Training At Mindat Township, Southern Chin State

THE TEAM AND JOURNEY:
I led 10 of my friends, (teachers, students, graduates) and departed on February 21,2011. We drove for about 12 hours and the next day we moved on to Pakokku, capital town of Ma Gwe division and then we took horse cart for about 30 minutes. Then we rested for about 2 hours and gathered our strength by having breakfast and went to Mindat. We traveled in a Jeep Car for another 12 hours on windy roads. We divided ourselves into two teams. While six of them had gone first to the village to share the Gospel of Jesus to the animists and Buddhist families in villages by applying door to door evangelism, five of us remained at Mindat township for pastors seminar. The team who had gone to the village had an exciting story. Samuel, team leader, told us that John 4 was coming alive. As they shared the story of Jesus, the woman beckoned other animists to come and listen. Each time they finished sharing the Gospel, they prayed for and with them. Three of our students were our interpreters.



Along four of team members, I taught on How to Study the Bible Inductively and Principles for Interpretation of Bible Parables during the day for four days and for three nights Joshua and I spoke on Mistakes Leaders Often Make such as decisions made based on our feeling rather than based on facts and the teaching of the Bible.



We also spoke on Leaders like Nehemiah who gathered information, identified problems and took the initiative after much prayer. The feedback in their eyes was very encouraging and there was pin-drop silence during the preaching. It was none other than the work of the Holy Spirit who delights in making the Word of God come alive to the hearer and preacher himself. We realized that after each preaching character transformation had been done by the Lord.

CONCERNING THE VILLAGE:

Andrew Om was sent as missionary to his own people early in 2007 and the Lord used him to start a church. When we first visited this village in March 2009, LUK PE, we baptized 30 believers upon their profession of faith. Most of these people are elderly who formerly embraced the worship of animism. Some of the people (MUIN people group, population is about 30,000 only) in this village remain animist to this day. We also ordained Andrew Om in 2010 when he came to Yangon. Through his effort the Gospel of Jesus has gone to a neighbouring  village, called Bu Gwe, occupied by about 35 families.



Two thirds of the people, to this day, remain as either Buddhist or Animist. So, because of Andrew’s love for his people and obedience to the Great Commission, he found four families whom the Lord of the Harvest had started drawing to Himself and the four families made a dedication to stand as a church upon the believing of the Lord Jesus Christ. The church then was organized and we are now training the potential leader and we will ordain him by next year, God willing. None of this MUIN people could not have been reached by us without partnering with Andrew Om. We are thankful to God for his life and love and also for new leader, Hei Ki, who has shown the character of pastoral ministry for new church the Lord has organized.