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January to March 2023 Mcclain Family Prayer Letter

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It is hard to believe how fast this year is flying by but because of your faithful prayers and support we are seeing many things happening in the harvest field of our Lord, here in the kingdom of Thailand.

In our last prayer letter we told you how we were able to use the old catholic building in the Huay Gwang community for our Christmas outreach there and praise the Lord that our member of Wiang Ping Baptist Church was able to work it out with the owner of the building and the next door neighbor to where we are now able to use the building. We have been using the building for our Tuesday night Bible study and prayer meeting and for our Sunday afternoon meeting. This has allowed us to start various ministries like teaching piano and guitar classes on Tuesday evening and Sunday afternoon before the service, in which most of the students stay for the service. On Sundays, we have our largest number of people because most people do not work on Sunday which gives us around 5-8 adults and 10-15 kids and teens. We have also been going door to door and giving tracts out in this community. Also the last week of March we started a two week day camp where the students studied English, Math, Science, Thai, Music and about Creation. At the same time there were some adults that started learning the basics of how to repair electrical appliances. Please pray with us that we will see ones that have made professions of faith grow in their relationship with the Lord and that the others will see their eternal need to repent and believe the Gospel and then follow the Lord Jesus Christ in their daily life and join us in trying to reach their community with the love of the Lord.

In February, we had a special two day revival service at Lanna Baptist Church, and then we carried on to celebrate Wiang Ping Baptist Church anniversary in which pastor Srithone and myself took turns translating for our special preacher for these events and many people gave testimony that they were challenged by the messages. Also during the months of February and March, we had a community outreach at Wiang Ping Baptist Church of teaching the basics of repairing electrical appliances, in total there were 8 men that came off and on during the course. And when the course was finished, we had a special gospel service and invited all the students to come and we gave certificates to the 4 men that fully completed the course. Please pray with us as we try to use this as an in road to getting the Gospel to these men and to the families of those that have families.

We thank you for praying for the health of our family, the Lord has already taken care of several health issues and no further treatment is needed, but please continue to pray for our family’s on going health.

Also pray for our girls as I am challenging them to start seeking the Lord’s will about wither after they finish high school, if they will enroll in an online Bible college and continue working with us in the ministry here in Thailand or if they will go off to Bible college.

Also please pray with us that the Lord will help us with their college expenses because they are just a school year apart.

Also please pray as we will soon be starting the process of renewing our visas and work permit for another year.

For the Millions of Untold Souls in Thailand,

Brian, Evelyn, Ruth and Rachel McClain

October to December 2022 Mcclain Family Prayer Letter

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Even though we have been very busy over the past couple of months, we thank the Lord that His mercies, love, grace, and His sustaining hand never fails.

We praise the Lord that we have gotten back in contact with the young man that came to Wiang Ping BC the first Sunday after he got out of prison. Since the first Sunday he came, I and others tried to follow up with him, but he would not answer. Then one day, one of the men in the church thought about him and sent him a message, in which he responded and told him that a few days ago he had a motorcycle accident, and he is in the hospital but will be getting out the next day. Since he got out of the hospital, we praise the Lord that he has allowed us to get him picked up to come to the church meetings. And because this young man knows English and Thai and because of his background in Islam, Pastor Srithone asked him to see if he can help him translate a book about a man that was muslim but has gotten born again. Please continue to pray for this young man that he will give his whole life to Christ and will faithfully follow Him.

We praise the Lord that the third week of October, another one of the new students in the Ban Samuel leadership and training center made a profession of faith and in November we had 2 more students that are brothers come to Ban Samuel. Even though the older brother decided to start working, we praise the Lord that his younger brother has stayed at Ban Samuel. Please pray for these new students and our other students as we try to reach them for Christ and help them grow in their relationship with the Lord and serve Him in their daily life.

