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EOF has recently helped 19 former refugees with roofing for their houses as they try to move back to Burma. In October we also plan to build 20 houses for them, as funds are available. We also help with water project too. Also, we are working on a water system project for them. Here are a few pictures.
EOF Newsletter – July 2014
Karen State schools’ update letter from Pastor Phamor.
Htee Shor Mae village school
As you can see from the following table, Education Opportunity Foundation is touching the lives of over 1300 people with 25 schools in Karen State. We plan to increase the number of schools this year. The Burmese Government has agreed to a ceasefire and right now we have a window of opportunity to penetrate into new areas, establish more schools, and educate people in the knowledge of God. Educating these people is one of the best places to invest your treasure.
04 Ler Mu Htu Hta
02 Paw Mu Kar Der
05 Chu Ma Lay Der
07 Ta Mae Der
08 Saw Ker Der
09 Gae Yee Der
10 Taw Paw Der
11 Baw Bo Kee
12 Lay Baw Me
13 Thae Kee
14 Pa Ya Hsae Der
15 Dah Kway
17 Mwee Kee
18 Htee Kahaw
20 Maela Camp
1344 students
150 boarding
99 teachers
Many villages in Karen State have been devastated during the 65 years of war. The people are currently looking for help to rebuild their villages.
Now is the time to work. We don’t know how long the peace agreements will last, so we must act quickly.  We used to work during troublous times but now we can work freely.
We want to assist the people in becoming self-sufficient. We can find markets for their products in Thailand. I just found out that there is a great demand for sesame seeds in Thailand.
When you come, I will take you to these areas and you can see firsthand about the need.
History of Education Opportunity Program
The Education Opportunity Program (EOP) was started about 35 years ago and has as one of it’s main goals to help children from the hill tribes receive an education in a safe environment. This program provides dormitories and sponsorships for students in Thailand and is part of the Education Opportunity Foundation. A substantial number of the children we help would not be able to obtain an education without the EOP project. Some others would have to travel into dangerous situations for the opportunity to study.
Children just like Gamdang, who is currently enrolled in the EOP project. He came from an unstable home due to opium addiction. In addition to his formal education, he has been learning life skills, such as hygiene, which he did not learn at home.
The Chiang Mai location already has a girl’s dormitory. It has proven to be successful in helping students graduate in a safe environment. Our children are encouraged and equipped to give back to their community and return to their villages to serve.
Goals of EOF
To provide a safe environment for the education of underprivileged children.
To provide an opportunity to gain life skills, knowledge, and medical missionary training.
To provide more workers who are greatly needed.
Funds needed to Finish EOF Boys dorm
This school year, seven EOF boys have been living in an overcrowded one room staff house. Although we are thankful they can be here, we are so sad that we have had to turn down requests from many children and parents that need our help. Children just like Gamdang.
Next year, the staff house that they are temporarily living in will not be available.
In faith we began to build a boy’s dorm but are only half finished. A completed boys dormitory is badly needed to accommodate the waiting students as well as the current ones.
We need $20,000 USD to complete this project.
Thank you for considering what you can do today to help finish the boy’s dorm.
Unfinished Boy’s Dorm
Buildings needed for the Karen Training School
We are now renting an old resort for our training school.  More than 50 young people attend our training every year.  After their training, they go back home, equipped with knowledge to help the villagers in need.  They learn Healthful living, hygiene, healthy cooking, natural remedies, massage, hydrotherapy, and horticulture.
April 2014 – One-month training.
Students In Classroom
May/June – Students and Trainers
We need a good place for horticulture and now we have land but it is far from our rented place. We are planning to move to the new land. We do not have any buildings yet. We need classrooms, girls and boys dormitories, a kitchen and a good water system. We believe our plan will be fulfilled.
Caring for the wounded and helping the suffering
Students hauling rocks from the river for new dorm
300 Toilets project:
When I visited Htee Shor Mae village I couldn’t find a toilet anywhere at all. Pigs and goats were running free. They need schools to educate the people as well as health care services. Our plan is to fill this need.
Our plan for 2014 and 2015 is to make 300 toilets for villagers in 5 villages. We believe God will provide. If our toilet proposal is approved, we can start right now with Htee Shor Mae village, Derko Tawah village I pray that this project will be completed.
Church Building Project
Last year in 2013 we built four churches and dedicated them. Baptisms followed after the services.  With the help of God and loving friends around the world, we plan to build five more, with two children’s classrooms. We believe we can achieve our goal.
Ribbon cutting at Hteeko church dedication
Baptism after Hteeko church dedication
Htee Shor Mae village school needs help.
Last May 17, 2014 I visited Htee Shor Mae village and met an elderly man in the village. I talked to him and asked him what his plan for the future of the children here in the village.  He said that he plans to start a school to educate the people. He showed me the school that he started. I can say that he will not finish it for there is no more timber (see the picture of him and the skeleton building he started). I told him to pray for the funding. Below is picture of Him and the building and children that need to go to school.
Village elder standing in front of the unfinished classroom building
These Children need a School
The needs for this area are:
School buildings range from $1,000 to $5,000 USD depending on size and materials.
Salary for one Teacher is $70.00 USD per month.
Stationary and other teaching aides are around $500 USD a year.
Teachers housing. ($1,000 USD)
Dormitory for boarding school children. ($ 3,000 USD)
Some villages are too small to start a school and the children need to go to village that have school, so they are away from home that why they need dormitory so they can go to nearby village school.
Food for boarding school children. ($ 1 USD per day, 300 days a year)
Thank you for considering to help us with these projects. If you would like to donate towards any of these projects, please visit the donate page.
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Leading to the Light Newsletter
Posted on May 3, 2014 by Ben
We are told that “it is Satan’s regular employment to hinder the work of God, and to work for the destruction of the race.” Praise God, we are also told that “a guardian angel is appointed to every follower of Christ. These heavenly watchers shield the righteous from the power of the wicked one.”
Having this knowledge makes it easier to maintain a calm in the midst of the storm. In this case, literally. You can read more about our storm here.
In spite of the distractions, we are finally able to share how God is blessing His local workers here in Asia.
