July 11 (Continued) – We learned one other interesting information about this Myanmar church. For three months every year, they have an intensive Bible study training (probably going on now since we were told those who danced and sang were Bible students). During these 3 months, these young people wake up at 4 AM daily and pray until 7, eat and have a session from 8 until lunch time. After a lunch break, they go for another 3-4 hours or so and have a dinner break and then have their evening session and go to sleep at 10 PM. They didn't say but they probably do ministry on Friday nights and weekends. Such dedication and discipline among our Asian brethren is probably the reason God is working so powerfully in the Far East and not in America and the western world. We have much to learn from them. However, Daya also told ume (Marshall) that there is a lot of internal problems in the Myanmar churches, problems which sound familiar to the Chinese church. The leaders do not want to relinquish control and that causes rifts and splinters in the body. May God have mercy on them and on us. Finally, a touching incident I would like to share. After the service, as we were shaking hands and greeting our Neapli and Myanmar sisters and brothers, a lady shook my hand and shoved an envelope in my hand. The envelope contained a hundred Baht bill. Later, I found she also gave Joni a similar envelope. For us, a hundred Baht, worth about $3.34, is not much, but I am reminded of the incident recorded in Luke 21:1-4. We give out of our abundance, but she gave out of her poverty. We think we should frame these two hundred Baht bills to remind us this is how we should give.
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