Reunion
Once a year all the Mekong workers gather from
their places of work in Myanmar, China, Laos, Vietnam and Thailand for 5 days of
enjoying God together, celebrating what God has and is doing, learning from each
other and praying with and for each other. There are about 200 adult Mekong
workers and over 150 children so it is a BIG event.
-Please pray for God to be glorified. Pray the Mekong workers
will enjoy being together to celebrate what God is doing in them and through
them to the Mekong peoples. Pray they will learn from God through one another,
will pray faithfully and fervently and will find rest and renewal in body, soul
and spirit. Pray that God's ways may be made known to all
peoples!
No Workers – Yet!
We believe that
God is calling us as a Mekong Springboard team to go to some of the people
groups in the extended Mekong River region.
-Praise God that Mekong workers are engaged in about 24
different people groups. In addition to these 24 people groups, we believe God
is asking the Mekong team to focus on the following people groups as well
but so far, no Mekong workers are working among them. Pray God will send out
workers to these people groups.
Bru
There are
about 150,000 Bru living in the south of Laos. 0.8 % are Christians. Currently a
Bru father and his son are in prison for their faith. The Bru are descendants of
the great Khmer Empire. Most of the Bru are wet-rice farmers. Bru traditional
religion is ancestor worship and belief in various spirits of
nature.
-Pray for Christians to pray and to go and
live among them.
Bunu
The Bunu (560,000
living in China) are part of the Yao minority group but their language, Bunu, is
more closely related to Miao. Although agriculture is the chief economic
activity of the Bunu, they often are not able to grow enough to feed all the
people. There are only a few Christians living among them, the Bible has not yet
been translated into the Bunu and there are no Bunu Christian radio or
television broadcasts.
-Pray for Christians to pray
and to go and live among them.
Intha
The
Intha, (about 141,000), live in Myanmar on the shores and islands of Inle lake.
They are veterans at swimming and boating and make their livelihood from aquatic
plants. They are Buddhist and animists and their language is Tibeto-Burman.
There are no known Christians and no Christian materials in their
language.
-Pray for Christians to pray and to go
and live among them.
Mon
The Mon are a
Mon-Khmer group living in Myanmar and Thailand with a population of 1 million.
Their predominant religion is Buddhism and they are believed to have brought
Buddhism to Burma. About 0.66 % of the Mon are believed to be Christians. There
is a Mon Christian radio broadcast.
-Pray for
Christians to pray and to go and live among them.