Bemo Alan Janet 1981 Thailand

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By

faith

they sojourned in the iand.. . .

looking forward to a city which has foundations,

w h os e b ui ld er and

maker

is G od.

Alan

and Janet Bemo

Box 18

Chiangmai,

Thailand

January - MarcK, .1981

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against

the

Lohd^

and gainst

fus

Anointed: [Acts

4:25,26)

gave

to

a shivering Mark in front of everyone. About te n days

la ter

Mark was

feeling

and

looking

good

after

being

off

opium and working and

eating good. He decided to

go to a

neighboring

vil lage where there was a young widow

woman

he was

interested

in .

Now

he d idn t

go

courting

-

you

don ' t

do

that

in

th is

culture.

He

simply

went

to

be

seen,

as

i f

to say,

Look, everybody a t

me,

I'm

well , I'm

a

hard worker

now

and

I

would

make a good

husband.

I t so happened that recently

glOOO

( 50) had been stolen from someone's home in that vil l

age. When they saw Mark's apparent prosperity (new clothes), they accused him of the rob

bery. The head man had him tied up and called one

representative

from each family (15

families). They took him

to

a remote

ridge

and started beating him. Mark

insisted

on

his

innocence and begged them to just give him one hour

to l ive

so someone could go to his home

village

and

bring witnesses

to prove

th e clothes

had

been given

to him. They

said, There's

no need to do

that . e don' t need

to ask because we know you are

guilty.

Mark said

to

the

head

man, Then may you die the way I

am dying .

They knocked out

all

his

teeth. . .he

prayed

God,

they're

going to

kill me

now,

receive my spir i t .

The head man laughed and

said,

Don't

pray

to

God, I'm your god. You

are

in my power and I'm the one who can save you. He

then

ca l l ed

one

o f th e

Chr is t i an

men

to

come forward

and shoo t Mark.

The man sa id

he

d i d n t

want to

but the

headman

said,

You have

to

or

else ,

you Chr is ti an s a re the only ones who

a ren t bothered

by departed spir i ts .

Altogether

Mark was shot

four times

by four

different

men before he

died.

Then they l e f t

his

body

unburied.

Two days

la te r th e

headman went

crazy.

He started running

back

and

forth

beating his head against the

walls

t i l l his

face

was bruised

and bleeding,-

The scared

relatives sacrif iced

12

pigs and innumerable chickens

to appease the demons, knowing he was demon

possessed.

But

i t

did no

good.

He

then

asked

the Lisu preacher from

another village

to come and

pray

for him which he did. The man was

healed

immediately. But his relatives

final ly

convinced him that being a headman he better

not

become a

Chris t ian and tha t more sacr i f ices would

have done the

same thing.

As soon

as

he

s ta r ted sacr if ic ing again,

he

went

crazy

again.

His

relatives sent

him to Chiangmai to

get medical

treatment

and he

is

now back in his vil lage l iving on drugs

to

keep himself

above

water.

He will

never

be

healed without

the

grace o f C hrist.

The Christ ian man who

pulled

the

t r igger

f i r s t

can t

sleep

a t

night or

even

s i t s t i l l

for five

minutes.

As I

write th is account

tears

come to my eyes again

for the

t er r ib le way our

b ro th er d ie d, so

young in the faith and yet so courageous. May we

rejoice that

He has already attained what

we

all are striving fo r . . . to

be

with Jesus.

e

rejoice that

we

are

able

to

be

here so that

people l ike Mark can

hear

the Word and,

believing,

be

resurrected

from this unjust

world.

e reported this

to

the police,

making

i t clear where Mark's clothes

came from.

He

had no

re la t ives ,

only

his

Christ ian

family.

So

that Sunday

Christ ians came from four

villages

noticeably

not

from

MiWe village

where

he was

kil led, and

we had a

special

memorial

service,

praying for

th is village

and the Chri st ians there. Our

scr ipture

readings

were

Gen. 4:8-12;

Num 35:33;

Deut.

21:1-9, Heb. 9:22,

13-14;

and

II

Chron. 7:14. The hands

of t he Chr is ti an

community there

have been

greatly

strengthened

as the

whole

mountain has seen t he se s tr ange

things happening. I

believe

God

will use

May;k's

death

to

bring

many more

people

to

Himself.

