Bible translation

• The Christmas outreach in the village went well despite the efforts of some trying to interrupt and confuse.  Pray that all that took place will have made people more open to Christianity and that the Holy Spirit will use what they saw and heard as links in the chain to bring them to Christ.
• The 2 interns, J and his wife MC, complete their internship in one month’s time.  Please pray for them as they will be involved in conferences and camps amongst other things.  Pray that in between these activities they will be willing to continue to help part time with the Bible checking until they return to Bible School at the end of May.   There is so much they could do to help.
• The hymnbooks are now done except for the final layout check on all 5 editions.

Mien Mission Church

• When D and SZ visited a CAN earlier this year, D was able to obtain some linguistic data on the Kim Mun language.  The Kim Mun are the minority people group who are closest linguistically and culturally to the Mien.  Many of them can actually speak Mien.  Some 5000 of them in CANs have turned to Christ.  As their language is not written down some of these new believers have learnt to read Mien in order to be able to read the Scriptures.  They are also listening to the Mien radio broadcasts.  In December D was introduced to a Kim Mun lady living in a small Northern Thai and Mien village.  She fled from Laos to Thailand 20 years ago.  Her presence was not known to linguists and anthropologists.  She immediately recognized a recording sent by a Kim Mun from a CAN as being her own language.  Praise the Lord that she is willing to teach D her language.
• We are grateful to the Lord for a good time of outreach by the Mien Mission Church to Unity Village.  Mr FO (in his 60’s) accepted Christ as his Savior.  Please pray for growth in understanding the Gospel and for good health.

Church Planting

• Last month we said that we were hoping that within a few days we should have an estimate for printing the pocket sized New Testaments for Creative Access Nations.  There has been yet another set back as a key contact has been arrested.  Please pray for his release.  Please pray too for the new arrangements that now have to be made.  Getting Scriptures and other literature into CANs is becoming more and more difficult but the Lord is able to overcome all obstacles.
• Please continue to pray for the large number of ‘Two Ways’ booklets and tapes that have got held up on route to their destination in a CAN.  We still have not heard whether it has been possible to move them.  A very small number of the booklets and tapes going in by another route got through to Mien believers in another area where there is very severe persecution.  They were so grateful.

Young Peoples’ and Children's’ Ministry

• On Sunday mornings 10 young people regularly attend the junior worship service.  The attendance at the main service is only 6.  This is very discouraging.  Two years ago there were 10.  One was murdered and 4 have left the village for work overseas.  Pray that the remaining 6 will seek to witness to their friends and bring them to Christ and not keep saying,’ I can’t do it’.
• Praise the Lord that some of the young people are really keen and are growing in their faith.  One of them, L (15yrs), has finished reading the New Testament.  He is often beaten by his mother because he is a Christian.  Pray for him to grow in his understanding of God’s Word and in his love for Jesus and for him to obey the Lord in the details of everyday life.