A Beautiful Sunny Day!

September 08
A beautiful sunny day!
Today started off just beautiful! Today is Saturday and it is family day! Woo Hoo! 1 day the kids get both Mommy and Daddy all to themselves, and we get them to ourselves :) Well, we are all getting ready to go to a nearby park when the boys notice a very unfriendly visitor trying to enter our home. We have seen his kind before. Here is a picture of this kind of visitor I am talking about.
DO YOU SEE THIS! AH! Just looking at this picture gives me the "willies".

The first time went something like this..... It was a Tuesday night and Trent was at church preaching. The kids and I do not usually go on Tuesday nights. This particular night I was waiting up for Trent. The meetings go pretty late. I had been in bed about an hour. Trent comes home and we are talking about the meeting. About 30 minutes pass by and I feel something slither across my arm! Instantly I take my other arm grab it, and at the same time jump up and throw my uninvited visitor to the ground! I had no idea that I had just grabbed, with my bare hands, a poisonous centipede! Ugh! Trent gets this thing with our electric mosquito zapper and the thing will not die! Trent relocates the intruder outside. Trent takes down the centipede. Yeah Trent! We have been here almost a year & this is the 1st we had in our home.
Now a beautiful sunny family day & another tries to come. Praise the Lord that the boys see it before he makes his sneaky entrance! Trent wins again! Oh my! Life on the mission field. Thank you Jesus for your complete protection!
Well, we have all smiles now. Take a look at me and Braden enjoying our victorious day!

Update

August 26
Update
I know, it has been way too long since we have checked in! Trent and I both are trying to be more regular with this, but obviously y'all (yes I am from Texas) could pray over this for us, ha ha!

Anyway, the last few weeks have been so amazing! The School of Young Prophets at the Discipleship is up and running. There are 11 regular students & they are soaking up the Word of God! We have been given some books on discipleship in both Burmese and English to go through. God is so amazing providing our every need! In the midst of starting up the school, we have also began more personal community evangelism. Mondays and Wednesdays Trent is at the school. Tuesdays and Thursdays I (Amy) go out with the disciples on home visits. Fridays is mainly a day of prayer. Sundays church and visiting the Ba Ny Si jungle site. We are there encouraging our teams 1st missionary Si Mo Mo. The team here is still doing services on both Sunday and Tuesday & have begun prayer with the Burmese on Thursday nights :)

Recently we had began praying for a more fluent Burmese translator. I personally was praying for a friend! As the new schedule was in place, my 1st day I was scheduled to go on home visits and this woman was there. To my surprise she speaks fluent English & she had attended Bible School. Her name is Laid Laid. She came here with NOTHING! She said the Lord gave her a vision to come here. She had no idea we were here & we all instantly new God had given us each other! She is translating very clearly for us & she is my new friend!!! Thank you Jesus! It is so wonderful to have another Burmese woman on "fire" for the Name of the Lord to be known, received & WORSHIPPED!!!! Thank You Jesus for Laid Laid!

As you may have seen in previous posting we had our 1st Baptisms. What a wonderful declaration!! It made a true impact on the people in the community. One woman I met with on home visits, name Way Way, said they wanted to know more of Jesus. From what they knew and had heard they wanted to get rid of their idol houses and worship Jesus & be baptized! God is moving!

Prayer Points if you want to pray for us:

The Holy Spirit would pour out on Ban Nam Khem & Ba Ny Si
That the people would have softened hearts to receive the Word of the Lord
Tent making plans to have the discipleship sustain finances itself. If you have questions feel free to email.
Continued hedge of protection over our marriage & family
We would walk in the Spirit and not in the flesh
Our personal intimacy to stay 1st priority
Grade 1 starts 1st week of September (pray for Mommy & the gang)
Amy is in language school - pray over language
We are praying about getting a cover on our truck. We drive the people home from services 3 to 4 times a week and we are in rainy season - the cost $1300!!! Must have prayer!
Visa expires April or May depending on allowance of our extension. Pray for God's Will for what our family is to do. Thailand visa rules are very strict.
Thank you so much for all of your prayers and emails.

In Christ, Amy

Invisible

July 31
Invisible
There are always a million things going on around here. The last Short term missions team just left. Todd & Renee (Carrie) and their precious children went on a 5 month furlough to America :( . Our local Burmese disciples moved under 1 roof at the "Discipleship Home". God is moving!
However, through the last 2 months I have really struggled trying to find my place around here. I was teaching in Ba Ny Si & now our "Burmese missionaries" are permanently out there and doing the teaching. When teams are here Trent is super busy from sun up to sun down (I barely see the man). I am unable to attend all meetings with our children. All of this leading me into frustration!!! I know, I should know I am in God's Will. Sometimes that truth is easier to give than to receive. I can not understand why am I home most of the time???? In America I think I regularly did more evangelism than I had in the past couple of months!!! Well, I was just encouraged as I was offered a book to read. So, to all the other Moms out there - be encouraged! Sometimes peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, laundry and daily tasks do not feel so meaningful. Well, there is something to our "invisibility". It is this by Nicole Johnson, "Invisibility is not inflicted on me; it is a gift to help me truly serve." Isn't that beautiful? When only God sees - Isn't that what it is all about? Serving God.