Then on Wednesday,

Jan. 28th,

Brother

Som

Phet, the

elder

from

Prau,

came

to take

us

to

m

Long, the

village

that had asked for help. ,

e arrived

in this all Thai

village

about dark

and

received

a warm welcome. After a

supper of sticky

rice and

vegetables

we had a teaching

time. About thirty five people attended,

si t t ing

around on

the

floor.

After

the

teaching

one young

man

who had

occasional

epileptic

seizures

asked us

to

pray

for his healing,

and

we

did

after he was

able

to

confess, I

believe. Lord,

help

my

unbelief

and prayed to God

himself. The

next

day two

families in the

vil lage, including

this

young man, and th e wife

of

a young Christian man

in another

village were

baptized

- eleven

in al l .

Before

baptism

we had had

special

meetings

in

each

of

the homes

of the

new

believers, reading scriptures

(II Cor. 6:14-18; Acts

19:19-20),

praying for God's

protection

over

every th ing in their home

and then

helping

them

to tear down their altars

and

spir i t

strings and books,

etc.

and

burn

t h em.

As

soon as

we

go t

back from

the

baptismal

service

th e

headman

came

to

say

the

whole

village

was

upset because these two families had become Christians. They said they were going

to

call a village meeting to decide what

to

do

about i t .

e had an

idea

of what was coming.

None of

us had

much

of an appetite that night but

spent

much time reading scriptures like


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BEMffS SOJOURNS

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By faith they sojourned in the land

looking

forward to a city which has foundations,

whose

builder and maker

is

God.

Heb. h8*IO

Alan

Jane t

Bemo

Box

180

Chiangmai,

Thailand

Dear

Co-workers ,

MARCW

- JUNE 19SI

IN

THAILAND

FORWARDIWj AGENT:

Mrs.

Linda

Goerke

R t . 1

King

City Mo.

6hh63

Again, I have put off writing so long that there is too

much

to write about. These last

few months I believe, have been busier than

ever

before. Often I have gone on a trip

only

to

come back for a few hours or days and

then

be

off

on

another.

Here at

home there

has

been a constant flow

of

hungry and sick people coming through, so Janet has been really busy

too.

Once,

while

I was away, a

man

in the

Church

died

and

Janet

had

to take care

of

the

funeral arrangements.

Many

times we have seen that

this

constant hospitality is the

thing

that makes people

willing

and able

to

listen

to

the gospel even

out in

the

villages. Visit

ing

the sick, clothing

the naked and

feeding the

hungry is so

important. We are

doing

i t to

Christ

Himself

when we do i t

to the

l eas t

of

His

brethren

and

we

will

be

judged

according

to

whether we do i t

or

not. This takes

daily

sacrifice-daily taking up the corss and following

Jesus. Janet

bears

the main brunt of this ministry. We both need your prayers,

only

have

to

you

about

the

BingLong area th is We

have

been going there

more

often

lately . The f i r s t

Eugene Morse me

to

a We

had

invited

people

from

villages

but

only

three from other

places

came I was

quite

O f

M

disappointed because of the time, money and

materials tha t had gone

into

th i s . However,

we some

very

good

a fo r

We up

t e ams some

teaching a t the meeting place

and

others going

f rom house , toJio.use. _ Fiftee_n_p_eople

were

_bap-

t i z ed t h a t week.

up to was the

most

exciting

and one of my hardest

struggles

t RWIMG SPIRIT

SHELF IW

VaGaV^

ever. In

th e

Meng

Heng

valley where BingLong ^

is l oc at ed , t he re

are

about

five

big

Shan

villages

which are

absolutely unreached with th e

gospel. We

have

often

prayed for

these

people

as we

passed through

on

our

way

to

work

with

the

Chinese.

A Thai

brother, Som

Phet,

got in

touch

with me to say that

there

was a fellow

Christian

who

used

to

l ive

in

the

Meng

Heng

valley.

He

wanted

us

to

go

with

him

to

teach

his

relatives

and friends there. Even though th e rains had

started

early th is y ea r, I s t i l l

drove the truck over the

72

Kilometer road

(?),

the

worst stretch

in the

world.

I t wasn't

too

bad. The f i r s t

night

we

spent in

BingLong,

calling

on

Chinese,

and then

the

next

night

to the Shan village

of Nuang

Khea Mango Vine) where we taught about ten people and

le t

them

l isten to

some Shan gospel

recordsing.

The

next

day we

presented

gospel

tapes to

the Shan

Commander

and

taught in another village.

