one for the women in our village.
My translator Gahn and I are
speaking on the radio, sharing the
Gospel 30 minutes three times a week
now, Wednesday, Saturday, and
Sunday. After the radio
show on the 12th we attended the
soccer games for about three hours,
it was fun.. Cindy, Gahn, and
Ohn cooked up another great meal for
church Wednesday night and Cindy led
the worship time with her guitar.
What a blessing she is, as we labor
together. August 27 Cindy started a
women's Bible study in our home.
We are very excited about the
opportunity for her to disciple the
women in our church. The radio
program, God's Word for Today, seems
to be going well. We provided
the station with two short opening
songs that we begin with each
program and then another twenty five
songs to alternate ending with after
the message. I taught the last
few chapters of Luke and now we are
starting into Acts. In church
we are studying Romans on Sunday and
Exodus on Wednesday. Gahn is
also teaching about Moses in Kid's
Club.
Kuala
Lumpur Malaysia
We flew to
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia August 23 -26
to apply for new one year multiple
entry visas. We were only
given 90 day single entry visas, so
they expire as soon as we leave the
country, unless we first get a
reentry exception visa. We
were told we will be able to apply
also for an extension at
immigration, but we don't know yet
for how long or if we can apply for
more than one. We may have to
make another trip to Perth,
Australia to apply there for a one
year visa. Anyway, we had a
nice trip Kuala Lumpur. It was
interesting to check out a new city.
It is only an one hour and 15 minute
flight from Phuket, but it is so
different. For one thing the
roads are very nice there, and of
course the capital is full of sky
skrapers including the Petronas
Towers, headquarters to Petronas
Petroleum, which for a time were the
tallest buildings in the world.
We rode up 42 stories to the sky
bridge. We stayed
one night in a hotel and two in a
guest house. Our feet are a
bit sore from a great deal of
walking.
New
Handicapped Ramp Built
Our metal
handicapped ramp has been built at
the Community Center / Church.
It is so nice for our two ladies in
wheel chairs plus another young man
who can walk but is disabled.
It was expensive 14,400 baht ($420
U.S.).
We have a promised
donation of $1000 toward the building
projects. We still need some
additional donations 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 3601 501 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.
Community Defense and Development
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Our Prayer Requests
Pray for the financial needs of
the Calvary Chapels in Ban Nam
Khem and Phuket, and for us
personally.. We've had to
borrow $1,300 from our credit
union to pay church expenses,
make our visa run to Malaysia
and for the missions conference
in Hong Kong.
Pray for the missions conference
September 14 - 17. We look
forward to meeting missionaries
serving throughout Asia, and
some folks from California too.
Pray for the Here's Hope Thailand Billy Graham Training for Southern
Thailand on September 8.
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.
Pray for Cindy as she leads worship with her guitar and sings out in
transliterated Thai.
Pray that Cindy will have more
opportunities to teach English
and disciple women. We
started a Women's Bible study
and we are new English classes
Thursday evening and Sunday
afternoon.
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 Henry and Darlene, a
missionary couple from Israel,
who are in Phuket conducting
evangelism training seminars in
churches for an upcoming
outreach to the Jewish tourists
that visit Phuket. They will be
at our church on September 2.
Pray for contacts made
throughout Phuket via the
internet, that people will be
receptive to the Gospel
Pray for me as I preach and teach in our village of
Thachatchai, that many
more people will come to faith in Christ. A new bridge is being built here
to connect the island to the the mainland. How people here need to know of
the Bridge between God and man, the Lord Jesus.
Praise the Lord many more Bibles have been given out free at the Se-Ed
bookstore. Jeff Lange, Bible Baptist missionary in Bangkok sent us
three cases of Bibles (48). We gave a case to the Phuket Christian
Center, a case to the SHE Ministry, and a case to the bookstore.
Pray for Shawn and Candace
missionaries to Calvary Chapel Ban
Nam Khem who are getting married in
California August 29 and will return
here next month.
Pray also for Tommi and Taru from Finland getting married in Phuket September 9.
Pray the Lord will bless these couples and give them strong marriages.
Praise the Lord for new contacts at
the airport. In Tourist Police
work I assisted a young woman from
Ireland who was dizzy to see the
nurse by wheel chair at the airport
and then transported her and her two
friends to the local hospital and
then to the airport hotel. The
nurse spoke little English so she
now has my phone number when she
needs translation assistance and she said, the
following week, when I visited her,
she will visit our church! Her
husband is an air traffic
controller.
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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