20 April 2007- Praise & Prayer from Robert & Dara Peh

Dear brethren in Christ,

Thank God for providing another helper for the Home. Hally, age 24, a black Lahu Christian, is helping us to give tuition to our younger girls at Home while Tommy takes care of the younger boys. Besides, she will also be helping out in the housework in the Home. Currently, with the assistance of Tommy, she is also involved in teaching all our children how to read the Black Lahu language. Pray that they all will be able to master it well and be equipped to read the Black Lahu Bible and use it to minister to the Lahu people, as the Scripture says, “Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God” (Romans 10:17, KJV).

This coming Lord’s day (22 April), God willing, Adam, John and Grace will be installed to the office of the Diaconate. Thank God for calling them. They will be sharing in both the Thai and English languages their testimonies of salvation and calling to serve the Lord. Please pray for them in all their preparation to serve God together with us in the church and the ministry of the Christian Home of Love, that they many be “sanctified, and meet for the master's use” (2 Timothy 2:21, KJV).

We are also excited and looking forward to our Church Family camp coming up next week, from 23 – 27 April. Robert will be the Lord’s messenger. The Pilgrim Progress in pictures will also be shown and relevant lessons be taught for our edification on our earthly pilgrimage. Please remember our camp in your prayer.

“Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul; Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation” (1 Peter 2:11-12, KJV).

“But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up. Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness” 2 (Peter 3:10-11, KJV).

Thank God again for answering our prayer in sending us rain. We have now much more water for daily usage. Children do not need to take shower outside the home anymore. Thank you for “always labouring fervently for [us] in prayers” (Colossians 4;12, KJV).
We are once again reminded of the infallible Word of God recorded in Jeremiah 33:3, “Call unto Me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not.”

Let’s therefore continue to look up to Him, for “Faithful is he that calleth you, who also will do it” (1 Thessalonians 5:24, KJV).

May Jesus Christ be praised!

His unworthy servants,
Robert, Dara, Evangel, Evangeline Peh
& all in the Christian Home of Love
20 April 2007

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13 April 2007 - Praise and Prayer from Robert & Dara

Dear brethren in the Lord,

Today is the beginning of ‘Song Kran’ festival (or water festival), which the northern Thai people celebrate their New Year. It is a time of reunion for the Thais. Many will be enjoying themselves, drinking alcohol and making merry during this 3-day festive season. People are playing water everywhere. Anyone, young and old, outside the street, walking, riding or driving, will be splashed by water. Every year, there are lots of accidents, death and casualties. Do pray for safety for the people.

Although the weather is getting hotter and dryer, thank God for providing rain to cool down the atmosphere. Thank God for answering our prayers in sending us water from above. The bore well (93 meters deep) which we dug 3 years ago, did not turn out well as the PVC pipes in the ground broke. Do pray with us as our Home is again experiencing shortage of water, but still must thank God that it is not fully empty yet.

Thank God for all the nightly worship and the sermons that we heard throughout the whole of last week, that reminded us of the love of Christ for us in willingly going to the cross to die for us, as it is written, “Though He were a Son, yet learned He obedience by the things which He suffered; And being made perfect, He became the Author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey Him” (Hebrews 5:8-9, KJV).

Our Easter ‘Son-Rise’ worship service was held at our future church site in Den Luang village (which is near our corn field, facing the hill where the villagers buried their dead). Robert preached on “Christ Our Hope” (1 Timothy 1:1), challenging the congregation to continue to hope in the only living and true God both now and ever, for “faithful is He that calleth [us], who also will do it” (1 Thessalonians 5:24, KJV), “which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began” (Titus 1:2, KJV). Doesn’t the Scripture say, “if in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable. But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the first fruits of them that slept” (1 Corinthians 15:19-20, KJV).

Indeed, thank God for the victory over sin and death which our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ has won for us, as the Apostle Paul says, “O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law. But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ” (1 Corinthians 15:55-57, KJV). “For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil” (1 John 3:8, KJV). Praise the LORD! Jesus is alive! To view Easter photographs, click here:

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Remember the Words of Jesus to Martha in John 11:25-26, “I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in Me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: And whosoever liveth and believeth in Me shall never die. Believest thou this?”


His unworthy servants,
Robert, Dara, Evangel, Evangeline Peh
& all in the Christian Home of Love
13 April 2007


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2 April 2007 - Praise and Prayer from Robert & Dara

Dear brethren in Christ,

Thank God for enabling us to create a blog, an online diary to publish our updates, articles, video clips and even links that connect to our Picasa web album and other websites. Thank God for sending brother Vernon Quek to help to set up the blog for us. With it, we will post all our updates, God willing, from now onwards. Thank God for such advanced technology, and best of all, it is available to us free of charge :) . Our blog address is: http://christianhomeoflove.blogspot.com. Please also note that our email address has changed. From now onwards, please send emails to robertdara@gmail.com. Thanks.

Thank God for answering our prayer. After sending out the previous update, requesting to pray for rain, God sent us rain. The haze around our locality is almost cleared by now. Thanks for all your prayer. Truly, as it is written, “the effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much”
(James 5:16, KJV).

The weather here is getting hotter and hotter each day. Please continue to pray with us as we try to invite the students around Mae Ai town (where our shop is located) for the English lessons.

As Good Friday and Easter Sunday are approaching, we have set aside the entire week for nightly worship. Our aim is to teach our people the daily activities that occupied our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ’s life throughout the Passion Week. Robert will be preaching on Monday, Thursday, Saturday and Easter Sunday. Adam will preach on Tuesday. Elder Wee will take Wednesday and Good Friday. Pray that God will use His Word to challenge the congregation to love Him more and live for Him. Surely, if Jesus has loved us so much that He willingly go to the cross to die for us, should we not also love Him more in return? And if Jesus has given up His all for us, is it too much for us to put Him first in our lives?

Let’s take some time to meditate on what the following hymn (written by Frances Havergal) says about our Lord Jesus Christ:

I gave my life for thee, My precious blood I shed,
that thou might’st ransomed be, And quickened from the dead;
I gave, I gave My life for thee – What hast thou given me?

I suffered much for thee, More than thy tongue can tell,
Of bitt’rest agony, To rescue thee from Hell;
I’ve borne, I’ve borne it all for thee – What hast thou borne for Me?

And I have brought to thee, Down from My home above,
Salvation full and free, My pardon and My love;
I bring, I bring rich gifts to thee – What hast thou bought to Me?


His unworthy Servants,
Robert, Dara, Evangel, Evangeline Peh
and all in the Christian Home of Love
2 April 2007