March Update

Hello everyone!

 

Well I am back in Thailand and had to hit the ground running so to speak.  I came back with a team of friends from America and we headed straight for the jungles to conduct two seminars.  The first seminar was hosted at my children's home and we had over 100 people attend.  For the concert outreach we had more than 200 people.  It was just awesome! There were Thai people outside drinking and smoking and hearing the gospel while they watched Christian young people singing and dancing and having way more fun worshipping the Lord than the drunk people outside.  It was fantastic.  It really was a youth revival and for me personally it was something I didn't think I would see for years.  We always say revival is coming to Thailand but now we say revival is here!  It is an amazing thing to have your dreams come true, a dream you have sacrificed for and given your life for and see it happen sooner than you ever expected. 

 

It only grew from there as people were healed - two deaf people and others also.  We preached the word of God but it seemed more than anything the Holy Spirit was doing His own ministry.  It was apparent from the begiinning that while we had our plan God was going to do just whatever he wanted and was not even being polite about it.  Many people were filled with the Spirit, prayed and prophesied over and people fell under the power of God and there was a freedom in worship that we have never seen before.  Then we took them to the village and had a leadership conference there.  When the team ministered to the kids on the Holy Spirit we had over 60 children filled with the Holy Spirit.  Words just can't express it. It is a miracle - all of it.  God is awesome and again it is something I have dreamed about and I am watching it happen before my eyes. 

 

So since then I have been ministering in the village just building and teaching them before I move from the village.  For those of you who don't know.  I will be moving down to live full time at my children's home.  I am keeping my house in the village and still will come sometimes to minister there and my heart will always be there but me and the pastors I live with there are moving from our little village to the big town in the area to build a Center for Revival.  This will be a children's home, worship school and bible school.  It will be a place where people can come and experience revival and be trained to take it to their villages.  Our focus will be to train worship leaders and others to lead this revival in their villages.  We need to move the children's home because we are being evicted from the land we are on by the government who owns the land and has only let us use it free.  It is a good thing because we need a much bigger facility to do what God has called us to do and the schools in the nearby big town are much better and they even have a highschool which we don't have in our little town now. 

 

So it is a big project and will require a lot of money so we need prayer.  I need so much prayer!  I am so overwhelmed with what God has called me to do and with the decisions and the responsibilities I have now that I don't even try to think and figure it all out.  I just say okay God you just tell me what to do cause I am sure I don't know and I can't do it!  So I just wait until I hear from Him and that's what we do.  It seems to be working and it is keeping me sane and very happy and excited in spite of everything going on around me.  So please pray for us and for me.  God is just doing this great big awesome thing and I cannot figure out for the life of me why He chose me to be here and help Him with all this but He just did so we have to go with it and know God will work it all out.  I think when I die I want this saying written on my tombstone "It was all so impossible but it happened anyway!" Amen!

 

 

So I am coming back to America very soon.  March 11 to be exact.  It seems so soon as I just got back but I want to go when my children are on their summer break so they are home with their families when I am gone.  This way I am not away while they are at the children's home.  I have many opportunites to preach while I am in America and share what God is doing in Thailand and give people the opportunity to be apart of it.  So if you would like me to come speak at your church or group please contact me via email or my mom at 419-350-0166 who is handleing all my scheduling.  So please keep praying all of you!  You are all apart of it with your prayers and giving and I know you are all so blessed for your commitment to me and what God is doing through us in Thailand. 

 

Love much!

Candace

Update - February

Hello everyone!

 

Well I am back in Thailand and had to hit the ground running so to speak.  I came back with a team of friends from America and we headed straight for the jungles to conduct two seminars.  The first seminar was hosted at my children's home and we had over 100 people attend.  For the concert outreach we had more than 200 people.  It was just awesome! There were Thai people outside drinking and smoking and hearing the gospel while they watched Christian young people singing and dancing and having way more fun worshipping the Lord than the drunk people outside.  It was fantastic.  It really was a youth revival and for me personally it was something I didn't think I would see for years.  We always say revival is coming to Thailand but now we say revival is here!  It is an amazing thing to have your dreams come true, a dream you have sacrificed for and given your life for and see it happen sooner than you ever expected. 

 

It only grew from there as people were healed - two deaf people and others also.  We preached the word of God but it seemed more than anything the Holy Spirit was doing His own ministry.  It was apparent from the begiinning that while we had our plan God was going to do just whatever he wanted and was not even being polite about it.  Many people were filled with the Spirit, prayed and prophesied over and people fell under the power of God and there was a freedom in worship that we have never seen before.  Then we took them to the village and had a leadership conference there.  When the team ministered to the kids on the Holy Spirit we had over 60 children filled with the Holy Spirit.  Words just can't express it. It is a miracle - all of it.  God is awesome and again it is something I have dreamed about and I am watching it happen before my eyes. 

