Our Prayer Requests
Pray for the people of Myanmar and China who are
suffering grief over the loss of loved ones and many are still struggling to
survive. Pray that their physical and spiritual needs will be met.
Pray for Southern Thailand and
especially for Calvary Chapel at the Bridge, the church plant in Thachatchai, Phuket.
Philip Anderson is continuing to translate our
Friday night Bible study and Sunday church services. Last Thursday I took
Som with me so he could pray for the people and we watched a movie on the life
of Jacob in Thai.
Pray for our village that many
more people will come to faith in Christ.
Pray for Cindy as she teaches
English classes at Thachatchai school four days a week and adults two
times a week in our home. She plans soon to offer additional classes for
adults in the community including the local police.
Pray that the stewards of the Community
Center which is Food for the Hungry in Bangkok, and leaders in the village will
labor together to develop programs for the Community Center and that we will
together be able to raise support for air conditioning and an acoustic ceiling.
Pray
that God will enlighten the minds and understanding of Buddhists, to recognize
God as the only true God.
Pray that the Lord will send more laborers for the harvest here. We
urgently need a translator and we still need a new children's worker
who also speaks English, so she can work with Cindy in children's ministry.
We need some additional monthly support
Support may be sent to YWAM Montana 501 Blacktail
Road Lakeside, Montana 59922 U.S.A. Project number
3454. Pray that will have sufficient finances to pay our U.S. income tax
and renew our visa both are due mid June. $1,580 for taxes and $600 for
visa in country otherwise there will be airfare to Malaysia or Singapore in
addition.
Pray the Lord will help us to become fluent in Thai
so that we can be most effective in sharing the
Gospel and training and discipling.
We hope to begin lessons soon with a
teacher from the Thachatchai school.
Pray for unity in the church and
for God to raise up servant leaders
Pray that one or more YWAM teams
will come to help us repair the sidewalks in our community as well as share the
Gospel.
Thanks for partnership with us, we greatly appreciate your support through prayer and
financial giving. God bless you,
Dana and Cindy Bratton
YWAM Thailand missionary. Support may be sent to
YWAM Montana 501 Blacktail Road Lakeside, Montana
59922 U.S.A. Project number 3454. or through
PayPal
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08/08/2008
pick up truck with a camper shell. Our neighbor Som, was very gracious in
lending us his car, but it is so good to have our own vehicle. We don't
have the benches yet in the truck bed, but hope to get them soon. This
wasn't the truck we were hoping to buy in Bangkok, that one sold to another
party. This truck, being older cost less and came through our new friends
Sam and Tum. They live just down the street from us, and they both speak
English, Sam is a taxi driver and Tum is a hotel receptionist. Sam is also
the coordinator for English non formal education for our side of the village.
They are going to help us get a work permit which may allow us to apply for a
new one year visa right in Phuket without going to the Thai embassy in Malaysia
or Singapore. They helped us to get car insurance, register the truck, get
a rear bumper for the truck, and our Thai driver's licenses. Tum may be
our new translator church and Bible study translator, though they are not
Christians yet. We are still 
Cindy
just finished this baby blanket for a couple in Ban Nam Khem whose ba
killed thousands, hundreds of thousands are without water and food prices have
skyrocketed. We believe that hundreds of thousands are without shelter and many
more homes lost their roofs. Tens of thousands of people are missing. Pastor Joe
with Love In Action who oversees the Calvary Chapels in Thailand and ministry in
Myanmar is there. Also our former supervisor, John Quinley from Step Ahead
is there with a team to help. Pray that the Burmese government will lift
restrictions on receiving foreign aid and that the door will open to share the
Gospel. Joe and Joann Cochran have a large ministry among the Burmese in
Calvary Chapel Ban Nam Khem. 
Nicky
a young lady we met in Perth Australia is with a team in Sichuan Province.
They were not injured or seriously affected by the earthquake, but are now in a
good position to offer help. The team was already helping university
students. People fear a lake, formed in the May 12 earthquake when a
landslide blocked a river, could burst its barrier and flood the area. The death
toll from the devastating earthquake now stands at 67,183.
Another 20,790 people are listed as missing and more than five million people
are homeless. 
