21 December 2009 - Praise and Prayer from Robert & Dara Peh

“Glory ye in His holy Name: let the heart of them rejoice that seek the LORD. Seek the LORD, and His strength: seek His face evermore” (Psalm 105:3-4, KJV).

PRAISE THE LORD!
Christmas is coming again. THANK GOD for this yearly celebration whereby we could set aside a month in a year specially to remember the great love of God for us in sending “His only begotten Son into this world, that we might live through Him” (1 John 4:9, KJV).

THANK GOD for yet another occasion given to all of us in the Christian Home of Love, together with the adult members of Truth B-P Church to serve Him in this area. This year’s Christmas outreach at Den Luang village, God willing, will be held on the 26 December, at 6.00 p.m., which, like every year, we target about 200 villagers to turn up. Our theme for this year’s Christmas programme is “Hope in Christ,” as someone puts it, “With Christ is an endless hope; Without Christ is a hopeless end.” Sinners need hope which only the living and true God, the God of hope could offer. May the Lord be merciful to grant the villagers “repentance unto life” (Acts 11:18).

As before, there will be a series of special items, beginning from the young to the old, leading up to the nativity scene, which will include everybody. The outreach will end with a gospel message by Robert, and Dara will interpret it into Lahu. “Brethren, pray for us, that the Word of the Lord may have free course, and be glorified…” (2 Thessalonians 3:1, KJV).

THANK GOD also for enabling us to produce our own props as well as to design our own costumes for the Christmas programme and to be able to cut the materials all by ourselves. Thank God for providing all the gifted people in our midst to serve Him with their God-given gifts. “As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God” (1 Peter 4:10, KJV).

THANK GOD once more for the many opportunities to reach out to the non-Christians during this festive period. As the unbelievers also recognise this joyous season, along with all the commercial advertisements, it makes it much easier to tell people the true meaning of Christmas. Thus, every year, we would make and distribute packets of homemade Christmas cookies to some non-Christian friends and shops in the town with gospel messages attached, praying that God, “Who commanded the light to shine out of darkness,” would shine in their hearts (2 Corinthians 4:6). “For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour; Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth” (1 Timothy 2:3, KJV).

Please also commit the following events to God in prayer:

December 24 – Christmas Caroling (beginning at 6 p.m.)

The singing of Christmas carols around the Red Lahu village and to some church members living in the town has brought us another avenue of proclaiming the gospel to the unbelievers. In this regard, we thank the Lord that many of the Red Lahu adults, who would not join us for Sunday worship, could have the gospel preached unto them during our annual caroling. And above it all, we praise God that after so many years of caroling, God was pleased to use this means even to save one Red Lahu mother, named Joanna, who is now a fervent member of our church, serving the Lord in the Christian Home of Love. “Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord” (1 Corinthians 15:58, KJV).

December 25 – Christmas Day Celebration (6 p.m.)

Everyone here is looking forward to this day as we celebrate the birth of our Saviour Jesus Christ and exchange Christmas gifts. Robert will give a sermon, whereas Dara will lead a team to perform a skit, highlighting the love of God for us in giving us His Son, the greatest Gift of all. Pray that all the believers will be challenged to give to God their best, particularly their own lives, as God has given to them His best, even His only begotten Son.

December 26 – Christmas Outreach at Den Luang Village (6 p.m.)

Besides what mentioned above, do also pray for all who are involved in this outreach, for good health, wisdom, courage and strength to carry out their roles readily.

December 27 – Sunday Worship Cum Baptismal Service (9 a.m.)

THANK GOD that another Red Lahu mother will be baptised, God willing, on this Lord’s Day. Martha, the mother of Jacob and Sarah of the Christian Home of Love, “whose heart the Lord opened” (Acts 16:14), has come to know Jesus Christ personally a few years ago through the ministry of Truth B-P Church. However, she was not ready yet at that time to make a public confession of her faith, as it is a common thing in Den Luang village for a person who became a Christian to experience some form of harassment by some hostile villagers. It was during our church camp this year that she clearly understood what God wanted her to do with her Christian life that she yielded herself in obedience to God. Thank God that notwithstanding the discrimination, Martha has finally taken up the courage to come forward for water baptism in obedience to the great commission of our Lord Jesus Christ. PRAISE THE LORD!

December 27 – Christmas Family Gathering (3 p.m.)

Every year, we will invite some poorer Red Lahu parents and their children to attend this Family Gathering, to create opportunity for them to play games together as a family so as to strengthen their bond with one another, and more importantly, to share with them the love of God, praying that they might personally experience God’s love in their lives. Dara is in-charge of this event. Robert will deliver the Christmas message. May the Lord see fit to add to His kingdom “such as should be saved” (Acts 2:47, KJV).

December 28 – Christmas Outreach at Pu Men Red Lahu village (12 p.m.)