We were

going

to

head

for

home

that

day

but

i t

rained all day so

we

went

to

a Karen

village

we had heard

about.

We found eight

Christian families there but they

had not had a teacher

for

three years. We taught about

thirty

adults

that night.

The next morning

we

were asked

to go to a second Karen village where there was one

Christian. We did this in a drizzling rain

which had

gone

on

all

night

long so

that

the road

was

very

slippery.

At

this man's house t hree o ther men came over and sat on the

elevated

bamboo

floor to hear the gospel. Now on the

three

previous days

we

had been throwing

tracts

from

the

truck

and yelling, Here's something

to read

as

we

went

up and down

the valley.

nd

just

as

we were

teaching

on

the

Power

of

God

in the

second

village

two people

came

H

V

walking

in.

The woman

said

they had seen

some

of the

tracts wehad passed out and

that

her husband, who was

sick, had been want ing to become a

Christian

for

five

years,

bu t that he had never had an opportunity. Now he

had sent his wife and a friend to look

for

us. They had

walked for two hours asking people along the

way

which

way

the yellow truck

had

gone.

As soon as we

finished

immediately back

to

house.

We

found 57 years old, had been partial-

ly crippled by a

stroke. He

confirmed

that

he had heard

about

Jesus

five

years

ago and had wanted to become a

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Christian

ever

since

but had

never

had a chance.

We

taught him for several hours and prayed

f o r

Him. Afterward we asked him i f

he bel ieved t h a t Jesus

was

God's Son. Yes

was

his

reply.

Did

he believe t h a t Jesus

had

died for His sins? Yes . And now

the

hard one:

Do you believe that Jesus

came

back to l i fe after three days? Yes . We took this crip

pled man

out

in the rain to the r iver and baptized him

in

the name

of Jesus

Chris t . That

was

Saturday

and I was

wanting to get home but i t jus t

kept on

raining.

I

could

see

God kept

us there to meet this man with rain, but why was He keeping us there

now?

I was getting

nervous because

I was

afraid

th e

rains

had

s e t

in

for

good and

the truck

would be

stuck

there

for s ix months t i l l the rains stopped and the roads were cleared.

Even

so

we had

to

stay on

to

Sunday and taught several

times

a day on the Life o f Christ

and the Christian

Life.

These new

Christians

recorded songs and teachings on tape and l i s

tened to i t

almost

all

day long. Finally, Monday morning was clear and

t hr ee o th er

trucks

were

going to try to

make

i t out.

Noi Dok,

the

new Shan

Christian, his wife

and

their grand

daughter went a long too,

to

see

the

doctor in

Chiangmai. We traveled

in

caravan for about

an hour and a half t i l l we came

to

a very bad place. One veh ic le got

stuck

to some degree,

but the f i r s t two

vehicles, being

four-wheel drive, got

through

pretty easilyv The third

was a

truck l ike

mine and

they asked

for

our help,

which we

gladly gave.

However, when

they

got

though

they

took off and l e f t us.

That

was

the

l a s t we saw

of

the caravan. The three-

able-bodied men in our truck were l e f t to get ourselves

out.

t tooJ< us three hours

to

get

through

that

hole.

We

continued digging

our

way

thru

hole

af ter

hole,

going

a

foot

a t

a

time. In

late

afternoon, we came

to

a long, steep, muddy slope.

We

started working our way

up

i t and

when was getting close to dark we^ould se e we

weren't going

to make up that

night. I backed down to a f l a t

place

where,we prepared

to spend

the night.

We

did

not

have

enough sleeping

gear

and

l i t t l e food

but

we*

were optimistic that i f i t

did

not

rain

that

night

and

the

next day we could get out. I went to

sleep

beside a campfire but woke up in a

few

hours

with

rain

drops on

my

face.

Six of

us

men scrunched in

the back of

the pickup

and

experienced the

hardest rainfall

any

of

us had

ever

been in .

My faith

was being tested I

wondered, What would

demon

worshipers

do in this

situation? Would

they make rash vows

so

their spi r i t s

would get them out?'

Well,

I

won't

do that

to

you God. I

will just praise

you

because

you

are

worthy

of praise

I made

this

mental decision

but

i t was

easier said

than

done.

I'm

afraid my

praises

were

not

too

loud.

The Thai brother sand

very

loudly,

Blessed be the

Name of

the Lord The next morning

we finally

go t a

fire

going and we hud

dled

around

th e

fire

drying

out.

All

the

men

were

wet.