Update Little Burmese Girls Mom

June 14
Update Little Burmese Girls Mom
Just the other day the Little Burmese Girl (Trent & I call her "Apple" b/c she is the Apple of Gods Eye) - well her mother was beaten by her boyfriend/husband. I am not clear on this. This man took a 2 by 4 and beat her across the face and thigh. It is a horrible thing! The woman ran in defense and has run to our church! Wow! This is totally Gods timing because we have 35 people in from America evangelizing with us on a mission trip. These people have BURMESE translators! So, this women is in the right place at the right time! Pray for salvation & healing & that her heart would be genuinely converted!!!!!!!!!!!

Little Burmese Girl

June 10
Little Burmese Girl
I have to share a story with you all. There is a little Burmese girl in town that has been in our lives as of late. She is maybe 3. She has a mother, but her mother doesn't really want her. The sad part is this little girl is greatly neglected, her mother also will not give her away. I keep calling her "the little Burmese girl" because her mother hasn't bothered to name her & doesn't want to. The Burmese community has taken to her, sort of. They will feed her as she comes when they eat. We have prayerfully considered this little girl. We know that being Burmese she is already at a disadvantage. So pray for her as led. She is the apple of Gods eye. She is the orphaned! Trent and I will love on her, as will our team. We have to build up trust every time we see her. She does not know love. I pray that her mother would come to know Jesus as Lord and Savior & that she would be the mom that the Lord wants her to be. I pray for this little girl to find perfect love in Christ!

June 07
The Feast
Hello! I hope you enjoy the updated pictures! We have had a great week here!!!! I have been at home working with our children finish up the school year the last few weeks as we have a volunteer, Donna, here to run the school site. This is Donnas 2nd visit to Thailand to work with the Burmese children & she truly loves them & serves them!!
Just yesterday the Holy Spirit gave Donna an idea to have a feast to celebrate their Royal Adoption. It was such a beautiful time! The kids were so excited that as though they live in Bamboo huts, they are Princesses and Princes because of who their Father is! Awesome Time! I came out for this special celebration!! It was so much fun! And I was so blessed to be apart of such a beautiful move of God!

We still had 2 children of our regular students that had not given their hearts to the Lord. All the children have heard the FULL GOSPEL over and over. It is a decision we want THEM to make. That they would recognize their need for a Savior. Well, today as we celebrated the children this way we had Song & Song Ooh very curious. These children now wanted to be apart of the family of God. It was before the Feast and after the teaching and representation of the Gospel that they responded. At this point Song and Song Ooh wanted to pray and make a confession of Christ as Lord of their lives. I am so honored to be able to see and be apart of our last 2 regular children coming to the Lord! Praise God!! So all the children were given their symbolic Crowns (for the girls - the Princesses) and Rings (for the boys - the Princes) they were reminded who they were in Christ.
It is a beautiful thing to see the move of God in this jungle. Men, women, and children coming to worship the 1 true God! What a difference Jesus makes! Thank You Jesus! Pray with us as we pray the Lord will continue to bring these people from Glory to Glory in Christ! God Bless You! Amy

Perspectives

May 30
Perspectives.......
Ok, so I thought this was worthy of sharing. Well, it will probably be more a Mom thing.... but here goes........
I have never before living here appreciated running water. For a brief time we did not have it here. Trent still uses a pail and fills it from the pond for his bathroom at his "office". Today I was washing dishes after lunch and I was feeling a sense of accomplishment. After all, we had half of homeschool done. Anyway, I begin to rinse a dish and suddenly the faucet starts making noises. Noices I don't really care for. It is not the first time I have heard these noises. The noises lead to orange water flowing through our faucet. Today there was a hint of brown. Awe, washing dishes in a 3rd world country! Now imagine this experience as you are bathing a "prissy" little 5 year old girl! Lord help us!

Random thoughts from Amy

May 25
Random thoughts from Amy
Today my mind is racing..... Yes, it works! Anyways, we have been on the mission field now 6 months. It has been fulfilling as the Lord has used us and we know we are being obedient to the call of God on our lives. In reflection today I was thinking back over the last 6 months. Here are some of my thoughts:
We have been called to the "mission field" (ours is foreign) and I am thankful the Lord has a perfect Father heart. He is so inlove with the lost coming to Him, yet He is ever inlove with me & making me more like Him through this process.
"We must decrease so that He will increase". This is painful because our flesh wants to live everyday. "Decreasing" is awesome, only because of Christ being magnified in us more.
You can have all things, but if you have not love - you have nothing! Meaning, you can be Mr. or Ms. Spiritual whatever, but if love is not flowing from your heart, you are a Pharisee.
I have learned that every person, every situation in my life is to make me more like Jesus. There will always be irritating people or situations. There will always be a bazillion mosquitos here, but the Holy Spirit is looking and desiring to have my response to be holy.
I am learning that the Holy Spirit wants to make every problem to be a mirror to me. What is He seeing in my life through this process? Is Jesus being seen in me?
I understand the vital necessity that you can have any number of ministries, but if you do not have intimacy with the Lord, DAILIY- you are prey.
I am learning that when it gets really hot here & I wait to do homeschool till late in the afternoon, that my children forget everything I have ever taught them. The heat must paralyze their brain cells............................. Your prayers would be appreciated