In our past prayer letters we have been telling you about how one of the members of Wiang Ping BC has a burden for his parents, siblings, and relatives that mostly live in the same community and how he has opened his house to reach people there and Lord willing see a church planted there. In November a young man in this community was killed in a motorcycle wreck and his father contacted the closest catholic office to see if they could send someone to do his son’s funeral, but they told him that they had no one available, and sadly by the time our church member of Wiang Ping BC heard about this, this family already had a shaman come and start animistic funeral rituals. In spite of this a group of us from Wiang Ping BC went to the funeral to let the community know we care, and we are here to help them know the Lord and follow Him. Please pray for this family that we will be able to reach them soon. Also at the end of November we had our first Sunday evening service in this community, but with this the devil started blasting and caused chaos in the extended family of our church member, but we praise the Lord that our church member has kept his vision of trying to reach his siblings and relatives with the Gospel and truths of God’s Word. Then from December 13-16 a missionary working with the Hmong people in another province was able to bring 3 Hmong members from his church with him and help us with trying to evangelize this Hmong community. We praise the Lord that our church member’s mom, two of his nephews and one of their wives all made a profession of faith. On December 16 we were able to go to the local elementary school in this community and do a Christmas program about the true meaning of Christmas and then on the 18th the Lord worked it out where we could use the old catholic building in this community and have a Christmas outreach there and the place was packed and one lady made a profession of faith. Please pray with us for these 5 people that recently made a profession of faith and that more people in this community will get saved also and form together as a Bible Believing, New Testament Baptist Church.

From December 13-21 we had to opportunity to go into 8 different elementary schools and do a Christmas program about the true meaning of Christmas. We praise the Lord that even though our girls are busy with homeschooling, they planned their schedules to go with us to all 8 schools and help the Ban Samuel students with the music and Christmas program. Please pray with us as we gave each student a gift bag with some treats, a John and Romans and a tract with the church contact information, each teacher we gave some treats, a pen, a tract with the church contact information and a Thai New Testament, and each school principal we gave some treats, a pen, a tract with the church contact information, and a Thai Bible. At one school the principal said she is a Christian and was glad we came and did the program at her school and invited us back. We were able to go to another school because a teacher there who has already been to Wiang Ping BC several times asked us to travel 3 hours to do the Christmas program at the school she teaches at. And at another school the school principal came and talked with us after the program, and I found out that he lives near the Pa Mai Deng mission church, so I have been inviting him to come join us. Please pray along with us that these students, teachers, and principals will read the tracts and Bibles we gave them and will be saved and come to the churches.

Along with doing the school Christmas programs, we also had Christmas outreaches in all the churches, and we had several visitors at each church, please pray as we try to get everyone involved in following up on the visitors that came. Also please continue to pray for the young man that I invited to our resurrection celebration, who made a profession of faith that he can get another job because his current job has him traveling a lot which is a hindrance to him coming regularly to the church services and also pray that he will take time to study the Bible study I have given him and that he will grow in his relationship with our Lord. Also pray for the men I am trying to have regular Bible studies with that they will grow in their relationship with the Lord and will allow Him to use their lives for His glory. And continue to pray for the students in Samuel’s house leadership and training center that the ones that are not saved will get saved and the ones that are saved already will sell out to the Lord and His will for their life. Also, pray that the Lord will guide us in some health issues in our family and pray for our girls as I am challenging them to start seeking the Lord’s will about wither after they finish high school, if they will enroll in an online Bible college and continue working with us in the ministry here or if they will go off to Bible college.

For the Millions of Untold Souls in Thailand,

Brian, Evelyn, Ruth and Rachel McClain

July to Sept. 2022 Mcclain Family Prayer Letter

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Praise the Lord for your faithfulness to our Lord Jesus Christ and in your partnership with us in His harvest field here in the Kingdom of Thailand.