(The

woman

and

graddaughter

slept

in

front).

During the

night 's rain

the ruts

we

had

l e f t

on the

slope

had become two feet deep

rivers.

The ground was

wet,

soft and slick. Though the truck had

chains i t couldn't

begin

to get up. We started digging away

mud

and

filling

in.

We worked for 6 hours getting up

that

slope.

Before we made

i t

up we were told that a whole

section

behind us had washed out.

Before this,

turning

back was an alternative but now we had no choice. When the

truck

is

stuck in mud up to the

axles

and frame to the body and you can only

move

a foot at a time,

you can imagine

our

frame of mind despair. No food and a sick man and child.

We

ate

the

heart

of

a wild palm tree

for

lunch. I thought that

i f

we

couldn't

get out that day we would

have

to

leave the

truck

on the mountain and take turns carrying the man

out. St i l l

we praised

God

and joked.

God

was giving strength The woman with us

who was

s t i l l

not

a

Christian

said, I

am

really finding out about Christianity on this trip. Spirit worshippers would be

curstng

their spirits

in

this

situation

saying,

'You

sorry

spirit ,

what's

the

matter with

you? You're no use at all. All the time I've worshipped you

sacrificing

all my chickens &

pigs and

i t s been

all wasted. You're

no

use

at

all. You're so

l i t t le and

powerless you

can't

even keep the rain from

falling. Thwei

(the sound of

spitting) on

you,

you

worth

less spirit etc. ' But you Christians

just

keep praising your God.

Now,

I saw the

good God

was doing through this evil. CThe only

way

God could communicate His love for us was Jesus'

death. The only way

this woman

could see

the

love relationship of God and His Children was

suffering.) Around 1:00 p.m. a couple of

men

came by and shared

their

lunch

with us. How

good

that sticky rice

and boiled

eggs

was

,

They

helped

us

get up

the next slope by digging

and

pushing.

Then

we came to

the

(unknowing' to us) last difficult slope. just looked at

i t

for

a

few

minutes. It

was

the worst yet A long

25

degree grade with

mud

over a foot

deep

and criss-crossed with ruts. started digging but I thought it would take us all day

the

next

day

to get out. After

we

had

been

working

for

about

thirty

minutes

a big, beauti -

nn

,^high7~four^h^T~Tbyo^fa

truck

wi

th~chains~came~oveT

the-top.

-f-knew

L ie

ChiTrese-drTver^

too.

He

backed his truck

up

to

mine and

after breaking the chain three times, finally pulled

us

up

the

hill

with

the

help

of

20

soldiers

with M16's strapped

to their

backs who helped

to

push.

After

that

it was smooth

sailing

the

rest of

the way

to

Chiangmai.

It

was good

to

see

the green grass of home

with

friends and

family who

had been worrying and

praying.

Five

times on that trip I had

been

that close to death, but the Lord

brought

us safely

home.

There are many other things T should have written to

you about.

The orchard is doing

great. The

pecan and

fruit trees are

growing

rapidly. The

area

of the

community

orchard

has

expanded

to

where we

are

ready

to plant

70

more trees. The Christians

there

are

developing

the whole valley. A new orchard project has been started in BingLong

where

we

have lemon

trees planted so far.

I really will try to write sooner next time.

Thank you

for

your

patience

and

prayers.

Yours, because of His Resurrection,

The Bemo Family


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6/10

The

roads

ar e sti l l

in bad condition as

i t

is near the end of the rainy season so our

car

i s n t

here.

We

are sort

of

stranded.

We brought

lots of

canned food

flour

and

rice. Al

so

th e parents of the students are very thankful and often bring cucumbers

summer

melon

eg g

pl ant and even roasted corn. Yum

I need

to

back up a

l i t t le bit

and te ll you what has been going on during

the

la st couple

of

months.

On

June

26th om

Dittemore

lef t to

return

back

to

her

home

in

Joplin

Missouri.

t has le f t a

bi g

empty spot

in our l ives.

On June 28th th e Loves

Smiths

and Cathi Car-

l i le arrived. Cathi is from Bedford Texas and came over

especially

to

teach

ou r children

while we stay in mountain villages this year. She has studied at Ozark Bible College and

besides

being a

real

help with

teaching

and working around

th e

house she

is

a

real

part of

the

spiritual

atmosphere of our home. Tom Kathy Love had visited Thailand before and

planned to come

for

a long time

bu t fe lt i t necessary f i r s t

to study Chinese thoroughly

in

Taiwan and

to

attend more

Bible

College a t Ozark Bib le Colle ge . They are planning

now.

