The daughter of a couple living in a remote village of Laos married a Christian earlier this year. As this couple watched the Christians and spent time with them, they were very impressed by their lives and attitude.

It was so encouraging that the father said to a visiting pastor, "I hope all my kids will marry Christians!"  After a short pause, the pastor asked him why he doesn't become a Christian.  He responded, "I am the one that has to do the spiritual things for the family. I can't stop doing this. But I can free my kids so they never have to do it!" 

After a bit of thought, the pastor asked the couple if they would ever consider coming to some classes with people in the same situation as he is.  "I know of several couples in the same situation as you. Would you come for a few days of teaching?"  The couple responded that they would!   Praise God for the creative thought of this pastor.

• Pray that God will give many more opportunities to the ministers of the Gospel in Laos.  May they discern the spiritual needs of the people and have divine inspiration to address those issues.  May the Word be GOOD NEWS to the people of Laos.

Weaving Business
The Lord has been very gracious in allowing us to set up a business over the past few months.  We still wait on some of the official papers and the final "stamp", but we are hopeful. 

• Much of the future direction that we hope to go is wrapped up in this business, so we ask your prayers to get all the paperwork done soon.  Without it, we can't begin to do anything.
• We also pray for wisdom about when and how best to invite a few different Thai peoples to our first weaving development seminar in Hanoi.  It is exciting to see a growing interest in this.

As we have shared our vision and interacted with others here in Vietnam, God has led us to others, who we hope to work with.  One lady is a designer for clothes and household products, and the other is a woman teaching deaf people to sew the products, that are developed.  The material used has been different machine produced cloth, but we are seeing a potential for using the hand woven cloth from the Thai.  The deaf folks have been taught to sew different items in a high quality fashion.

• Pray that God would open up new relationships to work together for building His Kingdom.
• We also pray for God to open up the sales networks in different countries, so we can begin to generate enough sales to make this a sustainable project, which helps handicapped individuals in Hanoi, as well as tribal Thai folks in the provinces. 
• Currently we are developing a web site, but with many setbacks and struggles, it still isn't complete.  We pray Father that you would allow those helping us to have the time to get this up and working by May. 
• We also pray God would open the opportunities to contact individuals who could market these products in Western countries.