Many Taidam families have altars in the home. They burn incense and leave food for dead relatives. It would be a strong trial to abolish these practices in light of the peer pressure of the culture.

• Please pray for strength and endurance for those who stand apart as Christians amongst the Taidam.

Happy to live where you do?  One village in Laos, where F lives with some of her relatives, is a place most of us would never want to live. Many sense a lack of hope, few have jobs, and the land that is not fertile. Some of the land, which is okay, seems either to go through droughts or extreme flooding.  How can anyone find enough to feed their family?  Most of them forage the surrounding hills for anything edible, such as mushrooms, plants, and whatever animal they might find.

In addition to these difficulties, one can never leave the house unattended. Theft is a huge problem.  An adult must be present all the time to watch the property, possessions and young children.  Anything which can be eaten, sold, or bartered for will not stay around. Unfortunately, this includes young children! What a situation to live under. 

• Pray that the Christians in this village would truly be Christ to their unsaved neighbors.  We pray also that God would bless the Christians so that they can be a blessing to the others around them.  May the Church have wisdom in dealing with these difficult and diverse problems.

800,000 Tai Dam people live in Vietnam.  What does that number look like?  How long a line would that many people make?  Lots of ideas on how to help us picture the enormity of this people group.  But what really matters is that this is a huge number of people that know relatively nothing about Creator God, a Savior, nor His love for them.

Their love for drink, their ceremonies for the ancestral spirits, and their pride continue to be huge barriers in keeping them from being sensitive to His Spirit and His tugging at their heart.  What can we do but to pray that God would open their hearts and cause them to seek out another way? 

• We pray God would have mercy on them and draw them to Himself.  We pray they would have eyes to see the One who cries out to them daily through the creation.  And we pray they would get tired of their purposeless and shallow life.  May God cause the Tai Dam people of Vietnam to seek Him.
• We also pray God would give us clear direction how He wants to put Believers into contact with these people.