In this report…
2014 Karen Bible/Medical Missionary Training School.
Media Evangelist Training at EOF.
English Camp at Education Opportunity Foundation
Htee Kho Village Church Dedication
1. 2014 Karen Bible/Medical Missionary Training.
Our three month Karen Bible/Medical Missionary Training began March 16 with fifty-four students.The students are receiving practical knowledge of God’s word in connection with the medical missionary work. Many students are applying their new knowledge of Bible, Health and Media to advance the Three angels Messages in Asia. After the first month, six students were transferred to the foundation in Mae Taeng to begin a six week Media Evangelist course.
We are in need of a small solar system at our Mae Ta Woe Learning Center.
We have purchased a couple of solar panels and batteries to test and have found them to be a great alternative to turning on the diesel generator to run lights, projector, and charge batteries.
The cost of the system will be $3,500.00
To contribute, please visit the donate page and mark your gift “solar”.
2. E. O. F. Media Evangelist Training Program.
Education Opportunity Foundation’s first six week Media Evangelist Training Program began this month. We are planning to continue with a series of training programs designed to build a team of knowledgeable, consecrated workers who are enthusiastic about using media to reach the people of Asia. We are thankful to have Jesse Norris here for a few months to share his knowledge of media with our local workers.
The Education Opportunity Foundation is in need of two more iMac computers for our Media Evangelist Training Program. It will cost $3000.00 to purchase the needed computers.
To help us supply the local workers with the tools they need to be efficient workers for God, you may mark your gift “iMac” and send it to the Leading to the Light address listed below. You can also donate on line by choosing the “Thailand Projects” button and writing “iMac” in the message box.
3. English Camp at Education Opportunity Foundation.
It was time for English Day at the E.O.F. dorms. They had just finished their final exams the day before and this day was to be a celebration with a practical component. We invited our friends the Knechts to join us. After a short morning worship and introductions, we split up and each took several children to practice their English for an hour. We all had a great time getting to know each other and are looking forward to continuing our friendship when we return from break. When the day ended, we all felt thankful to have found a purpose in our lives centered on service for others. We are looking forward to the students return this week.
The highlight was the interactive games we played. Here is a short video clip of our fun day.
4. Htee Kho Village Church Dedication.
In 2012 we made a call for our partners to help five Karen families from the mountain village of Htee Kho build a church.
The agreement was that Leading to the Light would help supply building materials and the five families would build the church. I am happy to report that the church is finished and last month we were blessed to attend the church dedication and baptism of the first members.
This church plant was the special project of our EOF dorm students headed by Mrs. Phamor. The students spent many Sabbaths ministering to the people of Htee Kho Village located forty-five minutes from the Foundation. God has blessed their commitment by reaching the hearts of five villagers. On the dedication Sabbath, five people from the village and two students from our EOF dorm made a full commitment to obey God through baptism.
Here is a short video of the event.
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New Boy’s Dormitory
Posted on July 21, 2013 by Ben
In 2009 we built a girls dormitory next to our EOF offices here in Chaingmai province, Thailand. This has given many girls the opportunity to study in the nearby Adventist Academy. At the moment, we have 17 girls staying in the dormitory.
We have wanted to build a boys dormitory for years. Even without a permanent place to live, seven boys have already come to stay with us. Until recently, they were staying in the bunk-house at our health farm and training center, however, recently, they moved down to the stay in girls dean’s house. This year, we decided now is the time to build the a new boy’s dormitory. Even though it’s not completely funded yet, we began construction in May of this year.
Altogether, the new dormitory will cost 800,000 Thai Baht (about 25,700 USD). We have raised 300,000 Baht so far. If you would like to help, please visit the donate page.
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EOF Media Training
Posted on July 21, 2013 by Ben
From May 5 to 10, 2013, the Eduction Opportunity Foundation held a media training for our Bible workers (and some students) in Chiangmai. Ten students completed the class. Here are a few pictures from that event:
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Car Accident
Posted on June 19, 2013 by Ben
At the beginning of this year (2013) The foundation got permission from the local government to operate a learning center in Mae Tha Wah community; Tasoengyang district, Tak province. We have been holding trainings there teach the people how to serve through health ministry. Also, we have been teaching Burmese and English language to the students in a local school and to local government officials.
To operate the activities of the foundation and to bring food and supplies for our trainings, EOF staff have been using a Ford truck for transportation. On the 17th of this May, the foundation truck skidded off the wet and slippery road and rolled down the hill. We called one of our church members for help, they came but just before they got to the accident area, their also had a bad accident on the slippery road. Now two trucks are damaged and it is our responsibility to repair them. It’s going to take a lot of money, and since it is the beginning of a new semester for our foundation’s scholarship students and since we have to pay their educational and food expenses this new expense is a a heavy burden for the foundation. Our foundation committee members are praying and asking God to lead them and show them how to solve this problem.
If you would like to help us, please feel free to contact us. Also, keep us in your prayers.
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EOF Teacher Training, 2013
Posted on June 19, 2013 by Ben
During the month of May EOF missions held a teacher training for teachers from our schools in Mae Lah and Mae Ra Moo refugee camps. Several dozen teachers came and studied about teaching techniques and the Bible.
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Ubon Medical Missionary Work
Posted on February 28, 2013 by Ben
The following is a report from Sompong Koonsawang, who is working with her husband in Ubon Ratchathani. She writes…
My name is Sompong Koonsawang; recently I have been working in the Ubon church area in the South Eastern part of Thailand. I’ve been here since moving from Lampang. First of all, I really praise God that He brought me back to my home town. From the experiences that I had in Lampang, I really can see that God is with us through the medical missionary work. I believe that God will use it to do miracles for the people in Ubon, and the other churches in the southeast area too. Ubon church is located in the city and there are many smaller churches around. In January, I started by doing medical missionary training for lay pastors and church members at Ubon church. The training is to prepare our lay pastors and church members in Ubon church and all local churches to spread the gospel by using medical missionary work. I also set up a small treatment room in the church with help from some of our church members.
