THANKS, PRAYER, AND PRAISE
Contact Lis anytime [preferably during daytime hours] (541-806-1077; allenlisbeth570@gmail.com) if you want dozens of prayers ascending immediately for your concerns. [We so appreciate the energy Lis puts into facilitating the prayer ministry!]
Gemma underwent major surgery on Wednesday––removing the part of the liver containing the tumor and following it into her heart. They got it all! [The surgeons told her parents that the surgery went as well as it could have possibly gone.] Thank you for your prayers, please keep her in your prayers the next 72 hours especially.
Also, please pray for Micah in Trout Lake, father of four, that progressing cancer won't take away their joy.
Carolyn B. writes: "Thank you so much for your prayers for Zechariah! He arrived in Palawan late Tuesday night and is working on the airplane and equipment at AFM today. Although Palawan is also suffering a drought, there is much more food availability than in Chad. He is enjoying catching up with friends as he works."
Please continue your prayers for the 2024 summer Youth Rush program, that the Holy Spirit will continue to lead and guide and bring just the right workers. Thank you!
FEATURE
News from Jim and Irene H.
Sowing in Thailand
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April 2024
Our sixteen sixth graders graduated March 19, complete with robes and a speaker from Bangkok. Most of the graduates that lived on campus worked with Jim in the garden this year, so there is a closer connection than other years. [See pictures just below.]
1) The entry march to Pomp and Circumstance.
2) As part of the program students acknowledge and thank their parents. Juju lived with us the last semester and she’s thanking her mother, our friend, Lena Adams.
3) Participants and graduates…
4) Mumu with her mother, and Pastor Kalu Hser. We’re sponsoring Mumu at Chiangmai Adventist Academy next year.
   
We spent two days this week teaching English to 30 teenaged students! It was actually fun,––in spite of not having any curriculum or lead time to prepare. They were a really sweet bunch of kids, diligent, respectful and mostly attentive. Jim gave garden tours and taught garden vocabulary to the three different classes.
Several weeks ago, Jim and the principal were discussing the road project. The villagers approved the project but only one has offered to contribute anything. With virtually no funds donated to the project, Jim and Principal Woraphon recognized that if this project is going to happen, it will be God’s work in God’s timing.
Shortly after that conversation, Woraphon received a phone call from a church in Melbourne, Australia, that wants to donate $10,000 as a matching grant for the road!! Praise the Lord! Not long after that a villager agreed to donate 10,000 baht. And the first week of the month we get a report on donations to “Sowing in Thailand.” We received almost $500 more than normal, so we will apply that to the road. While we stand in awe and amazement at this turn of events, there’s a still small voice speaking to my heart saying, “Oh, ye of little faith and slow of heart to believe."
If you would like to help meet the matching grant and improve our access road to the school, you can make a tax-deductible donation to Sowing in Thailand at Jesus for Asia. Our timing would begin this road right away so it can be done before rainy season (starts in May, peaks in July/Aug, ends in Sept/Oct) but, we trust God's provision and perfect timing.
God’s richest blessing to you…
Jim and Irene
PS - On Friday afternoon, April 12, a windstorm hit the school grounds. So thankful nobody was hurt!
  
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