New year and New Life for New Friends!!

Recently we celebrated “Song Khran”, the annual Thai water festival, with the offer of a joyous feast of snake eggs. Sadly, we all happened to be on a diet that day so we had to politely decline. (When you see the size of those eggs, you just have to ask yourself, “so how big was the mother snake and where did she go??”) Even boiled snake eggs could not deter us from our mission that night: We wanted to share the life changing message of Jesus Christ in a new Rice factory in Bangkok. We stood before a small crowd of about 30 Burm*se workers. We were overjoyed at the end to have 14 people get up off their pile of lumber and come forward to receive Christ as their Lord and Savior!

The next day we hosted a big water party for the Burm*se workers in the Chachoernsao area. Since Burm*se workers only make about 5 dollars a day and get only one or two days off a year, we were unsure if people would want to come. Praise God, over a hundred Burm*se descended upon our little church! It was “controlled chaos” as we tried to serve people water while the temperatures soared over 40* C! People were sweating and stuffed tightly inside the church. They were sweating and stuffed along side and back of the Bethel church. All day we happily sweated and listened to great music and preaching. We even laughed and sweated together over a Burm*se face painting contest. Finally, we all cooled off with a huge water fight! At the end of this glorious day, over 60 people came forward to receive Christ as their Lord and Savior! As people stood with their arms held open to God, it was the first time many of them had ever heard the name of Jesus. But since it is the Holy Spirit’s joy to make Jesus known to our hearts, the Holy Spirit did not hold back. He moved powerfully in many people’s lives. Some spontaneously fell down under the power of the Holy Spirit and experienced the love of God for the first time. Others manifested evil spirits and were delivered. Others declared Jesus had healed them from sickness and pain! Is God’s power to save not amazing?!!

Last week we started our follow up. Praise the Lord, we now have a new cell church started in Minburi, a major city about 1/2 hour away from us in Bangkok. We also have many new believers coming to church. Please pray for our Burm*se Ministry team as we follow up with these precious new Believers:

"Heavenly Father, Thank you so much for throwing such a great party for the Burm*se people! Lord, your Word says that you are Living water to our thirsty souls. Thank you God for satisfying us so deeply with your love and forgiveness. Father, we pray the same prayer that Jesus prayed, we ask that not one person that you have given us would be lost. We ask that you would help us to grow each new believer into maturity in their faith. We ask that you would continue to reveal Jesus’ power to each person and cause each one to hunger to know you more. We ask for strength, strategic wisdom in planting cell churches and for the joy of the Lord to be in upon our missionary team and our Burm*se ministry team as we make committed Christ followers for you. In Jesus name we pray. Amen!"

Thank you for all your prayers and generous financial support. We need your help supporting this growing church plant. Please give to MBMS International’s new Burm*se church plant. You can donate online at http://www.mbmsi.org/ Our project number is: C0509.

Love, Dave and Louise Sinclair-Peters

Bethel Church Anniversary, February 2010

God continues His Blessings on Bethel Church, Chachoengsao, Thailand!!

“Zacchaeus, I need to come to your
home today!” (Luke 19:5) Randy Friesen preached to a
full house at Bethel’s 1st year Anniversary service on
February 14th. Without knowing it, a man whose
nickname is Tia or “Shorty,” was sitting in the service.
When Randy invited people to come forward and receive
Jesus as their Lord, Tia didn’t move. Louise looked at him
and knew the Holy Spirit was calling Tia to give his life to
Jesus. She knelt beside Tia and asked, “Do you want to
pray to receive Christ today?” “Yes, I just don’t want to go
up to the front,” he whispered. Knowing that Tia had been subject to ridicule and shame his entire life
Louise and Grandma Kham quietly prayed for Tia as he sat in his chair. And Tia , who is 51 years old,
said YES to Jesus!
The Bethel Church has been a whirlwind of
building activity since January. We’ve drilled a well, built
walls on our gazebo, extended the roof, painted, planted a garden
and even built a cool grass hut for the Trek team to live in. As the
Trekkers say, “This grass hut is totally LEGIT!”
Yes, our center is looking great. But even better than all
the beauty on the outside, are the beautiful trophies of God’s grace
on the inside! At our Baptism on February 14th,
5 people plunged into the muddy waters of the canal
and 4 people prayed to receive Christ as their Lord and
Savior. At the end of the day, it made us all shout… What a great
and mighty God we serve!
Friends of Bethel,
Would you consider giving a financial gift to us? We are now supporting 2 new church plants this
year… a new Burmese church and a Thai church! Thank you for your partnership in this amazing
season of harvest.
Love,
Dave & Louise,
Kyla, Micah, Grace and Sierra
Please give to MBMSI’s work with the Bethel Church in Thailand. You can send a cheque to:
MBMS International
302‐32025 George Ferguson Way
Abbotsford, BCV2T2K7 Canada
Or call1‐866‐964‐7627
Please indicate our project#C0509
To donate Online:
http://www.mbmsi.org/projects/thailand/projectc0509betlchurchplant

A New Well and Lots of New Life!

