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Daow Kulkit
 Feelings
Emotions
Actions
....in worship of the Lord
We all have giftings in the Lord.
How are you using your gifts to worship Him?
For me, rhythm, dancing, and movement brings me to a deeper relationship
with God who is worthy of honor. That’s what comes from my
heart...
My name is Daow which means "Star". I’ve been a
Christian over 5 years now. Growing up my family was Buddhist. I
have five brothers and sisters and I’m the youngest. Phang
Nga province in the south is where I grew up but I now live in Bangkok.
My Father passed away right before I came to study university here
in Bangkok 6 years ago. In my first year of univeristy I came to
know the Lord at House
of One Heart (Baan Jai Diaow or BJD), a student ministry of
YWAM. In my second year at BJD my mother also passed away.
 God
showed me His grace in my life in a special way. It says in His
Word that he won’t forget the orphan. After my parents (and
grandparents) had died he led a Christian Thai family to take me
as their daughter. (see picture on left)
This was truly His grace in my life and I knew without a doubt that
He was always watching over me.
God's Call On My Life
In my third year at BJD I began ministry with the dance team using
dance in worship. As I ministered with the team I began to realize
this is the area where I felt I wanted to serve the Lord. In my
fourth year I decided to go study Discipleship
Training School (DTS) in Chaing Mai in the north of Thailand.
This is the first step to being staff with YWAM.
 In
my DTS I was challenged and God changed my life in many ways. God
showed me more about myself, about my life, and gave me more clarity
about my goals in life.
In February of 2005 I had to take my first step away from BJD and
began to work as staff. To make a little money I was able to clean
the YWAM office for 3000 baht/month. During that time I felt the
Lord was checking my heart to see just how faithful I was in following
Him. Finally He challenged me to choose to do what He had called
me to do and trust in Him. I realized He had given more of a heart
to use dance and the need to learn more about dancing. So I decided
to stop working so I could concentrate on improving my talents and
follow Him in what He was calling me to do.
What Am I Doing Right Now
Right now I’m working with the Performing
Arts Ministry in YWAM Bangkok. The Perfoming Arts Ministry is
a fairly new ministry in Bangkok. I’m the leader for the dance
ministry. Right now I’m concentrating on using traditional
Thai dance and incorporating it in worship. I’m currently
taking more lessons in traditional Thai dance. I teach and take
teams to various places to use the dance in worship. When they have
a DTS I go help teach some of the dances we do for the DTS to use
in outreach. Throughout the year I’ll be working in camps
and different schools to teach dancing as well as leading teams
to minister in dance throughout Thailand.
November 2007 Update
How have you been in the last three months? During the last three months I’ve had the opportunity to go and minister in the provinces. Compared to the three months before I was able to to minister more and more. I was excited to go to each place whether it was a DTS worship in Mae Sot, the YWAM staff conference in Khon Gaen, ministering in dance in the Asia Pacific YWAM meeting in Chiang Mai , or by teaching dances to the DTS in Chiang Mai for them to use on outreach, dancing at an evangelistic meeting at ABAC (a university near us), teaching dance and sharing at Krabi province, sharing dance at Newsong church, or worshiping in dance at the Pattaya Praise festival. I got to meet new people, hear new teaching, and hear exciting testimony.
For the past two years I’ve seen how the vision of the Performing arts dance team has been fulfilled through using the Thai classical dance in worship to share with young people and children about God. I’ve seen the ministry go to many places and seen ministries as they have used what we’ve shared as they do ministry themselves.
 In one way this has been a seed that we’ve placed in the lives of the children that we’ve taught. When they dance they are singing the worship songs and it’s allowing their parents to see and hear about Jesus. When we’ve danced at places where people don’t know the Lord, they see and have joy as they experience the dance and hear the music that is talking about God. Without realizing it they are giving glory to God. I and the others on the team have a great hope that we will see the kingdom of God go out in a greater way. In the future every person that sees and hears will have a seed planted that will gradually grow so that God can work in their hearts. As this seed grows one day they will come to truly know God.
For myself, I’m glad for the burden that God has given me for the future to go minister in my home in the South. Right now I’m getting ready to graduate from university in February of next year. I have actually finished my courses already. After that I have a plan to go study the School of Biblical Studies (SBS) in Chiang Mai starting the 18 of February. It’s a four month course.
It’s another step in preparing myself to serve the Lord. It will help me to be more effective in evangelizing, discipling, encouraging, and taking care of others.
Please pray that God will produce great fruit in the plans and ministry I will be doing.
Prayer Points:
1. Please pray for my monthly support.
I need about 7,000
baht/month.
2. Please pray for my family to open their hearts to know God.
3.
Please pray for creativity to think of new ways to use for
evangelism and for a place we can use to
practice .
4. Please pray for God’s preparation to go minister in the
South in the future.
5. Please pray for the provision of my tuition fees for SBS (20,000 Baht).
I want to thank everyone that supports me in prayer and finances. Thank you for being a part of my ministry here.
May God bless all of you tremendously!
Finances
YWAM is self supported and all staff and ministry are self
supported. That means that we rely on the gifts from our brothers
and sisters in Christ to be able to minister. There are costs involved
in training, traveling, costumes, and basic day to day needs as
staff (housing, food, etc.) My monthly expenses are as follows:
- Housing 1000
baht ($25 US)
- Food and
other expenses 6,000 baht ($150 US)
Currently I’m short about 3000 baht ($75 US) per month to
meet my expenses.
Please
contact me to keep in touch or if you have any questions:
Email:
ratchanukulkit@yahoo.com
Thank
you for all your prayers and support!
Daow
Financial
Support
If you would like to financially support Daow Kulkit, please
send checks payable to “YWAM”. (Please do not write anything
else on the check but include a separate note designating your donation
to “Daow Kulkit”) to:
YWAM Montana
501 Blacktail Road
Lakeside, Montana
59922 U.S.A.
or
NEW
- For Canadians!
If you would like to financially support Daow Kulkit, from
Canada
please send checks payable to “YWAM”. (Please do not write
anything else on the check but include a separate note designating
your donation to
“Daow Kulkit”) to YWAM Vancouver:
YWAM Vancouver
Donor Services
PO Box 57100
2480 East Hastings Street
Vancouver, BC
V5K 5G6 Canada
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