DOWNLOAD PDF - JULY 2010 DAHLFREDS PRAYER LETTER

Dear Friends & Family,

The first half of July turned out to be a very busy but very productive time for us.  Joining us for two weeks was a short-term team from East Sarang Community Church in Chino, CA.  Karl coordinated the team together with Tam, who works in student ministry in nearby Lopburi.  The schedule was packed with English teaching, an evangelistic student cafe, open air evangelism & tracting, children’s ministry, and preaching. 

Ministering at the Phrabaht church is often very discouraging and lonely, so it has been wonderful to have so many enthusiastic, dedicated young people with us, as well as their team leader, a former classmate of Karl’s from Gordon Conwell Seminary.  Working more closely with Tam was also a great experience as Tam is a hard working Biblically minded servant of God with whom we can communication well.

DOWNLOAD PDF - JUNE 2010 DAHLFREDS PRAYER LETTER

Dear Friends & Family,

June signals the start of the school year here in Thailand and life is busy and our days are long.  Karl has restarted the evangelistic kids club in Nong Doan and our first week had 20-30 kids, mostly returnees from the previous year.  As we reviewed Creation, Sin, and Noah’s Ark, some kids called out, “We know that already!”  That’s great.  It means that they remember some of what we did last year and we can build on those foundations.  Last year we spent lots of times doing Old Testament stories, especially the first part of Genesis. This year we’ll focus more on the New Testament.  Student worker Tam, some new student ministry interns will help out, as well as Pastor Jareun from the PhraBaht church.  Please pray for these children from poor homes in rural Nong Doan.  Pray that these stories and songs at kids club will be used of God to bring about faith and repentance in their lives as they grow up.

DOWNLOAD PDF - MAY 2010 DAHLFREDS PRAYER LETTER

Dear Friends & Family,

Perhaps you noticed that we did not have a prayer letter this past April.  We were tired and really close to vacation time so decided to skip a month.  We’re in the midst of Thai hot season, which is particularly hot this year, so it was good to get away to the beach for a couple weeks even it is often not so restful with two small children.

When we arrived back in PhraBaht, we were glad to discover that Pastor Jareun and his family were about to head out for a week of vacation.  Thai people almost never take vacations, and only take a few days off around international New Year’s (Jan 1) and Thai New Year’s (April 13-15).  Jareun and his family really needed a rest so we were glad that they decided to do something counter-cultural here in Thailand - taking a vacation.