"Only Ask and I will give you the nations as your inheritance" Ps2:8

A New Well of Life for Bethel!

Jesus said. “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again,
but whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed,
the water I give him will become in him a spring of water welling
up to eternal life.” (John 4:13‐14)

We thank God for the new well that has just been installed at
church. No more washing dishes in dirty brown water. No more
parasites! All our stomachs say, “hallelujah!” The well is a
prophetic picture to us that God wants his church to stop drinking
contaminated “spiritual water” and seek Jesus alone for all that
we need.
"Lord God, thank you for satisfying us completely! Father, we ask that our new Thai and Burmese believers would be so full of your Holy Spirit that neither drinking, gambling or other lusts would entice them anymore. Just like Jesus responded when he was tempted, we decree ”be gone Satan!”
You have no authority anymore in the life of God’s children. In Jesus’ might name, Amen!"

God is our Strong Tower
“So Peter was kept in prison, but the church was earnestly praying to God for him” (Acts 12:5)

On December 27, something very frightening happened to one of our believers. As Som left her house to go and clean the church, she was attacked by two men. They
punched her, threw her to the ground and stomped on her back. She knew they
were going to rape her. She cried out to God for help. She saw a metal shovel near
her. She grabbed it and hit her attacker over the head! The shovel cut his head
open. When they saw the blood, THEY started to cry out for help! You’ll never
believe what happened next: They ran and reported her to the police! Som suffered
a lot bruising and internal bleeding but with lots of prayer and help of her new
“God Family”, she is healing well.

Last week one of our new Burmese believers was arrested and put in jail (think
Thai jail... only rats and a dirty floor). He was falsely accused of killing a man. He called his wife crying and asked us all to pray. We all prayed earnestly. Thankfully, after 2 days, Loong was released! However, once the word spread into the Burmese community, our believers were too scared to come to our evangelism seminar. We knew this was a tactic of the enemy to keep our Burmese believers from going out and sharing their faith.
"Father, we thank you that you are our Strong Tower! We ask the Holy Spirit to give our Thai and Burmese believers boldness and courage. We ask that they would not shrink back from loving you even in the face of intimidation and assault."

No matter what comes against God’s people, nothing can stop the Gospel from going forward! Amen?
We are rejoicing with the angels that 30 people have made commitments to Christ in the last 4 days!
We thank God for the Trek Team and Reg Toews from DMI who went out and shared the message of Christ’s love with our Thai and Burmese believers.
We are ecstatic that the Gospel has born fruit in two new completely unreached villages. Our new Believers who went with us said, “Impossible! Those people are way too angry!” But God was not intimidated! O.K. that doesn’t mean we weren’t ... one lady yelled, “get out!” really loud the first day. But the second day, she followed the team and prayed to receive Jesus Christ as her Lord and
Savoir! Ha! Only God’s power can do that!

Another highlight was a young 18-year old man named “Aun” who accepted Christ Saturday. Sunday, he came to church and loved it! He told us he didn’t want to go home so we brought him along with us into a Burmese factory. By the end of the day he had helped us lead 9 Burmese workers to Jesus! This young man has been catapulted into the Kingdom of God and now he is on fire to save souls! He will never be the same. Please pray for all Aun’s friends- they are next on our radar! 

Thank you for all your prayers and financial support!
Love,
Dave & Louise
Guitars Needed!

Do you have any second-hand guitars or other instruments that you don’t use anymore?
We have a vision to raise-up worship leaders for our new cell groups in the factories.
Send us an email if you can help in any way! Thanks!

Bethel Baptism Nov 2009

As a Christmas gift to all of our friends and followers, we would like to give you the opportunity to celebrate the grace of God in the lives of 5 new believers in Chachoengsao, Thailand.

Thanks to Phil Davis for the video:)

And thank you for your prayers and support for mbmsi's work in Thailand.

Merry Christmas! From the Bethel Team

From Dave and Louise SP

Dear Friends and Family,

Thank you so much for all your prayers for us last week! We sure needed them!

On the day of our baptism we nearly had a funeral instead of a party. Pote, was at the church during the day putting up lights, when he accidently touched some wet ground that had a live current flowing through it. Our members were wondering where Pote had gone when they saw him rolling on the ground, being jolted with 220 volts! Thankfully our believers turned off the power in time. There were lots of jokes after that about being baptized with power from on high!

Your prayers were also powerful and effective in Mr. Chin’s life. The week preceding his baptism, “all hell broke lose” with problems, conflicts and crises following Chin everywhere he went. But by God’s grace, Chin stayed the course; He kicked his life long smoking habit! Praise God! The smile on his face at his baptism and his gratefulness for the cross of Christ and his Salvation brought cheers down in God’s house!

