Oh Heavenly Father, Salvation belongs to You! You know all things and by you every living thing draws its breath. And you are intimately acquainted with all who have, do, and will call this earth home. We know, that You alone know where there every Mien person is, scattered on a thousand hills. We know that You love the Mien even more than all of us, and Your heart breaks at the great need there is for workers among Your harvest.
Oh, great and good Father, please by Your sovereign hand, lead many, even now, to come join the harvest workers among the Mien and Mun. Oh, Lord that your Glory would fill the Mekong region as the waters over the sea.
May Your newly translated Word go forth in power and reap the fruit which you have made grow. Lord, as we see the great need and hear the great cry of the lost, break our hearts for these people. Give us your love for them, a love that does not even stop at death, but is filled with resurrection and life! Lord send your workers and may your will be done among the Mien!
In the name of the Lamb who was
slain before the beginning of the world,
Amen
In T village, Mrs YG, an opium addicted widow, has been to the church for the past two months. Praise the Lord for her gradual increase of her knowledge of God. Recently we advised her to join Grandpa LT's Bible study hour.
Please pray that the joint group of six people will come to the spiritual understanding of the biblical truth and that they will be willing to be baptized.
After the recent Mother-Tongue-First Multilingual Education seminar, it seems that the whole project is shaping up into a rough structure of two components. One is a research unit at a local university focusing on production and revision of Mien language materials for kindergarten level. The other is an implementation unit directed by Mr F involving his local community. We have chosen P village, his home village, as a model village to test the idea of starting a Mien language kindergarten for two reasons. First it is because there is a certain degree of people's desire for it; secondly an extremely difficult mountain road conditions in rainy season can completely shut off Thai teachers' access to the location for five months so that Mien language teaching can be permitted by the local government.
Please pray, God willing, that the whole project will go well and involve many Mien catching a vision for this. Pray that eventually this effort will plant a church in P, a village which is very antagonistic to the gospel.
In 2 of the Mien villages where some of our hostel kids come from, the older kids have worked hard helping their parents in the corn harvest, and the younger ones have played hard also, so much so that I teased them that they would have forgotten how to write their Thai alphabets by the time school reopens on the 3rd of November. The hostel parents also got to go home to visit their respective villages and were also encouraged by the kids helping parents in the fields. At another village, encouraging news came that 2 of the hostel kids were leading Sunday-school even though they have never been trained. At P village, young people were enthusiastically teaching Sunday-school and leading the worship service.
Please pray about this, for strength in the midst of so much to do already
Most Mien have harvested their corn and are waiting for machines to come in and separate the kernels from the cop. Prices of kernels are so low this year. One wonder if the farmers will make enough from the sale of their crops as fertilizers, pesticide (and wages) have gone up 100% this year. Despite all, we applaud farmers for their hard work and pray that the Lord will continue to provide for them.
Pray for corn prices to go up these next few weeks. The rice fields are almost ready for harvesting too. Pray for the Christians especially to take Sabbath off and not let their work come in the way.
