HIM Leader Report:Xeng and Bangyat Report for May
Dear Fran,
The enclosed reports are from Banyat and Xeng:
From Banyat, Nan Province
1. Bible studies, praise and pray with Lua group on Sunday
2. Bible studies, praise and pray in his village and Ban Huai Li
3. Visited patients in Nan hospital and pray for them
4. Preached the gospel in Ban Nam Tuang church
5. Coordinated with Northern Thai Baptist Convention
6. Preached the gospel in Ban Pam church group
Conclusion: Lack of evangelistic activity during this month, hopely he needs to improve responsibility
From Xeng Lor HuaiKhu, Chiang Rai
1. He brought 1 family of 3 people into saving faith in Jesus Christ
2. Proclaimed the gospel of Jeus Christ to 76 people ( in 4 villages)
3. Preached the gospel in Huai Khu church
4. Visited members who were sick and prayed for them
5. Coordinated with local church leaders
6. Provided counselling for family problem and depression
Conclusion: Xeng has improved his responsibility. I believed that God touched many lives through him
Summary of Hmong ministry is still progressing. Without HIM support many Hmong won't be able hear the gospel of Jesus Christ and many believers won't be able get Spritual growth help
In Christ,
HIM Leader
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Thursday, June 5, 2008
HIM Leader May Report
HIM Leader May Report:
The enclosed report is our job performance during May-08 which we are successfully done as the following detail:
1. We have brought 5 people into saving in Jesus Christ and baptized 5 members
2. Church revival in Ban Thong Na Noi, Chiang Rai
3. Preached the gospel for 4 Hmong church groups
4. Bible studies for Cell group and follow up prospects in 6 villages
5. Performed Funeral home for church member in Ban Pam Kae, Nan
6. Bible studies and and teach Hmong literacy class in 1 dorm
7. Coordinated closely with Hmong church groups throughout Northern Thai
8. Maintaining relationship with believer groups from Laos on border
The enclosed report is our job performance during May-08 which we are successfully done as the following detail:
1. We have brought 5 people into saving in Jesus Christ and baptized 5 members
2. Church revival in Ban Thong Na Noi, Chiang Rai
3. Preached the gospel for 4 Hmong church groups
4. Bible studies for Cell group and follow up prospects in 6 villages
5. Performed Funeral home for church member in Ban Pam Kae, Nan
6. Bible studies and and teach Hmong literacy class in 1 dorm
7. Coordinated closely with Hmong church groups throughout Northern Thai
8. Maintaining relationship with believer groups from Laos on border
HIM Leader Report-Return to Phucheefa
HIM Leader Report on Phucheefa:
Dear Fran and to all,
To keep you all up dated on our mission trip to Phuacheefa, Chiang Rai Provice last weekend:
I preached the gospel at Hmong church there and provided parenting guidance training session for ladies, brotherhood. We had a very successful mission project there. Beside the church project acitivities, I had a chance for sharing the gospel to many Hmong people. God touched many people hearts and more people were interested in the gospe. We have plans to go back for follow up with those prospects sometime in the near future. We also led one prospect into saving faith in Jesus Christ.
Mrs. Kua owns a store there. We have baptized 4 members in a dirty river and more members are waiting for baptism next time. God touched many people lives and saved many people souls through your support. Without your support many Hmong people won't be able to hear the gospel and get saved. I am assured that God blessed Hmong International Ministries.
In Christ,
HIM Leader
HIM Leader Report-Revival Meetings
HIM Leader Report on Revival Meetings in Chiang Rai Province:
Dear Fran and to all,
I am pleased to keep you all up dated on church revival in Ban Thong Na Noi, Chiang Rai last weekend. I preached on Sunday morning and started on leadership skills training session for lady group, brootherhood and youth. This is the very first time they received training.
I had a great opportunity for sharing the True Living God and testimony to unbelievers in the village. Many people were interested in the True Living God. We will return to follow up those prospects in the near future.
In Christ,
HIM Leader
HIM Leader Report-Five Souls Saved
Report from HIM Leader, April, Khoone Sathang (Cabbage Mountian):
Dear Fran and to all,
I am pleased to keep you up dated on Hmong ministry this weekend in Ban Khoone Sathang, Nan ( cabagge mountian. We have conducted a Hmong literacy class and Bible study on Saturday. 10 teenagers participated in the class. God touched 5 teens made profession of faith in Jesus Christ and also we have baptized 5 members. Many others still interested in the True Living God. We have plan to follow up those prospects in the near future.
Right now we are completely out of Hmong literacy hand books. We need $200 to reprint the hand book. I pray someone will support the education ministry. Please pray for us and the people we are serving.
In Christ,
HIM Christ
HIM Leader Report-Phucheefa
Report from HIM Leader,April:
Dear Fran and to all,
I am pleased to keep you all up date on Hmong ministry on our trip to Phucheefa, Chiang Rai Province areas last weekend. We have shared the gospel of Jesus Christ and presented salvation plan for several prospects in 3 villages. God touched many lives; so far 3 families 15 people made profession of faith in Jesus Christ last weekend and many more still interested in the gospel.
