Angel's Testimony from Jail Outreach from Jeremy Wight on Vimeo.
Your going to want to hear this...
Friday, February 26, 2010
Saturday, February 20, 2010
Muay Thai Training at a Muslim Village at Prayer Time
Muay Thai Muslim Village from Jeremy Wight on Vimeo.
This will give you a good idea of what we go into on some of our outreaches.
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Lyon Village Overnight Outreach
Lyon Village -
Pretty incredible how God can work in such a short amount of time. When we came to Lyon Village, we were not sure how we would be received. Coming into an 80% Muslim and 20% Buddist Village we were not sure how the spiritual forces would react to 4 Christian missionaries walking into town...
We were so pleasantly surprised to be immediately greeted so warmly. The leader of the village basically gave us free reign to minister. We reconnected to one of the ladies who is also one of the leaders and she immediately took to Zina calling her family. We did not have a translator so I had been praying that God would work miraculously so that we would be able to communicate. Zina speaks some Thai, but the South dialect is very different than the North. God miraculously intervened as Zina called us aside freaking out because she could understand and communicate well above her natural abilities. This woman that we spoke with invited us into her home and said that I was now her son. Something that you must understand about Thai culture is that everything they speak (this is part of there language and culture) comes from the heart. So when she says that she really genuinely means it!
We came in not having a lot of set plans other than to pray, get a bearing on the needs of the community and test the spiritual waters of the area. We were blessed to make a friend named "Dee" who spoke decent English and gave us some great information on the people and there needs. The general consensus that we heard from many people is that they want to learn English. This is an incredible opportunity for the right person to minister here as they have a house, a community center and the people who need the love of Christ, they just need someone to minister here. Dee's son likes Muay Thai and noticed Docs shirt was from a Muay Thai camp and so we asked if he wanted to train a bit, (his son was 5). We began training/playing around with him and kids just started pouring in! Within 10 minutes we had probably 15 kids that we were teaching Muay Thai too.
After we got done teaching Muay Thai we spent some more time in conversation and meeting the people. I saw my friend from my profile picture, Khun Chow and he immediately recognized me. He brought me into his home and introduced me to his wife. He speaks no english and his wife speaks very little, but through the grace of God we were able to have a conversation! Its kind of a long story, but praise God that by myself and my 20 phrase Thai vocabulary and there broken English we were able to connect.
One of the people we met last time and reconnected with this time, Khun King Kong (yes thats his name :)) we spent some time with as well. This its an interesting character that Zina described as kind of snake like. He has a tattoo of a Tiger on his forehead and we asked him about it and he told us he had received that spirit. Zina explained that some of the Buddhists will go through a ceremony to receive these demonic spirits into there bodies so that they gain the power of that demon. You could see that as we spoke of love and expressed those sorts of things he went into a coma type of state where he was just completely out of it. Clearly you can see some spiritual principalities at work in this individual. Glad we were able to see him again, I could see a lot of ministry potential in him.
After finishing with Khun Chow I returned to our house only to find Zina teaching some of the kids dance lessons. I started assisting in teaching a little Cha-Cha and the kids came flooding back. We got to begin developing relationships and truly expressing love in Christs name to these children and some of the adults. I feel that the day was very successful for not knowing at all what we were walking into. The Harvest is RIPE here in this village for the person that God places here to reach.
Pretty incredible how God can work in such a short amount of time. When we came to Lyon Village, we were not sure how we would be received. Coming into an 80% Muslim and 20% Buddist Village we were not sure how the spiritual forces would react to 4 Christian missionaries walking into town...
We were so pleasantly surprised to be immediately greeted so warmly. The leader of the village basically gave us free reign to minister. We reconnected to one of the ladies who is also one of the leaders and she immediately took to Zina calling her family. We did not have a translator so I had been praying that God would work miraculously so that we would be able to communicate. Zina speaks some Thai, but the South dialect is very different than the North. God miraculously intervened as Zina called us aside freaking out because she could understand and communicate well above her natural abilities. This woman that we spoke with invited us into her home and said that I was now her son. Something that you must understand about Thai culture is that everything they speak (this is part of there language and culture) comes from the heart. So when she says that she really genuinely means it!
We came in not having a lot of set plans other than to pray, get a bearing on the needs of the community and test the spiritual waters of the area. We were blessed to make a friend named "Dee" who spoke decent English and gave us some great information on the people and there needs. The general consensus that we heard from many people is that they want to learn English. This is an incredible opportunity for the right person to minister here as they have a house, a community center and the people who need the love of Christ, they just need someone to minister here. Dee's son likes Muay Thai and noticed Docs shirt was from a Muay Thai camp and so we asked if he wanted to train a bit, (his son was 5). We began training/playing around with him and kids just started pouring in! Within 10 minutes we had probably 15 kids that we were teaching Muay Thai too.
