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Puzzles
by Jon “I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.” Psalms 139:14 After moving to Takhro at the end of June, one of the ways that has gradually grown more apparent is the need to engage children in the village. With this in mind, we started our…
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“Are these signs in your household?”
by Phoebe I asked my language helper, Kae, this question as we read Mark 16 as part of my Thai language learning. Each lesson is also a bible study for Kae as she is also a member of the house church where we are ministering. When we reached verse 17 of Mark 16, I casually…
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“Unless someone guides me”
by Jon “So Philip ran to him and heard him reading Isaiah the prophet and asked, ‘Do you understand what you are reading?’ And he said, ‘How can I, unless someone guides me?’ “ Acts 8:30-31a We were at a worship service in the village. Five believers gathered in the open air veranda of a…
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Heart Language
by Jon “He made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to death— even death on a cross.” Philippians 2:7-8 At this point, we are finishing our full-time Thai language studies after almost ten…
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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…
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My Bulging Wallet
By Jon “Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us” Hebrews 12:1 I have a bulging wallet. Before anyone offers to relieve my burden, my…
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Being Jesus
By Jon “For we are the aroma of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing” 2 Corinthians 2:15 We pulled up to the home of Aunty Saad little before 5pm. This was part of our usual routine to encourage her in her spiritual growth as a new…
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“Not Bithynia”
by Jon “And when they had come up to Mysia, they attempted to go into Bithynia, but the Spirit of Jesus did not allow them.” Acts 16:7 It has been more than six months since we arrived in Lopburi. While we have been progressing with our language learning, these couple of months have been a period…
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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…
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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…
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