We invaded the enemy territories and break through the aninmistic society this time. Hopely God will touch many people's lives and bring them into saving faith soon.
In Christ,
HIM Leader
Wednesday, June 4, 2008
Mack Riggs Healed of Cancer
Some weeks ago, I posted a letter from Mack Riggs regarding prostate cancer. It is with great JOY that I post this message from Mack.
Ann and I have some very good news to share with you. My cancer is completely healed. This is a testimony to what Jesus has done. He is indeed Jehovah Rapha. And you are living proof that “The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective.”
You will recall from the “Spiritual Journey” update a month ago, that my prostate cancer had been upgraded to advanced stage, along with the high risk that undetectable cancer cells were already spreading outside the prostate area being treated by proton radiation. This meant that I would likely spend the rest of my life experiencing the cancer returning again and again (typically in the lymph nodes and the bones). This meant fighting a losing battle through a number of last-resort treatment options, all of which have bad, long-term side effects that would drastically reduce my quality of life.
At that time God had “given” me two scripture passages (“given” as in they became alive, as if spoken just for me and my situation, by the Power of God.) One was a statement of God’s sovereignty. (Romans 9: 11-12) The other was the story of Jesus healing the leper. (Matt. 8:1-4) As you remember, like the leper I had asked Jesus to heal me - if He wanted to.
Since the time of that email, my Spiritual Journey has become a Journey of Faith. Initially I did not have faith that Jesus wanted to heal my cancer, although I knew He could if He wanted to. I also knew from past experiences that I was not able, in my own strength, to manufacture such a faith. Nor was I completely comfortable with the approach of just passively hoping for the best.
As I looked more carefully at the story that I had been given of the leper, I began to see several things that applied to me. First, the leper recognized Jesus as Lord, with the power to heal as He wills. That is my belief too. Then the leper asked Jesus to heal him – if He wanted to. We (you and I) have made that specific request relative to my prostate cancer.
Then I saw something in the story I had missed before. Prior to Jesus healing the leper He reached out and touched him. As Ann and I thought about that – Jesus “touching” me – we began to see the several ways He had already done that. First, He touched our hearts through the prayers and the spiritual community of our family and friends, including the new friends and staff at the Proton Center.
Then He touched our minds with the Living Word that He had given to us. He humbled my attitude as He touched the prayer team, making it larger than what I first though I needed, and lately larger than I know I deserve. The Spirit of Jesus also touched my heart with His everlasting love, making my love for Him more intimate and real than ever before.
Jesus touched Ann’s and my confidence in Him as He systemically provided the “Peace of God that surpasses understanding” as we prayed for wisdom about the three experimental treatments recommended for my advanced stage cancer. We read books on the treatments, researched the potential benefits and difficult side effects, talked to the doctors, and “in all things made our requests known to God.”
We began to develop a “Philosophy of Treatment” (as we came to call it) that focused on Jesus and rejected the panic approach to extending one’s life at any cost, which is so prevalent among doctors and patients today. The best practices of modern medicine would have me trade 5 to 10 years of excellent quality of life (before the cancer would likely return) for perhaps 10 to 15 years of suffering from the debilitating physical, emotional, and spiritual effects of immediate “survival extending” treatments. Not a good trade-off, we concluded, for citizens of heaven.
Instead we again saw God as paramount in the treatment process. One by one, Jesus gave us the confidence to say “no” to each additional experimental treatment option. We knew that God had brought us to the Proton Center in the first place and we decided to stay with that therapy and continue to seek Him for complete healing.
My faith became strong as the attitude of my heart began to wait for Jesus Himself to come near; first as He spoke His Word to me in living Power, then through His many “touches”, and, in His timing, to do the healing He had spoken to me about. My confidence and hope grew as I focused on Jesus instead of my illness, the limitations of the medical profession, and the weakness of my faith.
The Holy Spirit taught me, in the fullness of faith, to believe in Jesus as my Jehovah Rapha.
Then one day last week as I meditated on all this, Jesus reached deep inside me to touch my spirit with the knowledge that He wants to heal my cancer. I would like to share the majesty of this guidance and fellowship with my Master with you, but I am not capable.
Saturday morning, Jesus confirmed His “Be clean” as I began writing this update for you - with tears of joy streaming down my face and with overwhelming thanksgiving for God’s indescribable love, and grace, and mercy toward me.
But that is not the end of the story. After Jesus healed the leper He instructed him to present his healed body to the priests as a witness to what Jesus had done. As part of my prayer team you are the ‘new order” of priests – the Royal Priesthood that God assembled for my care and healing – and I present my clean and healed body to you as a witness to you of what Jesus Christ has done.
Thank you for standing with us at the seat of mercy before the Throne of God. You have been faithful, and now our prayer is that you will be as blessed by our Lord Jesus Christ as we are.