After we got done teaching Muay Thai we spent some more time in conversation and meeting the people. I saw my friend from my profile picture, Khun Chow and he immediately recognized me. He brought me into his home and introduced me to his wife. He speaks no english and his wife speaks very little, but through the grace of God we were able to have a conversation! Its kind of a long story, but praise God that by myself and my 20 phrase Thai vocabulary and there broken English we were able to connect.
One of the people we met last time and reconnected with this time, Khun King Kong (yes thats his name :)) we spent some time with as well. This its an interesting character that Zina described as kind of snake like. He has a tattoo of a Tiger on his forehead and we asked him about it and he told us he had received that spirit. Zina explained that some of the Buddhists will go through a ceremony to receive these demonic spirits into there bodies so that they gain the power of that demon. You could see that as we spoke of love and expressed those sorts of things he went into a coma type of state where he was just completely out of it. Clearly you can see some spiritual principalities at work in this individual. Glad we were able to see him again, I could see a lot of ministry potential in him.
After finishing with Khun Chow I returned to our house only to find Zina teaching some of the kids dance lessons. I started assisting in teaching a little Cha-Cha and the kids came flooding back. We got to begin developing relationships and truly expressing love in Christs name to these children and some of the adults. I feel that the day was very successful for not knowing at all what we were walking into. The Harvest is RIPE here in this village for the person that God places here to reach.
Sunday, February 14, 2010
Training Day Video
Here is a video I have been trying to get up for a week, but due to technical difficulties it has been delayed...
Training Day new from Jeremy Wight on Vimeo.
Sunday, February 7, 2010
The Gospel isn't about me
As I worshipped yesterday with a gathering of Thai Believers in Krabi Town all in Thai language God talked to me and taught me A LOT!
I really came to a new level of understanding that the Gospel is not about me; The Gospel is about God. I know that sounds so elementary, but for most of us in our walk the majority of our thoughts and prayers to God (if you are like me) are about our hearing from Him, and our desire to know Him, and my Church and my... You get the point. Now I am not saying that any of those things are bad and that we shouldn't be thinking about and praying about those things, but when we are mainly focused on our walk with God, I think the natural tendency is to forget about others; Especially those outside of our church, city or state.
So here I am in a place where very few people profess the name of Jesus Christ, yet surrounded by worshippers jumping up and down, waving there arms and singing praises to the King of Kings, and all in a different language. WOW! A week ago I didnt even know these individuals existed, but here they are praising and worshipping the one true triune God. And while I didn't know these people existed, God did. And this scene is playing itself out all over the world, Russia, Uganda, Myanmar, Brazil... The Lord is gathering people to Himself. It SO brought perspective to the Word. God truly is raising up people from every tribe, tongue and nation to sing His praises.
I really came to a new level of understanding that the Gospel is not about me; The Gospel is about God. I know that sounds so elementary, but for most of us in our walk the majority of our thoughts and prayers to God (if you are like me) are about our hearing from Him, and our desire to know Him, and my Church and my... You get the point. Now I am not saying that any of those things are bad and that we shouldn't be thinking about and praying about those things, but when we are mainly focused on our walk with God, I think the natural tendency is to forget about others; Especially those outside of our church, city or state.
So here I am in a place where very few people profess the name of Jesus Christ, yet surrounded by worshippers jumping up and down, waving there arms and singing praises to the King of Kings, and all in a different language. WOW! A week ago I didnt even know these individuals existed, but here they are praising and worshipping the one true triune God. And while I didn't know these people existed, God did. And this scene is playing itself out all over the world, Russia, Uganda, Myanmar, Brazil... The Lord is gathering people to Himself. It SO brought perspective to the Word. God truly is raising up people from every tribe, tongue and nation to sing His praises.
Friday, February 5, 2010
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Thailand Day 2 (On the ground) Video
Hope you enjoy the video. We have met a lot of people and been able to share Christ's love with them. Got to pray for a Muslim lady and connect with many others that we are praying for to join us in fellowship this weekend! Please pray for the people and the Holy Spirit to be upon us!
TH Day 1 from Jeremy Wight on Vimeo.
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Thailand Mission Day 1!
It is hard to describe the great desire and yearning for more of Gods manifest presence. I long to enter the Holy of Holy's and at the same time I know it is Gods will that I would enter in. So the only realistic explanation is there is something in myself that is not yet given up to Christ. That there is some part of my self that must be given up so that I may gain everything. I long for this and know that at the same time that I must be aware of what it is that I need to enter that place, I know that on my own strength there is no way to enter that place. I must go through the pains of wrestling with God for His grace to remove this part of me that is keeping me from seeing His face. Pray that God would revive His work in my heart so that I may have a greater longing, desire and courage to submit my ALL to Him!
Please pray for Alena and Lynn who I met on the plane rides and was able to minister too.
Please pray for Alena and Lynn who I met on the plane rides and was able to minister too.
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