Notes from Prayer Meeting for Mickels London Feb 09

Subject: Messages from the Prayer Meeting

Hi S&T,

As promised for you to weigh up, here are the impressions that people
had when we prayed for you last Saturday morning:

One man had picture of pearl - they start as grit in the system. The
oyster does it's best to get rid of them, but by doing so makes them
more valuable, forming a pearl.

Isaiah 41:10,

"So do not fear, for I am with you;
do not be dismayed, for I am your God.
I will strengthen you and help you;
I will uphold you with my righteous right hand."

and prayed for the fear of the Lord to be on the whole community.

One lady saw a picture of Tina walking along surrounded by white
doves tracing her body, shielding her - she took this to mean the peace
of God through the Holy Spirit.

Trust these things are accurate and of some use!!

Bless you and hopefully speak this weekend,

Love,

..

Riverside Vineyard Church

Stefan and Tina Mickel Prayer Letter Feb 09

Prayer Letter Stefan & Tina

February 2009


Family

We are doing well as a family, being rather satisfied with our lives here in Chiang Mai. Tobias is doing very well at school and at home. He is just bursting with energy and life.


One major change occurred in our family. 19 years old A* has moved in with us about 4 months ago. Due to unacceptable circumstances within his family we had no choice but supporting him and ultimately providing him a safe and loving environment in our family. He is doing reasonably well now, as God is working in his heart and life, healing and restoring him from past experiences. He loves Jesus and knows deep inside that he is his only real hope.


Ministry

We still teach English and have activities for children and youth. On Saturdays we are telling bible stories and certainly seeing the fruits coming out of that. The kids are very aware of God’s love and presence in their lives.


We started a home group now, where we have worship, sharing our lives and pray for one another. And God’s presence is really there. A* had a beautiful picture last week where he’s seen Jesus coming and sitting in our little room encouraging us and promising us that He will be there for us all the way. We could sense His presence in the room.


A*, one of the women who is coming on a regular basis is already sharing what she learns with us in her Akkha village.


We still do house visits, pray with and support people in the community. When needed we take them to hospital or take them to visit a relative who might live far away or simply have an outing.


On one of those occasions I took S* to the hospital. Do you remember her? She is the one who had tuberculosis, almost died and met jesus right there and then. she got baptised and really follows Jesus now. She told me of the dream she had.: she has seen heaven opening like a curtain and Jesus was standing there all in white blessing her. She was very encouraged by that and is even more determined to follow Jesus all the way.


We are moving Kham Siri to a new location. It is inside our community again. It is an old wooden house on stilts with a garden. We have a lot of space there for fellowship, eating together, teaching crafts and skills, language, bible and different activities. It is also much more cost effective.


God also opened a door into the homeless community here in Chiang Mai where we are building relationships, pray with and support some homeless people in whatever way we can.

There are also working girls who we get to know and we are currently seeking ways how to teach them some life skills to move out of this circle of poverty.


Prayer points

-Please pray that our home group will be well established , grow and we’ll make disciples who will be sold out for Jesus.


-May we have a strong sense of community.


-Please pray for A* to grow in Christ, as he teaches the bible and English more and more at Kham Siri. Also for his final examines as a tourist guide and a smooth transition into university where he wants to study to become a teacher. May God bless him in every way.


-Changing and moving Kham Siri. May we be even more established in the community.


-The right way forward with the working girls and the homeless.


-Please pray for our physical safety as well as we seek to establish justice here in Chiang Mai.


How to contact us:


We will be distributing regular news for prayer. This will be

· By group email

· Hard copies

· Through prayer gatherings.


For those in our home church - Riverside Vineyard, London

admin@riversidevineyard.com


For others contact Ian Watt - hallelujah150@yahoo.com


Or if you want to support us in any way, you can contact us here in Chiang Mai.

Our email address is mail@mickels.org our website is www.khamsiri.org


We are also on skype now. Our address is “khamsiri” we’ll try to be online on Sundays 7-11pm Thai time. We’d love to hear from you.


Thank you all so much for your support and prayer. We miss you a lot, but it is great to know that you are right behind us.


Lots and lots of love

Stefan, Tina & Tobias

For more information on Kham Siri

Further details about kham Siri also get updated on :

http://www.khamsiri.org

Welcome to KHAM SIRI!

Urban Church Plant in Chiang Mai, Thailand

Welcome to Kham Siri!

A Vital Ministry of

Kham Siri aims to meet the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual needs of people in downtown Chiang Mai.
Many of the poorer section of society in Thailand struggle to live on a day-to-day basis by working 12-14 hours per day. Typically this will be selling basic foodstuffs in a local market with very little time for home and family life.
Children may receive little emotional support and education in poor areas compared to the general population.

Many people in poor areas have not had a clear presentation of the gospel, but are however very open to the message. They are usually less attached to Buddhist ritual than wealthier families by nature of the fact they spend more time and energy on making a limited income.

More about the Kham Siri Project :

Stefan and Tina Mickel are the ministry leaders for Kham Siri. For the last couple of years they have been building relationships and reaching out to people on the fringe of society. This includes prostitutes, single mothers with babies, those who are affected and infected with the HIV virus, gays and homeless people. They have been actively partnering with different organizations, ministries, and individuals particularly focus on those areas.

As soon as the Kham Siri ministry was started in the previously location they started to train nationals to become leaders. The aim is to hand this whole ministry over to Thai nationals when appropriate leadership is discovered and trained. Currently there is one young Thai man that Stefan and Tina are training for leadership. His name is A* . He is 18 years old and came to know Jesus about 2 years ago. God already showed him in dreams that he will lead this church some time in the future. There are also others emerging with leadership potential.

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News from the Mickels in Chiang Mai

February 2009 News

It’s a lot going on at the moment and I try to just condense it to some prayer points:

A major change occurred in our family 4 month ago. 'A' the young man who've we know for a long time moved in with us permanently. The situation within his family was difficult and we had to act very sudden. He is doing reasonably well now, as he depends on God and God is healing him. Actually we are amazed how quickly God is healing him and he even gained in confidence a lot already. But he still needs a lot of prayer.

Kham Siri is changing at the moment. We shift our emphasis from teaching English to run a Thai homework club run by A. We keep Saturday activities going, where we tell bible stories, play games and have lunch with the kids.

But most importantly I focus more on discipleship. On Thursday we teach the bible and on Saturday mornings we have a homegroup setting with worship, sharing our lives, praying and I also introduced communion last week and somebody straight away had a picture seeing the father and Jesus sitting with us and blessing\helping us. We’d love to establish and grow this homegroup into a house church. .

In 3 weeks time ,on the 21^st Feb. we are moving Kham Siri again to a new location inside the community. We feel that God will establish us there. We want to start with a big party, where the community is involved.

An elderly couple from New Zealand joint us. They’ve been in Calcutta for 10 years living in the slums and teaching a trade to working girls there. They want to do the same thing here. For many years now I reach out to working girls here in Chiang Mai and some show interest in learning a trade. Our new place, which is a wooden house on stilts is very suitable to do this kind of thing.