Here we are nearing the end of our Fall Semester and commencing all the extra curricular activities as we approach Christmas and our brief Christmas break from classes. It has been a very exciting and fruitful time here at the College. Our students have worked and studied very intensely, they will have exams behind them and are culminating with various outreach activities and ministry in Sriracha & Pattaya in addition to being involved in jail ministry, skits & music as part of a festival program at our local Mall, singing carols in government, immigration and education offices to keep up a standard of good will with people in high places. We will also be in Bang Bo with the students on Christmas Day doing skits, drama and dance in the schools and community. Bang Bo is the area where Mark (fourth year student) has been developing a children's ministry over the past year. We have so many opportunities where organizations are asking for assistance from the ministry here. December 9 – 19 there is a big sports festival where we will have inquiry booths set up and a tremendous captive audience to share the gospel with as well as handing out tracts and ministry information. December 27 – 31 some of us will be speaking daily at a Boy Scouts camp with 400 kids there. The list goes on and on as we are building in God’s Kingdom here.

We also have a blend of ministry outreach with the students and get togethers for food and fellowship during the Christmas season here as well with our Thai Church and International Churches. Donna & I are having the staff and students (in excess of 40 people) come to our home on December 27 for a Christmas dinner celebration. Our place is small so we will be spilling out into the street, but our neighbours are very gracious.

It’s with great anticipation that we look forward to the New Year and the Winter/Spring Semester. We are presently struggling with trying to procure a Visa to go to Pakistan in January which is proving very difficult. We have former students there who against all odds and persecution have established churches and schools and are requesting us to come and be an encouragement to them and their peoples. We will be hosting a Ladies Conference here at our International Church the first week in February and an Asian Worship Conference the last week of February. In March we are scheduled to go to Myanmar with Dr. Al Purvis to give some leadership training to the many new converts there who show great potential to evangelize distinctive areas in that devastated country. Our former student John is doing a phenomenal work there among his own people.

We thank you for your faithfulness in standing with us and pray that you will have a truly blessed Christmas with family and friends, rejoicing in the reason He came.

Blessings, love and prayers . . .

Kenn & Donna