Lord

willing

to stay

here fo r

a long time. Right

now

they ar e studying the Thai language and

taking

care of

th e

Chinese Church and

hospitality

work

in

Chiang Mai.

Rod

Ann Smith came

for

five

weeks for an internship. They

are also students

a t Ozark B ib le C ol le ge and Rod is

a h o r t i c u l t u r i st . While they were here we a ll made

several

t ri p s

together.

Within days a f

te r

they arrived

we went on a

real

hair-raising

t r ip

over the worst road in

the

world to

take

1 000

coffee trees to

BingLung. t

took all

day to get there over a

road

where we had

to walk many times while the

truck

wrenched through mud holes three feet deep and t h i rt y

feet long and up muddy

slopes.

The 5 days we were in BingLung we planted 500

t rees

on Bro

t h e r Shen s land

sold

200

l e f t

200 fo r

Brother

Shen

to p la n t

himself and gave another 100

away

to

a

poor

family.

We

made

another

t r ip

to

a

Chinese

re-sett lement

v i l l a g e

over

close

to t h e - L a ^ border called

Lyan^ Hwa Syin

Tswun

where

we

took over

300 f ru i t

tre e s^ to sell

fo r

half price teach

them

how

to

plant

and taught

th e Bible. We

came up

here

to MiPo for

about

a week

too

where Rod Smith budded many t rees

an d taught

the Christians how to

bud. We

al

so bui l t

a

fence an d

many

other assor t ed jobs. When

we

w eren t

on a

t r ip

Rod

spent his time

in

Chiang Mai

helping to s ta r t

a f ru i t

tree

nursery which

will

hold

1 000 t r e e s . This pr o

jec t ha s now fal l en

t o

Tom

Love

to care

f o r

plus

the be e proj ect .

Tom my son Jonathan and I went to Mae Sa Lok by bus and boat up the Mae Kok River.

There Tom

and I taught on th e

parables

o f

Jesus fo r four days.

Near the end o f Ju ly Bob Moorehead

the preacher

of Overlake Christian

Church

one o f

o ur s up po rt in g c hu rc he s and his wife visited us for two

days.

The day before

they arrived

a

man

had

come

to

Chiang

Mai

to

buy

rice

and had

died

of

a

heart

attack

that

night.

We

had

to get

a death

certificate

and took

his

body back

to th e

village immediately.

Even

though

we

had a legal permit t o tr an sp or t a body one of th e Thai villages threatened us

for

taking

a body through. They said they were going to stop us when we came

out

bu t thank

th e

Lord

i t started raining j u s t as we passed_that

village

patro^l and everyone stayed inside.

On August

9th

Janet and Beth l e f t for Taiwan to take Beth there to

sta rt school

Janet

returning

on

th e

20th. Beth sounds very happy

there

and we

know many

dear co-workers

there

will take good

care

of her

bu t i t sure leaves

a big empty spot in our lives.

Please

pray

f o r

her t h e r e

Well that

is basically

what has been going on during the last three months. Please

don t forget to pray

for

us as we labor

here

in MiPo.

Yours fo r

Hi s Kingdom s

Sake

Alan

Bemo

an d

Family

Formosa Christian Mission Non-Profit

c/ o Doug Bemo Organization

527 Anthony Permit

No.

15

Muskogee Oklahoma

74401

Muskogee Okla

74401

ADDRESS CORRECTION REQUESTED

H o r i z o n s

B ox

1 7 7

Kempton

Ind.

46049


7/10

CH1ANOMAI

Z he

Hemo

d

Soj.ountm3

in ZJkailand

By fkith

they

in ihc IsikI.

...

kxAfii$

to

ft city ii^ich Has foufldftttons.

httiirfgy

and miktSir ii God. Hcb.l|:8 iO

OCTCSER.

H0VEK8ER D

Alan Janet

Bemo

> V FORWARDIWG AGENT:

Box IBO

Mrs. Linda Gocrke

Chian^ai ,

Thailand

1

King City,

Mo.

6hh63

MERRY CHRISTMAS People s hearts

are

only merry

when

ti-.ey

hear

and understand

the n^Bsage of Christmas...There are s t i l l so many in the world

who

do not know

I

know there

are many right around you who-do not-

know

ei-fehar.f^r-us-who

know,

we

wiil be truly merry as

we share

God's message with those who do not

know.

