March 2006

Graduation Time
After five weeks of training sessions, a special ceremony was held at Lighthouse Baptist Church on Sunday evening, March 26 as a part of our regular evening service. Six students received certificates of completion (for this phase of training) with another who was unable to attend receiving hers later. Some of these students are already teaching children's classes, a couple are interested in being helpers, and two who attended aren't saved yet! No, we don't let them teach, but they help with setup and cleanup and since they were curious we allowed them to participate. Please pray that Judy Lin and Sally Guo will accept Christ as Savior. They both have a few things that continue to hinder them from making this important decision.

“Would You Help My Mom?”
John and Eric Pan attend the English outreach class at Lighthouse Baptist Church . Eric, the unsaved older brother, has been attending for several years. In fact his teenage son, Peter, was saved at Lighthouse five years ago. The younger brother, John, claims to be a Christian but is not very strong and irregularly attends a non-denominational chapel service. Last year at Christmastime, their ninety-three year old father passed away. Recently, they received news that their mother has cancer and the doctors are only giving her a year to live. It was because of this that we received a phone call from John that broke our hearts. He said, “My father was a Christian, but my mother doesn't know God. I would like my mother to know God. Would you help my mom?” We ask you to pray for wisdom, opportunity and clarity to present the gospel to her. There will be many obstacles because of her age, health, and Buddhist family members; but we trust that the Lord will provide. Also, pray for Eric's salvation and for John to grow stronger as a Christian and to get into a good church.

Help Wanted
We continue to help Faith Baptist Church in the neighboring city of Dali . As you may remember, fellow missionary Malcom Feistel had to return to the US for cancer treatments last July and asked us to help his work as much as possible. A retired US pastor and his wife have been assisting for the past few months with the English services, but they will leave at the end of March and so more responsibility will fall to us again. Please pray for Bro. Feistel's recovery and for strength and wisdom to help this church in addition to our work at Lighthouse and the other churches we also assist. This only underscores the great need for more laborers in Taiwan – both from home and abroad. Thank you for being faithful in doing your part!