For first three weeks in July, we have had new first time visitors every week and one lady that has been gone for several months has come back a couple of times! One visitor is a young man that before was some what anti-christian but he broke the law and was put in prison and there he heard the gospel and got some answers to some questions in his life. While in prison, some of the Christians there told him that when he gets out of prison, he needs to go to church. So the first Sunday he was out of prison he got up and went to a church near his house but no one was there and so he searched on google and came to Wiang Ping BC. Since he arrived early I was able to talk with him before the service and he told me some of his story and I told him that it is clear that he did not come to the church by accident but the Lord brought him here. And once the service was over, I talked with him more and I took the opportunity to go through the gospel with him and stressed the importance of not relying on experiences but on what Christ has done for us and I tried to warn him that for sure satan will try to get him to go back to his old lifestyle but he needs to decide that he is not going back but he is going to follow Christ. Please pray with us because I have only been able to talk with him once since he came to the church and I have not been able to get in contact with him again. We have also had one lady that has moved to the area that seems to be saved and she has been coming almost every week. We also have had one family come for the first time on the second week of July and told us that they will not come the next week because they will go see the husband’s family, we praise the Lord that they came back twice after this but they became standoffish when I tried to get to know them better. Please pray with us as I do not think the husband is saved. Then the third week of July, we had an 85 year old man visit the church who got saved when he was around 80 years old and he has been back almost every Sunday since then. So we praise the Lord for these people and are asking Him to help us see the ones that need to be saved, get saved and see the others grow in their relationship with the Lord.

We praise the Lord that the last week of July, one of new students in the Ban Samuel leadership and training center made a profession of faith, please pray as we try to help her grow in her relationship with the Lord and learn how to serve Him with her life.

Last time we told you about how we meet with a man that said he is the current owner of the catholic building in the community where the parents and relatives of one of the members of Wing Ping BC lives. He talked with the local councilman and with the neighbors of the building and basically even though the catholic mission has closed and no one has been using the building for around 5 years, they decided to not let Wiang Ping BC use this building. So for now we are continuing to use the house that the member of Wiang Ping BC has in this community which can hold around 25 people. Please pray for the people that are coming to the Tuesday night Bible studies, for the unbelievers in this community and for the members of Wiang Ping BC because we are challenging them to offer their whole Sunday to the Lord and we serve the Lord together, as we are planning on starting a Sunday evening service here in this community. Which means part of Wiang Ping BC will go to this community and another part will go to the other community outreach we have going in Pa Mai Deng.

Last time I asked you to pray with us because I challenged the people at Pa Mai Deng and Wiang Ping BC to finish a 4 book Bible study that I have given out that deals with the basics of salvation. I was amazed that most of the adults at Pa Mai Deng that can read and write Thai finished the Bible study! One lady that cannot write Thai, used the opportunity to give the first Bible study book to her daughter and her husband and had them finish the study and then she gave them the second Bible study book but sadly they did not finish it. Please pray for this couple because they used to come to the services we have here in this community, until we had a person earlier this year do something that has been a stumbling block to several people in this community. Please continue to pray with us about the Pa Mai Deng mission as there are many that need to repent and be born again and others that need to get serious with their relationship with the Lord. Also, pray for harmony, unity and spiritual growth among the believers of the Pa Mai Deng community.

Please pray with us for the young man that I invited to our resurrection celebration and who made a profession of faith that he can get another job because his current job has him traveling a lot which is a hindrance to him coming regularly to the church services and also pray that he will take time to study the Bible study I have given him and that he will grow in his relationship with our Lord. Also pray for the men I am trying to have regular Bible studies with that they will grow in their relationship with the Lord and will allow Him to use their lives for His glory. And continue to pray for the students in Samuel’s house leadership and training center that the ones that are not saved will get saved and the ones that are saved already will sell out to the Lord and His will for their life. Also, pray that the Lord will heal some health issues in our family and pray for our girls as I am challenging them to start seeking the Lord’s will about wither after they finish high school, if they will enroll in an online Bible college and continue working with us in the ministry here or if they will go off to Bible college.

We praise the Lord that I was able to preach in the camp we went to in August and the Lord used the sermon I preached to challenge a new believer from another church to sell out to the Lord and allow Him to lead his life and this young man is being faithful to the decision he made and is studying the Bible more with his pastor. We also praise the Lord that even though I got covid for the first time at the end of August, I was able to recover from it with no lasting side effects which was just in time to renew our visas and work permit for another year.

