Dear Praying Partners,
Wishing you all have a Christ-centered Christmas and Happy New Year!
Love, Joy, Peace Festival (Gospel Crusade):
The Lord answered our prayers that this Gospel Crusade was successfully held at Myanmar Convention Center on November 18-20, 2016. The Gospel Crusade was attended by over 40,000 people on the first day, over 50,000 people on the second day, and over 70000 people on the third day. Dr. Franklin Graham powerfully and clearly preached the pure Gospel and around 7,000 people accepted Jesus Christ as their personal Savior and Lord. As far as I know, this is the first time we saw many thousands of people who listened to the Gospel in one place. By God’s grace, some alumni and 33 students of SEABC had wonderful opportunity of doing counseling, some of them did Operation Andrew, and three faculty members participated in the Crusade as Supervisors at the Crusade. Please continue to pray with us for the follow up works we are doing now. Thank you so much for praying the Gospel revival of Myanmar.
Visiting Lecturers:
(1) Mr. Jim Fleming (Int’l Director of Emmaus Correspondence School) from USA came to Myanmar and effectively and clearly taught the Book of Galatians (ECS Course) to third and final year students on November 14-18, 2016.
(2) Dr. Loh Ah Asiau and two young men (Stephen & KG) from Malaysia came to Myanmar and effectively taught the subject called “Church Planting” at SEA Bible College from Nov. 22-25, 2016.
(3) Dr. Kevin Moore & Mr. Brent Cooper from USA taught the Word of God at SEA Bible College on December 5th. Dr. Kevin Moore taught on the subject “Love” based on First Corinthians Chapter 13. Mr. Brent Cooper taught on “The Pitfall of Leadership.” All the students were greatly built up and strengthened. Then we held a Bible Seminar at Canaan Gospel Chapel in downtown Yangon on December 6-7, 2016. The Seminar was joyfully attended by around 100 people (some pastors, missionaries, and SEABC students).
Dr. Kevin Moore powerfully taught on the following topics:
1. Love your Church beyond Barriers
2. Love Your Church With God’s Word
3. Love Your Church In Prayer
4. Love Your Church Through Visitation
5. Love Your Church During Change
6. Love Your Church Within Conflict
7. Love Your Church Amid Stress
Mr. Brent Cooper powerfully taught on the topic as follows:
1. The Pitfalls of Christian Leadership
2. Love Means Living a Life of Integrity
3. Love Means Taking Care of Yourself Amid Stress
4. Love Means Using Technology Wisely
We all had been greatly blessed and strengthened by the powerful and inspiring teachings of Dr. Kevin Moore and Mr. Brent Cooper.
(4) Mr. Lawrence Lim and Mr. Peter Lian: Bro. Lawrence from WorldServe Ministries, Canada, came to Myanmar with Mr. Peter Lian to visit some missionaries. By God’s grace, we had a very blessed time of fellowship with both of them at SEA Bible College on Nov. 23rd. Bro. Lawrence powerfully preached the Word of God at the SEABC Student’s Chapel Service and also taught a beautiful Christian Song to the students.
SEA Bible College’s Day of Games & Sports:
SEABC students had Games and Sports on December 2, 2016. The Student body is divided into four groups such as Matthew, Mark, Luke, John. They played different items such as football, volleyball, race, shot-put, etc. Luke group won the First Prize – the Cup.
Sweet December:
We had a good time of Christmas Sing Song Service on December 11, 2016. Each group (Matthew, Mark, Luke, John) of SEA Bible College joyfully and meaningfully sang Christmas Carols such as “Go Tell It On the Mountain,” Silent Night, Holy Night,” “O Holy Night.” etc.
Farewell Service:
By God’s grace, we finished the 2016 academic year of SEA Bible College on December 16th, 2016 and had Farewell Service at SEABC’s Chapel Hall at 2:30pm – 4:00pm. All faculty members and students gave thanks to the Lord for His Love, guidance, providence, protection and faithfulness. To God be the glory! Then we all joyfully joined the Farewell Dinner together. Thank you so much for all your prayers and partnerships in the challenging ministry of SEA Bible College.
Prayer Requests:
1) Please pray with us for all the safe trip back homes and that the Lord will mightily use them as they
will do the Gospel Outreach ministry in different areas of Myanmar
2) for the alumni who are in the Lord’s service in Myanmar and abroad
3) that the Lord will provide the real needs for new campus and facilities of SEA Bible College
4) for the plan of starting M.Div. program
5) that the Lord will send some more visiting lecturers from foreign countries to teach at SEABC
6) that the Lord will provide the needs for administration costs and scholarship funds for the needy
students
7) for the 2nd Alumni Meet and the 8th Biennial Graduation to be held in December 2017.
Thank you so much for all your love, great burden, and partnerships.
Your co-worker in the Lord’s Ministry,
Kap (Kap Cin Thang)