Greetings to all our friends,

Firstly, we want to thank everyone for your love, care, support and prayers during 2015. It is mostly a very lonely life as a missionary in a strange far away country but your friendships is truly like a light in a dark world.

We trust and pray that God is doing something amazing in your life and that you've been having a wonderful time preparing to have a fun Christmas with family and friends. We want to share an update since our last newsletter.

I have been extremely busy with teams coming and going and to coordinate their outreaches. The highlights for me is every opportunity that I get to be able to share, teach and motivate them. We get lots of feedback from the teams and it is always wonderful to hear these amazing testimonies of what the Lord has done through these teams.

God gave me an opportunity to give a massive bag full of eyeglasses for a team that were on their way to do an eyeglass clinic. This team from Turner-valley was able to reach over 600 people and hand out about 700 pairs of glasses. One hill tribe woman with a very severe vision problem began to cry when she put on her new glasses.....and said "I can see...".

The Lord is working amazingly through all these teams and I wish I could share every testimony with you. God is using them to impart and impact so many people. They share the Gospel, help with church planting, give food to the poor, help with mercy ministries...and..and...and...Here are a few photos from teams.

 

I just received a testimony today of 68 Thai's that came to know our Lord Jesus through the dvd's that we give to every team. These dvd's are testimonies from Thai's that came to Jesus. 

 

 

WHAT'S NEXT?

CHRISTMAS  

As most of you know, Jono is presently in Seattle, to visit his girlfriend and her family. He really has a great time and I am so happy for him. This will the first Christmas that I will spend it alone but I will definitely spend a nice Christmas lunch with friends.

TEACHING 

I will be teaching between  Christmas and New year at a YWAM base in Thailand. There will be nearly 50 Chinese students and most of them are mature people and even pastors. This is such a honor to be able to do this again.

JANUARY

This is the busiest month of the year and there are loads of teams coming. Also, leadership planning and meetings etc.

FEBRUARY

I have been invited to be a speaker at a YWAM base in Vienna, Austria and will be teaching on The Nature and Character of God and Evangelism.

MARCH

Jono and myself will be visiting South Africa. 

We wish you a wonderful Christmas and a happy new year. We pray that you will experience the Father's love during this festival season and that you will start 2016 with the Holy Spirit's guidance.

We now have PayPal working on the side tab and our bank details in South Africa is:

Account Name: New Hope Ministries International 
Bank: Absa bank
Account no: 9106492455
Branch: Parow
Bank Code: 632005
Swift Code: ABSA ZAJJ

 

God bless

Len and Jono

New news from Thailand

I recently had the privilege to visit a couple of the ministries that we send teams to in Northern Thailand. One of the ministries is Sila Home. This is a ministry that helps hill-tribe children from all over Northern Thailand with an opportunity to study. They currently have 40 children, and their aim is to help orphans, the abused, the poor and the neglected children of Thailand by providing them with a safe home, food, clothes and an education, Their hope is for each and every young person to grow in their relationship with Christ. They encourage an understanding of the meaning and significance of the Christian faith and promote Christian values among the children. They also promote and cultivate life skills that will enable the children to become responsible members and leaders within their community. Sila Home also has a second project. Ruth Home is a place where girls who has been traffic into sex slavery gets taking care of. They bring them in, show them the love of Jesus and care for their need.

 I had quite a few teams coming in during the last couple of weeks and it is such a pleasure to be able to teach them on evangelism, Thai culture and motivate them to dream big for God. Many of them don't have an idea what Buddhism is all about and I am so privilege to be able to freely give them the knowledge that the Lord gave to me through all the years of traveling and sharing the Gospel with Buddhists and also to give them an understanding of the mindset of the Thai's that "If you are a Thai you are a Buddhist".

 

We are entering the very busy season with all the teams that will be coming to Thailand and your prayers will be appreciated for effective outreach opportunities.

Evangelistic tools for Thailand

Here are some of the evangelistic tools that we use in Thailand. We have received amazing feedback from all over Thailand of people receiving the Good News and of people that came to know Jesus.

We have a variety of Gospel tracts. Some of them are very creative and it is really awesome to find people running after us to request some. Most of the creative tracts are not in Thai yet but we really believe that the provision will be in place as soon as we have finalized the artwork and translation. The Dvd's are great testimonies of Thai's that came to Jesus. The Super-book is 12 Bible stories in cartoon/animation form and is in Thai. This is actually very popular all over the world. We also have a great evangelistic movie that was made by Create International, "When The Storm Comes".


The newest tool is the Dove-Stream (Wireless router). This enable anyone to access free internet downloads. The Jesus movie and many other evangelistic material are available. People are always looking for free internet spots and this tool are very effective within a 100  - 150 meter surround. It also has 5 hours of battery life. This means, that if you can't speak the language then you can walk around and people have this opportunity to watch exiting Christian movies, questions and answers etc. wherever you go. We know that the Lord is using it as a wonderful tool to spread the Gospel.

Then we have the comic Bible, that are extremely effective. Thai's don't like reading but comic books are very popular. This is why everybody, young or old read this Bible very easily. This is in demand and the price is round $2.30 or R32 each. This Comic Bible is from Genesis to Revelation and explains everything of the Good News.


We got feedback from many people, pastors and missionaries about how Thai's came to know Jesus through these Bibles. Every team that comes to Thailand get loads of these material and they as well as their hosts use this to influence their neighbourhood, hand it out in prisons, hospitals and wherever they go.

I was privileged to have arranged that Bangkok, our HQ, also distribute most of this material to teams and hosts. I want to thank everyone that is involved in some way or another (financially or prayer) for the blessing and privilege to be able to obtain (buying or printing) these evangelistic tools. I am sure that we will all be astonished one day in heaven to see what God has done through every effort that maybe went seemingly unnoticed. We have nearly run out of these Comic Bibles but we know that God will intervene.

Why Thailand need urgent prayer!

Here we can see that Thailand have even less Christians than North Korea and it has the lowest in the whole of Asia except from the small island of Maldives.

Countries with the Lowest Christian Population (% of Total Population)

Rank	Country	% Christian
1	Afghanistan	0.05
2	Yemen	0.08
3	Morocco	0.09
4	Maldives	0.17
5	Tunisia	0.21
6	Turkey	0.21
7	Mauritania	0.25
8	Algeria	0.28
9	Niger	0.33
10	Somalia	0.33
11	Iran	0.52
12	Bangladesh	0.66
13	Uzbekistan	0.75
14	Comoros	0.93
15	Tajikistan	1.04
16	Thailand	1.10
17	Korea, North	1.48

Please pray for for laborers, open/seeking hearts and that people will become desperate for the truth and will cry out to Him