Visa Extended for Another Year

I have been pre-occupied lately doing a lot of teaching. This week a visiting teacher came to take over all the classes. I am using the time to write something in my paper which I haven’t really been doing for some time.
Nonetheless, here are our prayer update for his month.
Our non-immigrant (non-”O”) volunteer visa has [...]

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We are hitting the road again

I thank the Lord for giving me the opportunity to preach at church today. I felt God’s anointing in this particular sermon. Maybe because this time the sermon was not translated into Burmese. Preaching with interpreter is difficult. It hinders the continuity of the sermon’s delivery and in some sense lost its power. Translation is [...]

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More on graduation

After six months of intensive training our eight students finally graduate. Eight students, four males and four females, were able to complete the six-month discipleship-training course. The students believed that the training had fully prepared them for the ministry that God called them to do in their own respective villages and other unevangelized places in [...]

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Update

December is a busy month for us.  Narlin and I are preparing  Christmas programs for our different ministries. Christmas season is a good opportunity to tell the story of Jesus to the people. Regular posting might resume after Christmas. Who knows?

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October Update

Here is our latest update. I did try to use Swift Publisher 2.2 in writing this newsletter. But there is a glitch, SP file size is huge. This newsletter is like 60 MB and when converted to PDF about 48 MB. Obviously it can’t be sent as email attachment. However, SP have export as JPEG [...]

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The Learning Place

After long months of thorough preparation, the classes finally start on August 11, 2008. The Bible School is a ministry we started in partnership with a fellow missionary from Australia named Cherry Scatchard. The three of us (Cherry, Narlin and Joey) had spent a lot of time working on the curriculum, budgets and schedules. We [...]

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Missionary update

It has been a long time since I post anything here. Ministry activities have been occupying most of our time and we apologize for not responding at once to your emails. With joyful heart, we do share all of the activities with you in this blog. As I am writing this update I [...]

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August Update

This morning as Narlin was trying to call our Burmese interpreter in Tachilek Myanmar from her mobile phone. Her call somehow ended up in Baguio City to a friend who we have never seen in a while but has been faithfully supporting us. Hearing her warm voice with genuine concern on the other end of [...]

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Missions training

The mission training hall is almost finished
Mission training class holding session at the church library
The mission training school is on its second week. Two more missionaries commit themselves to teaching some courses. Our vision is to have these students deployed in the villages to do evangelism and church planting. Pray for the unity, [...]

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Prayer Update

We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you, because we have heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and the love you have for all the saints… Col. 1:7
God is great and we have proven that He never changes. As a family we testify to the power [...]

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