PICTURE DURING MY MISSION

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PRAYER NEEDS FOR THE PEOPLE

Without your prayer, nothing will move as the Lord, our God (the one and only one) want to hear our voices therefore let pray together as Blessing will come upon you. God Bless!

This column is for the people who are in need of prayer and do pray for them (It will change occasionally)

- Pray for a revival for Thailand as Thai Christians is getting less each day (1998 is 1.7%, 2006 is 0.7% and now less than 0.5%).

- Pray for the Philippines, Indonesia and Samoa on recent disasters as many Christians walked away. Seek the Lord to bring more truth missionaries to touched their heart and guide them back to the Lord.
- Pray for Bro. Adam Hitchcock (USA) seeking for accountability on his job.

- Pray for Bro. Charles Myo Tint (Myanmar) is having kidney stone, high blood sugar and etc. He needs prayer on the healing as well financial needs for his family.
- Pray for Pastor Maurice Ledwicky (ICA Bangkok) whom will be going throat surgery in New York this month.
- Pray for Sister Wicca (USA) on her revival and salvation as she is practice idoltary.
- Pray for Sis. Maria for wisdom on getting a business and good health.

- Pray for Sis. Bay Alexander (USA) is facing the financial crisis and recently her daughter met an accident.
- Pray for Bro. Kamjorn and his family (Thailand) been protected under the Lord's Name and good health.

- Pray for Bro. Somdech (Thailand) for calming and relax personality as allow the Holy Spirit to move him.

- Pray for the Jaisamarn Bang-Pa In Church, Jaisamarn Vibravadi and Church of Jesus Christ on the upcoming church camp in October 2009.
- Pray for Bro. Sun Jian (China) on the spirit of wisdom and knowledge.
- Pray for Bryon Li and his family (China) to strengthen the family ties.
- Pray for us as we are making decision to join the missionary organisations or Thai Church.

If you have prayer request, do send it to me at faithwithyou@gmail.com.

UPDATE MISSION REPORT

Shalom All,

There will be some changes on the mission report update due to the security reasons and safety on our ministry. By God's grace, we are updating all the reports at Google Group and if you want to be in the list of this mission activities, kindly send the email to faithwithyou+garchive-84526@googlegroups.com or personal send me the email to me faithwithyou@gmail.com.

Thank you for your intention and God bless!

Blessing,
Rev. Steve Peter H S Kok

MAINLAND COUNTRY CHALLENGE

Shalom All,

Greeting in the Lord’s Name from Thailand!

It's been 4 - 5 months since our last report before we travelled to China for missions thus were thinking of all of you! While we were there, it was too risky to write any report which would circulate around the world as the Chinese cyber-government detects all kinds of email as well as tapping mobile telephone lines. In mid - July 2009, the government blocked various websites including Facebook, blogs, religious websites, company proxies etc. We are thankful to God for protecting us while in China although the Lord spoke to us to exit from China on June 23^rd, 2009. Had we not left the place and returned back to the city (i.e. been disobedient to God’s instruction), we may have been arrested or deported as there were many warnings by authorities. As such we decided it is better not to write anything about our mission there and this time and instead we are planning to return again later on. …like the words of Arnold Schwarzenegger in the movie Raw Deal, “I'll be back!”.

When we arrived to Macau on the April 16^th, 2009, a friend who works in Macau offered us a condominium apartment to stay, Praise the Lord! We spent a week there during which time we had fellowship with Oasis International Church. I shared my mission experiences in various countries but concentrated on the Mainland. It was a tremendous fellowship together and we gained various insights towards the ministry in Mainland. During the 7 days in Macau, we met up with a Brazilian pastor from ICA and spent time praying together. As well, I could feel the power of Satan is very strong there because of the casinos and the historical buildings that are link to the Book of Revelation. Let us gather our hand together and pray for the country to weaken Satan's grasp. Jesus Christ is always the winner…Hallelujah!

Meanwhile, I was offered a position as a Business Lecturer in the college at Haerbin City, Province of Heilongjiang and had signed the contract to enable me to have an official title. When I accepted the job, I had not spent time on seeking the Lord’s permission to work for a college as the package seemed too good so my mind was overjoyed. Then weeks passed, I felt my spirit getting weak and asked God what happen to me. God sent me back to the past when God told me “Resign from your job and work for Me only". That time I had surrender fully to Him and the time was near. This made me realize that God wants me to fulfill the tasks that He had given to me. It's not been easy without a basic salary or stable mission support and having a family, but I must obey God’s direction and walk by faith. Therefore I decided to drop the employment opportunity with the college but even before the offer was finalized the college had already rescinded the offer! When God wants us to do something, we must do it!

On April 24^th, 2009, we left from Macau to Guangzhou, Province of Guangdong and spent time a night with an African brother Desmond who is doing a trading business there. The next day, we depart from Guangzhou and directly to Xiangfan, Province of Hubei. We had been offered an apartment to stay, Praise the Lord!

