In August of 2015, Mong gave his life to Christ after attending our first English camp at Ban Pho school. (his story is in the archives) His mother also prayed that day but since has not been interested in the Christian walk. She has not hindered her son from his walk of faith, which we are grateful. I was in charge of the music portion of the camp and I remember vividly how the music lit up his face. He loved every song I taught and I had a feeling, the Lord was working on his heart. Now, 2 years later, Mong has written his first Christian song and asked if he could share it at our little Plang Yao church. A little nervous about what the song might be about, we said yes, he could share his song. Then he asked, “Dr. Doug, is Hallelujah a good word? What exactly does it mean? Cause it’s in my song. I just wanted to be sure that was okay?” Dr. Doug explained its meaning and told him it was very okay to have in his song. Feeling very excited to hear Mong’s song we went to church that day with exciting anticipation. It was indeed wonderful. So wonderful we asked him to sing it again at our church in Bangkla. I will attach the video url from facebook. Here is the translation. https://www.facebook.com/cheryl.derbyshire.7/videos/10214315184973993/
Oh my Jesus, Oh my Lord Lead me from all my troubles There is no one else who can help like you Halleluiah Halleluiah I dedicate my life I dedicate my life to you Jesus The one who saves me from my sins Hallelujah Hallelujah 2 years ago Mong was headed down a dark path and God rescued him. He was failing every class and his principle was very worried about where he would wind up. But God rescued him. He is now doing well in school and representing Chacheungsao in celebrations of the new king of Thailand's coronation. He has found new life in Christ and he is forever changed.
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Today we planned only to do a half day of clinic. Our trip back to Bangkla will take about 9 hours. The time was short with our patients but the Lord used our little to do much. Our 3 hour clinic saw 122 patients. 2 patients prayed with our evangelists and 5 others were open to learning more. A great way to end our week of mobile clinics. We are so grateful the the Lord for our team from Tennessee who worked tirelessly with blessed attitudes and a wonderful vision to make God's name known in hard to reach places.
Today we sought 150 patients. One of our patients was a local believer. She had come to help in whatever capacity she was needed. She also had a problem with a tooth that had been bothering her for several months. When she went to the local hospital they told her she needed to wait for a surgeon to remove the tooth. But she wondered if the doctor from God might be able to take care of it. Indeed, the Doctor from God was able to remove the tooth with very little pain and the tooth came out with little effort. A blessing to them both I'm sure. Another patient came early in the day. She was 95 years old. This sweet lady was relatively healthy but she knew she had a sin problem. When our Gospel sharer began speaking with her, it was clear she was speaking another language. After trying three different people we finally found someone to share the good news of Christ and she believed. The family told grandma they would not bring her to church but the local believers encouraged her that she could pray on her own in her home every day. Please pray for a way for this 95-year-old grandma to worship together with the believers and her village.
Today's mobile clinic was in a village with 250 homes. The local field workers from a neighboring Asian country have toiled this soil long and hard. They have some up against a lot of animosity and a cold shoulder on every corner. But today, mobile clinic day, the ice was melted and the entire village came to see the foreign doctors. We shared the Good News with every patient and asked every patient if they wanted to know more. Of our 204 patients 44 were interested to have our local partner come and talk with them more. Before this day, no one in the village would speak to our fellow workers. But after today, they have 44 homes to visit. Blessed be the name of the Lord. It was a good day.
Today's mobile clinic was on the street. We blocked off a section of the street and set our mobile clinic right in the middle of it. Today was a nation wide merit making day so we were fairly certain our numbers would be small today. But, God's people prayed, His people came together from four different places, (Isaan, Bangkla, Tennessee, and Louisiana) and those whom the Spirit moved came. 293 of them. Among our group of Isaan partners was a certain women, who found Christ as a result of a mobile clinic 4 years prior. She remembers that day well. Her friend told her about the clinic and said she was going. But this lady said, "I'm not going because they are just going to talk to me about God and then they will come to my house and talk to me about God more." Her friend went to the clinic, this women stayed home. Her friend was interested to know more about what they told her about God and so the local believers came to her friends house to talk to her more about God. Soon she and her neighbor were studying with the Christians. After 4 months time, the two of them became believers. Today they were both at the clinic sharing their faith and telling their story with the patients who came. One person prayed with our Gospel sharers today and ten more wanted to meet again to hear more.
This block party had no free food, no free drinks, no fun games, just free medicine and the gift of life. Today's mobile clinic was in Khon Sawan a place where there are no believers, no church, no one interested. Fellow laborers from Holland have been trying hard to take the Good News to this city for months but have found few interested. Today was incredible, people just kept coming and coming and coming. We have three doctors and a dentist this week. Today that was a very good thing, because they saw 289 patients, and 4 wanted to follow God, and 33, yes 33! were very interested to know more. Now, this couple from Holland will have a start., an inroad to reach the people of this city. Pray for them and all those people who will be visited this week. May the Lord be gracious and call more to Himself.
A few years ago, I began trying to write more about what God is doing in our lives and in our work here in Thailand by starting a blog and reporting on the things I saw God doing. God was doing so much in our ministry, I found myself desperate to share with anyone who would listen.
I did pretty good for about a year and then the challenges of the day put me further and further behind keeping up with all the things I should have been writing about. When the year 2017 began, I decided I must do something to better inform our prayer warriors. So, I began reporting “in the moment,” at times using facebook live (following my oldest son’s lead). It was fairly easy to do that on facebook. However, I knew I was missing some dear friends who do not have facebook. So, my oldest daughter, Becky, suggested I start a new website and she offered to design and administrate it for me. I just couldn’t refuse. And so began our new website lifelinestoheaven.weebly.com. It is still a work in progress, but we have it up and running. In the beginning, my motivation was to help our treasured prayer warriors have specific things to pray for and to hear, first hand, what were the results of their prayers. That was an expected benefit. But, there was something else that happened that I did not expect. I found myself carrying around a small notebook and a pen, jotting down the things I wanted our readers to know. And then it happened, I began to expect the Great Things that God would do. I began to see that I was now viewing mobile clinic weeks with a new, excited anticipation of what I would see God do. My faith took a new turn. I had a new faith that prays with expectation, that goes with expectation, and endures with expectation. Faith with Great Expectation! Try it, start writing down all the amazing things God does around you. See if it doesn’t increase your faith. |