Me

are happy here but

especially at this

time

we

think of

all

of you. TVie hord

.willir.g,

we

wil l be in the

States

next

Christmas

Today is a rainy day so no one in the village can go to the field. I t is on

days

like

these that people

do

things around the house

that

have been stacking

upfix the

door,

;3plil wood,

sharpen to ols, e tc.

This

Is

a good day

fo r me

to get some correspondence taken

care

of.

We have

really

been

hnppy

here

in

Mipo

village

but our stay h/is not been with

out problems. Becky and 1

came

down

with

a very bad sickness that

lasted

about

ten days in all. We had high fever, achey muscles and general discomfort. We

finally had to be taken to the hospital. Becky had a

rash.

The doctor said vre

either had Scrub Typhus (aoiiiethiug

like

Rocky Mountain Tick Fever) or

some

kind

of

unident i f ied

v i rus .

We

are

a l l doing

f ine

now.

Our

l i teracy

class

is really doing

so good.

By

the time

you

get this

le t ter

we

should

be

f in is hed w ith

Book One

of our

Good News Reader.

Each graduate i s

very excited

about receiving their

graduation

presenta red,

blue, ta n or brown

Bible

tha t

they wil l be

able

to read

They

have learned to

sing

mcuy songs

and

so

far have-learned-to-sing three-of

them in harmony. We

have

finished teaching t he parab le s of Jesus and now are

teaching through the miracles.

I t

is so exciting to teach these thing s to

people

who

have never

heard them^

While here in Mipo we h av e been pret ty w ell staying put. Most of

the

t ime we

have

been

stranded

because

the

roads

are closed.

However, l a s t week

i t dried

up a l i t t l e

and

so we

went

on a three-day t r ip

with

10 vil lagers

to

Chlangmai

and

MaeSai.

We had gotten a l e t t e r from MaeSa i, which i s very close to

Burma,

from

a Burmese bro ther . He

sa id t h a t two Chr is t i an books we gave him

to t ran s

la te

were f inished

and tha t permission had been given by the

government to

pr in t t So we went up there

to

ta lk

to

him about th e

deta i l s

of

pr int ing.

On the

way

up the re

one

b rother in the

t rack

asked

i f

we could

turn

in

to

an

Alah vil lage to

see

his uncle who

l ived

there . His

uncle,

a Chinese,

i s the

only

Chris t ian

in

the vil . lage

of

36 houses. However, he to ld us there were

te n o th er

families

who

wanted to become

Chris t ians

i f

only a

teacher would

come and l ive

with

them for a while

and

teach them

everything.

What

an oppor

tuni ty

And a

person

could

do t in the

Thai

language, too.

There are

so

many


8/10

opportunities

like this. We

called

souk? of

the

people who weren^t

out

working

to

come and we wete able to do some teaching* This ir i a need we have seen In

so

many places

and

we are t rying to fu l f i l l here In Mipo by

training th e Chris

t i a n s

and th e l e a d e r s

Things

are really sprouting

in

the o rcha rd s, t oo . Out of twenty .apfJle t rees we

planted

6 weeks

ago,

15

a re sprou ti ng

out

nicely.

Many

trees

are

growing

in

cluding pears, peaches,

persinsnous and .limes. Now we

are

starting a shade house

to s t a r t 2,000 coffee t rees to be

planted

by

four

men next

June,

A

long time

before opium planting s ea son got here, Brother

Lee s said

he was

not

going to plant

opium

th is year because he

knenv

i t was wrong. The res t r f

the

Christians fel t they

would

have to plant

at least two more

years

though,

t i l l

their peaches

started coniing

up.

However, th e

rainy

acason has lasted

longer

this

year

than usual. Opiu^Ti was

planted

but d aily r ain s ruined the

newly

planted

seed. One man, .l\rother Chen, said

he

has

taken

this as a sign

from

God

and that he has decid ed to plant kidney

beans

instead.

Checking

with

th e U.N. we found that the

price promises to

be very good

this year, but

we

could not find any seed. That s why the price will be good We've heard of

a

place to

get

seed over

in

a

neighboring

Laha

village

and

are

praying

that

God

wil l provide. After hearing of

the

good price ,

three

other men are wanting

seed too. Pray

for these

people

as

they follov;

the

Lord.