For the Millions of Untold Souls in Thailand,

Brian, Evelyn, Ruth and Rachel McClain

April to June 2022 Mcclain Family Prayer Letter

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We thank the Lord for your faithfulness to Him and for our partnership together in trying to reach the lost and make disciples for His glory here in the Kingdom of Thailand.

We thank the Lord for your faithfulness to Him and for our partnership together in trying to reach the lost and make disciples for His glory here in the Kingdom of Thailand.

In our last prayer letter we told you how one of the members of Wiang Ping BC has a burden for the community he grew up in, which is where his parents and several of his siblings and relatives live and therefore he opened his house in this community for all of us at Wiang Ping BC to come and have weekly evangelistic meetings there. For around 20 years there has been a catholic mission in this community until they closed the doors around 3-5 years ago, when this happened many of the people there started worshiping the spirits/fallen angels regularly again. And in our last prayer letter, we asked you to pray that the Lord will do a miracle and the catholic diocese or whoever owns this building that has just been sitting there will give Wiang Ping BC this building for free or will sell it to Wiang Ping BC because this building is only a 4 minute walk from the center of this community and it is one house away from a community store. The last week of June, myself, Pastor Srithone and two of the men of Wiang Ping BC meet with a man that also grew up in this community that says he is the current owner of the catholic building in this community and he has agreed to let WPBC use this building as long as we sign a rental agreement with him, do some needed maintenance to the building and keep it up and then when there are locals regularly giving, we can start paying rent. He is hoping that the church will be able to buy the building and land from him in the future. We do know there are some issues about how much land is included with this building and he is supposed to get these issues worked out with the neighbors and the local councilman because the land in this area does not have any type of title deed, which is not unusual for places in the countryside. Therefore, many of the land deals in these areas are handled with having the local councilman being a witness of the deal. But this does not always 100% prevent horror stories from happening. Also, an independent church cannot own land in the name of the church. Therefore, please pray with us that the details of this will get worked out and eventually Wiang Ping BC can start using this building to reach out to this community more than we are now.

At Pa Mai Deng, we have seen more people start coming regularly to our Sunday afternoon service and the attendance to our Thursday night Bible study is increasing. We have also had several of the members recently have me load Thai and Lahu Bible apps on their phones and we thank the Lord for their desire to have His Word on their phones. Please pray with us the lost will decide to repent and believe the Gospel and that the saved will continue to grow in their relationship with the Lord.

Here at Wiang Ping BC, we started a new year at the Ban Samuel leadership and training center and we have 5 new students which brings us to a total of 3 girls and 8 guys. Our 2 new girl students are cousins and come from Pa Mai Deng. One of our new guy students is the relative of one of our current guy students and the other 2 new guy students are the younger brothers of two of our current students. Please continue to pray with us as we are asking the Lord to help us develop the lives of our students and see them come to know their Lord as their personal Saviour and serve Him with their whole heart as faithful leaders in the churches and that some of the guys will answer God’s call to become future pastors or church planters here in Thailand or be missionaries in other countries and if it is the Lord’s will that the girls will become wives of future pastors, church planters or missionaries or that they will become fulltime church workers.

We thank the Lord that a young man that I invited to our resurrection celebration came to the service and made a profession of faith and he has been coming as his work schedule allows him to come. Please pray that he can get another job because he has to travel a lot for his work and pray that he will grow in his relationship with our Lord.

We are also thankful that we are seeing several of the members and attenders of Wiang Ping BC becoming more faithful to the services and several are growing in the Lord. I am also thankful that I have been able to start another Bible study with a man that has been attending the church, please pray for him that he will follow the Lord’s working in his life.

Also please pray with us as I have challenged the people at Pa Mai Deng and Wiang Ping BC to finish a 4 book Bible study that I have given out to them about the basics of salvation. Pray with us that many people will finish this study and we will see some saved and others strengthened in their relationship with the Lord and start being a witness to those around them.

Please also pray with us because we have church camp coming up in August and we are currently trying to get as many people as possible signed up to go and also pray with us as our visas and work permit documents are currently being processed so that we can renew our visas in September.

