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Dana & Cindy Bratton's Latest Adventures in Ministry

 Missionaries to Thailand, Pastor Calvary Chapel at the Bridge July 2008
 

Malaysia Trip - New One Year Multiple Entry Visas

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.


Can you believe this is a Kentucky Fried Chicken?


New Staff

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 


New Sidewalk 

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. 


We must sell our house in Riverside California

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.  Click here for more information


Teaching English

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.

 


Our Prayer Requests

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


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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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P.S. Check out my website for more pictures of the ministry in Thailand www.wdbydana.com/thailand

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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

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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.

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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.

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