Last October, I was asked to be part of a leadership team for developing a YWAM Chiang Rai Base and accepted. Over the past months, we've worked together to develop a mission, vision, and the values for this missions base.
We have been blessed by having Ron Brewster working with us in Chiang Rai. Ron is the director of the YWAM base in Lakeside, Montana and has come alongside our Chiang Rai base to help us establish long-term leadership structure and systems needed to accomplish our mission.
We are currently in the midst of our third consecutive yearly DTS with sixteen students on campus. Rob and Cy Wiebe have joined our staff, coming to us from YWAM Chile where they helped run the School of Biblical Studies (SBS). They plan to begin the first Chiang Rai SBS in the summer of 2009 and are working hard on their language studies.
Eight Thai Christians are currently attending the Discipleship Training School and we are excited to be helping train the local Christians. Our vision is to partner with these local Christians to reach the unreached of Southeast Asia. As part of our goal of reaching the unreached, the base is coordinating a worldwide YWAM Frontier Missions conference which will be held in April 2008. Attendees from around the world and representing many nations will be coming to Chiang Rai to receive encouragement and teaching to assist them in “going to the ends of the earth” and sharing the good news of Jesus Christ.
There are talks underway regarding additional schools which we believe would be a natural fit for YWAM Chiang Rai. The first of these is The School of Frontier Missions (SOFM) and the second is Introduction to Primary Health Care (IPHC). Please be in prayer with us as we consider the many opportunities we have to serve this area of Southeast Asia.
We’re also opening a snack bar in the administration building to serve students, staff, and the Christian community of Chiang Rai. During the six months that DTS is in session, we often have wonderful speakers on location and Wednesday night has been reserved as an evening of open invitation to the local Christian community to be encouraged in their missions work. We’re excited about the opportunity for extending the relationships between the Base and local Missions community.
Two of the base staff, Jesse and Uab Ford head up a discipleship ministry and smoothie shop across from the Mai Fae Luang University. How amazing to see university students seeking answers to life’s questions and finding the answer in Christ. We are honored to work with this ministry as an integral component of the base outreach. Please keep this ministry in your prayers.
We are currently in the midst of our third consecutive yearly DTS with sixteen students on campus. Rob and Cy Wiebe have joined our staff, coming to us from YWAM Chile where they helped run the School of Biblical Studies (SBS). They plan to begin the first Chiang Rai SBS in the summer of 2009 and are working hard on their language studies.
Eight Thai Christians are currently attending the Discipleship Training School and we are excited to be helping train the local Christians. Our vision is to partner with these local Christians to reach the unreached of Southeast Asia. As part of our goal of reaching the unreached, the base is coordinating a worldwide YWAM Frontier Missions conference which will be held in April 2008. Attendees from around the world and representing many nations will be coming to Chiang Rai to receive encouragement and teaching to assist them in “going to the ends of the earth” and sharing the good news of Jesus Christ.
There are talks underway regarding additional schools which we believe would be a natural fit for YWAM Chiang Rai. The first of these is The School of Frontier Missions (SOFM) and the second is Introduction to Primary Health Care (IPHC). Please be in prayer with us as we consider the many opportunities we have to serve this area of Southeast Asia.
We’re also opening a snack bar in the administration building to serve students, staff, and the Christian community of Chiang Rai. During the six months that DTS is in session, we often have wonderful speakers on location and Wednesday night has been reserved as an evening of open invitation to the local Christian community to be encouraged in their missions work. We’re excited about the opportunity for extending the relationships between the Base and local Missions community.
Two of the base staff, Jesse and Uab Ford head up a discipleship ministry and smoothie shop across from the Mai Fae Luang University. How amazing to see university students seeking answers to life’s questions and finding the answer in Christ. We are honored to work with this ministry as an integral component of the base outreach. Please keep this ministry in your prayers.
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