The next step was to have 3 day health seminars in each church starting with Ubon. I invited Dr. Pornwilai and the group to be the speaker. We worked together to invite people from around the city, as well as our own church members to come. We taught about high blood pressure and diabetes. The program went from Friday to Sunday. There were about 30 people that came, and most of them were women who had health problems. Because of this seminar I had opportunity to share more about health and the Bible with two old ladies that had high blood pressure and diabetes. They came to our church and asked me to do a 1 week treatment program for them. After the treatment their blood pressure and sugar level were lower than before; and they really praised our God for this result, and they have continued coming to church until now. Now we have 6 persons that sometimes come to our church as a result of this medical missionary outreach.
The local Ubon church has a radio station. It is on 105 mhz, and we call it the New Life radio station. It is online at www.newlife105ubon.net as well. I use this radio station to share about Health and our Adventist message. I believe in using Mrs. Ellen White’s books; such as Ministry of Healing, Adventist Home, Consult on Diet and Food, etc. as I teach on the radio. Most of the listeners are sunday church members. There are 10 of them that we have been visiting, and they come to worship in our church every Wednesday evening, Friday evening, and some times on Sabbath. I really can see the blessing from God through these people, they said that they appreciate the radio program so much and they also donate some money for electricity and other expenses.
During the time that I’ve worked in Ubon church, I also had an opportunity to do medical mission work in several other surrounding churches. I went to Fang Therng church, Na Doo church, Bark Choom church, Suan Son church and a small group in Some Ngoo.
The biggest problem for the church in the Southeastern area of Thailand is that the churches are often without a leader, a pastor, or someone to nurture members’ spiritually. Some, such as Nar Pong Pone church must be closed down. Some churches don’t have anyone to take care of it, and get old and run down. Then, the members don’t want to attend meetings because the bad condition. My husband Pastor Soontorn and I are trying to reform both church members and church buildings. For this, the medical missionary technique is working well. Now the reformation is going forward to several churches in rural areas, and this progress showing. Now previously non-attending members are returning to worship our Lord along with the new members.
Nar Pong Pone church was restored after it had been closed down for over 10 years. Many years ago a local man offered to buy the church property a small sum. Then unexpectedly, he had a stroke as he was driving on the way to pay for that property. He ended up having to use all that money to care for himself. With support from the Tailand Adventist Mission and the genourosity of donors and local members, we have been able to build a new building for this church congregation. Now we have group meetings there, starting with 4 or 5 people studying Bible together. The attracted the neighbors interest. We also had a 3 day health seminar where we taught them about natural remedies. Some catholic Christians from the area have also showed interest in our teachings. More than 50 adults and 20 children attended this meeting. We are praying for a lay pastor who can come and live there permanently.
Praise be to God, in March we had eight people decide to make a public commitment to Christ in Baptism.
I also went to help with the health training at some other churches in South Eastern Thailand. For this next year, we plan to do natural therapy treatments in the church compound for students, also we plan to brovide consultation to people with health problems. Some of the people we have been working with are interested in learning about Daniel and Revelation. Please pray for our work in South Eastern Thailand so that God’s abundant love that gives us every breath should spread into every house in these villages.
Please remember the work in South Eastern Thailand in your prayers Thank you so much for your support.
May God bless you,
Best Regard,
Sompong Koonsawang
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Karen Adventist Youth Campmeeting Report
Posted on January 15, 2013 by Ben
Pastor Nelson is the pastor we have placed in charge of the EOF projects in Northern Karen State, which includes Karen Adventist Frontier Academy (otherwise known as Ebenezer), numerous other schools, and more than a dozen Bible workers and village evangelist. We recently recieved his report on his December campmeeting. He writes…
ပ​မၤ​ဝဲ​ဒၣ်​သူၣ်​ဘီၣ်​သး​စၢ်​တၢ်​ရ့​လိာ်​မုာ်​လိာ်​တၢ်​အိၣ်​ဖှိၣ်​ဒ်​အံၤ​မ့ၢ်​ဝဲ​ဒၣ်​တ​နံၣ်​တ​ဘျီ​, ဒီး​ညီ​ညုၢ်​ပ​မၤ​ဝဲ​ဒၣ်​လၢ​လါ​ဒံၣ်​စ့​ဘၢၢ်​အ​တီၢ်​ပူၤ​န့ၣ်​လီၤ​. ပ​စံး​လၢ​ပှၤ​မုၢ်​နွံ​နံၤ​ဖိ​သူၣ်​ဘီၣ်​သး​စၢ်​တၢ်​ရ့​လိာ်​မုာ်​လိာ်​သ​နာ်​က့​, ပ​တ​အိၣ်​ဒီး​တၢ်​အ​ဒူၣ်​အ​ဆၢ​နီ​တ​မံၤ​ဘၣ်​. ပ​ကွဲ​မုာ်​စ့ၢ်​ကီး​ပ​ဒီ​ပုၢ်​ဒီ​ဝဲၢ်​လၢ​ပ​ခိၣ်​ပ​ဃၢၤ​သ့ၣ်​တ​ဖၣ်​လၢ​ကၠိ​အါ​ဖျၢၣ်​ဒီး​လၢ​တၢ်​လီၢ်​အါ​ပူၤ​ဒီး​ဟဲ​ရ့​လိာ်​မုာ်​လိာ်​ဒီး​ပှၤ​လၢ​တၢ်​လိာ်​ခိၣ်​လိာ်​ကွဲ​, တၢ်​မၤ​လိ​က​စၢ်​ယွၤ​က​လုၢ်​က​ထါ​, ဒီး​တၢ်​ပြၢ​လၢ​နီၢ်​ခိ​, နီၢ်​သး​ခဲ​လၢာ်​စ့ၢ်​ကီး​န့ၣ်​လီၤ​.
