God's Continued Faithfulness

"I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase."
I Corinthians 3:6

We have seen God do just that in the life of Jaa, a newcomer to our work. Rusty and Susan have a housekeeper that comes to help them on Saturdays named Tip. They invited Tip to come to church, to study English at the foundation and talked to her about God. After a few months, Tip and her older sister Jaa applied to study English at the foundation.

When they came, I had the opportunity to teach them. I talked to them about God and invited them to church. Both of them wanted to know more about God. I asked them if they had a Bible and they said that they had never seen a Bible before. When we finished studying, I gave each of them a Bible. When I talked to them about coming to church to study the Bible, they were excited and asked how much does it cost? I told them it was free. That Sunday Jaa came to church and the Sunday after, Jaa, Tip and Tip's daughter came to church. Jaa said she had been to church twice in her life. Both times she went to church, she went to an English speaking church because she heard they gave out free coffee. She didn't understand a word, but enjoyed the coffee. After the services, all the white people sat together and ate and the Thais went home or ate at another table. When she came to our church she was so amazed that at our lunch fellowship, foreigners, Thais, Chinese, and hill tribe people all sat together to eat and actually talked to one another (that made me wonder what kind of church they had gone to). She said she had a good time at our church but didn't understand much because she had never learned about God before.

Tawm encouraged Jaa to come to her women's Bible study on Friday afternoons to learn more and Jaa said she would come. Yesterday in Tawm's Bible study, Tawm taught about salvation. Jaa thought she was a Christian because she believed in God and did good things. The lady's Bible study looked at many passages of Scripture and Jaa saw that that wasn't God's plan and that God's plan for salvation is through repentance and faith in Christ. Jaa realized her need and put her trust in Christ. Praise God!! Please pray for Jaa and he walk with Christ and pray for Tip that she would be saved too.