Myanmar - 2

This week please pray for Paul W and the ministry in Myanmar.  Here is a letter from him.

I would like to introduce by myself. I am Paul W; a senior pastor of a mission I founded this since 31st of May, 2004 and now the mission will be 5 years in operation soon. We are especially doing church planting in the new areas in where there are no churches yet established and we focus the fisher community, the uneducated and unreached groups who are living along the seaside and riverside of southern Myanmar, where the cyclone, Nargis, devastated the communities..

We have a focus of five mission field:

(1) Rakhine State
(2) Ayeyawaddy Division
(3) Yangon Division
(4) Mon State
(5) Taninthayi Division  

We set up our vision to penetrate till the whole islands of Myanmar. Now there are 14 churches we have been able to plant and 250 members increased within five years of the ministries beginning. There are a lot of rural fishermen communities who never heard the gospel in the islands and coastline. They only think about to catching fish and selling it, but their heart and living style are very simple and honest. When we reached to their places they accept us with good hospitality, listened to our witnessing about Christ and they wanted to hear more about Christ. Actually they are as Buddhist, but their life is like paganism. Therefore, we do need more to penetrate them with the gospel till village to village because this has been an effective outreach and ministering style to these communities.

According my research if we can find a home or a place for a house of worship and do ministry with the Jesus film, they will easily come and change their life.  After that we will follow up them all who are converted, baptized them and following with biblical teaching of the bible story, recitation and Burmese translations so that they all may learn and read themselves. An after that we plan to train those who are sharp and have potential out of the converters as a disciples or church planters so that they might work church planting among their own peoples.

That is all about our mission plans and strategies we are continually processing toward.  Therefore we do need your involving with us in prayers in this.

Today in our church we celebrated the one year anniversary memorial service of Nargis cyclone victims in Myanmar. As soon as we started praise and worship and we sang "THE SONGS, AMAZING GRACE AND IT IS WELL WITH MY SOUL" and we prayed and kept silence for a minute and when I spoke on behalf of all the members regarding how we are sad and remember the many terrible victims of this cyclone, all church members cried and I asked them all who will submit life for them who are the remained to preach the gospel,  All the members both small and great shouted together loudly, yes we will go to the places to share the gospel. 

We pray to go soon to the area in where the cyclone has victimized badly to take the gospel and crusade. Please pray for that program.

Yours in His service