9/1/2014 Jason and Jenn Beyers In May of this year, we had a Christian baptism in our district. As far as we know it is the first baptism to ever be conducted within the district. The man, who was baptized, shared about his life prior to knowing Jesus Christ. He grew up in a poorContinue reading “A Genuine Peace”
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Happy Birthday
8/9/2014 Rina and Pui Renthlei ‘Three children?!!? Why did you have so many?’ a Thai school teacher once said that to me with a disgusted look in her eyes. Sometimes my husband and I feel that the Thais, for whatever reasons, are afraid of having more than one child. I haven’t yet met a newContinue reading “Happy Birthday”
Orality in Isaan
7/8/2014 Marten & Esther Visser Communication is one of the biggest challenges when it comes to missions and church planting in particular. Every missionary will, at least to some extent, have to face questions like: what method am I going to use? where do I start? how much time do I have? how do IContinue reading “Orality in Isaan”
Model, Assist, Watch, Leave
7/2/2014 Sijmen and Annelies den Hartog A few months ago a new lady joined our Tuesday night fellowship group, Mae Lop. I had no idea who she was. She was introduced by one of the church members as her neighbour. Mae Lop was quite interested in the gospel, but still saw it as the newContinue reading “Model, Assist, Watch, Leave”
Christians without a Church
9/14/2011 Martin & Esther Visser We rode our bikes through three different Isaan districts, with a total of over 100,000 people. In none of these districts is a church. We were looking for openings to share the gospel. At the same time we tried to find out if there maybe already were Christians. In SamchayContinue reading “Christians without a Church”
OMF Isaan Team 