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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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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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Updates from the Kongs – Aug to Oct ’23
It has been a whirlwind 3 months since we have arrived in Thailand and settled at Lopburi! Day by day, we are getting used to the quieter and slower pace of life. One thing that we have been getting used to living in Lopburi is the lack of public transport options compared to Singapore, with…
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Quick updates from the Kongs from the OMF International Center (Singapore)!
We took a two-month break from ministry to prepare for our departure – it was a meaningful time going on holidays with family and friends. We also had a supporters’ gathering on 21 June evening (see photos below) – We are thankful for our home church leadership, agency representative, family and friends who attended and…
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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…
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Updates from The Kongs – Sep to Dec ’22
These last few months have been a whirlwind of activities, with both of us spending much of September and October doing ministry in our individual church portfolios and preparing for our six-week vision trip. We thank God that after 2 and a half years, Jon finished his final part-time diploma certificate and officially completed his…
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Updates from The Kongs – Feb to Aug ’22
If you are familiar with the backdrop in this photo on the left, you would know that we were at OMF Singapore! We are applying to the missions organisation for our future missions work in Thailand! We were at OMF Singapore in March for a 3-day Candidate Course to learn more about the organisation and…
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Updates from The Kongs – Oct ’21 to Jan ’22
In the past months, there have been several opportunities for both of us to participate in missions webinars, in-person conferences, online outreaches and informal discussions which renews our missions calling. Each time we attend these sessions, we are refreshed and reminded about God’s desire for the nations. Through these sessions, we also reflected and talked…
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Updates from The Kongs – Apr to Sep ’21
These 6 months have been a really busy time for both of us (so much so that this newsletter has been long overdue!). Jon completed his 6-month full-time AgriTech course with a training institute in Singapore, being blessed that our home church caught our vision and saw God’s preparation for him in this season, allowing him to take…
Jon and Phoebe's thetomyumkongs journey. 