Jerry & Boonporn Thaprom
Chiang Mai, Thailand
Rangoon, Burma
Dadwi, Burma
Samaki Village, Thailand

April 27, 2011

Dear brother John, Ron and all friends at Yukon,

I got the Yannay church building pictures just a few minutes ago.  So I am forwarding these pictures to you so that you can see the progress of it up to date.  To me it looks quite nice except the cross signs are somewhat too short so I told Andrew to correct them. I mean the cross signs in front of the building on the wall.

They told me that there are sporadic shootings from time to time around Yannay between the Burmese troops and Shan and Wa rebels. Please pray that the situation will come to normal. I hope this gives you  up date of the building. God bless you all.

Yours for His Glory,
Jerry

April 27, 2011

Dear brother John, Ron, Kathy and all friends at Yukon,

Again I have received picture of baptistery completed and baptism of 4 people right after the baptistery is completed.  Jonah in Yangon wrote to me saying they had one week of Bible teaching during the water festival time in Burma, and as a result 4 people made decision and were baptised at the newly built baptistery.

They were so thankful that they finally have a baptistery with your generous help at the church and will not have to face the leaches anymore. Thank you for helping them built a nice baptistery and this will be utilized it all the times from now on.

Praise the Lord.
Please find the  attached pictures.
Jerry

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On December 17th-20th, I went up to another village to give out blankets and mats to the remote area. I was able to take 80 blankets and 50 mats and also able to buy second hand clothes mostly for the children about 300 sweaters and jackets. Some goodies and balloon for the children. I wasn't able to go every place as I wanted to, but I've told them to come to a little government school ground. Because the road was so rough and far I got there at 8pm which I was suppose to be there at 5pm. The people had come to wait for me at that cold place some children fell asleep waiting for me. Once I got there I had to give out clothes right away at night because it was so cold. I couldn't get a good picture because it was so dark and foggy. But I did make sure everyone who came received warm clothes that night. In the next morning I gave out blankets and the mats but the sad part was that I can only give out to the extremely poor and had their names given to me by my staff (I had them survey it for me).
Please see the attached photos

Boonporn

P.S. the photos of the children with their new sweaters ( I hope you can tell) because they wore them right away at night, it doesn't look new but they are very happy, warm and feel blessed.
 

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While I was at the village that I gave out clothes and blankets, they told me about one widow who is in desperate need of help. She is all alone lost her children and husband when she was young. She tried to struggle on her own helping other, serving others all her life, but now she's old and had lived in this house for 6 years now and this house is falling apart. It seemed like no one is able to help her. She told me she's been crying over those years, but do have faith that the Lord remember her. Faith is what keeps her hanging on day by day. So I called for help to build a new home for this woman, and with the grace of God everyone was more than happy to help. So this house cost $450.00 which I've always set aside for emergency or situation like this.

As I took her into her new home she cried the whole time she said this is what Christmas is all about, she just understood the meaning of it. She thank the Lord for everything.

Boonporn

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