News from the Mickels in Chiang Mai
February 2009 News
It’s a lot going on at the moment and I try to just condense it to some prayer points:
A major change occurred in our family 4 month ago. 'A' the young man who've we know for a long time moved in with us permanently. The situation within his family was difficult and we had to act very sudden. He is doing reasonably well now, as he depends on God and God is healing him. Actually we are amazed how quickly God is healing him and he even gained in confidence a lot already. But he still needs a lot of prayer.
Kham Siri is changing at the moment. We shift our emphasis from teaching English to run a Thai homework club run by A. We keep Saturday activities going, where we tell bible stories, play games and have lunch with the kids.
But most importantly I focus more on discipleship. On Thursday we teach the bible and on Saturday mornings we have a homegroup setting with worship, sharing our lives, praying and I also introduced communion last week and somebody straight away had a picture seeing the father and Jesus sitting with us and blessing\helping us. We’d love to establish and grow this homegroup into a house church. .
In 3 weeks time ,on the 21st Feb. we are moving Kham Siri again to a new location inside the community. We feel that God will establish us there. We want to start with a big party, where the community is involved.
An elderly couple from New Zealand joint us. They’ve been in Calcutta for 10 years living in the slums and teaching a trade to working girls there. They want to do the same thing here. For many years now I reach out to working girls here in Chiang Mai and some show interest in learning a trade. Our new place, which is a wooden house on stilts is very suitable to do this kind of thing.
