by Aleah Marsden | Jul 23, 2019 | Testimonial, Thailand
Phanatnikhom, Thailand Somchai was born in a broken family. He first met his mom when he was 15 years old. In his early years of life, he lived with his grandmother, then grew up in a Buddhist temple. He was involved in a gang and had to run away from home. He met...
by Aleah Marsden | Jul 9, 2019 | Testimonial, Thailand
Huatanon Ministry, Thailand Karom is 43 years old. He came from a family that did not have faith in Jesus. When he was 15 years old, his mom and dad separated, and he moved to Bangkok. Five years later, he was hired by a construction company in Singapore and worked...
by Aleah Marsden | Jun 25, 2019 | General
We believe in continued education as a vital piece of equipping our indigenous church planters. As many pastors know, one of the best resources for preaching and teaching the good news is a solid theological library. Unfortunately, for many of our church planters...
by Aleah Marsden | Jun 11, 2019 | Thailand
One of the great joys of our ministry is getting to support our church planters’ specific gifts and dreams for outreach ministry. In Thailand, and a couple of our church plants in Brazil as well, this has included free music lessons as a form of outreach. Not...
by Kristi Reaves | May 30, 2019 | Church Plant Updates, Church Planting, General, Thailand
There is nothing we love more than seeing church plants thrive and plant churches of their own. A recent example of this is taking place in Thailand at The Promise Church, led by LBM Thailand board member SomChai. SomChai has been discipling a man named Karom, who...
by Kristi Reaves | May 23, 2019 | Brazil, Church Plant Updates, Church Planting, General
Our comprehensive approach to church planting among the global poor works best when our church plants have a building to gather in rather than homes. Most of the people we minister with live in housing that is constructed from scrap materials and is very small. Often...
by Aleah Marsden | Apr 23, 2019 | Brazil, General, Headlines, Thailand
As you may have seen in a recent email newsletter from our founder, Patrick Hubbard, we have begun this year facing a crisis of funding of a magnitude that could severely impact our work among the poor. In case you missed it, here is a brief recap from Patrick’s...
by Aleah Marsden | Mar 12, 2019 | General
Luke 4:18-30 reveals the first recorded message of Jesus in Luke’s gospel. Word was spreading throughout the region about Jesus and His teaching. No doubt His family and neighbors were excited about His visit to Nazareth and many showed up in the synagogue to hear Him...
by Aleah Marsden | Mar 5, 2019 | Brazil, General
According to recent data there are over 23 million people currently living below the poverty line in Brazil, which demonstrates a 33% increase in the number of those in poverty over the last four years. The unemployment rate hovered around 12.5% in 2018. With an...
by Aleah Marsden | Jan 22, 2019 | General
When we come to know Christ as Lord and Savior we become a child of God. As such we are members of the body of Christ, part of the temple of the Holy Spirit, and Christ’s bride (Rom 12:4-5, 1 Cor 12:12-13, 27, Eph 3:6, 4:4-6, 11-16, Col 1:18, 1 Peter 2:4-5, Rev 21:9)....