ပ​တၢ်​အိၣ်​ဖှိၣ်​တ​ဘျီ​အံၤ​ပ​စး​ထီၣ်​ဝဲ​ဒၣ်​လၢ​လါ​ဒံၣ်​စ့​ဘၢၢ်​ ၁၉​ သီ​, တုၤ​လၢ​ ၂၂​ သီ​န့ၣ်​လီၤ​. ဘၣ်​ဆၣ်​မ့​မ့ၢ်​တၢ်​လိာ်​ကွဲ​ပ​စး​ထီၣ်​ဆိ​လၢ​လါ​ဒံၣ်​စ့​ဘၢၢ်​ထီၣ်​ ၁၆​ သီ​, ဂီၤ​ခီ​, တုၤ​လၢ​ ၁၉​ သီ​ဟါ​ခီ​န့ၣ်​လီၤ​. ပ​မၤ​ဝဲ​ဒၣ်​သူၣ်​ဘီၣ်​သး​စၢ်​တၢ်​ရ့​လိာ်​မုာ်​လိာ်​တၢ်​အိၣ်​ဖှိၣ်​ဒ်​အံၤ​အိၣ်​တ့ၢ်​လံ​တ​ဆံ​လွံၢ်​ဝီ​တ​ဝီ​ခဲ​အံၤ​န့ၣ်​လီၤ​.
တၢ်​အိၣ်​ဖှိၣ်​တ​ဘျီ​အံၤ​ပှၤ​ဟဲ​ဝဲ​ဒၣ်​ခဲ​လၢာ်​အိၣ်​ဝဲ​ယဲၢ်​က​ယၤ​ဘျဲၣ်​န့ၣ်​လီၤ​. ပှၤ​လၢ​အ​ဟ့ၣ်​တၢ်​သိၣ်​လိ​မုၢ်​ဆါ​ခီ​မ့ၢ်​ဝဲ​ဒၣ်​သ​ရၣ်​ဘံၣ်​ယၤ​မံၣ်​, သိၣ်​လိ​ဝဲ​ဘၣ်​ဃး​ဒီး​ “ပ​ဘၣ်​မၤ​တၢ်​သး​ခု​က​စီၣ်​ကျိၤ​ကျဲ​ဒ်​လဲၣ်​”. ဒီး​သ​ရၣ်​နဲ​လ်​စၢၢ်​သိၣ်​လိ​ဝဲ​စ့ၢ်​ကီး​ဘၣ်​ဃး​ဒီး​ “တၢ်​လုၢ်​ဟံၣ်​အ​ထူ​သ​နူ​ဒီး​က​စၢ်​ခ​ရံာ်​” န့ၣ်​လီၤ​. ဟါ​ခီ​တၢ်​ဘါ​တ​ဟါ​ဘၣ်​တ​ဟါ​ပှၤ​ဟ့ၣ်​တၢ်​က​စီၣ်​မ့ၢ်​ဝဲ​သ​ရၣ်​နဲ​လ်​စၢၢ်​ဒီး​, လၢ​ဂီၤ​ခီ​တၢ်​ဘါ​ပှၤ​ဟ့ၣ်​တၢ်​က​စီၣ်​သ့ၣ်​တ​ဖၣ်​မ့ၢ်​ဝဲ​ပ​လ့​မဲ​သ့ၣ်​တ​ဖၣ်​လၢ​အ​မ့ၢ်​ဝဲ​သ​ရၣ်​စဲ​ရၢး​ဂၠိ​ (ဖိ​ပဲ​), သ​ရၣ်​ဖိ​လွဲ​, သ​ရၣ်​လၢၢ်​ဂ့ၤ​သ့ၣ်​တ​ဖၣ်​န့ၣ်​လီၤ​. မ့​မ့ၢ်​ပှၤ​ကွၢ်​ထွဲ​မၤ​စၢၤ​ဖိ​သၣ်​သ့ၣ်​တ​ဖၣ်​အ​နံၣ်​တ​ဆံ​ဆူ​ဖီ​လာ်​မ့ၢ်​ဝဲ​, သ​ရၣ်​မုၣ်​ဖီ​တၢ်​မျၢ်​ဒီး​သ​ရၣ်​မုၣ်​ထံ​ဒွ့​, မ့​မ့ၢ်​လၢ​အ​နံၣ်​တ​ဆံ​ဖီ​ခိၣ်​တုၤ​လၢ​တ​ဆံ​ခံ​နံၣ်​, ပှၤ​ကွၢ်​ထွဲ​မၤ​စၢၤ​တၢ်​တ​ဖၣ်​မ့ၢ်​ဝဲ​သ​ရၣ်​မုၣ်​ဖီ​သ​လၣ်​စ့​ဒီး​သ​ရၣ်​မုၣ်​ဝါ​စ့​န့ၣ်​လီၤ​.
ခီ​ဖျိ​လၢ​က​စၢ်​ယွၤ​အ​ဘျုး​အ​ဖှိၣ်​အ​ဃိ​ပ​တၢ်​အိၣ်​ဖှိၣ်​တ​ဘျီ​အံၤ​လဲၤ​အ​သး​ဂ့ၤ​ဂ့ၤ​ဘၣ်​ဘၣ်​ဒီး​လၢ​ခံ​က​တၢၢ်​တၢ်​ဒိး​ဘျၢ​အိၣ်​ဝဲ​ဒၣ်​ဃု​ဂၤ​န့ၣ်​လီၤ​.
လၢ​ခံ​က​တၢၢ်​ယ​သး​အိၣ်​စံး​ဘျုး​ဘၣ်​က့ၤ​ဒီ​ပုၢ်​ဒီ​ဝဲၢ်​, သ​ရၣ်​သ​မါ​သ့ၣ်​တ​ဖၣ်​လၢ​ဆီၣ်​ထွဲ​မၤ​စၢၤ​ပှၤ​လၢ​ပ​တၢ်​အိၣ်​ဖှိၣ်​တ​ဘျီ​အံၤ​က​ကဲ​ထီၣ်​လိၣ်​ထီၣ်​အ​ဂီၢ်​လၢ​ကျဲ​အ​က​ပၤ​က​ပၤ​, လၢ​တၢ်​မၤ​ဘူၣ်​မၤ​တီၢ်​မ့ၢ်​ဂ့ၤ​, ဒီး​လၢ​တၢ်​ထု​က​ဖၣ်​အ​ပူၤ​မ့ၢ်​ဂ့ၤ​န့ၣ်​လီၤ​. မ်​ခ​ရံာ်​အိၣ်​ဖျဲၣ်​ဒီး​နံၣ်​ထီၣ်​သီ​က​ဟဲ​စိာ်​န့ၢ်​သု​တၢ်​ဃူ​တၢ်​ဖိး​, တၢ်​အဲၣ်​တၢ်​ကွံ​, တၢ်​အိၣ်​ဆူၣ်​အိၣ်​ချ့​, ပူၤ​ဒုၣ်​ပူၤ​ဒါ​, မၤ​န့ၢ်​အီၣ်​ကဲ​ကိး​ဂၤ​ဒဲး​တ​က့ၢ်​န့ၣ်​မ့ၢ်​ဒၣ်​ယ​တၢ်​ဆၢ​ဂ့ၤ​ဘၣ်​သု​လၢ​အ​ယံၤ​န့ၣ်​လီၤ​.
