Not enough pastors to go round
In fact the Pwo Karen people who live there, in the hill country of northern Thailand, near the border with Myanmar, are coming to the Lord in such numbers that there are simply not enough pastors to go round. In the past their strong tradition of spirit worship made them one of the hardest groups to reach with the Gospel, but this has changed in the last five years. Previously the Christians among the Pwo Karen numbered about 500. Now there are more than one thousand. They have recently had the Bible translated into their dialect. Thong Peng is a Pwo Karen teacher at the Bible school in the town of Maelai. He has seen the change from mere indifference to his work to a real hunger from people to hear and read the Word of God. So many people have been coming to the Lord that there have not been enough pastors to teach and nurture them. So eagerThe people of the villages are so eager that Thong Peng has encouraged them to delay making a decision for Christ until he has had a chance to teach them what it truly means to follow Jesus and be baptised. Klong Pe is a small village about an hour’s drive from Chiang Mai. Its Christian community there is founded on a group of 14 families who have turned from spirit worship to Christianity. They built the lovely church themselves and they hold regular services there. They are very proud of their Pwo Karen Bibles. “Some know how to read,” they tell me, “many know how to sing but almost all know how to pray.” Beautiful worship |
KLONG
PE, 
This
became quite evident during their service as they sang a beautiful worship
song and then asked our party to come up and pray for three villagers
who were sick. One had a fever, another a skin disorder of some kind
while the third, a girl of six, had never spoken.