 

So since then I have been ministering in the village just building and teaching them before I move from the village.  For those of you who don't know.  I will be moving down to live full time at my children's home.  I am keeping my house in the village and still will come sometimes to minister there and my heart will always be there but me and the pastors I live with there are moving from our little village to the big town in the area to build a Center for Revival.  This will be a children's home, worship school and bible school.  It will be a place where people can come and experience revival and be trained to take it to their villages.  Our focus will be to train worship leaders and others to lead this revival in their villages.  We need to move the children's home because we are being evicted from the land we are on by the government who owns the land and has only let us use it free.  It is a good thing because we need a much bigger facility to do what God has called us to do and the schools in the nearby big town are much better and they even have a highschool which we don't have in our little town now. 

 

So it is a big project and will require a lot of money so we need prayer.  I need so much prayer!  I am so overwhelmed with what God has called me to do and with the decisions and the responsibilities I have now that I don't even try to think and figure it all out.  I just say okay God you just tell me what to do cause I am sure I don't know and I can't do it!  So I just wait until I hear from Him and that's what we do.  It seems to be working and it is keeping me sane and very happy and excited in spite of everything going on around me.  So please pray for us and for me.  God is just doing this great big awesome thing and I cannot figure out for the life of me why He chose me to be here and help Him with all this but He just did so we have to go with it and know God will work it all out.  I think when I die I want this saying written on my tombstone "It was all so impossible but it happened anyway!" Amen!

 

 

So I am coming back to America very soon.  March 11 to be exact.  It seems so soon as I just got back but I want to go when my children are on their summer break so they are home with their families when I am gone.  This way I am not away while they are at the children's home.  I have many opportunites to preach while I am in America and share what God is doing in Thailand and give people the opportunity to be apart of it.  So if you would like me to come speak at your church or group please contact me via email or my mom at 419-350-0166 who is handleing all my scheduling.  So please keep praying all of you!  You are all apart of it with your prayers and giving and I know you are all so blessed for your commitment to me and what God is doing through us in Thailand. 

 

Love much!

Candace

New Year in Thailand

Dear Friends,   I hope you all had a merry Christmas and a wonderful new year.  I have been in America for about a month and of course it has been a great time.  I have been so blessed as I always am by my family and have had time to rest and eat too much American food.  I had a strange craving for brownies.  It was weird.  Is it possible to have a brownie deficiency?  Anyway time has flown by and I will be returning to Thailand tomorrow.  So please keep me in your prayers as I make the long 21 hour flight.    A day after I arrive in Thailand I have a team coming - my bestest friend in the whole world and her husband and two of their friends are coming to do a seminar.  We will be hosting this event at the children's home and we are going to be training worship leaders as well as teaching laypeople, evangelists and pastors in the morning.  We are also having another outreach to the Thai community with a concert where we will preach the gospel and give away prizes and food.  The last one we had over 150 people accepted Jesus.  Then they will be traveling deep in the jungle to do some ministry in the villages and a leadership conference as well.  Pray for this team and these events.  I told them you bring revival and we will have it!  Just BRING IT!!      Good news on the Karen Worship CD.  It is finally finished and is selling like hotcakes so they tell me.  We have been distributing them into the refugee camps and other missionaries are buying them in bulk to take into the jungles of Burma and into the refugee camps also.   A good friend of mind wrote me that she put one in the hands of the leader of Karen Army that fights for the Burmese - which would make them technically the enemy to the Karen liberation army trying to be free of the government in Burma.  So in the hands of the enemy!  It is far more than I ever imagined.  I knew God was going to do something special with this CD and He has.  He always blows me away with His big plans.  We just do what little we can and trust him to make it spectacular.  And He does - He always does.    So keep praying my dear friends.  This next year is going to be fantastic.  God is doing big, incredible and exciting things in the world and in our lives most of all if we let Him.  Thank you to all those who are apart of what He is doing in mine.  I look at how far He has brought me and it is amazing and terrifying all at the same time.  I feel like what they say to rock climbers - DON'T LOOK DOWN!!  So much of my life feels normal till I come home and I realize what I do everyday and see my life and I think WHAT IN THE WORLD AM I DOING?  AM I CRAZY??  But I guess the reality for me is that I want God's best for my life and I don't want only what I can get for myself with my own grabbing and scratching and striving,  I want what only God can give me.  I want better than what I could get for myself.  I want His best and all His good things.  The trick is those good things can only be found by walking HIS path and obeying Him.  So this is my path and I am thankful for it as much as it frightens me sometimes.  But then I remember - I don't have to do it alone or even at all.  Just go and trust Him for the rest and He does it.  We all have our thing we have to do.  You, me and all of us.  .    I wanted to let those of you know that are my monthly partners that RHEMA offers automatic withdrawals monthly to be given to my ministry.  This is for your convenience.  They will credit a credit card or do an auto transfer from your bank if you would like to set this up.  I am attaching forms.   For auto credit card donations, donors will need to contact the Partner Services dept. at 918-258-1588, ext. 2238, or partnerservice@rhema.org and they will take care of it for them. As always 100% of this goes to the ministry in Thailand.  I can't possibly thank you enough for making the beautiful ministry in Thailand possible, for food and clothes and medicine for my children, for everything you give but I ask that God will do that for me and that you are abundantly blessed.    God Bless you all! Love, Candace