I’m so excited to share what has been happening lately with us here in Thailand! God told us it would be easy and fun, and he would open the doors. Well He’s done just that. A month ago we came back to Chiang Mai and enrolled in language school. One of the students just happens to be the leader of the “Call to All” YWAM base here. We hit it off and have become fast friends with him and his family. They even invited us to enjoy Thanksgiving with them!
We also went back to the church we had gone to only 3 times before leaving for Moldova and other places. Pastor Sidney of Kingdom Life Church welcomed us back warmly and a week later asked us to teach about healing and pray for the sick in his church! God gave us instant favor with this pastor, whom we’ve been told has the fastest growing Thai church
congregation in the city. It’s less than 2 years old, but has about 400 people (which is a “huge” church among the Thai). The healing service went very well - God showed up and many were healed!
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We also went back to the church we had gone to only 3 times before leaving for Moldova and other places. Pastor Sidney of Kingdom Life Church welcomed us back warmly and a week later asked us to teach about healing and pray for the sick in his church! God gave us instant favor with this pastor, whom we’ve been told has the fastest growing Thai church
congregation in the city. It’s less than 2 years old, but has about 400 people (which is a “huge” church among the Thai). The healing service went very well - God showed up and many were healed!
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| Worship at Kingdom Life Church |
We noticed that Pastor Sidney didn’t have a ministry team though. So we offered to train one up for him. He responded immediately with, “Yes! When can you start?” Stunned, we booked it two weeks out and quickly wrote a simple healing ministry training manual, which Pastor Sidney skillfully translated into Thai. Last week after Sunday service was our first training session with all his Life Group leaders (about 25 people) and yesterday was our final session with activation.
Here is a paragraph in Thai from our manual - for your reading
Here is a paragraph in Thai from our manual - for your reading
นี่เป็นรายการบางส่วนที่ทําให้เราเห็นอัตลักษณ์ของเราในพระคริสต์ เมื่อคุณเข้าเฝ้า พระเจ้าด้วยการอธิษฐาน คุณสามารถอธิษฐานด้วยค วามมั่นใจ อย่าพูดว่า "ฉันเป็น ใคร?" เหมือนกับว่า คุณด้อยกว่าผู้เชื่ออื่นในโลกนี้ เราไม่ด้อยกว่าผู้เชื่อคนใดซึ่งเคยมี ชีวิตอยู่ เราเทุกคน ป็นผู้ร่วมรับพระสัญญาของพระเจ้า การเป็นคริสเตียนไม่ใช่เรื่อง ความดีหรือการกระทําของเรา เราไม่ได้ทําอะไรจนมีฤทธิ์เดชในการรักษา โรค เราได้รับ เปล่า ๆ จากพระเจ้า และเราให้เปล่า ๆ การเป็นคริสเตียนก็คือ สิ่งที่พระเจ้าได้ทรงทํา เพื่อเราในพระเยซูคริสต์
God also opened the door for us to minister in 3 other churches about the Holy Spirit and healing! One was in the tribal mountains at a Presbyterian church that knew nothing about the baptism of the Holy Spirit.
The day after we got down from the mountain we went to City Gate Church, where Pastor
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Activation went extremely well. We modeled a prayer in front of them (Jesus graciously healed a lady with level 10 neck pain!), then divided them into groups of 3 or 4, each with someone to pray for who was in pain. Everyone got some level of healing! The most dramatic was an old man that hobbled to church on crutches for an hour and stayed late to receive prayer from this group getting trained. I saw him walking out of the church
carrying his crutches under his arms so I quickly got his picture! He had been hit by a car and had sharp pains in his left hip and leg. After his group prayed for him, all his pain left!
All the Life Group leaders are now excited to activate their people into healing the sick! Pastor Sidney is super excited too. He announced at the end of the training, “After you activate your groups, your people will activate the whole church!”
All the Life Group leaders are now excited to activate their people into healing the sick! Pastor Sidney is super excited too. He announced at the end of the training, “After you activate your groups, your people will activate the whole church!”
God also opened the door for us to minister in 3 other churches about the Holy Spirit and healing! One was in the tribal mountains at a Presbyterian church that knew nothing about the baptism of the Holy Spirit.
If you didn’t already see the little 1 min. video of our trip, you can see it at
brianandlorena.blogspot.com.
I think probably 95% of thechurch were baptized in the Holy Spirit - maybe about 100 people. (There’s only 300 in the whole village!). The pastor of this church was hungry to learn more and found a Spirit filled pastor in the city on facebook, named Pastor Gampon! Pastor Gampon’s wife had just met us and by God’s favor, they invited us to go with them along with some members of their church to this mountain village. It was such a privilege to bring the Holy Spirit and healing to this beautiful tribe! The joy of the Lord came, many were healed, and some delivered from demons.
This lady was bound by an evil sprit that made her mute for 16 years. Jesus set her free and released her tongue. Her first words were, “Praise the Lord” (in her language)!
As if this wasn’t exciting enough, the next morning I went outside my door and found myself greeted with elephants in our yard (check out the video!) and a bamboo stick filled with sticky rice! This raw rice is first put inside a hollow piece of bamboo, which is soaked in water all night. In the morning it gets roasted on a bbq grill, and out comes a delicious breakfast of sticky rice!
brianandlorena.blogspot.com.
I think probably 95% of thechurch were baptized in the Holy Spirit - maybe about 100 people. (There’s only 300 in the whole village!). The pastor of this church was hungry to learn more and found a Spirit filled pastor in the city on facebook, named Pastor Gampon! Pastor Gampon’s wife had just met us and by God’s favor, they invited us to go with them along with some members of their church to this mountain village. It was such a privilege to bring the Holy Spirit and healing to this beautiful tribe! The joy of the Lord came, many were healed, and some delivered from demons.
This lady was bound by an evil sprit that made her mute for 16 years. Jesus set her free and released her tongue. Her first words were, “Praise the Lord” (in her language)!
As if this wasn’t exciting enough, the next morning I went outside my door and found myself greeted with elephants in our yard (check out the video!) and a bamboo stick filled with sticky rice! This raw rice is first put inside a hollow piece of bamboo, which is soaked in water all night. In the morning it gets roasted on a bbq grill, and out comes a delicious breakfast of sticky rice!
The day after we got down from the mountain we went to City Gate Church, where Pastor
This church has also been experiencing supernatural growth this past year and has asked us to train a ministry team for them as well. We’ll do that in January. As you can imagine from these pictures, all our ideas and plans for collecting testimonies went out the window when the Holy Spirit started taking everyone out so quickly! Haha! We heard a few testimonies though, as they started to sit up from their encounters. Many healings...!
Thank you for keeping us in your prayers.
We love you all so much and cheer you on in your families and ministries as well! I miss you guys in the Healing Rooms and being there with you. I love hearing your reports and testimonies - keep them coming! Thursday we head we head to Vietnam for a week. Stay posted!
Much love and blessings, Lorena and Brian
Thank you for keeping us in your prayers.
We love you all so much and cheer you on in your families and ministries as well! I miss you guys in the Healing Rooms and being there with you. I love hearing your reports and testimonies - keep them coming! Thursday we head we head to Vietnam for a week. Stay posted!
Much love and blessings, Lorena and Brian