I thought you might l ike

to

know about OmLong Even though I have not had time

to go there, Paul Lang has and we

are

so

happy

to

find

that God

is

working.

Although

teachers cannot

go

often, th e bre th ren a re remaining faithful

and grow

ing.

They

meet

together to

study and pray.

On Paul s

f i rs t

trip back,

there

were four people who were

baptized

by Brother

Som

Phet

who

before

had

thought

that

only preachers could baptize. This time

a

lo t of

vil lagers turned out

to see the

baptism.

Remember that th is is the

villagers who threatened our

lives ind

tr ied to blow up our truck with dynamite,

That night as

they

taught in

a

veighboring

village,

they

were

actually stoned

A

large

stone

came flying

through the leaf roof and landed

right

beside Brother

Som Phet They

came

back from this trip praising God

fo r

the opportunity to

suffer for the Lord. On this las t t r ip they not iced

a change

In att i tude as

some of th e

persecutors

had become

friendly

and interested.

Paul

has gone up

there

to work and

live

with one

of

the Christian famil ies for a couple

of

weeks.

We

are praying for God s protect ion .

We

have been blessed

with

visitors

since we

have been here

in the village. Two

different

young

men with

YW M (Youth With A Mission) have come up

to stay

for a

few days and help work. Also, Al Hamilton

came

up for a day. We wish you could

come

too. How about

coming

over for

a few days

or

weeks?

How about

sending

your preacher

or

head

of

th e missionary

committee

over?

I t

would

be

nice.

Even

if you can t, the Lord willing

we

will be going on furlough in May 1982, We

are looking

forward

to see in g everyone. -

Yours in

Jesus

Alan

J a n e t

Bemo


9/10

I'jGi

Z lie J Soj^ourning.3 in ZJkailand

By faith they sojourned in the land

looking

forward to a city which has

foundations,

whose

builderand maker is God. Heb.l|:8-I0

OCTCBER,

NOVEMBER

DECEMBER,

I98I

FCRWARDIMj AGENT:

Mrs. Linda

Goerke

R t .

1

King

City

Mo.

6hh63

Alan

J a n e t Berao

Box

180

Chiangmai,

Thailand

Cathi Car l l l e Becky, Jane t

Alan

Sarah, Na th an , J on ni e

MERRY CHRISTMAS

People s hear ts

are

stand

the

message

of

Christmas.*

who do n o t know

I

know t h e r e

a r e

know

e i the r . For us who know, we

message with those who

do

not know,

th i s t ine

we th ink

of

a l l

o f

you.

S t a t e s

n ex t Ch ri stmas

Today

is

a

ra iny

day

so

no

one

in the

on days l ike

these

tha t people do

been stacking up--fix the door,

sp l i t

good day fo r me to ge t

some

corres-

Be t h

only

merry

when

they hear and under-

Thcre arc

st

so many

in

the world

many r ight

around

you who do not

wil l be

t ru ly

merry as we share

God s

We are happy herfe but esp ecially

a t

iThc Lord wil l ing,

we

wil l be in the

village

can

go

to

the

f ie ld .

I t

is

things around the

house

tha t

have

wood, sharpen too ls e tc . This Is a

pondence

taken

care

of.

We

have really been happy here in T Mipo village but our stay has not

been without problems. Becky and I came down with a very bad

sickness

that

lasted

about ten

days

in all .

We had

high fever,

achey muscles and

general

discomfort.

We

finally

had to be

taken to the

hospital. Becky had a

rash.

The doctor

said

we cither

had Scrub Typhus (something like Rocky Mountain Tick Fever) or some kind of unidentified

virus . We are a l l

doing f ine

now.

Our

literacy

class

Is

really

doing so good.

By

the

time you

get this letter , we

should be

finished

with

Book One

of

our

Good News

Reader.

Each

graduate

Is very

excited

about

receiv

ing their gradiiation prcsent-a

red,

blue,

tan

or brown Bible that they will be able to read

They have learned

to

sing many songs and so

far

have learned

to sing

three of them in har

mony. We

have

finished

teaching the parables of Jesus and

now

are teaching through the mir

acles. I t

is

so exciting to teach

these

things to people

who

have never

heard

them.

