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Asian Mission in Canada team returns from Thailand
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A team of ten, including Bishop Stephen Leung, completed a two-week mission trip to Thailand, June 5-19, designed to survey the opportunities for partnership with the Diocese of Singapore’s Deanery of Thailand in its outreach to Karen refugees.
The team spent the first three days in Singapore getting oriented to the missions and ministries of the diocese, followed by three days in Bangkok working with Christ Church. In Bangkok, the team participated in children’s ministries in slum areas, as well as ministered to residents of Shalem House, a ministry offering housing to poor people from remote communities who have come to the city to care for seriously ill relatives in Bangkok hospitals.
The final week of the mission trip was spent in the mountainous region along the Myanmar border where Karen refugees who have fled from the fighting in Myanmar are concentrated, many living in refugee camps. Karen ministries there include community nursery schools, elementary and secondary schools, a small Bible school training current and future Karen church leaders, and boarding houses for orphans and children whose parents still live in Myanmar. The team was able to participate in some of these ministries – including conducting children’s programs, visiting and praying with Christians in their homes, giving testimonies, and (Bishop Stephen) preaching and teaching in the Bible school.
Having seen the pressing ministry needs among the Karen people, Bishop Stephen, ANiC’s suffragan bishop responsible for ethnic ministries in Canada, is committed to an ongoing partnership with these church ministries in the border area of Thailand.
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St Andrew's Cathedral Diocese of Singapore |
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Mission team beside St Andrew's Cathedral, Singapore |
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St Andrew's uses its strategic downtown location to communicate the Gospel |
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Water bottles given to visitors by St Andrew's |
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Mission team presents Bible story to children in Singapore school |
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Children examine souvineer Canada bookmarks |
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Christ Church Bangkok's historic building |
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Christ Church's outreach program to children in poorer area of Bangkok |
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Mission team presents a Bible story to children in Bangkok community centre |
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Children enjoy singing a Christian song |
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Team member Grace Leung makes some new friends |
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Children's ministry in a Rangsit park (north Bangkok) |
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Church planter (with guitar) from Sahab, Malaysia with children in Rangsit |
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Second church planter from Sabah prays with the children in Rangsis |
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Children act out Bible Story of Jesus calming the storm |
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Children in Rangsit examine their stickers |
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River separating Thailand from Myanmar |
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Supplies purchased for Karen ministries |
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Typical house in the border area of Thailand |
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Road traveled in the back of a truck to visit border ministries |
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Tamla, border area Anglican ministry coordinator, by church |
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Mission team members climb hill in rain to visit nursery school |
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Team members cross bamboo bridge to visit St John's Maw Kwee primary school and boarding house |
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Bishop Stephen Leung prays for nursery school children |
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Children enjoy snack provided by team |
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Boys from boarding house |
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Boys in their boarding house |
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Bishop Stephen and new friend, a boarding student |
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Bishop Stephen prays for and blesses primary school teacher |
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Noh Bo Academy dorm house |
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Pit dug under school dorm for sanctuary in case fighting gets too close |
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Children's program at Mae Salid church |
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Children leave program with their flags |
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Team acts out Bible story for children |
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Bishop Stephen is presented with a local shirt |
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