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March 28, 2008
Dear Friends,
We want to share with you about some of our EVANGELISTIC
OUTREACHES. In a Buddhist country it is always a challenge to find
creative new ways to share the gospel of Jesus Christ. These are some of
the opportunities we have had recently.
VALENTINE’S DAY
During the month of February Bangjak Baptist Church has been involved in
several different outreaches. Beginning with taking advantage with the
worlds’ celebration of Valentine’s Day, we had an evening to discuss The
Endless Love of our Savior. This outreach was targeted at Christians and
non Christians and the difference between Love of Mankind in contrast to
the Heavenly love of the Lord. We hosted a Banquet outside behind the
church on February 9th, with many visitors coming to take part. In all
we had 93 adults present.
USING SOCCER TO REACH PEOPLES LIVES
 The
following week starting February 16th, we had young men reporting in
from many different provinces to try out for the Bangjak Baptist Deaf
Soccer team. Twenty young men stayed at the church; half being our own
Christian members ready to answer questions and witness to the new guys
on the team. Every morning after practice Pastor Ricky shared with the
team about the truth of heaven and hell and the choice we all have to
accept or reject salvation the Christ offers to all. The actual National
Soccer competition was held from February 22nd till February 26th.
Bangjak placed 3rd in the nation but more importantly have between 4 and
5 young men now contemplating salvation, something very new to them.
February27-28th
 Bangjak
Baptist co-partnered with the Bangka Baptist Hospital in the province of
Cha-Chueng Saew to hold medical clinics in two Hill-tribe villages in
the provinces of Chiang Rai, and Pyaming Rai with a medical team of
doctors, nurses and trained children’s workers from the U.S. We went
also to translate and co-ordinate the project. What a blessing it was to
see 15 people accept Christ in the midst of seeing over 450 patients and
distributing lots of medications. It is a blessing to be able to
minister to peoples physical and spiritual needs at the same time.
March 19th
 Bagkla
Hospital opened their doors for a deaf outreach. The Christian Deaf
members of our church got together and distributed flyers to deaf
merchants around the downtown area and we had a group of 41 go for blood
work, physicals, x-rays and other various medical treatment. We
presented the gospel while they were waiting to meet the Dr. and
witnessed again to them individually. One man had never heard the story
of Christ. One Muslim man accepted Christ at the hospital. We will be
following up on each one next month. A man named Suwit had a blood test
done and found out he was HIV Positive. Please be praying for him with
us that he will make a definite decision to accept Christ.
We saw many physical and spiritual needs throughout the day. Praise the
Lord that He is the Great Physician and that we had the opportunity to
share that with the deaf.
FRUIT HARVESTED
During the month of March we have had 4 ladies and 3 young men take the
step of baptism. Each one was very serious about their decision and
could give a very clear testimony of their salvation experience. All
seven have received Christ as the result of various different
evangelistic outreaches of Bangjak Baptist Church. It is a blessing to
see fruit after many hours of labor!!
I KNOW MY REDEEMER LIVES, BOW THE KNEE
Easter was a great day here at Bangjak Baptist Church. Many of our
members spent hours preparing for the big day with a multimedia
presentation, with drama and singing. It was a blessing to see many
serving the Lord, even turning down overtime at their jobs so they could
be at church for the practices. The college department went to the
sky-train station to pass out flyers Saturday morning to invite people
to the celebration of the day that changed all of history. We had calls
all day at the church from those who received the flyers. Easter
Services were great and many people understood the meaning of the empty
tomb for the first time.
Thank you for your prayers which certainly have an impact on the efforts
here!!
Sincerely in Christ,
Ricky Salmon
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Sending church:
Temple Baptist Church
Pastor LeRoy Eldridge
1400 N. Washington Ave
Titusville, FL 32796
Email: salmonth@truemail.co.th
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