While here in Mipo we have been pretty well staying put. Host of the time wc have been

stranded

because

the roads

are

closed. However, l as t week i t dried up a

l i t t l e and

so we

went on a three-day

trip with

10

villagers to

Chiangmai and MaeSai,

Wc gotten

a

letter

from MaeSai, which is

very

close to Burma, froma

Burmese

brother. He said

that

two Christian

books, we gave him to

translate

were

finished

and

that permission

had been

given

by the gov

ernment to

print

i t . So

we

went up there

to

talk to him about the details of print ing. On

the way up there, one brother in the truck asked

if

wc could turn in to an Akah village to

see

bia uncle who, lived there. His

uncle,

a Chinese, is the only Christian In the village

of

36 houses. However, he told us

there

were ten other families idio wanted to become

Christians i f only a teacher would

come

and live with them for a

while and

teach them every

thing.

What an opportunity And a person

could

do

i t

in

the

Thai language,

too.

There

are

so

many

opportunities

like this. We

called some

of the

people

who weren t out

working

to


10/10

ccsne and

we were

able to

do some

teaching.

This

is

a

need

we

have

seen

in so

many

places

and

we are trying to f u l f i l l

here in Mipo by

training the Qiristians

and

the leaders.

Things are really sprouting in the orchards, too. Out of twenty apple trees

we

planted 6

weeks

ago,

15 are sprouting out

nicely. Many

trees are growing including

pears,

peaches,

persimmons and

limes.

Now

we

are

starting

a shade house

to

s t a r t

2,000

coffee

trees

to

be

planted by four men next June.

A long

time before

opium

planting season

got

here.

Brother

Lee s said

he was no t going

to

plant opium this year because he knew i t was wrong. The

rest

of

the Christ ians fel t they

would have

to

plant

a t least

two more

years

though,

t i l l their peaches started

coming up.

However, the

rainy season has lasted longer this

year

than usual. Opium

was planted

but

daily rains ruined the newly

planted

seed. One man. Brother Chen, said he has taken

this

as a

sign

from God and that he has decided to plant kidney beans instead. Checking with

the

U.N.

we

found that

the

price premises

to

be

very

good this

year, but

we could

not

find

any seed.

That s

why the price will

be good We've heard

of

a place

to

get seed

over in

a

neighboring Laha village

and

are praying that God will provide. After hearing of

the

good

price, t hree o ther men arc wanting seed too. Pray for

these

people as

they follow

the Lord.

I thought you might like

to know

about OmLong Even

though

I have not teid

time to

go there,

Paul Lang has and

we

are so teppy to find that God is working. Although teachers cannot go

often, t he b re th ren

arc remaining faithful

and growing. They meet together to

study

and

p r a y .

On Paul s f i r s t trip

back,

there were fotir people

who

were baptized by Brother Som Phet who

before had thought that only preachers could

baptize.

This

time

a lo t

of

villagers turned

out to see the baptism.

Remember

that

this

is the villagers

who

threatened

otir

lives and

tr ied to

blow up

our truck with dynamite. That

night as

they taught in

a

neighboring v i l

lage, they

were actually stoned A

large stone

came

flying

through

the leaf roof

and

landed

right beside Brother

Som Phet

They came

back

from

this t r i p praising

God

for the

opportunity to

staffer for the

Lord.

On

this

last

t r i p t hey noti ced

a change in

att i tude

as some of

the

persecutors had become friendly and interested. Paul has gone up there to

work and

l ive with

one o f the Chris t ian

famil ies f o r

a couple of

weeks.

We arc praying

f o r

God s

protect ion.

We have

been

blessed vlth-^^-i^tors-sf^^se^-we ^ v o - b e e n hers

inr-4hs-viI4age-

Two^

diffea?ent

yotang men with

YW

(Youth With A Mission) have come up to

stay

for a few days and help

work. Also, A1 Hamilton came up for a

day.

We

wish

you

could come too.

How about coming

over

for a few days or weeks? How about sending your preacher or head of

the

missionary

committee over? would be nice. Even i f you c a n t the Lord wil l ing we w i l l be going on

fxirlough

in

May, 1982.

We are looking

forward

to seeing everyone.

Yours i n J e s u s

Alan

J a n e t Bemo

Formosa

C h r i s t i a n

M i s s i o n

c/o

Mr. Mrs.

Doug

Bemo

527 Anthony

Muskogee,

Okla. 7iiU 1

ADDRESS CCRRECTIOfl REQUESTED

Non-Profit Organization

U.S.

POSTAGE

PAID

Muskogee.

Oklahoma

TiiliOl

PERMIT NO. 15

HorisoB3

Box 1 7 7

Koaqton, Ind. 46049

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