Testimonies from the field: Rebuking the Insects

Burmese farmer

My name is “J”. I am 36 years old and have two daughters and one son. We had believed in Buddhism all our lives. My husband is a farmer and we all work together on the farm. On our farm we grow flowers, mainly: roses, daisies and broccoli vegetables. We sell our produce at a market seven miles away.

Last year some National Pioneers came to our farm telling us the good news. All our family were very glad to hear this good news. We renounced our former gods and worshipping Buddha. Then we believed in Jesus Christ as our Lord and Saviour, even though some our neighbours criticized us strongly.

The Pastor, the Spirit, and the Waterfall

Because of what God taught us and all that spirit world with tribal people, we had faith for bigger things because of what happened here. But I’m going to stick with these stories. Hundreds have come to faith, and it’s all been

Hinduism in Indonesia

Hinduism was the main religion in Indonesia before Islam came to the country through Muslim traders in the 12th and 13th centuries. Hinduism came to Indonesia as early as the 1st century. By the 4th century, Hindu states had been established on Java. Hinduism spread throughout the rest of Indonesia and reached its peak in the 14th century. Although most of Indonesia was Muslim by the end of the 16th century, Bali remained Hindu. In 1959, the Indonesian government recognized Hinduism as an official religion. Indonesian Hindus practice Dharma Hinduism because of this. It was a major reform movement that lobbied for Hindus’ rights in Bali. This reform helped start a revival of Hinduism in Indonesia.

A Media and Missions Testimony

I want to share with you a testimony from a Christian ministry that has Media and Missions projects working together. This concept where there is media outreach that generates a “lead” and a way for the person to contact a Christian via email, text or social media is ideal. I discuss this approach in a case study in my book, EVANGELISM IN THE DIGITAL AGE: Media Case Studies. My other books are on this page also.

Serving in Thailand 48 years – Part One

This is part one of an interview with veteran missionary Alan Eubank. Alan and his wife Joan have served in Thailand for over 47 years.

When you get to be as old as I am, you like to share some of your experiences that maybe somebody can learn from. I never thought I’d be a missionary, but I was impressed by the missionaries that visited our church when I was younger. I found that they were active Christians. I went on to Texas A and M and graduated in geological engineering and took a regular US Army commission and fought in the Korean War. After the war I was considered staying in the army but that’s when I began to seriously look at the Bible. I started to open it up and read a scripture before I went to sleep.

Serving in Thailand 48 years – Part Two

This is part two of an interview with veteran missionary Alan Eubank. Alan and his wife Joan have served in Thailand for over 47 years.

After being in Chiang Mai for a number of years we begin to experiment with folk drama and modern drama, and music. We’ve started a full time troupe that’s become professional now, called the Christian Communication Institute (CCI).

The CCI troupes lead about 2500 young people to the Lord in their modern evangelism in schools each year during the rainy season. In the dry season they go out in the villages with traditional evangelism. Then, after retirement from CCI, I’m sort of a dabbler. We work back to that same group. They’re just now responding. We’ve had our first baptisms. We baptized four recently. We baptized eight more and now we’re going back in June and July in hope that there’s’ more.

Serving in Thailand 48 years – Part Three

This is part three of an interview with veteran missionary Alan Eubank. Alan and his wife Joan have served in Thailand for over 47 years.

Dan: I know that over the years we’ve known one another, you told a number of stories. In fact, in your three books, you’ve told stories about the beginning of your ministry. Now, as you travel so many days into these little villages and struggled with the chieftains and, once they were supposed to be Christian, or interested in Christianity and yet, as you mentioned earlier, that fact that it’s been so many years since the first baptism. And it seems to me that the Thai people have been somewhat resistant to the gospel, over all these years. We’ve seen a large percentage in Chang Mai people saying x many and so many and I’m just…and yet there seems to be a more openness…than there has been in previous years. I’m just wondering, what do you think about that? What do you think that reason is?

Serving in Thailand 48 years – Part Four

This is the last of a four part series with veteran missionary Alan Eubank. Alan and his with Joan have served as missionaries to Thailand for 48 years. Now, they are retired and although most of the series discuss the past, this section is happening since they retired!

Dan: You’ve been here almost 48 years. I know there’s lots of stories. As I look through your book, maybe we’ll get back together and I’ll ask you to tell some of those stories, because they’ve been very stirring to us. Maybe you could, you’ve seen, just in the little church that you’ve been involved with near your home, some great things happening in even the last months.