Do pray for journeying mercies traveling up and down the mountain with all the props and people; as well as for the villagers up there to be around on this day and able to attend the gospel meeting; and for the sowing of the gospel seed and the salvation of souls.

“Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.” (Luke 2:14, KJV).

“Wishing you all a blessed Christmas and a fruitful New Year 2010!”

2 June 2009 – Praise and Prayer from Robert & Dara Peh

“As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God. If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God; if any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God giveth: that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be praise and dominion for ever and ever. Amen” (1 Peter 4:10-11, KJV).

PRAISE GOD for calling and equipping us in His service. Indeed, it is a privilege and a blessing to serve the only living and true God, the King of kings and the Lord of lords.

For this, we thank God for the faithful teaching of the Word of God we received from our Alma Mater, the Far Eastern Bible College and from our beloved Principal Rev. (Dr.) Timothy Tow, who was called Home to glory on April 20th, 2009, whom God had used so marvelously for the proclamation and the defense of His infallible and inerrant Word, verbally and plenary inspired and perfectly preserved down through the centuries for His people in the Hebrew Old Testament and the Greek New Testament underlying the Authorised (King James) Version of the English Bible. Thank God for the good fight of faith that our beloved Principal Rev. (Dr) Timothy Tow had fought for the Lord while on earth.

Both Dara and I are always very thankful to God for raising up Rev. Timothy Tow to start the Bible-Presbyterian movement and the Far Eastern Bible College in Singapore. It was through Rev. Tow that I (Robert) was given a place to study in the Far Eastern Bible College, where I was trained and equipped to serve God Who called me into the full-time ministry. God had indeed used Rev. Timothy Tow so mightily in so many ways, especially in building up the lives of so many servants of God, including Dara and me. If not for Rev. Timothy Tow, I know very well that I would not be able to be trained theologically in a fundamental Bible College, not to say about serving God, as no college would accept one who had no academic qualification like me.

Thank God for Rev. Timothy Tow. He is indeed a man of God who had given his life for the cause of Christ. Dara and I are greatly challenged by his life and teaching and we are telling everyone here in the Church and in the Christian Home of Love to follow after Rev. Tow’s godly example. We will not forget the instructions that we had received from Rev. Tow and our Alma Mater, esp. to “earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints” (Jude 3, KJV), “building up [ourselves] on [our] most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost” (Jude 20, KJV).

God has called us not only to preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ but has also given us the responsibility to equip the local believers in His service. The apostle Paul says in 2 Timothy 2:2, “And the things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also” (KJV).

The Lord is good. We are glad to see Isaac stepping forward to serve God in our church. He is now serving as a Lahu interpreter on Sunday worship. John, our church deacon, chairs the worship service in the Thai language and Isaac interprets for him into Lahu. Robert still preaches every Lord’s Day and Dara interprets for him. Grace, our church deaconess, also serves in the children Sunday School. Do continue to pray for the spiritual growth of our church.

John, Isaac and Grace are also serving faithfully in the Christian Home of Love every day. Beside their daily responsibilities, they also have to find time to study. Grace has to sit for an examination in August. John and Isaac will have theirs in September. May God help them in their studies and continue to empower them in His service. Do uphold them in prayer. Do pray also for Robert, for His ministries in the Church and the Christian Home of Love, and his preparation and the preaching of the Word of God every Lord’s day, every church prayer meeting and every family worship.

Thank God. Dara’s thesis advisors have finally gone through her teaching materials and given her the approval to go ahead. Starting this week, Dara has begun teaching the English language in the two government schools to the kindergarten students as part of the requirements for her course. She needs to teach every morning, one hour a day in each school, for a month, covering 20 lessons altogether. Please pray for her, for wisdom in teaching and for her students in picking up the language.

Thank God also that Evangel and Evangeline are improving in their studies and personal responsibilities. Do pray for them in their home-schooling as well as for their spiritual growth and physical developments. Children in the Christian Home of Love have gone back to school. Do pray for their studies and for both their spiritual and physical well-being.


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

16 April 2009 - Praise and Prayer from Robert & Dara Peh

“For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor, that ye through His poverty might be rich” (2 Corinthians 8:9, KJV).

THANK GOD for the Good Friday and Easter ‘Son-rise’ worship services. Robert preached on “Christ Bore It All Alone For Us” and “the Hope of Resurrection” respectively. God’s Word reminded us once again of how the God of love demonstrated His great love “toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of His Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by His life” (Romans 5:8,10, KJV).

THANK GOD for giving us life by giving up the life of His beloved Son for us, as it is written, "for God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life” (John 3:16, KJV).

“In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him. Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us, and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins” (1 John 4:9-10, KJV). THANK GOD for loving us!

