Happy New Year to you and your
family from Thailand. We
rejoice that we are able to be
here because of your prayers and
financial support to tell the
people of Southern Thailand about our
Savior.
Helping
the Community
In early December three Christian
young men, Josh and Oliver from the U.S. and Rhys from the U.K.
blessed us with their fellowship and some real hard work. We enjoyed
dominoes and Scrabble games too.
Kids Club
Ree and Cindy teach the Kids Club every Saturday afternoon. We had 21
children the first week.
A surprise
honor for us on the King's birthday
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Father's Day and the King's Birthday are
celebrated for three nights
There where shops, sports competition, food and other entertainment.
On the third evening we were invited to receive an award.
Sometimes we may feel our church work, English teaching, and
community clean up go unnoticed.
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We were recognized as “the best people in our village for our
outstanding service to the community” We received a
certificate and a large beautiful framed picture of the King, with
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All
churches Christmas Event in Phuket
December 20
The all church Christmas event, the first one in Phuket, was great success.
It was very well attended. There was lots of food and lots of fun.
The program included singing and skits. Plus each participating church
gave three scholarships to needy elementary children. We gave ours to
a brother and sister living on our street and to one of our church members.
It was a thrill to see the hunger for the Word of God at our booth, after
all our snacks were gone, we gave out 50 New Testaments and 300 Jesus
videos, plus some tracts.
Christmas Day
Cindy and I had blessed Christmas, we
went Christmas caroling with 12 Thai
staff at the Bangkok International
Hospital in Phuket. I got to pray for
nearly 40 patients, we also gave each of
them a chocolate. Then we visited two
patients at Phuket International
Hospital and gave Christmas cards and a
crocheted book mark, that Cindy made to
about 20 nurses. The sister of a
patient we visited in the first
hospital, sent this note in an email:
...thank You for what you did today in
the Bangkok Phuket Hospital, for my
parents, Lisa and Sven-Erik and for my
little sister Emelie. My sister is very,
very sick and is in CCU since 3 weeks
ago. It´s very hard for my family to be
there on the Christmas time, when
Christmas should be a time to celebrate
with the family. But when I spoke to my
mother today, she told me that she had
listen to your choir and that she got a
little present from you. Thank for the
hope and the light that You gave theme
today. That is the best Christmas gift I
ever got...
Tsunami Memorial Day
December 26 marked the fourth year since
the devastating 2004 tsunami that struck
Southern Thailand. Thais and
people from 45 other countries were
killed. Near the Phuket check
point, only about a 7 minute drive from our
home, is a large memorial.
Representatives from three religions
were asked to participate. First
the Buddhists, then the Moslems, and
finally the Christians. I was the
Christian representative and got to
preach the Gospel and a message of hope
and comfort to about 200 people and
including reporters with Ree
translating. At the conclusion a
flower wreath was hung below each
country name.
Thachatchai Community Center
We long to see the
center used by the people in the village
for any programs they might desire:
Activities for children, meetings
for fishermen and merchants, English
classes, and possible job training
classes.
To make the building more useable
and comfortable air conditioning needs
to be added on the lower level large
meeting room.
Also for room acoustics a drop
down acoustic tile ceiling needs to be
added to the same room.
4
AC units plus installation cost $3,800
and the ceiling tiles plus installation
cost $1,100.
We intend to continue to use the Community Center for
Sunday worship service. A
platform needs to be added. Lumber
and carpeting for the platform cost $150.
We host volunteer church and YWAM teams for the purpose of
evangelism, teaching English, community service projects – such as street
and sidewalk clean up and repair, and trash pickup, and weed cutting.
They will also do prayer walks, Bible and Jesus VCD distribution.
We are excited about having a team of 10 young people from YWAM Brisbane
Australia coming the week of January 24.
We would like to use the Community Center, especially
upstairs to house church planting leaders in training and YWAM and other volunteer
teams. Two of the bathrooms need
electric water heaters and shower heads installed.
No air conditioning will be used up stairs , only existing fans.
10 Bunk beds need to be purchased.
A dividing partition wall with two doors will be built to separate
men and women. A small kitchen
downstairs could be added to facilitate cooking for these teams, at a later
date. Cost for the bunk beds,
mattresses and sheets is $2,400.
The two water heaters plus installation cost $260.
Partition wall including construction cost $1,500 and two doors cost
$50.
The building belongs to the community and is administered
by Food For the Hungry, a Christian mercy ministry in Bangkok.
All building improvement s will remain with and become property of
the building.
Total project cost $9,260 Please consider a donation to
this project.
Donations for this project can be made to YWAM Montana
designate Thachatchai Community Center Project 501 Blacktail Road Lakeside,
Montana 59922 U.S.A Project number 3601 note: this is
new project number for the building not for our regular support.
Our house in Riverside California
Our
realtor is working with our lender to offer our home in a short sale, where the
lender accepts selling the home for less than what is owed. We are now
listing the home at $229,000 which is less than we owe. Click here for more information
Our Prayer Requests
Pray for favor with the
bookstores in Phuket as we are
asking them to give away Bibles
we give them.
Pray for guidance and an open
door for church ministry to the
large foreign population on
Phuket, perhaps a Bible study at
Starbucks in the Central
shopping mall.
Pray for Southern Thailand, pray that the Community Center will be well used by
the community, and will be used for training Christians from Phuket, Phang Nga,
and even Krabi. Pray that the Lord will supply monies needed to improve the
Community Center to lodge teams and trainees, and make it more inviting and
serviceable for the community. Pray for favor with foundation grant
proposals.
Pray for our village of
Thachatchai, that many
more people will come to faith in Christ.
Pray for Cindy as she teaches English classes at Thachatchai school three days a
week and the Kids Club and English class on Saturday.
Pray for Ree, she has extra responsibilities in translation while we wait for
James to finish his business and join us. She translates a sermon, a Bible
study, and a Kids Clubs message each week.
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 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 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.
Pray for spiritual growth in the church and
for God to raise up servant leaders
Pray for the YWAM Brisbane team as they come to labor with us for a week.
Pray that our house in
Riverside, CA will sell.
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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Software at Amazon
Simplysimplyyouth.com
Bibles.org
Cell Phone:
+66-08 6267-1370
Skype U.S. voice mail (951)643-8641
E Mail:
danabratton@sbcglobal.net
Address:
93/101 Moo 5 Soi Thachatchai 9
Mai Khao, Thalang
Phuket, Thailand 83110
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