Thailand

Time for reinforcement

The team in Thailand has recently expanded. Kees and Willemijn Brouwer have been working in Thailand since 1978. Son Hendrik took over and together with a team of 4 others he runs the ministries. And there are a lot of plans!

Ministries in prison
The team writes: “Our prison ministry team leads services for a growing 120-man inmate congregation in cooperation with other churches. We have recently been granted permission to provide services for 500 new, non believers in this prison.”

Visiting cancer patients
“We provide weekely services for cancer patients recovering from radiation, surgery, or chemotherapy sessions at a local doctor funded facility. There is great cancer care in the area but their home villages are too far to commute. During longer immune system recovery treatment pauses, patients go home to be with family and comfort. Our team take the same love to them in their villages as Kees has offered at the foundation for 15 years.

The road teams also find local churches and meet their leaders. We want to make a home-church connection with a good relationship and message potential for our patients and new family members in Christ.”

Future Plans

Part of our Thailand growth has included a calling to end the brutal cycle of prison recitivism, and guide inmates to be qualtiy citizens with applicable trades, and the message of Gods Love.

The team has plans to expand the work around the prisons:

“We provide services to 120 of 6000 in one prison. In recent months we have been granted access to the Thai Minister of Prisons. It is not often that foreigners can do this, and he approved our plan, requesting more details. We have excellent relationships with the prison management team. They welcome us and are glad to meet our requests within their standard rules. As we grow, we will build similar facilities near other prisons in Thailand and reap our successes.”

Training (ex)prisoners

There is a known world food crisis, many layers deep. A large part of our future planning of enrolee training, program self-funding, and world food crisis elviation involves a series of freezedried, dehydrated, and other long shelf-life food production factories.

“We are moving forward with plans to combine a halfaway house, orphanage, and sustainable farms to control food quality for our prodution. We will have training and employment in all levels of agriculture to end product transportation.

There will be multiple long-life food product catergories, but we know that food is more than nourishment, and we will deliver culturally specific nostalgic flavours in superfoods, sharing the Word of God with a message on every serving.”

Taking care of children of prisoners

Children born in prison are allowed to stay with their mothers for the first year. After that, they disappear into the foster care system and it is very difficult to find out where the child is. Keeping in touch is difficult.
The plan is to provide a shelter for these children, where there can be regular contact and visits with the parents. Assisting them spiritually, mentally and physically is the overarching goal.

The children will also receive a complete public education including english and thai languages, with God’s Love as the priority. They will remain with us until their parents are also recovered or adulthood. We are planning an 80-child facility. The need is very big.

From the team: “We have been guided to God’s fruit which is ripe for Salvation, because Kees and Willemijn planted and tended to the fields for so long. If it is in your heart and will bring glory to God, please support our general fund or ministry programs.