November
2007 Update
Six
months ago, YWAM Ratchaburi was just an empty office building
with two leaders and a big vision. We have truly seen God moving
and it amazes us how many doors have been opened for us in only
half a year.
We have watched as the hearts of our high school students have
opened and have seen how God has been revealing Himself to many
of them. We have even lead a few of those students to ask Jesus
to reveal Himself to them more and feel privileged not only to
be there for that, but also to be there as their teachers and
friends who walk with them in this journey of discovering a relationship
with their Creator.
We have been able to take short term missions teams into our English
classes who have become friends with the students and who have
shared their lives and experiences and have talked to our students
about their own relationships with Jesus.
It
has been amazing how God has lead us to key people in the community
who have helped us to minister in places that we never would have
imagined would be possible. The professor at the University English
Club is one of those people. We join the University English Club
once a week and spend another whole day hanging out with the students
on the campus. We have been out with them on weekends and public
holidays, we have shared food and taught each other how to cook,
but most importantly we have shared of God’s great love for them
and know that many of them are seeking after this God that we
have been telling them about.
One
of our other focuses over the past few months has been a small
village primary school. We decided to choose this specific school,
not because we thought that they needed English, but rather because
most of the students at this school and many others like it, can’t
afford to attend a better school and lose interest in education
before they even finish high school. There are many young people
in villages like the one where the school is that work in factories
and live in poverty most of their lives because for them, they
never had the opportunity that the other students at better schools
had. Even if they make it to a better school by the time they
get to high school, many of them can’t keep up with the other
students. Our hope as we go into the school every time is to encourage
them to keep studying and to let them know that they are just
as special as any other child in any other school. We hope to
be a light to them that they will remember as they continue on
in their studies.
A
large focus in our ministry over the past six months has been
ministering alongside the local churches. It is not our heart
to be the church in Ratchaburi, but rather to support the churches
that are already established. Each church has a different focus
in the community and we have tried to support them whenever we
can. The ministries vary from working with the people in the slums
in town, evangelizing to the youth through music clubs and other
outreaches to encouraging the local Christians at their cell groups.
The latest door that has opened for us is in the local hospital.
We have wanted to find a way to build relationships in the hospital
for a long time as it is the biggest hospital in the region and
is attached to a nursing college that sends nurses all over the
country. We have begun by holding English seminars with some of
the doctors and nurses and hope that as we continue to build on
those relationships that we will have many opportunities to share
God’s love in the hospital.
We have yet to find the perfect piece of land for us to build
our base on but God has been showing us more about the vision
for that time. We trust that God will lead us to the right piece
of land and that He will provide for us to be able to buy the
land and build the base. We are also trusting Him for a vehicle
in which to transport the teams that come to serve with us as
at the moment we are having to rent a vehicle when teams come.
We are no longer just two people working to see God’s Kingdom
come here and our office building is no longer empty, but is very
often filled with the wonderful short term missions teams that
have been serving with us. We praise God for all that He has done
and all that He is going to do.
Financial
Support
If
you would like to financially support YWAM Ratchaburi, please
send checks payable to YWAM (Please do not write anything
else on the check but include a separate note designating your donation
to YWAM Ratchaburi - Thailand) to YWAM Montana:
YWAM Montana
501 Blacktail Road
Lakeside, Montana
59922 U.S.A.
or
NEW
- For Canadians!
If you would like to financially support YWAM Ratchaburi,
please send checks payable to YWAM (Please do not write
anything else on the check but include a separate note designating
your donation to YWAM Ratchaburi - Thailand)
to YWAM Vancouver:
YWAM Vancouver
Donor Services
PO Box 57100
2480 East Hastings Street
Vancouver, BC
V5K 5G6 Canada
For
inquiries or further information, please contact us at:
YWAM
Ratchaburi
Noiy & Bronwyn Prommathat
Niran
Hills Village
145/485 Moo 8
Dontago Muang
Ratchaburi 70000
Thailand
Phone: +66-81-382-4438
or +66-86-002-5105
Email:
ratchaburi@ywamthai.org
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