Missionary report - 5.26.24

Bro. Paul with four younger brothers in Laos

We're going to Laos today, that’s where Brother Paul Vance has been. He went on a trip there recently, and he's from Cambodia. He's translated in Cambodian over 100 messages. He's a young guy in the middle there, and you can see four of the five there are young men.

Bro. Paul leading a Zoom meeting sharing the Word of God.

And that's kind of what's raised up in Laos. Lots of energy. And Brother Paul, I think is in his 20s. He's a young man, but he really is doing a lot for the Lord. And he's recently translated, I think we're over maybe 50 messages into Lao. And, so we're we're doing that gradually. We have three printing stations now. We just started doing Hmong. We just started recently in Hmong. But, brother Paul, every Saturday night, he does a Zoom meeting service online. And you can see there you get one, two, three, four or five, six, seven brothers who are attended. Then they're, you know, they're saved on YouTube. And so he's teaching the brethren.

He has a real, real burden for the for the brothers there and he went to Laos. And one night they stayed at a guest house there because it was the only place in the area.

Guest house where the brothers stayed.

But there are also some policemen staying there. And so they they questioned them. They separated the two brothers to make sure their stories and were the same, and stayed outside their door. And they were concerned they were going to be arrested, but they weren't, you know. So Laos is not a Christian-friendly place at all. They're right next to China. There's a lot of Chinese influence there.

But this is some of the typical services. This is a home church. You can see the food in the background. And as your I try to take a mental picture of these slides and think and then pray for them later. And this is, I think this is another home church with their benches. This is, I think this was the monthly meeting as well as some sisters are there at Brother Chu Ku’s.

Home meeting

Home meeting

Monthly meeting

And we recently just started printing the Hmong. And that's very important because that's the that's the language of the common man for some reason. We start out with Lao first, which is the official language. So now we have, an extra language of printing in which will grow the printing costs by a third. But that's the secret. And spreading the Message and and helping people understand.

And here the brothers are discussing “The Mark of the Beast” in Hmong. This is Brother Paul ministering.

Brothers discussing the Mark of the Beast” in Hmong

And I like the photo of coming up. You can see it are just precious people there. Take that mental photo and pray for the brethren. And brother Por Her motorcycle was not repairable, but we ended up replacing yet. Thank you for your for your generosity. And that's it on the left. And that's a nice cycle. And it was $1,500 because they're right on the border with China. And that's where it was made in China. And Malawi. a Chinese motorcycle cost you almost 3000, which which, sounds more like it should be, but they were not able to bring any books here because they were so far away. And they passed the checkpoint and the the book would not have made it through the checkpoint. So there is a police checkpoint. But they did.

They were witnessing if you look in the background, well, that's a cross on the wall there. But they're witnessing to a pastor there in this church. And here's another brother, brother Zing Zong, who wit who is baptized the illiterate Hmong. And we'll show that that clip in just a moment. But these are old people who've never, never have learned English. And so we sent to Brother Pau her at some teaching materials like a marker board. And there before church, they're going to start, teach having a class Hmong. And they did that in Pakistan years ago. And it really helped a lot.

So we sent, printing paper and supplies. We send that quarterly. thank you for your generosity. We were able to send 150 Bibles so that the believers could have Bibles. And, let's see here. We can go ahead and play the the clip here and. Yeah. and you. Yeah. Hallelujah. yeah. It ought to baptize there. And new. Yeah. And, Hallelujah, Hallelujah. yeah. maybe God added to a little much, but but you can see the, it's not our standard baptismal pool, so we want to thank you for your support. And, you know, last month we were able to do the Bibles. We were able to do the Hmong teaching supplies. we translated ten messages in Hmong. And that was, at $50 each. We sent those funds, and there was a need for plastic chairs, the audio players for. They want a for the Hmong. They want to be them, to be able to listen to the message. The brothers are going to record it, and they're about $150 per set. Speaking of, just remember these, translation costs, printing costs, travel cost, and just keep them in prayer because the Lord has always met the need here, and he will continue to do so. And thank you for your faithfulness.