စီၤ​နဲ​လ်​စၢၢ်​ (ပံ​ပံး​)
တၢ်​အိၣ်​ဖှိၣ်​တ​ဘျီ​အံၤ​ပှၤ​ဒိး​ဘျၢ​ထံ​ဃု​ဂၤ​အ​မံၤ​မ့ၢ်​ဝဲ​-
စီၤ​စဲ​ထၢၣ်​
သး​နံၣ်​-၁၈​ နံၣ်​, အိၣ်​တၢ်​လီၢ်​-တဲၤ​ဘိ​ထၣ်​, တၢ်​စူၢ်​တၢ်​နာ်​ခီၣ်​ထံး​-သူ​ခိၣ်​.
နီၢ်​ဖီ​ကိၣ်​လိၣ်​
သး​နံၣ်​-၁၅​နံၣ်​, အိၣ်​တၢ်​လီၢ်​-ထံ​ဘီ​ဒ့​, တၢ်​စူၢ်​တၢ်​နာ်​ခီၣ်​ထံး​-ဘျၢ​ထံ​ခ​ရံာ်​ဖိ​.
နီၢ်​ဒူ​န့ၢ်​ဖီ​
သး​နံၣ်​-၁၈​ နံၣ်​, အိၣ်​တၢ်​လီၢ်​-ကုၤ​ဂီၤ​ဒၢ​, တၢ်​စူၢ်​တၢ်​နာ်​ခီၣ်​ထံး​-သူ​ခိၣ်​.
နီၢ်​အဲၣ်​စ့​
သး​နံၣ်​-၅၀​ နံၣ်​, အိၣ်​တၢ်​လီၢ်​-စီၤ​မုၢ်​ပျီ​, တၢ်​စူၢ်​တၢ်​နာ်​ခီၣ်​ထံး​-သူ​ခိၣ်​.
နီၢ်​ဘု​ဆှံ​ဝါ​
အိၣ်​ဖျဲၣ်​မုၢ်​နံၤ​ ၂၆​-၅​-၂၀၀၀​, အိၣ်​တၢ်​လီၢ်​-စီၤ​ကၢာ်​ဒၢ​, တၢ်​စူၢ်​တၢ်​နာ်​လၢ​ပူၤ​ကွံာ်​-မုၢ်​နွံ​နံၤ​ခ​ရံာ်​ဖိ​.
နီၢ်​ဆၢ​မၠး​
အိၣ်​ဖျဲၣ်​မုၢ်​နံၤ​ ၁၅​-၁၂​-၂၀၀၀​, အိၣ်​တၢ်​လီၢ်​-ဖီ​မုၢ်​ဃါ​ဒၢ​, တၢ်​စူၢ်​တၢ်​နာ်​လၢ​ပူၤ​ကွံာ်​-မုၢ်​နွံ​နံၤ​ခ​ရံာ်​ဖိ​.
Here are some pictures that Pastor Nelson Pipi sent us from campmeeting this year.
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Letter from Naw Paw Lah
Posted on January 15, 2013 by Ben
Naw Paw Lah is a new student at Karen Adventist Frontier Academy. She is from Dah Po Der Village, in Mutraw District of Karen State. She is 18 years old, and is now studying in the 9th grade. She writes…
ယ​အဲၣ်​ဒီး​ကွဲး​ယ​ဂ့ၢ်​တ​စဲး​ဖိ​ဒ်​အ​ဖီ​လာ်​အ​သိး​န့ၣ်​လီၤ​. ယ​မိ​ယ​ပါ​န့ၣ်​မ့ၢ်​ဝဲ​ပှၤ​ဖဲး​အီၣ်​ခုး​, မၤ​အီၣ်​ဝဲၤ​ဒီး​အ​ဝဲ​သ့ၣ်​အ​တၢ်​ဘူၣ်​တၢ်​ဘါ​တ​ခီ​မ့ၢ်​ဝဲ​မိၢ်​လု​ပၢ်​လၢ်​န့ၣ်​လီၤ​. ယ​မိ​ယ​ပါ​အိၣ်​ဒံး​ခံ​ဂၤ​လၢာ်​န့ၣ်​လီၤ​. ပ​မိ​ပ​ပါ​န့ၣ်​တ​မ့ၢ်​ပှၤ​လၢ​တၢ်​အိၣ်​တၢ်​ယၢၤ​သ့ၣ်​တ​ဖၣ်​ဘၣ်​. မ့ၢ်​ပှၤ​မၤ​မုၢ်​မၤ​ဝဲၤ​, ဒီး​မၤ​လၢ​ဂီၤ​အီၣ်​လၢ​ဟါ​လီၤ​. လုၢ်​ဒိၣ်​ထီၣ်​ဒၣ်​ပှၤ​လၢ​တၢ်​ဖှီၣ်​တၢ်​ယာ်​အ​ပူၤ​န့ၣ်​လီၤ​. တုၤ​ခဲ​က​နံၣ်​အံၤ​မၤ​အီၣ်​ဘု​ဟု​တ​လၢ​နီ​တ​နံၣ်​ဘၣ်​န့ၣ်​လီၤ​. သ​နာ်​က့​ယ​မိ​ယ​ပါ​န့ၣ်​ဂ့ၤ​တ​မံၤ​ပ​ဒီ​ပုၢ်​ဝဲၢ်​အိၣ်​အါ​ဂၤ​, အီၣ်​အီ​မ့ၢ်​တ​ကူ​တ​လၢ​သ​နာ်​က့​, ကျဲး​စၢး​ဆှၢ​ပှၤ​လၢ​ကၠိ​သ​ပှၢ်​ပှၢ်​, ဒ်​သိး​ပ​က​န့ၢ်​ဘၣ်​တၢ်​ကူၣ်​ဘၣ်​ကူၣ်​သ့​န့ၣ်​လီၤ​.
