We enjoyed seeing Penang, Malaysia, it is a beautiful island about a ten hour
drive south of Phuket, it is connected to the mainland by a long, long bridge,
the third longest in the world. There is an old English fort on the
island, a very old hotel, an old cemetery, many businesses, and towering
buildings, as well as Chinese wats and shops. It is also home to a Thai
consulate. We were approved for a type O one year multiple
entry visa like we wanted. The papers from our friends here in the community
really seemed to help. We went by a van through Bangkok Legal Services with our
friends Phil, Yvette, and Pearl Anderson.
We have a good prospect now for a full time staff person
to translate for us, she is from Chiang Mai, a Christian studies graduate of
Payap University. Friday night for Bible study and on Sunday, I have my
temporary translator from downtown Phuket. Gon is a Christian who speaks
English pretty well and works with another ministry in downtown Phuket, the Asia
Center Foundation that gives aid to disadvantaged children. She is willing
to translate for me each week as long as I go pick her up, about an hour drive
each way. Gon's friend Id and Id's husband are helping us too with worship on
Sunday. Kook the lady from Chiang Mai, will give us an answer on the 29th
of June, if she will join us full time. Phil was my translator for the
Friday night pictured here at the home of Som and NIt, our neighbors
I received approval from the village government for a project to replace all the
missing cement tiles that make the sidewalk over the storm drain, there are 251
missing tiles. The tiles are 19x24x4 inches and weigh about sixty pounds
each. The government is going to have them made and then deliver them to
me for installation. Soon I will need to get a YWAM or church team to
help me install them. I trimmed and burned a huge field that can soon be
used for soccer and possibly to make a BMX bicycle track. If the vision
for a BMX track is accepted then we will need sponsors for the kids to buy
bicycles.
Our sons and their wives
can't afford the mortgage so we'vereduced the
price to $285,000. Please pray that it will sell and help us spread the
word. Quiet neighborhood with shopping and schools
nearby. Double door entry, ceramic tile through to the kitchen and in all
bathrooms. Step down into a formal dining room, plus a large separate family
room with a fireplace and wet bar, and there is a separate computer office. The
kitchen overlooks a covered patio and the hillside. Mt. Rubidoux can be seen
from the front yard. There is a nice sized back yard for gardening and pets.
This home is great for entertaining. Vaulted ceilings, lots of parking, wood
cabinetry in the kitchen. There are two closets in the master bedroom. There is
direct access to the three car garage and electric door opener. Laundry set up
in the garage. Easy access to the 60 freeway, nearby shopping and schools.
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Sunday evening 30 people came to the Community Center for
a meeting regarding the fishing industry and learning English. Cindy will
offer three classes on Saturdays and two classes Sunday evenings for children
and adults beginner and intermediate. She will start classes
on July 5, because June 28 is our 33rd wedding anniversayr.
Pray for Southern Thailand and
especially for Calvary Chapel at the Bridge, the church plant in Thachatchai, Phuket.
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 the new weekend
classes.
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 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 that one or more YWAM teams
will come to help us repair the sidewalks in our community as well as share the
Gospel.
Pray for our dog, Muttley, she
was hit by a car and suffered a broken rear leg which then had to be amputated.
She has been in the animal hospital for a few days. We also adopted a
kitten, I call her Pip Squeak.
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
The Thai Evangelism Committee is a coalition of churches
and ministries who have the goal of planting churches in 800 districts
throughout Thailand by 2010, with a “Christian presence” in each of the
8,000 sub-districts and a “Christian witness” in each of the 80,000 villages.
This plan unites Thailand's three different Protestant streams under the
Thailand Evangelism Committee (TEC): the Evangelical Fellowship of Thailand, the Church
of Christ of Thailand (CCT) and the Thailand Baptist Association.
The main goal of the website is to provide resources, many of which are free,
for Thai pastors. The English version can be
viewed here, http://www.thaivision2010.com/eng/
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What led Dana and Cindy Bratton to
become missionaries to Thailand?
I went to Thailand in January 2005 to assist with
disaster relief as a pastor following the tsunami. I ministered in the city of
Krabi and on Phi Phi Island. I also taught English in a school near Nua Klong at
Laem Kruat. I tried to purchase a Bible for my host family in Thai or English.
I went to five different stores, new and used, and found no Bibles at all. This
really tugged on my heart, "how will they hear without the Word?" There was a
Baptist church in Krabi and I was able to obtain several New Testaments there. I
lived with the public school principal for nearly two weeks. I had his
permission to share my testimony and teach Bible stories in each English class.
