John's Blog

First, Happy Christmas to you all. The floods have nearly gone but the water is still unsafe to drink.

Some of the pictures I have attached are celebrating Christmas at the Place of Grace and the others are about the prison work - 200 men released during the amnesty with their families waiting outside the prison. It's been such a busy time with church, prison, Place of Grace and speaking at different places - we meet ourselves coming back! But God is good and we are seeing amazing things.

Here some photos of some of the children in our Thursday afternoon group wearing football kits donated by a family who live near us.

The young people were so moved and could not believe that someone wanted to donate the kit to them. Usually they are bare-foot and sometimes shirt-less.

Praise God !
 

Click on a photo to see a larger version

The photo below is the prison I work in every week. Please would you pray for the prisoners and their families.

It was a strange day today been my birthday but felt weird with all that's going on with the flooding, Looks like this week more of Bangkok will flood.

Thank you for all your prayers love and support.

John.

Here are some photos that really challenged us - the poor are struggling beyond belief - they are desparate.

The situation could get a lot worse before it gets better there is so much water coming into Bangkok from the floods its just when the main run off arrives.

We are safe and have options but many people have no options at all.

Praise God for progress with the Place of Grace. We have moved in now and it's awesome. No furniture yet but already people are coming.

We did some outreach in a local park near the slum community and many kids came, one police man brought his daughter and said I want her to know your God and could he send some boys to the Place of Grace. God is doing great things already. We are praying about setting up the Place of Grace as a foundation, but here in Thailand its very very hard as we are not Thai , but possible with God in control!
 

We as a family have been praying for a long time now for a building so that we could have a place for a office and prayer ministry, as well has outreach projects into the slum community
near where we live.

God has answered our prayers in a mighty way . We have raised 85 thousand Bht; we still need 60 thousand Bht (about £1200) to move in - this is rent for 6 mths.

Please read our news item 'A Place of Grace'

John.
 

We have seen some awesome responses to the Nobody's Child books and comics translated into Thai and also the comic cops and robbers in Thai but we now need prayer for raising some money to buy more copies of the Thai Nobody's Child and also Somebody's Child and Nobody's Child in English for the men. In one prison in Bangkok I do a Bible study for men who are English speaking from Africa.

Here are a few photos : (click on one to see a larger version)

Wow what an interesting three weeks it has been. Today Friday I got my results of the two biopsies I had on my colon; clear thank you God but had a parasite inside that now my body has dealt with this and now much better but have to be careful what I eat.

Me and gillian joel natty and leah are so grateful for your prayers and support,as you can imagine we hugged each other and even the two doctors were over the moon as they were concerned.