Pastor Manat jammin out
Karen orphan who lives at Forgotten house
Dinner
Pastor Ninja Stephen
Wipa teaching Karen students
Greetings to all and thank you for you love and prayers! Our team (Josh, Jon, Miles, and A.J.) are all healthy and safe. We are half way through our trip and it is has thus far been filled with joy, adventure, rice, prayer, deep thought and discussions, rice and fellowship.
The people we serve are the Karen and they are highly opressed. The people in Forgotten land our safe, but those still in Burma face (as we speak) murder, rape, slavery, abuse, displacement, and opression. We are doing our best to help the Karen and their children. There is great need for safety and medical attention among the families, education for the children, and hope for all. They desperately need the gospel and love of Christ within them. Through Pastor Manat and Pastor Ninja Stephen and audio bibles (Proclaimers) we have been ministering to the Karen for three years now. We have had but a few come to the Lord, but we will not be discouraged and will continue to press on. The Lord is faithful. These people hurt and our hearts ache for them. One of the girls who came to Lord is only 16 and was kicked out of her house by her family once they learned she became a Christian. The girl, Wipa, now lives in the Forgotten House. After seeing the changes in Wipa's life, her family now is very interested in the Lord and has allowed her to return home if she wants!
We are defining the mission of Forgotten while on this trip and through God's direction, we will continue forward. We are seeing the Karen children as the future and a great need to foster, educate, and mentor these kids. They can be raised up in the love of Christ to help their people, love, give, fight, and give back the hope we can instill in them. Pray for us.
We thank God for the work of Pastors Manat and Stephen. They are faithful brothers and they want only to minister, diciple and love.
It is beautiful here. Forgotten Land, in the village of Metawah, is surrounded by lush mountains and in the Mai river valley seperating Burma and Thailand. Josh, Jon, and I swam in the river yesterday. It is hard to wrap your mind around the fact that just kilometers from where we were swimming, people are being hunted!
I am victim of this more than anyone, but please recognize how good your life in the U.S. is. How much freedom you have. Remember the Forgotten. Thank you again and enjoy the pics!
Blessings,
A.J.
6 comments:
So Glad to hear all is well. I will pray for Gods will and wisdom to be obvious to you guys while you are there, and for the clear purpose of forgotten to be determined. I will also pray that more and more of the Karen people come to know Christ and for his love to become more obvious to all who are there, so that they may find hope in him. Love all of you.
Davis
I am so excited for what God is doing with Forgotten and with all of you individually while you are in Thailand. I am praying that God gives you such a clear direction and purpose for the foundation. The Karen people are very close to my heart, and those in your region will be in my prayers as well as those in Chiang Rai. I will pray that they come to know Jesus in such a real way and that all of the families continue to serve each and sustain each other with resources. God bless you all and Sawadee Ca!
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Still so proud of your guys and tell Josh good work with the 50mm...beautiful!
Awesome report and wonderfull pictures!!! I think, AJ, that you need to bring home that littlest cute orphan.;-) I so would love to visit Forgotten land. Hopefully soon. Love you guys and blessings to all at Forgotten.
Mari J
You guys look really good! I feel weird sitting here in class while you guys are out there with out me. It's like part of me is missing. Hopefully we can have a ready website by next week!
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