Holistic Community Development in Thailand

EFM’s relationship with The Way Foundation in Thailand is valuable in continuing the Great Commission work in Southeast Asia. The Way Foundation’s vision is to help establish a growing ministry that will continue to share the gospel, make disciples, plant churches and be connected to churches around the world, including those in America, for many generations to come.

Here is an exciting report on a Discipling for Development (D4D) project that the team in Thailand has been working on!

Holistic Community Development Project (April – June 2022)

We have taught a course on Discipleship for Development. There are 12 people who came to this training at Ja Saw Pa Village. The lessons that we taught in Ja Saw Pa Village are: the Swimming/ Crossing the River lesson, the Closed Church lesson, and the Three-Year-Old Child Dies Lesson,

A few of the strengths that we see from this project are:

The participants were very interested in the lessons. We saw that they have a heart that wants to learn, change, and understand or realize the problems of their community.
The participants apply what they have learned in daily life.
The participants can begin to share the Gospel to others by themselves.
Community leaders joined in teaching with the team
There is one family that became believers by hearing the Gospel proclaimed from the community leader.

A few obstacles that we see and are working on are:

The participants cannot read and write.
The participants cannot come to activities regularly, which makes some lessons difficult for the participants to understand.
The participants have wrong understanding about The Way Foundation. They thought that The Way Foundation would be giving something (money or other items) to them.

Please join us in prayer:

For our team, that God will give us wisdom and strength to work on this project.
For new believers, that they will know God more and grow up in his grace.
For the participants that they will have a heart to study more and more.

Thanks for your prayer and your support.

From,

The Yaw Sa Pa D4D team

EFM Thailand’s fundraising status is currently at 61% based on the commitments for monthly/yearly recurring giving that are needed for this ministry to be fully funded. Would you consider partnering with EFM Thailand? You can:

Donate online on EFM Thailand’s webpage here.
Donate by credit card over the phone at 303-421-8100.
Mail a check marked with “EFM Thailand Support” to EFM, PO Box 771139, Wichita, KS 67277.

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