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.