21 May 2007 – Praise and Prayer from Robert & Dara Peh

Thank God for opening unto us another outreach to a Red Lahu tribe at a town in Mae Ai some 20 k.m. away from our Home. On April 22, after our Lord’s day worship service, a black Lahu preacher came to our church and invited us to minister God’s Word to a Red Lahu village where he is currently serving. Though he is from a black Lahu tribe, this preacher stays among the Red Lahus. On May 7, a week after our church camp, we went to Huay Pu village with a mission team from Singapore. Thank God for the preaching of His Word. The Bible was taught and the message of salvation was openly proclaimed. Both adults and children have heard the Word of God clearly preached to them. It seemed to us that there is no Christian yet in the village.

However, having heard God’s Word, a mother came forward after the meeting and asked us to pray for her that she would be able to know and believe in the living and true God Whom we preached. Thank God for such a seeker. May the Lord be merciful unto her and the others. Doesn’t the Bible remind us to “Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near” (Isaiah 55:6, KJV), “And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart. And I will be found of you, saith the LORD” (Jeremiah 29:13, KJV). Pray for us as we ask the Lord to empower us to continue to water the gospel seed in that village, Let’s pray that “God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth” (2 Timothy 2:25, KJV).

Last week, we went to Chiang Rai with Dara to meet her thesis advisors. We managed to visit Dr. Wat and his family at the resort to follow up on them. Thank God also for giving us another opportunity to reach out to a lady, named Nong Fond, who is working there. She is very keen to know more about our Christian faith and the gospel was preached to her. She is interested in Bible Correspondence Course (BCC) and we are now working it out with her. Jesus says in John 4:35 “Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest.” Do pray for her salvation that through the BCC that she may behold wondrous things out of God’s Word.

School has reopened. Our adopted children have gone back to school again. There are now 12 children from our Home studying in the Government school in the town. Joel and Rachel did very well in their final examinations last years. One boy has to repeat again this year because he could not yet understand nor speak Thai. But all of them did especially well in English. Thank God for all their foreign English teachers -our Christian friends from other churches who came to teach them. Be encouraged that “your labour is not in vain in the Lord” (1 Corinthains 15:58, KJV). Our older children (John, Isaac, Luke, Michael, Tommy, Grace and Lisa) have also resumed their studies. We are preparing Solomon and Phoebe (our new adopted children) to enter Primary one next year. They need to learn and know Thai and English alphabets. Thank God for faithfully providing all the needs of the children to school. Do continue to pray for them in their studies.

Many here have experienced the earthquake on 16 May. They saw building shaking for quite a while and felt headache. Grace was in the study room and she said that every thing in the room was shaking. Dara and friends were at the shop and they also saw the whole 'building' shaking. Our contractor felt giddy and thought that he was over tired to see things moving. I was in the washroom and my 2 children were in their room upstair but we did not feel anything happened. Thank God that there was no damage nor harm done to any of us. Nah Yeh was expected to deliver on May 11, but her baby still enjoys staying in her womb. May the Lord grant her a safe delivery in due time. Please pray for her. Some of our older children (Adam, John, Isaac, Luke, Tommy and Grace) are learning to drive cars and they are really taking great pleasure in it. They are looking forward to that day that they could drive on the main road. May the Lord help them!

Rejoicing in the Lord,
Robert, Dara, Evangel, Evangeline Peh
& all in the Christian Home of Love
& Truth Bible-Presbyterian Church,

Thailand.

9 May 2007 – Praise and Prayer from Robert & Dara Peh

Thank God for all His provisions in making it possible for us to attend the church camp at a Resort in Chiang Rai. Thank God for the opportunity to befriend the owners of the resort and to witness to them through our testimonies and singing of the gospel songs during the male owner’s birthday. Had also given him 2 gospel tracts to read. The day before we left, the female owner shared with us that she is also a Christian and was glad to have us there and especially that we could reach out to her husband. She also requested us to continue to pray for her husband, Dr. Wat as he is quite receptive.

We are thankful to God for being able to testify for Him even in the Church Camp. Besides edifying and encouraging the believers through the preaching of His Word, the Holy Spirit of God had convicted one of the campers to see the need of believing in Jesus Christ for the cleansing and forgiving of sins. Adam’s mother was the only non-Christian in our camp. Though she had decided to follow us to the camp just one hour before we left for the camp, it was not too late. Just like last Church camp, we welcomed our unbelieving loved-ones to join us so that we might have more opportunities to preach the gospel to them. Thank God for saving the soul of Adam’s mother. Indeed, “Salvation is of the LORD” (Jonah 3:9, KJV). Do pray for us for wisdom to know how to better follow-up Dr. Wat and Adam’s mom.

Thank God for blessings our church camp. From the camp theme “God’s Expectation from His children”, we have learned that God expects us: (1) To Understand and Obey His Will (Eph. 5:17 & 1 Samuel 8); (2) To Know and Remember that He is Always in Full Control of Every Circumstances (Mark 4:35-41); and (3) Not to Compromise in our Christian Lives –(i) in our Relationship, and (ii) in our Religion (Nehemiah 13:4-31). Thank God for strengthening the faith of the believers through the preaching of His Word. “Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is.” (Ephesians 5:17, KJV).

Thanks for your prayer. The hot season should be over by now. It is starting to rain regularly and thank God, we have lots of water to use again. We have started to do farming too. Do pray for safety in our work. Two children were added to our Home recently, namely Solomon and Phoebe (both are 7 years old). May the Lord continue to empower us to faithfully bring up all our adopted children in the fear and nurture of the Lord.

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His unworthy servants,
Robert, Dara, Evangel, Evangeline Peh
& all in the Christian Home of Love
& Truth B-P Church, Thailand

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