June Newsletter

We are looking forward to the completion of our sixth home by the end of June, allowing us to accommodate up to 30 pre-teen girls in the staff home in which Yoke Fong and Charles have lived and hosted guests over the past 17 years. The Harveys will move into the new building, which has two apartments—one for them and one for Doi & Yao and Rada—and a multi-purpose space with room for all our students, all under the same roof. It is a wonderful and timely blessing to all of us at Grace Ministries. We now have beautiful and adequate accommodation for up to 140 children. Heartfelt thanks to the family who made it possible! We currently have 124 precious children in our care, ranging from grade 1 to fourth-year college. We are overcome by our God and Father’s love for us and for Thai children through our wonderful partners and sponsors. Heartfelt thanks to every single individual who has helped to make our dreams a reality and special thanks to our board members for your help and advice and for your friendship and partnership. How good is the God we adore!

Our 26 new children are settling in well; grateful thanks to those of you who have decided to sponsor many of them. As I write this newsletter, I can hear the joyful sound of their laughter as they participate in the fun and games in one of our homes. How blessed we are to have a staff who love God with all their hearts and love our children as if they were their own! How different their young, impoverished lives would be if they had not come to live at Grace!

Our college students will return to university in a few days. We are very grateful to each of them for helping out at Grace over the past month. Niranut, Aum, Jane and Dear Lek are about to enter first-year college, the first members of their families ever to do so. May I ask you for special prayer for Dear Lek?! Nit will be our only student in vocational college; please pray that she will be strong and courageous in coping with the morals and ethical values there. Sarawut has elected to work on our farm and study on-line for a degree in agriculture. He is our newest member of staff.

We are receiving many visitors to Grace this year. Ally from Michigan, USA, is interning with us at present. We are enjoying her creative and novel way of teaching English to our staff and children.

We have been blessed with sufficient rains for our rice this year and rejoice in the Lord’s provision both for us and for the rice farmers in our area.

If you have not received an update on your sponsored child/children, you will receive it in the next few days. Thanks to each of you for your invaluable financial support. You are changing our children’s lives forever!