While in Xiangfan, we discovered something different from other countries we visited. The public bus will turn off the engine before the bus reach the bus stop, then pick up the passengers and then start the engine again. The young children trouser is cut below for free air to go in and we guess that the children can’t take cold weather. The senior people play Chinese Mahjong on the road side and the police don’t bother them at all. During our visits to supermarkets around China, most of the vegetables are extremely large due to the good fertilizers and watering.

We had a difficult time due to the Chinese Visa and we have to depart from China every 30 days otherwise we will be fine for overstay that it will cost RMB 500 per day (USD 73) even through we are having 6 months multiple visa but each entry is permitted 30 days inside China.

On the May 14^th, 2009, we depart from Xiangfan and directly do a transit in Guangzhou to Hong Kong. The train ticket from Xiangfan to Guangzhou cost RMB 330 per person (USD 48). When we reached Hong Kong, we stayed there for 4 days 3 nights. The guest room is very small (like a size of a normal car) and cost us HKD 160 (USD 23) per night. Everything in Hong Kong is so expensive especially the transportation and foods.

On the May 19^th, 2009, we went back to Guangzhou and spend a short time with Helen who is from Province of Hebei. Two days later, we took the flight from Guangzhou to Beijing and then we took a coach bus to Tanggu, Tianjin. One of my former office colleagues has a house there and offered us the pent room to stay. Praise the Lord again! We also met Stone from Wuhan, Province of Hubei there and spent time on sharing the Word. Almost everyday from evening till early morning, I spent time with the people online from USA and UK, to do counseling service and bring them to have Faith. Jenny kept telling me to spent more time on sleeping but I can’t, because too many people needs help even the morning sun rise around 4am, I was still awake. “How Greats is Our God who work 24 hours per day”.

We went to Beijing for a short trip from June 2^nd - June 5^th, 2009. It was great that we spent time with Bryon’s family and his friends together. We were amazed with the Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) is very cheap, RMB 2 per entry (USD 0.30) anywhere you want to go. Our first arrival, we had been treated the Peking Ducks, the famous food in the world. We raised our hand to the Lord for the Lord is Good always!

We can’t stay long in Tanggu, therefore we left on June 15^th, 2009 to Hong Kong again to do a re-stamp the Chinese Visa and then return back to Guangzhou. We spent a week with the African brother Desmond and Helen before depart back to Kuala Lumpur.

When we were in Tanggu, Jenny felt the Lord want us to return back to Malaysia but I denied it. Till we were in Guangzhou, I felt my spirit is struggling and I keep insisting want to visit Xiangfan City. At the end, we decided to return back to Malaysia for a short break.

Blessing with the Love of Christ,

Rev. Steve Peter H S Kok and Sister Jenny P Kok

UPDATE MISSION VIDEO CLIP

Dear All,

Greeting in the Lord's Name!

For almost everyday in recent weeks, I have been getting sleep for about 4 hours or less, as most of my time has been used for God’s work. I feel very tired each day, and so I hope to take a short break soon to re-charge. As with any overwork and stress, one could easily succumb to illness, but I want to praise God that he has so far enabled me to remain physically strong and spiritually uplifted Praise God indeed for that! Each morning and evening, I have helped out in counseling work, as well as prayer ministry, along with other team members from US, UK and Europe.

You can watch our mission video clip done up by Jenny (Before you start the video clip, do stop the Christian Music at the right side below as you can see Media Player).







For your information, I can not access my blog in China, therefore I can't do any update of my reports. You can co-ordinate with me by chat and this is the link "Contact Us".

If you desire to support our mission for our encourage report, this is the link "Mission Contribution" and you will blessed.

Take care and God Bless!

Regards,
Pastor Steve Peter H S Kok and Sister Jenny P Kok

REPORT AND BLOG WILL NOT BE UPDATE

Shalom All,

Greeting in the Lord’s Name!

I will not be updating any report when we enter into this country (stated my previous report) next week till we complete our mission for a year. It is because the authorities is monitoring the internet activities through ISP (Internet Service Provider) and blocked many websites. The authorities is still finding and prosecuting the people whom spread the Gospel of Love. Therefore we must be very careful when we are doing our mission there.

We do need your prayer support and also your financial support as our journey is getting longer this round. I hope that all my previous reports that I sent to you had encourage you as the Lord lead all of us. Our God is Good, Amen!

Blessing with the Love of Christ,
Pastor Steve Peter H S Kok

For mission contribution and contact, please refer to the right side centre

CAMBODIA AND VIETNAM MISSION

Shalom All,

Easter Sunday is around the corner as we celebrate the resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ. Glory to the King of King!

We arrived back in Bangkok last week from Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam We had at first contacted the China Embassy in Hanoi and were informed that they could not grant any Chinese Visa if we come under a tourist visa to Vietnam as this is only done for those holding a work permit or resident permit in Vietnam. As such our original plan to go to Hanoi, has been cancelled, so we took a bus back to Bangkok just to apply for the Chinese Visa. The travel time from Ho Chi Minh to Bangkok is quite a long journey, about 22 hours, Praise the Lord for a smooth journey and we got our Chinese Visa in Bangkok immediately after we applied the next day!

