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.

Benny’s Story

_1790285″ src=”https://asiastories.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/460_17902851.jpg?w=150″ alt=”460>_1790285″ width=”97″ height=”84″>I was raised up as a normal, a typical Malay family. The parents are obliged to send you to Madrasa or to a grammar school. We were taught how to pray. Do not miss your prayers, fast when you need to fast, you should

Anabelle’s Story

I am from Chinese Malay-background. My mom is Chinese and my dad is Malay. They brought me up in the Muslim faith. They tried their best. They sent me to the mosque to learn how to read the  Al-Qur’an.

The Spirit Tree

Let me tell you a story about what happened to some of our evangelists. Two of them took off for a remote village in the mountains near the border. When they arrived, they met with a village elder andtold him why they had come. They said, “We have come to tell you about the living God, who made heaven and earth and your buffalo and your people. This is a God who loves you. We’ve come to tell you about this God.”
The village elder looked and them, and he said,

The Headhunter

_1790800″ src=”https://asiastories.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/460_17908001.jpg?w=150″ alt=”460>_1790800″ width=”82″ height=”82″>The people of our country had a significant segment that were headhunters. In fact, they were headhunting up into the 1970s and even beyond. In a village just a couple of years ago we saw seven human heads, some with flesh still

The Farmers and the Cucumbers

_1790833″ src=”https://asiastories.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/460_1790833.jpg?w=150″ alt=”460>_1790833″ width=”122″ height=”81″>My husband began to do a Bible study in a new area, with a group of people that were very, very poor. In fact, nearly everybody in this community, they were tenant farmers, and they were all sickly, very sickly.

The Buddhist Monk and Jesus

“I’d been a Buddhist monk for more than 24 years. When I was just a young boy, my parents couldn’t feed me, and so they put me in the monastery. It’s the only life I’ve ever known. One morning, I was walkingoutside carrying my little food basket. I guess I wasn’t paying attention to what I was doing because I stepped off the curb of the street, into the path of a car. It hit me, and it threw me up over the windshield and out into the street.”

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?