Pray For Evangelists Around the World

Here is an excerpt from a letter from Jerry Thaprom, an evangelist we support from Round Lake Christian Church.

In recent months two major supporting churches have decided to discontinue their supports due to their budgets and this really hurts our ministries especially the Myanmar evangelistic and church planting work.

So my wife I have been contemplating what to do since we can no longer maintain the work in Myanmar with this situation so we have been praying a lot and are waiting for an answer from the Lord. So the good news from you for your continuous prayers and financial support is definitely the answer we have been waiting for.  So we praise the Lord that He has heard our prayers through you.

We have been delegating ten evangelist families to carry the work of evangelism and church planting in Yangon (formerly Rangoon) and one in Shan States and another one in north Burma. These evangelists are those we know personally and they are fully dedicated and love the Lord with their hearts and are trustworthy people. The know the language well and Burmese culture so as a result, nearly 500 people have turned to the Lord and were baptized within a period of five years since we have started the work.

These Christians scattered in ten different locations, or communities around Yangon proper, mostly at villages.  These evangelists have been so faithfully carrying the work around the clock.  In recent years unlike before the Burmese people have shown the unusual interest in Christianity because  the Lord has been touching  their stubborn hearts so that they may be saved, and also the political unrest and Buddhism can not offer them any hope. As they are in this situation they observed Christians around them and eventually they wanted to turn to the Lord, and this leads them to Christ. So it is the momentum for Myanmar for us to present to them the Good News of Jesus Christ.

Praise God!  Our giving for the sake of the Gospel bears fruit in the lives of men and women in places we have never seen.  Please pray for Jerry and his wife Boonporn as they continue in the work of the Gospel.  Also pray for these evangelists who are sharing the good news that for God's glory, Jesus died for our sins and was resurrected so we might move from death to life.