Two Muslim teenage girls accepted Christ. When I returned home from this short
term trip, I told Cindy we really need to prayerfully consider going to Thailand
full time. They lack Bibles, they lack preachers, and yet the field is wide
open through the teaching of English. 95% of the population is Buddhist, 4%
and increasing are Muslim, and less than 1% is Christian. Cindy and I, and a
team of three others, went to Bangkok and to Krabi in July and August. We did
prayer walking, taught English, I preached in a men’s prison and two churches,
we worked with Child Evangelism Fellowship for a few days. Several things
persuaded Cindy of our call to ministry in Thailand, one was at a private
secular school where the opening song played daily by the school band, is the
missionary hymn "Send the Light." Second was a pig head offered as a sacrifice
to the Emerald Buddha atop two black iron bulls at the Grand Palace, the palace
buildings are mostly covered with gold. This reminded her of Solomon's Temple
and the abomination of desolation in Daniel as well as an attempt to make a
heaven on earth. She saw how desperately the Thai people need the Gospel.
You can see pictures and descriptions of those mission trips at
www.wdbydana.com/thailand
Cell Phone:
+66-08 6267-1370
Skype U.S. voice mail (951)643-8641
93/101 Moo 5 Soi Thachatchai 9
Mai Khao, Thalang
Phuket, Thailand 83110
Dana and Cindy Bratton used to reside in Riverside, CA. Dana was licensed to
the Gospel ministry in 1983 and ordained in 1990. He completed his clinical
training with the Health Care Chaplains' Ministry Association and was certified
as an associate chaplain in 1991. He has served as a hospital chaplain since
1990. He was certified as a full chaplain in 1995 and a provisional teaching
chaplain in 2002. He has also done hospice chaplaincy for 3 years. He and Cindy
both graduated from California Baptist University. Dana completed an M.Div
degree at Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary in Brea May 2005. Dana and
Cindy were both missionaries with Child Evangelism Fellowship for 11 years.
Cindy taught middle school science in Ontario. The Bratton's are members at
Magnolia Avenue Baptist church in Riverside where they both sang in choir and
led a senior adult Sunday School class. The Bratton's have three grown children.
The Bratton's have made several short term mission trips, including Nairobi
Kenya, Campos Brazil, Bangkok and Krabi Thailand.
We completed TESOL
classes at BIOLA University in La Mirada in preparation
for career missionary service in Thailand teaching
English as a foreign language as well as any other means
to have opportunity to share the Gospel. Since Dana is
no longer serving as a hospital chaplain HCMA could not
continue to receive support on his behalf. YWAM
Thailand is active throughout Thailand in sharing the
Gospel, and in a variety of other ministries. We have
joined them as of May, but U.S. supporters can give tax
deductible donations through YWAM Montana. They
required we do a Crossroads Discipleship Training
School, we completed the lecture phase in Perth
Australia January through March 2007, and the outreach
phase in Bangkok and Chiang Mai Thailand April through
May. We began a an internship with YWAM Thailand
in May studying Thai language and culture in Bangkok.
Cindy and I went to
Nairobi Kenya three years ago, went to Campos
Brazil two years ago. Would you consider a short term mission trip? It is out
of this world!
A year ago last summer we went to
Thailand with the International Mission Board. In
August we moved to Thailand.
We have a good prospect now for a full time staff person
to translate for us, she is from Chiang Mai, a Christian studies graduate of
Payap University. Friday night for Bible study and on Sunday, I have my
temporary translator from downtown Phuket. Gon is a Christian who speaks
English pretty well and works with another ministry in downtown Phuket, the Asia
Center Foundation that gives aid to disadvantaged children. She is willing
to translate for me each week as long as I go pick her up, about an hour drive
each way. Gon's friend Id and Id's husband are helping us too with worship on
Sunday. Kook the lady from Chiang Mai, will give us an answer on the 29th
of June, if she will join us full time. Phil was my translator for the
Friday night pictured here at the home of Som and NIt, our neighbors 
Our sons and their wives
can't afford the mortgage so we've reduced the
price to $285,000. Please pray that it will sell and help us spread the
word. Quiet neighborhood with shopping and schools
nearby. Double door entry, ceramic tile through to the kitchen and in all
bathrooms. Step down into a formal dining room, plus a large separate family
room with a fireplace and wet bar, and there is a separate computer office. The
kitchen overlooks a covered patio and the hillside. Mt. Rubidoux can be seen
from the front yard. There is a nice sized back yard for gardening and pets.
This home is great for entertaining. Vaulted ceilings, lots of parking, wood
cabinetry in the kitchen. There are two closets in the master bedroom. There is
direct access to the three car garage and electric door opener. Laundry set up
in the garage. Easy access to the 60 freeway, nearby shopping and schools.
