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....

Bethel Mission Trip to Isaan!

Dear Friends,

In a recent letter we asked you to pray for our upcoming missions trip to the northeast region of Thailand, called Isaan. As you may know, many of our church members are from that region and we wanted to give them the opportunity to go home and "tell what great things the Lord has done".
So...we loaded almost 30 people into 3 pickups and headed off:


Bob and Chris's truck soon became "party central" as the teens claimed it as their own, as well as the bongos and assorted other instruments (including a plastic bucket and roll of duct tape). The singing was non-stop! The first place we visited was Aunt Kham's family. She hadn't been home in years and wasn't even sure how many of her relatives were still alive. They were thrilled to see her and hosted us with grace and kindness. When the gospel was presented to her family and neighbors that evening, several responded by praying to believe in Jesus!

Before we left the next day we gathered them together for one last "prayer meeting".

Our next stop was for lunch at the home village of her husband, Uncle Man. He hadn't been home in over 40 years, but he remembered the way with only a few stops to confirm we were on the right track. Here we presented the gospel again, through drama, songs, and testimonies. Again, several indicated their desire to follow Jesus.

We managed to round up a few kids for a teaching time as well. Some of them took one look at the white folks and ran away, but the braver ones stayed.

Below: That's Uncle Man in the blue shirt. When he got up to share, he had a song sheet with him, and we wondered if he was going to sing. Then we noticed that he held it up in front of his face as he spoke and we realised that he was crying as he shared his love for Jesus with his family! Well, we all joined in...

Everywhere we went we were warmly received and "fed and watered" really well. The next stop was our co-worker Naat's home village. She had only been back once in many years, and there had been many problems in her relationships with her father and siblings.

In the evening we held a sort of street party in front on Naat's sisters house, and many people from her street came over to check out the singing and dancing. Quite a few took gospels of John in Thai and other literature.

On our way out of town the next day we went to seen Naat's 78 year old father. Louise very gently explained the gospel to him, and when asked, he said he would like to believe in Jesus too! It was a very emotional time for Naat, and for the rest of us as well.

On our way to our next destination we took a detour to visit a young couple who used to live in Chachoengsao, and who had come to faith in our church. They went "back home" to have their second child. It was an opportunity to see them and the new baby, as well as to share a little with their family and neighbors.

The next stop was the home village of Gaow. We stayed at the home of her sister and family and the next morning presented the gospel again. Here several ladies prayed to recieve Jesus also.

Our final destination was to the home of May. May had not been home in many years also, but again God blessed her with almost perfect recall as she directed us right to a small market where her aunt and sister were selling. It was a very emotional reunion as May was reunited with the aunt who raised her when she was rejected by her mother at a very young age.

May has carried anger and bitterness toward her mother for rejecting her all of her life. A miracle happened on our last day as May and her mother sat together and Naat and others spoke to them both about the need to forgive and let go of all the pain they have felt and caused each other. It was a battle, but God won the victory as their hearts melted and they were able to embrace and be prayed for together.

All in all, we covered almost 2000 kilometers in 5 days. We saw around 17 people pray to ask Jesus to be their Lord. We gave out dozens of gospels and other literature. We prayed for many other people. We were kept safe after witnessing many accidents on the roads. We asked God for divine appointments, and there were many. We asked for open hearts, and we met them everywhere we went. God blessed us and blessed others through us. Glory to His Name!

Please pray; much seed was sown. Pray for fruit that remains!

Outreach to the Factory Workers

Dear Friends,
We have told you before about the amazing opportunity that God has given to us to preach the gospel in several nearby factories. This has been happening on a weekly basis for about a year now, and we have several believers in 3 different locations. They are all from a nearby country (M******) and are amongst the poorest people we have ever met. In addition to the regular weekly cell group we have in 1 location, we bring 2 families to church with us every Sunday from another location. Over the last year there have been a number of times we have taken teams and visitors into these places to have special events, where the gospel has been proclaimed, and people have responded by placing their faith in Jesus Christ!

A few months ago we began praying that God would bring us someone who could communicate better in their heart language. Some of them speak a little Thai (and even a few words of English), but communication has been a challenge. However, God has heard our prayer and brought us into contact with a Pastor working in another part of Thailand who speaks their language! Last Sunday he (Pastor Isaiah) came to visit us at Bethel, and brought a team of 8 others with him. Our local friends were thrilled to meet a Pastor who speaks their language, so much so that 1 man cried when he heard the Bible being taught in his own native tongue!

It was a great day, and was awesome to see these young, new followers of Jesus embracing and being loved on by other believers who can truly understand the challenges they face, living and working in Thailand. We are hoping to have a worker come each week and help us reach out to the many hundreds of people from this ethnic background who live and work in Thailand.

Please pray with us: "O Lord, we glorify and worship you for the wonderful way in which you are working in the lives of these dear people. Please call many of them into your kingdom and into service for you, to reach out with the message of grace to their families and neighbors. You are an awesome God who loves to heal the broken and bless the poor and humble. Glorify Yourself in and through the lives of your children and servants here. Praise Your Name!!!" Amen!