PRAISE GOD for the water Baptism of a mother and her son this Easter. NahUuJoe (41 years old) and Boaz (21 Years old) are Red Lahus. Boaz was with the Christian Home of Love (CHOL) in the Year 2003. He came to know God during his stay in CHOL. However, due to peer pressures, he left CHOL. Since then, he has been in and out of CHOL a few times for the past few years. Drugs are rampant then and now in and around the village and many are swayed into its addiction. Boaz was no exception. He was on drug before he repented and came back to seek the Lord last Christmas. By the grace of God, he is growing spiritually and in obedience to God. Having witnessed how God has changed her son’s life and given him hope once again, Boaz mother, NahUuJoe started to join us for Sunday Worship services and Wednesday Church Prayer Meetings without fail since the beginning of this year. Through the preaching of God’s Word, she came to embrace faith in our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. THANK GOD for saving them.

PRAISE GOD for adding 2 more souls to our church. With the increase of souls comes also the additional responsibility to indoctrinate them in the doctrine of Christ, that they “might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God; strengthened with all might, according to His glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness” (Colossians 1:10-11, KJV).

Every soul that God has saved is precious to God no matter who he is or where he comes from. Every soul that God has committed to our care we are accountable. May the Lord find us faithful in shepherding every sheep that He has so graciously entrusted us. Brethren, pray with us, for wisdom, strength and patience from above in responding to our heavenly calling, “warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus” (Colossians 1:28, KJV).

Children at CHOL are now having their long term school holidays. School will reopen around middle of May. Everyone in CHOL and Truth B-P Church is looking forward excitedly to the coming church camp next week, April 20th to 25th. The camp theme for this year is “FOLLOWING GOD.” Pray that God will work in the hearts of all the campers throughout the entire camp, that Christians be challenged to live for God, and non-Christians be won for Christ. Pray also for Robert’s message preparation and for Dara, wisdom in interpreting the messages into Thai and Lahu. May God also grant us a blessed time of fellowship one with another.

To view more photographs, click below.

- Photographs of Easter ‘Son-rise’ worship service cum Water Baptism, click here: http://picasaweb.google.co.th/robertdara/11April2009EasterCumBaptismalService

- Photographs of children in CHOL learning to play basketball, click here: http://picasaweb.google.co.th/robertdara/March2009PlayBasketball

-Photographs of Evangel & Evangeline in Traditional Thai Costumes, click here: http://picasaweb.google.co.th/robertdara/March2009Evangel_LinInThaiCostume#

-Photographs of Children in CHOL, click here: http://picasaweb.google.co.th/robertdara/March2009ChildrenSPic#

His unworthy servants,
Robert, Dara, Evangel & Evangeline Peh
& all in the Christian Home of Love
& Truth Bible - Presbyterian Church,
Chiang Mai, Thailand

19 December 2008 - Praise and Prayer from Robert & Dara Peh

“For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life” (John 3:16).

PRIASE GOD for CHRISTMAS. As we celebrate the birth of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, we are reminded of the love of God for us, as it is written, “the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men” (Titus 2:11, KJV), “…by the appearing of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who hath abolished death, and hath brought life and immortality to light through the gospel” (2 Timothy 1:10, KJV).

During this Christmas season, thank God for the many occasions to proclaim the gospel of salvation to the unsaved souls in this part of the world.

If the Lord wills, this year we will have three Christmas outreaches at three Red Lahu villages. The first outreach will be held at Den Luang village on 24th December (Wednesday) at 7 p.m. We are expecting about 200 souls to turn up. The second outreach falls on 27th December (Saturday) at Pu Men mountain, from 10 a.m. to 12.30 p.m. After lunch, we will proceed to Hui Pu village which is our third outreach. The meeting will begin at 3 p.m. and end at 6.00 p.m. with a time of prayer for the church members and the needy people. PRAY that nothing will hinder the Red Lahu people from the three Red Lahu villages from coming to the gospel meetings and for God to speak to them through the messages, songs and performances.

This year, our Christmas skit is centered around the biblical story of Cain and Abel, culminating in the drama of nativity scene. The narrative will begin with how Adam and Eve had disobeyed God and became sinful and was cast out of the Garden of Eden, followed by the birth of Cain and Abel and their coming before God with their offerings, thereby contrasting two groups of people seeking God, but no matter how religious people might be in seeking God, God would only accept those who come before Him by faith, like He did to Abel just as the Word of God says, “By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gift…” (Hebrews 11:4, KJV). “But without faith it is impossible to please Him: for he that cometh to God must believe that He is, and that He is a Rewarder of them that diligently seek Him” (Hebrews 11:6, KJV).