For the Millions of Untold Souls in Thailand,

Brian, Evelyn, Ruth and Rachel McClain

January to March 2022 Mcclain Family Prayer Letter

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We praise the Lord for answering your prayers with helping us in His ministry here in Thailand and for your faithful support!

As we told you in our last prayer letter Ormicron started arriving here toward the end December and stopped us from having the additional outreaches that we were planning to do for Christmas and unfortunately Ormicron has not went anywhere, which has hindered some of our outreach ministries but it has not had too drastic of an effect on people coming to the church meetings and we praise the Lord for this!

Also in our last prayer letter we told you that the Lord answered one of our prayers of being able to go to the home community of one of the faithful attenders of Wiang Ping BC and have a Christmas outreach there. After the new year this family opened their house for us to start regularly going there. Our group started off by going there and trying to talk to people and we were able to gather some of the young people together and teach English and some Bible truths to them and then we finished the afternoon off by having an evening Bible study at this family’s house there in this community. Unfortunately from around the third time we went there some parents started forbidding their children from joining in with us. And around two weeks after this there was a covid outbreak in the community, so we had to stop the evangelistic English classes but we still have been having the evening Bible studies there.

Then in February the husband, wife, their oldest son and one of the Ban Samuel students got baptized and joined Wiang Ping BC. The evening Bible study at their house in this community is slowly growing and three people have made professions of faith. Around 3 years ago a catholic missionary had a catholic assembly in this community but because of his health, he closed it down and the building just has been sitting there since then. We need you to pray with us that the Lord will do a miracle and the catholic diocese or whoever owns this building will give Wiang Ping BC this building for free or will sell it to Wiang Ping BC. Because this building is only a 4 minute walk from the center of this community and it is one house away from a community store. And pray that no other religious groups will come into the Bang Pong community.

At the end of January we had a community meeting in Pa Mai Deng about the church building there and the overwhelming majority of the community members said the church building is community property because the man that headed up the building of the church building did not use his own money but went around to different churches etc and asked for funds to build this church building and many of the people in the community helped build the building for free. We praise the Lord that all this has been settled and the overwhelming majority of the community has no problem with us using the building for free in trying to help people come to know the Lord and develop their lives. Most of this is because they have seen us already doing this for several years now. Please continue to pray with us for the Pai Mai Deng community in several matters with one being we had a person do something that has been a stumbling block to several there, there are also many that need to repent and be born again and others that need to get serious with their relationship with the Lord. Also, pray for harmony, unity and spiritual growth among the believers there.

I would like to ask if your church uses any Bible story flash cards that are notebook paper size or larger, if someone could see if they could take a closeup picture or scan 2-3 of these and email me the pictures to see if we can use them on our tablet. Also, if your church has any questions about Thailand and our ministry here, please email me these questions and I can answer these by email or I can make a short webcam video in answering these questions and will then send you a link to download the video and play it for the church.

For the Millions of Untold Souls in Thailand,

Brian, Evelyn, Ruth and Rachel McClain

October to December 2021 Mcclain Family Prayer Letter

สวัสดีปีใหม่

Sa wat dii pii mai

Happy New Year

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We praise the Lord Jesus Christ for giving us a new year to serve Him together here in the 20th largest country in the world, the country of Thailand. We thank each of you so much for your continuous support and prayers which has allowed us to renew our visas for another year, allowed us to restart our Thursday night Bible study and prayer meeting in the Pa Mai Deng community and allowed us to move the Sunday evening services of Wiang Ping BC to the Pa Mai Deng community which has allowed us to see several new people start coming often to the Thursday night and Sunday evening services and has allowed us to see our girls and our only girl student of Ban Samuel leadership and Bible training center start outreach Bible classes to the children in this community and has allowed us to see two people here in Wiang Ping BC decide to follow the Lord in baptism. We also like to thank you all for the birthday and Christmas greetings and for the sacrificial Christmas offerings.

