Ministry Updates
At year’s end, an overview of ministry developments provides cause for praise and suggests needs for prayer.   A recent flurry of leadership training programs is aimed at developing strong, grounded Hmong believers, a need critical to the strength of evangelism and a growing church.  

Financial support for key leaders continues to be a critical issue, one which is aggravated somewhat by the economic climate.   But God is not limited!    Harassment of believers and ministry by those antagonistic to the gospel is ongoing.   Yet God’s work continues!

Flowery Hmong:

• Expanding vision of young leaders was the goal of a recent one day workshop on church planting movements.  
• Dubbing of God’s Story into the Flowery dialect is in progress.  The video gives a chronological panorama of the Bible.
• A goal for the next year is to reach two counties that are less than 5 % Christian, to establish groups of believers who meet for worship and teaching.

Horned Miao

• In the last two years the number of known believers has grown from 120 to 4,000.  There are Christians in 25 of the 500 Horned Miao villages. 
• Leadership has grown from 2 couples to 25. 

Black Hmong

• Since the radio broadcasts began in March, there have been over 100 new believers.   Many more are considering becoming Christians.
• A work/study/discipleship program; they are being trained in chronological storying, church life and reproduction.
• Preliminary work has begun on a dictionary.  Groundwork is being laid for a reading primer, a step necessary for eventual Bible translation and a song book.
• A prayer guide to aid  in praying for the Black Hmong will soon be printed.

Pray:

• Father, it’s exciting to see how you are working.   Yet weariness and discouragement can afflict those in the “dailyness” and hard work of ministry.   Give them rest of body and spirit and a focused “big picture” view when they meet obstacles.
• Fuel the vision of those recently trained.  Make them people of the Word, rooted in prayer, serving with vision and boldness. 
• Multiply the number of believers this next year beyond any human imagining.   Explode the 100 Black Hmong believers to thousands.   Draw whole families to Yourself in all 500 Horned Miao villages.   Revitalize the Flowery churches until they are passionate to reach the lost around them.