We have booked our flights and will depart next Thursday for Macau where we will spend the first 2 weeks. We will depart to Guangdong by bus and from there take the train to Xiangfan City, Province of Hubei. The Lord has provided us with free accommodation during our journey and we will be able to stay on there for over one month. During our stay, I will be training the church leaders, evangelism, preaching and praying for the city.

After our mission in Xiangfan, we will be going to Nanjing and Beijing to have fellowship with the Christian communities for 2 - 3 weeks. We believe that God is going to transform China into a city which loves the gospel because the people are hungry to learn more about the Word of God.

Finally, we will go to Tianjin and settle down temporarily. I will seek for a job as an English teacher in Harbin and Jenny will be search for a course to study. Bro. Lee, my friend who offers his parents in-law home for us to stay, will also be providing us with free board as well. Blessed be our Bro, Lee and his family too.

Let’s get back to my report.

On 1st March, 2009, we went to Sa Kaew (eastern Thailand near the Thailand-Cambodia border) and spent quality time with Ajarn Anan and his family members together with Ajarn Pawpon. We visited a non-believer's home and shared the gospel with the husband and wife. She shared with us that she saw a shining white man standing in front of her and she felt curiosity about Him. We believe the white man is Jesus Christ as her husband was very ill. I prayed for the family as everyone laid their hands toward them and I believe that Jesus already touched her heart. The time has come for the Ajarn's to continue sharing the Word of God with them.

We would like to promote the above picture as Ajarn Anan’s wife makes these cloth dolls for decoration. I witnessed their joyful hearts on serving God full time and using their money to help the needs of people. She also taught Jenny how to make these dolls. If anyone is interested to buy large quantities of these dolls, please contact me for the arrangements.

On 5th March 2009, we travelled to Siem Reap, Cambodia. There we were invited to go to the school that is managed by an NGO. Then the school director invited me to teach English to the teenagers and I was given an opportunity to share about Christianity. They were so excited to find out who is Jesus Christ.

On the 7th March 2009, we went to Baray, Cambodia to continue doing my mission, as I had promised the local pastors in October 2008. Thus far, each time we have arrived to a new destination, we have been invited to attend a wedding ceremony! During our stay, we visited the primary and secondary schools as we spent time with the teachers and students there. They are so excited to see foreigners visiting their schools. When the local pastors saw us, they too were so excited to see me and to meet my wife for the first time! Praise the Lord as Pastor Kea shared with me about his padi field which gained a double harvest as he recalled that I had prayed for his field in October 2008 when I was there while his neighbors gained only a one time harvest. Others asked him how he gain a double harvest and he told them to “Trust the Lord”.

We met some obstacle during our mission in Baray. A mission team from DUMC Malaysia came to the centre to do some mission service, so we did not do much mission activity until they left for Phnom Penh. While they were in Phnom Penh, the mission leader gave a direct order to the local pastors through SMS requesting them to stop us from doing any activities there without any grounds or reason. When the local pastors saw the SMS, they were caught up between DUMC and myself. Although we never judge him, yet he would not talk to me directly but rather used a 3^rd party to communicate. We would not know if he have his own agenda. All of us are working on one direction, it is to bring the Good News to people while increase their faith and love. They really desire me to train their young pastors, youth leaders as well also attend the church camp while we conduct water baptism for the elders. Due to this situation, we decided to shorten our stay in Baray.

Then we left Baray and continue our journey to Kampung Speu (Southern of Cambodia) whereby the place has no toilet and electricity. We were invited by Evangelist Moses who had stationed there for two months after his marriage. When we were there, we were informed that the villages are 100% follower of Buddhism and we spent some good time with the community people there. Moses able to gather the some people around and I share the Word of God to them by parable terms. Then all of them who attend accepted Jesus Christ as their savior. Praise the Lord! Then I met some men who love drinking alcohol and I shared wisdom Word of God to them. They started to wake up and they really want to stop drinking as they cried. We stayed for couple of days and then went to Phnom Penh. On Sunday, we received SMS from Moses and he told us that the people who drank alcohol went to the church. Let's give Glory to the Lord!

On the March 22^nd, 2009, we took a bus from Phnom Penh to Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam that we don’t need to change buses when we reached the border.

This is how Ho Chi Minh City looks like and enjoy the pictures and movie clip.

We were invited by Rev. Dung Nguyen, a Vietnam pastor to attend his mission cell group. I was delighted to share about my mission experiences as well the Word of God to them.

In Vietnam, the Christians are not allowed to share the gospel to the people, if the police find out, they will face many problems and for foreigners will be deported from Vietnam. Ho Chi Minh City is more relax city compared with Hanoi City. We must always careful with the situation there as well in China too. We must pray for Vietnam to open the door for gospel as well freedom of religion. Praise the Lord.

We do need your prayer support and also your provision support as our journey is getting longer this round. I hope that all reports that I send to you all will encourage you as the Lord lead all of us. Our God is Good, Amen!

God Bless!

Blessing with the Love of Christ,

Pastor Steve Peter H S Kok and Sister Jenny P Kok