ယ​မၤ​လိ​တၢ်​ဖဲ​ယ​သ​ဝီ​တ​နံၣ်​ဘၣ်​တ​နံၣ်​, တ​တီၤ​ဘၣ်​တ​တီၤ​ဖဲ​တၢ်​ဖီ​ဒၢ​လီၤ​. ယ​မၤ​လိ​တၢ်​လၢ​တၢ်​ဖီ​ဒၢ​တုၤ​သၢ​တီၤ​တ​ဘျီ​ဒုၣ်​ဒါ​ပ​ယီၤ​သုး​သ့ၣ်​တ​ဖၣ်​ဟဲ​ထီၣ်​ဝဲ​လၢ​ပ​သ​ဝီ​ဒီး​ပ​ဘၣ်​ဃ့ၢ်​ပူၤ​ဖျဲး​ကွံာ်​ပ​သး​လၢ​ပ​ယီၤ​အ​တၢ်​ဟဲ​မၤ​အၢ​မၤ​နး​အ​ဃိ​လီၤ​. ယ​တိၢ်​နီၣ်​တၢ်​တ​ဘၣ်​ခဲ​လၢာ်​လၢၤ​ဘၣ်​. နာ်​က့​ယ​သ့ၣ်​နီၣ်​ဒံး​တၢ်​တ​နံၣ်​န့ၣ်​ပ​ဝဲ​ကၠိ​ဖိ​တ​ဖၣ်​ဒီး​သ​ရၣ်​သ​မါ​သ့ၣ်​တ​ဖၣ်​ပ​ဘၣ်​ထီၣ်​ကၠိ​လၢ​ပှၢ်​ပူၤ​လီၤ​. တုၤ​လၢ​နံၣ်​က​တၢၢ်​တၢ်​ဒိး​စဲး​ဘၣ်​တ​စု​ ပ​ဘၣ်​ဒိး​စဲး​အ​ဆၢ​က​တီၢ်​ဘၣ်​လံ​, နာ်​က့​ဒုၣ်​ဒါ​ပ​ယီၤ​သ့ၣ်​တ​ဖၣ်​တ​က့ၤ​ဘၣ်​အ​ဃိ​ပ​ဘၣ်​ဒိး​စဲး​က့ၤ​လၢ​ပှၢ်​ပူၤ​ဒီး​ပျၢ်​ကွံာ်​ကၠိ​လၢ​ပှၢ်​ပူၤ​န့ၣ်​လီၤ​.
လၢ​ခံ​ပ​ယီၤ​က့ၤ​က​ဒါ​က့ၤ​ဒီး​ပ​ဟဲ​က့ၤ​သ​ကိး​ဆူ​သ​ဝီ​ပူၤ​, ဒီး​မ့​ဘၣ်​တဲ​လၢ​အ​ဖုၣ်​ယ​ထီၣ်​ဘၣ်​ကၠိ​လၢ​ယ​သ​ဝီ​တၢ်​ဖီ​ဒၢ​န့ၣ်​တုၤ​လၢ​ယ​ဖျိ​ထီၣ်​တီၤ​ခၢၣ်​သး​, နွံ​တီၤ​ဂ့ၤ​ဂ့ၤ​န့ၣ်​လီၤ​. လၢ​ခံ​ယ​သ​ဝီ​ပူၤ​တီၤ​တ​အိၣ်​လၢၤ​ဘၣ်​အ​ဃိ​, ပ​ဘၣ်​ဟး​အိၣ်​က့ၤ​ကၠိ​လၢ​တၢ်​လီၢ်​အ​ဂၤ​န့ၣ်​လီၤ​. ယ​အဲၣ်​ဒီး​ထီၣ်​ဘၣ်​သး​ကၠိ​ဒိၣ်​မး​, ဘၣ်​ဆၣ်​ယ​ကွၢ်​က့ၤ​လၢ​ယ​မိ​ယ​ပါ​တ​ခီ​အ​ဂံၢ်​အ​ဘါ​လၢ​က​ဆှၢ​ယၤ​တ​အိၣ်​လၢၤ​ဘၣ်​. နာ်​က့​လၢ​တၢ်​ဖှီၣ်​တၢ်​ယာ်​အ​ပူၤ​အ​ဝဲ​သ့ၣ်​အဲၣ်​ဘၣ်​ပ​ဝဲ​ဖိ​လံၤ​ဒီး​ကျဲး​စၢး​ဆှၢ​ပှၤ​လၢ​ကၠိ​လီၤ​. ဖဲ​ ၂၀၁၁​, ယ​လဲၤ​ဆူ​ချၢၣ်​လွံၢ်​ထူၣ်​ကီၢ်​ရ့ၣ်​, သုး​က့​ (၃​) ဒီး​ယ​မၤ​လိ​ဘၣ်​တၢ်​အ​ဃိ​ယ​သး​ခု​ဒိၣ်​မး​လီၤ​.
