This is one of my favorite pics from my time in Thailand in 2009. I'm not sure that Kiki really likes these kinds of photos, but my dream is that one day I'll have a large missionary family who will all do poses like this for Christmas cards to send back to the U.S.Anyway...the Thai man in this picture is a young man named Pattarachai Moongkolkoolpongsal, or "Pat" for short. He came to Bangkok from the Northern part of Thailand and is an Ahka, which is a sub-group of Thai people. He is currently studying at Bangkok Bible Seminary and interning at New City Fellowship (the MTW church plant) with the hope that he will take over as pastor whenever he graduates from seminary. A gifted preacher and a gentle and wise-beyond-his-years man of God, Pat will hopefully be my long-term partner in planting churches and training pastors in the greater Bangkok area.
Pray for Pat as he finishes seminary while preaching, sharing the gospel, and leading University Christian Fellowship at Ramkhamhaeng University in the Bangna area near our church. Pray that he would be constantly refreshed by the Holy Spirit and pray that God will continue to give him a desire to plant churches and disciple men in the Bangkok area for years to come.
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