Dear Marshall and Vision Team,
Praise the Lord for touching so many people with the power of the gospel! We continue to pray for you all daily. Take care and keep up the good work, and may the Lord continue to deeply bless you and protect you, and touch many more lives through you!
Warmly,
Siang Yang
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On Jul 6, 2012, at 7:02 AM, Marshall <umarsh07@gmail.com> wrote:
> Friday, July 6
> We got to sleep in a little later today, met for breakfast at 7:45 and left at 8:30 to go to a minimum security prison for juveniles (ages 16 to 24). Pastor Gampon couldn't come with us so Pastor Tong Kam, an assistant at the church and Ging, the church secretary came with us. The prison was simple to get into, no searches, no ID required and we sang in an open covered structure. About 400 inmates filed in and politely sat on the floor the entire time. We sang, did two skits (the puppet skit and the heavy burden skit, both from last year) in between the songs and Crystal and Elisabeth's testimonies. Crystal shared how God is good as she experienced during her mother's surgery and Elisabeth talked about how God gave her wisdom to deal with a potential suicide threat from her friend. Pastor Tom than shared his testimony how God took him from a party lifestyle to a meaningful Christ centered life. When he gave the invitation, about 50 young men raised their hands to pray the sinner's prayer. Praise God! When we were done the prison psychologist contradicted everything Pastor Tom had said by stating basically that all religions are good and therefore the same. We liken this to the birds that eat the seeds the sower sows by trying to dull the effect of the message. Pray that God will keep this from happening in the lives of those who professed their faith. After this, we met the "Christian group" of about 20 kids. Some spoke Chinese, so we were able to have the boys and adults talk to them in small groups, sometimes speaking in English translated to Mandarin and then to Thai. One young boy said he believed when he was 11 but said he never prayed since he went to jail so we were able to get him to pray. Another whose wife just had their baby 5 days ago said he was falsely accused of killing someone and is in jail for 3 years.
> We were supposed to be done at 10:30 but we finally left the prison at 11:30, got home to eat lunch and leave for our 1 PM program at a small elementary school (probably run by the Buddhist temple next to the school) with about 100 students, grades 1 to 6. Joseph ran the entire program; Alice shared her testimony about finding friends and Eric and Nadia did the heart skit. A. Sue than talked to the kids about the meaning of the 5 color beads and bookmark, basically explaining the Gospel message to the kids. About 80 kids raised their hands and prayed to receive Christ at the conclusion of her short talk. Pastor Tong Kam was so impressed with the way A. Sue interacted with the children and the effectiveness of her talk he asked if she was a children pastor. We left with two vans stopping by the mall and bank so we can have those who arrived Monday exchange some money, while the rest of us returned home to nap. Shortly after we arrived, it started to pour, but God held off the rain until our ministry was done, just another indication of His goodness.
> After dinner, we had our small group devotions and spent some time to debrief and process our day. We came to realize how much we need to be praying and to realize the spiritual warfare going on in the unseen world. We ended the day by spending some time in prayer, upholding all the decisions made today, that their hearts will be fertile soil for the new life to grow.
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