ဘၣ်​ဆၣ်​လၢ​တၢ်​တ​ဆိ​က​မိၣ်​ပာ်​သး​အ​ပူၤ​, ဖဲ​ယ​မၤ​လိ​တၢ်​လဲၤ​အ​သး​ဂ့ၤ​ဂ့ၤ​ဘၣ်​ဘၣ်​ဒ်​န့ၣ်​အ​ခါ​ ဖဲ၂၀၁၁​, လါ​ယူၤ​လံ​ထီၣ်​ ၅​ သီ​, ဂီၤ​ခီ​ (၈​) နၣ်​ရံၣ်​, ယ​မိ​ယ​ပါ​အ​ဟံၣ်​အူ​ထီၣ်​ကွံာ်​, ဒီး​ဖဲ​န့ၣ်​အ​ခါ​ဘၣ်​လၢ​ယ​မိ​ယ​ပါ​ယ​ပုၢ်​ယ​ဝဲၢ်​ခဲ​လၢာ်​အ​ဝဲ​သ့ၣ်​လဲၤ​ကျီ​နီၣ်​ဆူ​ခုး​ပူၤ​အ​ဃိ​လၢ​ဟံၣ်​ပှၤ​လၢ​က​ဂုာ်​စၢၤ​တၢ်​တ​အိၣ်​နီ​တ​ဂၤ​ဘၣ်​. ဒီး​ပ​ဟံၣ်​အူ​ထီၣ်​ကွံာ်​ခဲ​လၢာ်​ဒီး​သ​ပၢၤ​နီၣ်​ဒိ​, တၢ်​အိၣ်​လၢ​ဟံၣ်​ပူၤ​တ​ဒိၣ်​တ​ဆံး​ဟါ​မၢ်​ကွံာ်​ဝဲ​ခဲ​လၢာ်​, ဒီး​ယ​မိ​ယ​ပါ​ဒီး​ယ​ပုၢ်​ယ​ဝဲၢ်​တ​နီၤ​အိၣ်​က့ၤ​ဒၣ်​ကူ​ကၤ​တ​ဂၤ​လၢ​အ​လိၤ​န့ၣ်​လီၤ​.
ဖဲ​န့ၣ်​အ​ခါ​ပ​ဝဲ​ဒီ​ပုၢ်​ဝဲၢ်​မုၣ်​သၢ​ဂၤ​ပ​ထီၣ်​ကၠိ​ပ​တ​သ့ၣ်​ညါ​တၢ်​နီ​တ​မံၤ​ဘၣ်​. အ​ဆၢ​က​တီၢ်​ဘၣ်​ပ​ဟဲ​က့ၤ​ဆူ​ဟံၣ်​ဒ်​သိး​ပ​က​ဟဲ​က့ၤ​ဟံ​အီၣ်​ဟု​သး​န့ၣ်​လီၤ​. ပ​ဟဲ​က့ၤ​တုၤ​လၢ​ဟံၣ်​တ​ဘျီ​ပ​တ​ထံၣ်​လၢၤ​ပ​ဟံၣ်​ပ​ဃီ​ဘၣ်​ဒီး​ယ​သး​ဘၣ်​ဒိ​ဒိၣ်​ဒိၣ်​က​လဲာ်​န့ၣ်​လီၤ​. အ​ဝဲ​သ့ၣ်​ဘၣ်​စး​ထီၣ်​ကျီ​သ့ၣ်​ကျီ​ဝၣ်​, ဒီး​ဘှီ​ထီၣ်​က့ၤ​ဟံၣ်​လၢ​တၢ်​စူၤ​ကျါ​န့ၣ်​လီၤ​. ပ​ဝဲ​ဒီ​ပုၢ်​ဝဲၢ်​မုၣ်​သၢ​ဂၤ​, ပ​တဲ​လိာ်​ပ​သး​လၢ​တ​ဘျီ​အံၤ​ပ​ထီၣ်​ကၠိ​တ​သ့​လၢၤ​ဘၣ်​. ပ​က​တ့​စၢၤ​မိ​ပါ​အ​ဟံၣ်​ဒီး​မၤ​အီၣ်​စၢၤ​က့ၤ​မိ​ပါ​အ​တၢ်​လီၤ​.
ခီ​ဖျိ​လၢ​အ​ဝဲ​သ့ၣ်​အ​ဘျုး​အ​ဖှိၣ်​အ​ဃိ​ကျဲး​စၢး​ဆှၢ​ပှၤ​ဒီး​ပ​မၤ​လိ​ဘၣ်​တၢ်​တုၤ​အံၤ​ဘၣ်​လံ​လီၤ​. နာ်​က့​မိ​ပါ​သ့ၣ်​တ​ဖၣ်​အဲၣ်​ပှၤ​ဒီး​တ​အဲၣ်​ဒိး​ဝဲ​လၢ​ပ​သး​က​ဟး​ဂီၤ​, ဟး​ထီၣ်​ကွံာ်​လၢ​တၢ်​မၤ​လိ​အ​ပူၤ​ဘၣ်​. ဒီး​ဟ့ၣ်​ဂံၢ်​ဟ့ၣ်​ဘါ​ပှၤ​ဒီး​မၢ​ပ​က့ၤ​က​ဒါ​က့ၤ​ဆူ​ကၠိ​န့ၣ်​လီၤ​. ဒီ​တ​နံၣ်​ယ​ဂုာ်​ကျဲး​စၢး​ဒီး​ယ​ဖျိ​ထီၣ်​က​ဒီး​ကၠိ​လၢ​ချၢၣ်​လွံၢ်​ထူၣ်​ကီၢ်​ရ့ၣ်​ဃီး​တီၤ​န့ၣ်​လီၤ​. ယ​ပာ်​လီၤ​ယ​သး​လၢ​ယ​က​ထီၣ်​ကၠိ​တုၤ​ဃီး​တီၤ​စ့ၢ်​ကီး​လီၤ​. ဘၣ်​ဆၣ်​သ​နာ်​က့​, လၢ​ယ​ဂီၢ်​တၢ်​သုး​တၢ်​ကျဲၤ​အိၣ်​ဒံး​, ဖဲ​န့ၣ်​အ​ခါ​ယ​မိ​ယ​ပါ​န့ၣ်​နၢ်​ဟူ​ဝဲ​လၢ​ ကါ​ကျဲ​ဝၢ်​ဘး​ခီ​ပှၤ​မုၢ်​နွံ​နံၤ​ကၠိ​အိၣ်​တ​ဖျၢၣ်​, အိၣ်​တုၤ​အ​တီၤ​တ​ဆံ​, မၤ​လိ​တၢ်​အ​က​လုာ်​က​လုာ်​, ဒီး​အိၣ်​စ့ၢ်​ကီး​ဒီး​ဟံၣ်​ဒွဲ​လၢ​အ​ကွၢ်​ထွဲ​ပှၤ​ကၠိ​ဖိ​သ့ၣ်​တ​ဖၣ်​အ​ဃိ​ယ​မိ​ယ​ပါ​ဆီၣ်​ထွဲ​ယၤ​ဒီး​မၢ​ယ​ဟဲ​မၤ​လိ​တၢ်​လၢ​ကၠိ​အ​ဝဲ​အံၤ​န့ၣ်​လီၤ​.