In October, Naabo suddenly went to be with our Lord. She was the first person of Wiang Ping BC to go be with our Lord, since we have been here in Thailand. We praise the Lord that she left a good testimony of being faithful to the Lord and in trying to encourage others to come to know and follow the Lord. And we praise the Lord that her four adult children are coming regularly to the church services and are coming closer together. We are praying that they will allow the Lord through His Word to lead their daily lives and help them get the victory over several battles in their lives. We also thank the Lord that through your faithful support, over a year ago we were able to help Wiang Ping BC purchase a plot of land that came available in a cemetery for the burial of any members that go be with the Lord before He comes back. Being able to buy this plot of land was a big burden off the shoulders of Wiang Ping BC because there are few cemeteries here because the majority of Thais are cremated and most of the cemeteries are private cemeteries in which you have to be a member of a social or religious group to be buried in them.

We thank the Lord that from around the mid of October the daily covid cases started falling and we saw the Lord answer one of our prayers of being able to go to the home community of one of the faithful attenders of Wiang Ping BC and have a Christmas outreach to get to know people and let them know who we are and letting them know that soon we will be starting a Bible study there. Through all of us working together there were 3 family members that made professions of faith in this community.

Since our last prayer letter things were starting to get better but unfortunately Ormicron arrived and stopped us from having the additional outreaches that we were planning to do for Christmas. But we do praise the Lord that the attendance of the churches are starting to increase and that no one in the churches has had a severe case of covid. We are also trying to challenge the brethren here to love the Lord more than they ever have and allow Him to use their life more than ever because we do not know how much longer we have in this world. Please pray with us that the brethren here will do this for the glory of the Lord and will get involved more in the ministries of the churches here.

Please continue to pray for the Pa Mai Deng community outreach as the man that raised money years ago from different places to build a church building there has allowed us to start using the building for now.

I would like to ask if anyone has any musical instruments or microphones lying around that you would like to donate to please email me because we will put them to use as we are trying to help enlarge the music in the churches here. Also, if your church has any questions about Thailand and our ministry here, please email me these questions and I can answer these by email or I can make a short webcam video in answering these questions and will then send you a link to download the video and play it for the church.

For the Millions of Untold Souls in Thailand,

Brian Evelyn, Ruth & Rachel Mcclain

July to September 2021 Mcclain Family Prayer Letter

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Thank you so much for your faithfulness to our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ in your daily lives and with being a partner with Christ in sustaining us here in Thailand through your support and prayers! Which we are humbled by, do not take for granted and are very thankful that we are partners with Christ in His work here in Thailand!

Since around mid April until now all the news etc about covid has really been negatively impacting many people around here with people being standoffish and not talking with people they do not know, which is unlike before when many people were more likely to talk to people they do not know, which has greatly hindered our outreach. And sadly we have several professing believers that have not been faithful like they once were to the in person church meetings and even in watching the live broadcasts. Which in the beginning when this started getting more and more evident I have been hopeful in thinking and praying that this will only be temporarily and in a couple of weeks or a month or two, people will bounce back to atleast like they were last year but unfortunately this has not gotten any better. But we do praise the Lord that there are some believers that have been faithful ever since covid came about and are still faithful! And also for the unbelievers that we have been able to witness to over the pass couple of months, even though none as of yet have gotten saved. Please pray with us that this will change and they will repent and believe the Gospel! Plus we are hopeful as the government has been talking more about ending many of the covid restrictions in November which we are praying will have a positive impact on many people where they will not be standoffish and hesitant to talk with people they do not know and it will have a positive impact on the hesitancy of the church members about opening up the church outreach ministries.

Also as I mentioned in our last prayer letter please continue to pray with us because the man in the Lahu community we have been ministering in for several years, who many years ago got people to donate money so that he and a group of people in this community could build a church building has told us that he did not like the written agreement we gave him which in a nutshell stated that that he would let Wiang Ping Baptist Church use this building for free and everything done there would be under the leadership and management of Wiang Ping Baptist Church. We have told him to feel free to fix whatever he does not like in the agreement or to even write a new agreement and give it to us but so far he has not done this. I am wanting him to make this decision as unto the Lord and not as unto me the missionary etc. Therefore please continue to pray with us about this matter because it would greatly help us in trying to reach and help this community.

