More than two years ago, God called us to leave Bangkok and move to a rural village on the Mekong River in Northeast Thailand. From the start, our heart’s cry has been that God would establish a house of prayer, a place for the community to gather to hear about Jesus, in each of the 43 villages in our district. As we approach the second anniversary of our arrival in Srichiangmai, God is fulfilling that vision and those prayers.

For the past six months, you’ve seen several newsletter articles and Facebook posts from us about Mrs. Fon, her husband, and their son. Last week, Tammy, Pastor Ben, our missionary team leader from Udon Thani, and Pastor Pranee, a Thai pastor from Korat, came together to pray and seek God’s plans for their village.

As we prepared to move to this area of Thailand, God began to speak to Pastor Pranee about establishing a church in our district. Without any interaction with each other, God was moving to bring together a missionary team and a Thai pastor to plant a church in a place where the church had never existed.

The leader of this village has asked Pastor Pranee and Tammy about establishing a branch of our Happy English program in his village. He knows that we are all Christians and that we include biblical concepts in our teaching. Even so, this committed Buddhist said he wants us to come to his village and teach the children at least once each week. This open invitation to serve in his community truly is an answer to years of prayer.
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This month, we started prayer walking in a small village ten minutes away from our town. This is the same village where Mrs. Fon became a Christian last November.

We stopped at Mrs. Fon's house this week to check on her new walk with Christ and ask about her job. Mrs. Fon picks peppers in the fields. It’s summertime here, and the heat index frequently rises above 130 degrees. She said picking peppers is hard, backbreaking work, but she is grateful to have a job. Her husband can't work due to health issues. He can't walk much, and standing up is very difficult.

We asked her how much she gets paid. She said ten baht per kilo or about 30 cents for two pounds of peppers. She usually makes 200 baht daily, which is less than $6 for a ten-hour workday.

As we talked, I noticed the peppers had soaked into Mrs. Fon’s hands and stained her fingers. She said picking the peppers can be very painful when she has a cut on her hand.

This is the way of life for Mrs. Fon and many Thais in the small rural villages in our area. Even so, Mrs. Fon said she considers this job a blessing.

Please join us in prayer for Mrs. Fon. Ask God to strengthen her faith; she is the only Christian in her area, and there is no church. Her son and husband are not Christians. Her husband allowed us to pray for his legs, but then he told us that he did not understand what prayer was. Join us in praying for a supernatural healing of his legs. And join us in prayer for Mrs. Fon's son. Pray that he will follow his mother's example of following Jesus.

As Assemblies of God missionaries, we depend on prayer and financial support from individuals, families, businesses, and churches. We work in partnership with donors in the USA and the family of believers in Thailand to spread the gospel throughout Thailand. When you support our work with a financial gift, you become part of our ministry team, reaching the unreached with the good news, bringing light into spiritually dark places, and providing real hope to those who've never heard about Jesus. You can donate to our ministry and/or set up a recurring monthly donation and faith promise on our donor management page at https://give.thevitalmessage.org/. For Happy English Community Center project donations, please visit https://tinyurl.com/HappyEnglishProject.

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We prayed recently for demonic deliverance for a young person at one of our fellowship churches. What happened next was indeed supernatural.

Dear friends, I (Tammy) want to share with you an experience I had recently at an Assemblies of God church in Northeast Thailand that was truly powerful and moving. 

During our Sunday morning service, we prayed for a young person suffering from an evil spirit. I'll refer to this person as Yang*. Yang's head and mind had been ringing with voices for years, and demonic forces would shake Yang's head violently, and Yang would make loud noises to try to stop the voices.

As the service concluded, my friend Pastor Jan and I offered to pray for anyone who needed it. Yang was the first to come forward. I anointed Yang's head with oil, and we started praying in Jesus's name for whatever was inside Yang to leave. Yang's head and arms shook, and Yang shouted.

I encouraged Yang to repeat the phrase, "I'm a child of the one true God." After about 30 minutes of intensive prayer, Yang fell to the ground, coughing up a lot of stuff. Then, after 15 minutes of additional prayer, Yang got up and was once again seated among the congregation, looking much calmer.

Later in the service, we offered the gift of tongues to all who wanted it. Yang was the first to come forward. Yang's lips were tight together, and it looked as if something was trying to stop them from speaking. After much prayer, Yang began to whisper, and the church pastor encouraged Yang to speak louder. Suddenly, we heard it: Yang was speaking in tongues. We saw a change in Yang's face; it was pure joy. This was the first time I had ever seen Yang smile.

Yang shared about an aunt who is a believer and speaks in tongues. The aunt had previously told Yang that the gift of tongues would change Yang for the better. The experience was truly amazing. We could feel the power of God working through us as we prayed for Yang and we could see the transformation in Yang's life.

I hope this report gives you a glimpse into the incredible things that can happen in Northeast Thailand. Thank you for your continued prayers and support.

*Yang's actual name and gender have been hidden to comply with Thailand's data privacy laws.

Please join us in prayer:

1. Pray that Yang will continue to grow in faith and love.
2. Pray for our Assemblies of God churches across the northeast region of Thailand that many will come to follow Jesus and be filled with the Holy Spirit through these houses of God’s hope and love. 
3. Pray for our Assemblies of God pastors, praying that they will be encouraged by the supernatural works happening across the Isan region of Thailand,
4. Pray that many Thai people in Isan will have an opportunity to know Christ and the power of the Holy Spirit.

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