Jon and Phoebe's thetomyumkongs journey.

our reflections in the field.

Category: Email Updates

  • Updates from The Kongs – Feb to Apr 2024

    Updates from The Kongs – Feb to Apr 2024

    Some updates – A season of renewal From February to April, we celebrated three significant festivals that relate to renewal – Chinese New Year, Easter and Thai Songkran water festival. Chinese New Year (CNY) was quite low-key since it is not a public holiday in Thailand and we do not have many Chinese-background friends around…

  • Updates from The Kongs – Nov ’23 to Jan ’24

    Updates from The Kongs – Nov ’23 to Jan ’24

    Despite the family emergencies which we had to attend to in November and December last year, we thank God that we could return to Thailand in time to participate in some of the Christmas outreaches organised by our language school and our church in Singburi. We are also thankful that we made it to a…

  • Christmas greetings from the Kongs ’23

    Christmas greetings from the Kongs ’23

    Christ’s hope and peace in this tumultuous world “Shall we receive good from God, and shall we not receive evil?“ Job 2:10 This was a verse which Phoebe read during her quiet time one month before our lives gotthrown into loss, disbelief and grief. When Phoebe read it, it was a reminder to hold on…

  • Updates from the Kongs – Jan to Apr ’23

    Updates from the Kongs – Jan to Apr ’23

    Dear friends, We hope you had a good start to 2023 and a blessed Easter! As 2023 began, both Jon and Phoebe sensed that this is a year which we are called to step out in faith. We submitted our letters of resignation to leave our local church as full-time workers by end-April. We also…