We praise the Lord for your continued prayers over the years for our family and we praise the Lord that our daughters are willingly involved in the ministry here! They have recently teamed up with our only girl student of Ban Samuel leadership and Bible training center, in which my wife and daughters taught how to play the violin and they have started teaching violin online to five students, who live in four different provinces. Two of these students are the sons of two fellow Independent Baptist Pastors, in which when they are able to play, it will help enrich the music of their churches and we are praying that they will then be able to teach others in their church to play the violin with them. One of these students is the nephew of one of these Pastors’ and the two other students are the younger sisters of our only girl student of Ban Samuel leadership and Bible training center. Please pray with us for our daughters and our girl student of Ban Samuel as they work together in putting together the lessons and for the students to learn to play well for the glory and honor of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Through your faithful prayers and support over the years and especially over the last several months, we have been able to help several needy families through the churches here with necessary food and cooking items and in helping one church member that had to have a sudden emergency surgery. We praise the Lord that he is getting better and that his wife made a profession of faith when Pastor Apisit and his wife recently visited her. We always tell the believers here to thank the Lord that all of you are obedient to the Lord’s command to not only support your local church but to also give in addition to this to help get the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ and the truths of His Word to as many people as possible all around the world! And we are burdened and are praying that the brethren here will see their need to start doing this also because it is what our Lord wants from all of us that are His child to support missions so that others all around the world will have the opportunity we have had in hearing and understanding the Gospel and learning the truths of His Word.

As always if your church has any questions about Thailand and our ministry here, please email me these questions and I can answer these by email or I can make a short webcam video in answering these questions and will then send you a link to download the video and play it for the church.

For the Millions of Untold Souls in Thailand,

Brian, Evelyn, Ruth, and Rachel McClain

June 2021 Mcclain Family Prayer Letter

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We want to update you about what all has been happening here in Northern Thailand over the last couple of months. There was another run of covid around Nov-Jan and then it calmed down in time for us to have the Wing Ping Baptist Church anniversary revival meeting from March 13-14. We praise the Lord that most of our people were faithful to the services and several of our people brought a number of visitors to the meetings, in fact on the Saturday of the meeting we had around 15 first time visitors but many of them go to another church in their community, which is about 45 minutes away. But praise the Lord they came and got a good dose of practical and helpful Bible preaching. Which from time to time we have people tell us that some of the churches they have been to, do not really focus on teaching and preaching the Bible and they are thankful that they came to the church and gotten saved and are learning more about the Lord and His Word and are growing in their Christian Life from the teaching and preaching of the Word of God.

On April 4 we were able to have our Resurrection Sunday celebration at a local hot spring and most of our people came and we had blessed time celebrating the resurrection of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ and after our service we were able to give out a number of tracts about the resurrection of Jesus Christ to people that visited this hot spring that morning, pray that these people would allow the truths of the resurrection of Jesus Christ work in their soul. Then shortly after this the daily covid numbers started rising dramatically therefore new restrictions were put into place and we had to stop our outreaches and go back to having online services. During this time we did have a covid scare at Lanna Baptist Church and Wiang Ping Baptist Church but praise the Lord that He did not allow a member and her husband to contract covid from their friends that stayed at their house for three days. We do praise the Lord that so far no one in the churches here has had covid! We also praise the Lord that covid has calmed down again and we slowly started opening back up over the past four weeks. Other than the Ban Samuel students and the people that live in the church neighborhood, the first person to come back for our in person services was the 65 year old lady that got saved in February! Then this past Sunday she came back and another two people came back for in person services, instead of watching our live stream of the services. Three weeks ago we also started back our Bible study in the Lahu community and we started back our evangelism ministry with helping people in the community around the church with the goal of trying to reach them with the Gospel even though people are still standoffish because of covid. Please pray with us that the Lord will give us wisdom with discipling the people of Wiang Ping Baptist Church and with our outreaches.