After all the B-----se Believers saw the baptisms and understood its symbolism, they excitedly asked, “when can we be baptized?” So we will have a B------se baptism on December 15! Please pray that they would be completely confident that the evil spirits of their animistic beliefs are powerless compared to the radiant, glorious, power of the King of Kings and Lord of Lords!

And if, we didn’t have enough to celebrate already, last week Sunwest Church from Calgary put up the most amazing playground in the poor local school right near our church. The love of God and the love of the church was clearly seen by all our Thai neighbors! Thank you Sunwest!
Don’t forget to take a look at the photos on this blog!

This Christmas please support MBMSI’s ministry in Thailand and the Bethel Church plant. You can donate on line at: mbmsi.org. Note: our project number is C0509. Use the links below.

https://www.mbmsi.org/donate/cdn/C0509
https://www.mbmsi.org/donate/us/C0509

Love,Dave and Louise Sinclair-Peters

Baptism in the Canal (at night)!!!

November 17th, 2009; the date of the first ever night-time baptism service at the Bethel Church. It was an awesome evening that was attended by over 80 people, including friends from TLC and Angsila churches, as well as the Sunwest Team from Canada, who were here building a playground at the local school.

The evening began with worship that went back and forth between Thai and B-----se, as Tuesday evenings are when our B------se church meets. Below Pastor Isaiah and team lead worship. Our church members had worked all day to make the church beautiful. Thai people love Christmas lights, for any occasion!

As part of the worship, we listened as each of the 5 people who were baptized shared their stories of how God had worked in their lives to bring them to this step of faith.

Below is Sunday (with Bob and Ozz). He is Thai, but his wife is B-----se. She cannot read Thai, so she asked her husband to read the Bible to her. He did, and through that God worked in his own heart and he accepted Christ about 1 year ago.

Below is Chin (with Ozz, Bob and Pastor Naat). His wife is also from B----a and she also had asked him to read the Bible to her, and God used it to begin revealing himself to Chin. He is the man who built our church building, and has a very powerful testimony. He has been involved in nearly any form of evil you could mention, but God has changed his heart and is making a man of God out of him.

This is Pote. On the day of the baptism he was knocked unconscious by an electrical schock, putting up the spotlights. Everyone there at the time gave glory to God for protecting him. His wife is also a believer who had already been baptized.

This is Meet, Sunday's wife. She was challenged to pray that God would bring someone to serve with us who spoke her language, and God heard that prayer and sent us Pastor Isaiah. Now there are about 2 dozen B-----se believers that meet for worship every week, and many are preparing for baptism next month!

This is Uncle Man. His wife (Auntie Kham) came to the Lord before him, and he was impressed with how she read her Bible every day, and how bold she had become in sharing her faith. He has always been very quiet, but since we went on the missions trip to Isaan and he stood up and shared his faith with his family, he has become very bold himself!

Each person who was baptised received a new Bible or worship cd (if they already had a Bible).

Uncle man receives his....

And of course, the evening finished with Communion, followed by a great meal of Thai and

B----se food. This was truly an international service, and one we know that God was pleased to bless!

God has blessed us with several families where both the husband and wife are Christians. That is a great thrill to us. Please pray for all our families to love God with all they've got, and their neighbors as themselves (and for the missionaries to do the same). Pray for our ministry with the factory workers, and for the new opportunities in the local school. Please pray also for our upcoming Christmas events, that Jesus will be lifted up! Amen!!

New Playground!!

Thank you Sunwest Team and Emmanual Foundation for coming to Chachoengsao and blessing our local elementary school with this amazing playground!!

Several weeks ago we thought we had a site all sorted out; a local man had agreed to donate some land near our church for a playground for the local children. Much to our surprise, when we returned from our mission trip to Isaan, we found that the government had come in and built one there already! We began to pray for a new site, and God led us to the school just across the canal, where many of the children who come to our club and church go to school.

Below is what their old playground looked like: not really adequate for over 200 students! The team came in and in only 4 days a miracle of transformation happened!

All week the kids were watching it go up, and helping by sanding the old paint off. They kept asking, "when will it be ready?" The buzz was building! Besides building, some of the team were able to go into the classrooms and teach English for several hours everyday.

The finished product was amazing! There was an opening ceremony on Friday, with district officials and everything. There was even a ribbon cutting ceremony (Thai people love a bit of pomp....who doesn't?). And then....200 really happy kids were turned loose!!

What's the point? Well much more than just providing a place to play; really valuable relationships were established all week long, and we know that God is going to use this gift for His glory in reaching into the school and beyond with the good news of God's amazing grace!!

Please keep the school in your prayers....