PRAY that the audiences will understand their own unworthiness before God and the need to turn to the Lord Jesus Christ for salvation. No one could by his own efforts make himself accepted by God, as the Bible clearly teaches that, “there is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death (Proverbs 14:12, KJV). There is no other ways to God, “neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved” (Acts 4:12, KJV). Every human being must come to God the way God has appointed, and that is through Jesus Christ as his personal Lord and Saviour, as the Scripture says, “For God sent not His Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through Him might be saved. He that believeth on Him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the Name of the only begotten Son of God” (John 3:17-18, KJV). “For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord” (Romans 6:23, KJV). Jesus is the only way (John 14:6). By believing in Him, there is life everlasting (Acts 16:31, John 17:3).

Thank God also that everyone in the Christian Home of Love could be involved in our annual Christmas outreaches. Everyday, they are rehearsing the play, dance and songs after coming back from school. Let’s pray for them in all their preparation. May God grant them added strength in His service.

Do also remember our church activities this Sunday (21 December) in your prayer. Our worship service will start at 10 a.m. and in view of Christmas, Robert will preach a gospel related message on “The Christ of Christmas” and Dara will interpret it into Thai and Lahu. Indeed, Christmas is meaningless without Christ. PRAY that the believers will be challenged to greater love for God and non Christians be brought to the saving knowledge of Christ. In the afternoon at 3 p.m., there will also be a Christmas Family Gathering, with the Red Lahu children and their parents coming together to sing songs, play games and listen to the Bible story. PRAY for Robert telling the Bible story, Dara doing the interpretation, John and Peigang leading songs, and Grace and Dara in charge of games and refreshments.

There will also be a Christmas Caroling on the 25 December at 7 p.m. As usual, we will be going around Den Luang village, singing carols to a few homes, bringing encouragement to the believers and proclaiming the gospel to the non Christians. Thank God for yet another opportunity to carry out the great commission. “And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come” (Matthew 24:14, KJV).

Thank God also for Dara, Grace, Evangel and Evangeline for making Christmas cookies to be given away to friends and loved-ones with a gospel message attached in every pack. PRAY that the Lord will speak to them through the gospel message that peradventure, some may be saved.

Thank God also for providing us a co-worker from Singapore to co-labour with us in His vineyard. Since the beginning of the year, Brother Peigang has responded to the call of God to serve God fulltime. He is now using his God-given talents to accomplish what God has called Him to do in our midst. Just to name a few: God has given him the gift of an artist. Thus, he is the most suitable person painting the stage for the Christmas outreach. He is also endowed with the gift of music. With that, he is serving the Lord on every Sunday worship by playing the piano and he is also imparting the skill to the children. His presence here is indeed a blessing from God. May the Lord continue to empower him to do His will.

“Wishing you all a blessed and fruitful Christmas!”

30 September 2008 – Praise and Prayer from Robert & Dara Peh

“Blessed be the Lord, who daily loadeth us with benefits, even the God of our salvation” (Psalm 68:19, KJV).

It has been a few months since we last updated our Blog. THANK GOD! He has preserved us. The Lord is always faithful and He has kept us going and busy in the ministry all these while. Thanks for remembering us and for praying for us. Due to our previous e-mail account being hacked in July, we could not read our e-mails and were experiencing difficulties updating our Blog as it shares the same passwords as our previous e-mail account. However, thank God that the problem has now been solved and we could once again update out Blog.

Thank God for the water baptism of 9 souls in September. God is gracious. He is still working in the lives of the villagers here in Den Luang village. Slowing but certainly, we believe that as many as were ordained by God unto eternal life would believe (Acts 13:48). God has His Own timing in saving souls and drawing people unto Himself as Jesus says, “No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day” (John 6:44, KJV). Please keep praying for us as we reach out to the Red Lahus for Christ.

By now, our church, the Truth B-P Church is 8 years old. All these years in Den Luang village, we have been running the church in the Christian Home of Love premises. We have been praying to God and waiting upon the Lord for the construction of a church building. Thank God for leading us and providing for us to purchase a piece of land for this purpose. The location is quite near our Home, just within walking distance. Since last year, much effort has been put into this project, “according to the good hand of [our] God upon [us]” (Nehemiah 2:8, KJV). Thank God for the labour of love of all who are with us in this undertaking. God willing, we hope to raise an amount of SGD$350,000 for this project. And if the Lord wills, the church complex shall be built next year, as a Christian center for evangelism and a beacon of light to the village. Brethren, pray with us.

Very soon, the children in the Christian Home of Love will be sitting for their mid-term examinations from 6th to 8th October. Thank God for helping them in their studies thus far. They are all difference in strengths and personalities. They are good in the ways that God has created them. Teachers would also praise them for their abilities, though they may still be the mischievous ones in class. Most of them would usually represent their school in competitions such as the English contest, drawing, Mathematics, sports etc. Thank God for them and for enabling them to do what they could do, just like what Paul has said, “…by the grace of God I am what I am: and His grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me” (1 Corinthians 15:10, KJV). Do uphold them in your prayer.

Thank God for you, for all your prayer for us and our ministry.

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