To make a long story short, in the Lahu community that we have been ministering in for several years, there is a church building no longer in use and one of the men in Wiang Ping Baptist Church has recently started talking to the man that many years ago got people to donate money so that he and a group of people in this community could build this building. We are asking him to let Wiang Ping Baptist Church start using this building for free so that we can try to help this community more. Our members that live in this community and other people that come to our Bible study in this community says this is a good idea as long as this man does not have any leadership or any authority in anything we do there. Please pray with us that he will accept these terms and let us use this building for the glory of the Lord.

Also thank you so much for praying for my mom’s healing from breaking her hip, she is healing well. As always if your church has any questions about Thailand and our ministry here, please email me these questions and I can answer these by email or I can make a short webcam video and send you the link to download the video and play it for the church.

For the Millions of Untold Souls in Thailand,

Brian, Evelyn, Ruth, and Rachel McClain

February 2021 Mcclain Family Prayer Letter

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During the past couple of months we had another round of covid cases here in Chiang Mai and in several other places here in Thailand and because of this, we were not able to have our community wide Christmas outreach at the local recreation facility and the national Children’s day celebrations in January were also canceled. But we were still able to reach out to several neighborhoods around the church and invite them to our Christmas celebration at the church and one person that just recently moved into the neighborhood of the church came and made a profession of faith. Then this past Sunday, a 65 year old lady that received a Christmas invitation tract about our Christmas celebration at the church in December came to the church with the Christmas invitation tract in her hand and she said this was the first time she has ever been to a church. She has a friend in the US that is a Christian that has been witnessing and praying for her and telling her she should go to a church and seek the Lord and because she received the Christmas invitation tract she came to the church and made a profession of faith. Another blessing from this is that her son dropped her off and came to pick her up at the church because many of times when an older person starts seeking the Lord, their children forbid them to do this and many of times their parents for some reason listen to them. Therefore please help us pray that this lady will grow in her relationship with the Lord and that her son will continue to be a blessing to his mom and not try to forbid her from coming to church or studying the Bible and that he will be open to hearing the gospel also. With this, on Sunday night I reminded the brethren that passing out tracks, witnessing and praying for people is like planting seeds, and just as it takes time and care for a seed to sprout and produce fruit, sometimes it takes time to see fruit from sowing the Gospel and the truths of the Word of God. But if we are faithful, we shall reap a harvest in due season. So please do not stop passing out tracks, praying and being a witness!

We also praise the Lord that we have seen a couple of new people start coming more often to our weekly home Bible study outreach and also to the church services. Last Sunday night we had a blessing because one of our member’s husbands came for the first time to the church services. Please pray for him to be saved and allow the Lord to use his life in reaching out to people in their community because a lot of times people in their community hang out at their house so he could join with his wife in being a witness and inviting people to come to our weekly Bible study outreach and to the church services.

Please pray with us that more of the Christians here will sell out to the Lord and that more young Christian men will surrender their lives to serve the Lord fulltime because there is a great need here for more laborers, just a couple of days ago I got word that a missionary has decided not to return to Thailand so the church he has started about 9 hours from us needs a Thai pastor. And for now there are a several Thai pastors that are helping take care of this church and another church that also needs a Thai pastor. Also just two weeks ago one of the Thai pastors here went to be with the Lord, so please pray for Ban Wai Baptist Church and this pastor’s wife and family. We do thank the Lord that there is a Thai preacher that is praying about becoming the pastor of this church but I noticed at this funeral that if the Lord does not come back soon or give long life to the current Thai pastors that several churches could be without pastors in the coming years and there is a great need for more young Christian men to surrender their lives in the next 1-3 years so that they will be ready in time if the Lord does not come back soon or if the Lord does not give long life to these current Thai pastors. And this does not even take into count the many many places here in Thailand that does not have one Bible believing church. Also pray that covid will not break out again here because we are planning on relaunching some more outreaches and we are also planning on having a part in the annual youth conference this year in April which is greatly needed to challenge the youth to not only get saved but to surrender their lives to serve the Lord.

Also please pray for Wing Ping Baptist Church anniversary revival meeting this coming March 13-14, for our Resurrection Sunday celebration on April 4, and for the youth camp from April 12-15.

For the Millions of Untold Souls in Thailand,

Brian, Evelyn, Ruth, and Rachel McClain