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.