The Life of elderly people in our village is not easy, especially with the language barrier. Even though they live in Thailand they speak their tribal language. Some of them come to our church with their grandchildren. God put a desire on our hearts to organize a group for the elderly, where we can study the Bible in their language. This is a spoken language and doesn’t have its own alphabet. Thank God that we can use audio Bibles, listen together, and discuss what the Word says. We often use pictures for better understanding.
At this point, we have 3-5 elderly women who come every week. In the beginning, they were too shy to pray out loud, but later two of them encouraged others. As we talked about God’s love, we asked them how they see that God loves them. One of the ladies gladly answered: “I was going to Church, but it was so hard for me to hear and understand and I felt sad about it. But now God told you to come and have time with us, where we can study the Bible, Thank God, He really loves me!”
When they come and share about their life of the past week, we hear from them how other people react to them when they speak about God. “Oh, I don’t think you can go to Heaven, because I remember you worshipped the strong spirit, he will not let you go.” – and our sister answered: “My God is the strongest Spirit, and will easily take me!” These 70-year-old and older ladies are full of energy, happy, and glad to share about God with their generation and people younger than their age. Please pray for their faith to grow and be bolder in reaching others. Please pray for us to have wisdom in continuing this ministry.
We appreciate your prayers and support!
Ministry in Thailand (Avoda) – San and Anita