ခီ​ဖျိ​လၢ​ယ​မိ​ယ​ပါ​ဟ့ၣ်​ဂံၢ်​ဟ့ၣ်​ဘါ​ယၤ​လၢ​ယ​က​ဟဲ​မၤ​လိ​တၢ်​လၢ​ကၠိ​အ​ဝဲ​အံၤ​အ​ဃိ​ယ​သး​ခု​ဒိၣ်​မး​, ယ​သး​ခု​ထဲ​လဲၣ်​မး​ယ​တဲ​တ​ဘၣ်​ဘၣ်​. တုၤ​မ့ၢ်​ယ​ဟဲ​တုၤ​တ​ဘျီ​ဟံၣ်​ဒွဲ​ကၠိ​ဖိ​ဒီး​သ​ရၣ်​သ​မါ​သ့ၣ်​တ​ဖၣ်​မၤ​သ​ကိး​အီၣ်​သ​ကိး​စး​ထီၣ်​လၢ​အ​ဒိၣ်​တုၤ​လၢ​အ​ဆံး​, ထူ​စံာ်​, ကွာ်​စံာ်​, ကျီ​နီၣ်​ဖျး​မံၤ​, ဝံ​အီၣ်​စိာ်​အီၣ်​, မၤ​သ​ကိး​တၢ်​ဃူ​ဃူ​ဖိ​ဖိ​ဒီး​သူၣ်​ထီၣ်​ဝဲ​တၢ်​အိၣ်​မူ​လၢ​အ​နီၢ်​က​စၢ်​ဂံၢ်​ဘါ​ကိး​ဂၤ​ဒဲး​န့ၣ်​လီၤ​.
ယဲ​စ့ၢ်​ကီး​ယ​အိၣ်​လၢ​ဟံၣ်​တၢ်​သ့ၣ်​တ​ဖၣ်​အံၤ​ပ​မၤ​ညီ​ညုၢ်​လံ​အ​ဃိ​ယ​ထံၣ်​လၢ​တၢ်​ကီ​တၢ်​ခဲ​တ​အိၣ်​ဒီး​ယၤ​နီ​တ​မံၤ​ဘၣ်​. ပ​ဘၣ်​လဲၤ​ဝံ​တၢ်​အီၣ်​လၢ​တ​ဃီၤ​ထၣ်​ခံ​နွံ​တ​ဘျီ​ခံ​နွံ​တ​ဘျီ​ထီ​ဘိ​လီၤ​. ယ​သး​တ​ဟး​ဂီၤ​ဘၣ်​, မ့ၢ်​လၢ​ယ​မၤ​လိ​ဘၣ်​တၢ်​ဂ့ၤ​ဂ့ၤ​ဘၣ်​ဘၣ်​ဒီး​အီၣ်​ဘၣ်​အီ​ဘၣ်​အ​ဃိ​လီၤ​. အါ​န့ၣ်​အ​ဝဲ​န့ၣ်​ယ​သး​ခု​ဒီး​ယ​သး​မံ​ဝဲ​တ​မံၤ​, ယ​ဟဲ​တုၤ​လၢ​ကၠိ​အ​ဝဲ​အံၤ​လီၤ​ဆီ​ဒီး​ကၠိ​အ​ဂၤ​လၢ​ယ​ဟး​အိၣ်​ဘၣ်​သ့ၣ်​တ​ဖၣ်​ဒိၣ်​မး​, ပ​ဘါ​ဘၣ်​ယွၤ​လၢ​ဂီၤ​ခီ​, ဟါ​ခီ​, ဒီး​ပ​မၤ​လိ​ဘၣ်​လံာ်​စီ​ဆှံ​လီၤ​တံၢ်​လီၤ​ဆဲး​အ​ဃိ​ယ​နၢ်​ပၢၢ်​အါ​ထီၣ်​က့ၤ​ပှၤ​ခ​ရံာ်​ဖိ​အ​တၢ်​စူၢ်​တၢ်​နာ်​ဖး​အါ​ညါ​န့ၣ်​လီၤ​.
ယ​သး​ခု​ဒီး​စံး​ဘျုး​ဘၣ်​က​စၢ်​ယွၤ​ဒိၣ်​မး​လၢ​အ​သုး​ကျဲၤ​န့ၢ်​ယၤ​လီၤ​ဆီ​လၢ​ယ​က​ဟဲ​မၤ​လိ​ဘၣ်​တၢ်​ဖဲ​အ့​ဘ့ၣ်​န့​စၢ်​, မုၢ်​နွံ​နံၤ​တီၤ​ထီ​ကၠိ​အ​ဝဲ​အံၤ​န့ၣ်​လီၤ​. တ​နံၣ်​အံၤ​ယ​မၤ​လိ​တၢ်​ခွံ​တီၤ​လံ​လီၤ​. ယ​အိၣ်​ဒီး​ယ​တၢ်​ပ​ညိၣ်​တၢ်​တိာ်​ပာ်​လၢ​ယ​မ့​ဖျိ​ထီၣ်​လၢ​တီၤ​ထီ​ကၠိ​ဝဲ​အံၤ​ဝံၤ​, ယ​က​က့ၤ​ဆူ​ယ​ဒူ​ယ​သ​ဝီ​ဒီး​မၤ​စၢၤ​က့ၤ​တၢ်​သၢ​နံၣ်​လၢ​တၢ်​သိၣ်​လိ​မၤ​ယုၤ​ဖိ​ဒံ​ဖိ​သၣ်​ဝံၤ​, ယ​သး​အိၣ်​လၢ​ယ​က​ဆဲး​မၤ​လိ​က​ဒါ​က့ၤ​က​သံၣ်​တၢ်​မၤ​လိ​ဒီး​မၤ​စၢၤ​က့ၤ​ယ​ပှၤ​က​လုာ်​လၢ​ဆိ​က့​ဆါ​ဘီ​လၢ​နီၢ်​ခိ​, နီၢ်​သး​ခံ​မံၤ​လၢာ်​န့ၣ်​လီၤ​.
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