Praise Reports
1. Abundant CHRISTmas blessings! Htoo Gay & seven of the Pa La U Bible school students returned safely from their IDP (Internally Displaced People) evangelism trip - all came back tired, but rejoicing in all the Lord did & wanting to return! My IDP trip was postponed, but one of my former students and one of my Karen sons are going to bless and encourage them. And many are taking the blessings prepared for them! I'll send photos next month!
2. Jo Mya's CT scan results are benign & only dead tissue! We prayed for wisdom for Moe Moe Aye's doctors - after they put her to sleep & partially shaved her head, they discovered an infection in her nasal canal. If they had not discovered it, it would have gone straight to her brain! I fell & broke only my little toe - though "dangling", at least it was not my knee or hip!
3. Jesus' birthday was celebrated at the Family Home through the care & help of Htoo Gay & family, Htoo Wah & family & Chris (I could not go because of caring for Moe Moe Aye & my broken toe)! Christmas Day was celebrated at the Chappell's home (where the Lord has provided for me to stay when I need to be in Bangkok), with many others from their church, & Moe Moe Aye! Talking to my family in the USA on Skype - a conference call to California, Oregon, & Michigan! No Skype photo of Brad & family because their computer was down, but it was great to be able to talk to all of them together!
Prayer Requests
"from whom the whole body, joined & knit together by what every joint supplies, according to the effective working by which every part does its share, causes growth of the body......in love." Ephesians 3:16
1. Please pray for complete healing for Jo Mya, Moe Moe Aye, and my toe! Jo Mya's dark spot on his CT Scan turned out to be dead tissue - please pray it is completely gone on January 20th, when he has his next CT Scan. Moe Moe Aye has remained in the hospital & had her nasal canal drained daily to clear up the infection. It is now clear - please pray the infection will not return. Her surgery is now scheduled for January 8th - please pray for no more complication and a successful surgery! Please pray my toe will be completely healed - It was completely severed from my foot & it is not healing in alignment with my foot - hence the above Scripture - God wants our bodies joined & knit together into a whole body - both spiritually & physically :-)!
2. An IDP trip the last week of January - please pray the IDP's will know we are loving them in Jesus' love & His love will become their own! Please continue to pray for all of the IDP's - attacks continue daily, and the plan in the next few months is to attack and take over all of the southern area!
3. Carol - Feeling good - two more chemo treatments - keep on praying for complete healing & strength - your prayers are being heard & answered!!
A very strange month for me - I don't think I have ever spent so much time in one place in the last 23 years, except while in Thai language school, and that was in Bangkok too! While in language school, I met Carrie, the wife of the Calvary Baptist Church pastor in Bangkok. She wanted someone to drive with her to school to lessen the stress of driving in the traffic. I was walking to school every day, so it was a blessing for me too! Now the Lord is using her & her family to bless me by opening their home to me whenever I am in Bangkok, which, needless to say, has been a huge blessing - 
especially right now as I'm needing to spend more than a month here for Moe Moe Aye! She's also gone on an IDP trip with me, and is taking me to the doctor for my broken toe. I love the way the Lord brings blessings and friendships into our lives as we live for Him!!
I praise the Lord for His faithfulness - He even blessed me with a Karen Christmas in Bangkok! And I thank the Lord for your faithfulness - your prayers, without which none of the praise & prayer requests written could be fulfilled! Keep on praying so we can keep on praising the One who hears and answers our prayers! Praying you all had a wonderful day filled with Jesus' love, comfort, peace, & joy as you celebrated His birth for you, & praying your new year will be filled with many more blessings of His love and grace.
I thank the Lord for His gift of you in our lives - may the new year fill you with thankfulness for His blessings in your lives!!
Sharon, on behalf of all of the Karen who are blessed by your prayers
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