“Now to Him who is able to establish you by my gospel and the proclamation of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery hidden from long ages past, but now revealed and made known through the prophetic writings by the command of the eternal God, so that all nations might believe and obey him – to the only wise God be glory forever through Jesus Christ! Amen.” (Romans 16:25-27)
I love you dearly,
Mack
Ann and I have some very good news to share with you. My cancer is completely healed. This is a testimony to what Jesus has done. He is indeed Jehovah Rapha. And you are living proof that “The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective.”
You will recall from the “Spiritual Journey” update a month ago, that my prostate cancer had been upgraded to advanced stage, along with the high risk that undetectable cancer cells were already spreading outside the prostate area being treated by proton radiation. This meant that I would likely spend the rest of my life experiencing the cancer returning again and again (typically in the lymph nodes and the bones). This meant fighting a losing battle through a number of last-resort treatment options, all of which have bad, long-term side effects that would drastically reduce my quality of life.
At that time God had “given” me two scripture passages (“given” as in they became alive, as if spoken just for me and my situation, by the Power of God.) One was a statement of God’s sovereignty. (Romans 9: 11-12) The other was the story of Jesus healing the leper. (Matt. 8:1-4) As you remember, like the leper I had asked Jesus to heal me - if He wanted to.
Since the time of that email, my Spiritual Journey has become a Journey of Faith. Initially I did not have faith that Jesus wanted to heal my cancer, although I knew He could if He wanted to. I also knew from past experiences that I was not able, in my own strength, to manufacture such a faith. Nor was I completely comfortable with the approach of just passively hoping for the best.
As I looked more carefully at the story that I had been given of the leper, I began to see several things that applied to me. First, the leper recognized Jesus as Lord, with the power to heal as He wills. That is my belief too. Then the leper asked Jesus to heal him – if He wanted to. We (you and I) have made that specific request relative to my prostate cancer.
Then I saw something in the story I had missed before. Prior to Jesus healing the leper He reached out and touched him. As Ann and I thought about that – Jesus “touching” me – we began to see the several ways He had already done that. First, He touched our hearts through the prayers and the spiritual community of our family and friends, including the new friends and staff at the Proton Center.
Then He touched our minds with the Living Word that He had given to us. He humbled my attitude as He touched the prayer team, making it larger than what I first though I needed, and lately larger than I know I deserve. The Spirit of Jesus also touched my heart with His everlasting love, making my love for Him more intimate and real than ever before.
Jesus touched Ann’s and my confidence in Him as He systemically provided the “Peace of God that surpasses understanding” as we prayed for wisdom about the three experimental treatments recommended for my advanced stage cancer. We read books on the treatments, researched the potential benefits and difficult side effects, talked to the doctors, and “in all things made our requests known to God.”
We began to develop a “Philosophy of Treatment” (as we came to call it) that focused on Jesus and rejected the panic approach to extending one’s life at any cost, which is so prevalent among doctors and patients today. The best practices of modern medicine would have me trade 5 to 10 years of excellent quality of life (before the cancer would likely return) for perhaps 10 to 15 years of suffering from the debilitating physical, emotional, and spiritual effects of immediate “survival extending” treatments. Not a good trade-off, we concluded, for citizens of heaven.
Instead we again saw God as paramount in the treatment process. One by one, Jesus gave us the confidence to say “no” to each additional experimental treatment option. We knew that God had brought us to the Proton Center in the first place and we decided to stay with that therapy and continue to seek Him for complete healing.
My faith became strong as the attitude of my heart began to wait for Jesus Himself to come near; first as He spoke His Word to me in living Power, then through His many “touches”, and, in His timing, to do the healing He had spoken to me about. My confidence and hope grew as I focused on Jesus instead of my illness, the limitations of the medical profession, and the weakness of my faith.
The Holy Spirit taught me, in the fullness of faith, to believe in Jesus as my Jehovah Rapha.
Then one day last week as I meditated on all this, Jesus reached deep inside me to touch my spirit with the knowledge that He wants to heal my cancer. I would like to share the majesty of this guidance and fellowship with my Master with you, but I am not capable.
Saturday morning, Jesus confirmed His “Be clean” as I began writing this update for you - with tears of joy streaming down my face and with overwhelming thanksgiving for God’s indescribable love, and grace, and mercy toward me.
But that is not the end of the story. After Jesus healed the leper He instructed him to present his healed body to the priests as a witness to what Jesus had done. As part of my prayer team you are the ‘new order” of priests – the Royal Priesthood that God assembled for my care and healing – and I present my clean and healed body to you as a witness to you of what Jesus Christ has done.
Thank you for standing with us at the seat of mercy before the Throne of God. You have been faithful, and now our prayer is that you will be as blessed by our Lord Jesus Christ as we are.
“Now to Him who is able to establish you by my gospel and the proclamation of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery hidden from long ages past, but now revealed and made known through the prophetic writings by the command of the eternal God, so that all nations might believe and obey him – to the only wise God be glory forever through Jesus Christ! Amen.” (Romans 16:25-27)
I love you dearly,
Mack
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