Finding Burmese Refugees in Every Nook and Cranny

Kyin and her boys

Bawi and his family

Pastor Brown and his wife

I recently had to opportunity to visit the most fantastic church in Washington, Iowa. The Marion Avenue Baptist Church led by Pastor Joseph Brown has the most wonderful missions emphasis in their church. I am not sure I have seen many like it.

While there someone in the church mentioned to me that there were a couple hundred Burmese living in a small town about 20 miles away. So I arranged through the church to find someone who could show me where these people lived. On Saturday Brother Sosa took me and my wife soul winning to them. We were able to sit down and present the Gospel to multiple households and several were saved. In fact Kyin and her two sons even came to church on Saturday night.

I want to give a special thanks to Marion Avenue for all their hospitality. Also, Pastor Brown and his wife for all their effort into this special weekend. Of course the Fear family did a tremendous job hosting us and I am also appreciative to the Sosa family for allowing us to go soul winning with them and having us to their home. So many others should be mentioned here as well, but time will not allow me to list them all. Please pray for us as we move forward with our mission for the souls of Southeast Asia.  

Brother Sosa and wife

Never Sitting Idle

2 Thessalonians 3:11 "For we hear that there are some which walk among you disorderly, working not at all, but are busybodies." I was always taught by my parents to stay busy. So even though I have a little stretch without meetings, I have been staying busy remodeling the home churches auditorium as well as consistently preaching the Gospel every chance I get. 

On Saturday morning I was able to win three people to Christ, including Poe Dah. He doesn't speak a ton of English and I can sometimes witness to folks like Poe Dah in the Karen language, however, he wasn't understanding much of my Karen, so Paw (from our church) helped me out by translating the Gospel for me. 

Then later on Saturday afternoon a Karen lady from our church called my wife and wanted to know if her Thara Doh (Me) could come that evening and preach at her husband's birthday party. I agreed and preached on having two births. The majority of the people there either go to our church or have been before and already gotten saved in the past. However, there were two Vietnamese co-workers of the husband that were there and ended up trusting Christ as their Saviour! Praise God! I was able to lead seven people to Christ for the week...