God is Awesome

May 21
God Is Awesome
Chang A is a man that came to church this past week and looked deathly ill. After the service Todd and I approached him and asked if we could pray for him, but he was not interested in prayer. He voiced that he and his wife had no place to sleep. We found him a bed and said that he could sleep in the church. (The church is a cement box like a garage) He accepted and for a few days he would lay and listen to the gospel of our Lord Jesus. After three days we came to the church and he was catatonic, and laid there not responding at ALL! Eye's open! This was reported to us by Si Mo Mo who also lives at the church with his family. They put him in the back of a pick up and took him to the SHACK they call a hospital. Immediately Todd and I went to the hospital to pray for Chang A. I have gone to the hospital many times now to pray for the sick and dieing; however, I don't believe I will feel any more comfortable after a thousand times. Hell never fails to be offensive to The Spirit of God! The entire environment is stuffed with death! Every since is attacked: the smell of urine, the sound of moans and low budget medical equipment flood the ears, the eye's are raped with the sight of the dead waiting for death, the mouth tastes the cheap antiseptic used to clean the bed soars of the dieing. While the devil himself says to your heart, "THEIR MINE!" "OPEN YOUR EYE'S, ARE YOU GONG TO SAVE THESE PEOPLE!" "YOUR IN OVER YOUR HEAD GO BACK TO JUST TAKING ABOUT YOUR GOD." Fear crashes into the reality of your faith in these kind a moments. Then through the sounds, smells, sights, and ever the tastes a still quite voice whispers clearly. "Lo I am with you even to the ends of the earth." Where can I go Oh awesome King where you are not? Lo if I make my bed in Hell you are there! Now is where I tell the devil, "SHUT THE OPEN GRAVE YOU CALL A MOUTH!" Todd and I began to pray quietly, Chang A had just enough strength to struggle to keep one eye partly opened and I heard the Spirit ask me to pray for strength! "You will get up out of this bed and walk!" In the Name of Jesus! After praying we turned to the gurney next to Chang A and asked the people who stood around their dieing father. May we prayer for your father? No! About that time out of the corner of my eye I see a man standing next to me, and it startles me! It's Chang A! He looking at the man and says, "God has given me strength through Jesus and He now wants to strengthen you!" He got up out of his bed by first taking the IV out of his arm. He was alert and smiling everything changed about his countenance. He was released from the hospital the next day!

April Newsletter

May 17
April Newsletter
Here is our April Newsletter. Email us if you would like to be added to the mailing list @ thepruettgang@gmail.com

An Encouraging Word
From Trent

“Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God.” It is the word of God. It’s supernatural in origin, eternal in birth, inexpressible in value, infinite in duration, infallible in scope, regenerative in power, incomparable in authority, universal in interest, personable in application, inspired in totality. Read it, write it down, memorize it and pray it into your heart. Work it out and pass it on! I Employ you brothers and sisters The word of God will change you until you become a living Epistle of God. It will transform your mind, changed your character, and move you from grace to grace shaping you into the image and nature of the Father. By the word of God faith is birthed. Faith must be apprehended in a violent pursuit toward God by hearing His voice that springs forth from a fountain of blood called faith. For it is from this fountain alone that God is pleased. Faith is the only acceptable currency a son or daughter can use to move the heart of God into motion. Faith is what bridges, “The hoped for”, into a reality, from things seen into the things unseen. Faith shines into darkness with brilliance like the sun in its strength. Faith is what opens the Divine vault of God’s wonders, and it’s the bolt that locks the Gates of Hell! It is the only road and as we all know it’s narrow and easily missed. So in light of this truth together let us seek diligently after this faith that will shake the Thrown of Heaven giving forth the revelation Of The Son! Gaining now an inward understanding from our pursuit toward God in faith: to know Him greater, to know Him deeper, to know Him as, to know nothing else. To look unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith. To look unto the designer of the very means in which we love, breath, move, and function in His presence. Look unto Him who gives the very power by which my heart beats now, and my soul is saved. Look unto Him the first and the last the infinite giver of Heavenly riches. So some ask how? Consciously and unconsciously surrender every possible distraction removing them not as an act of religious exercise, but as a love offering expectable, and pleasing to the Lord of Faith. Throw yourself into the fire of refinement purifying a means of entry into The Kingdom of God.
Salvations, healings, and discipleship still underway.
We continue to preach and minister to either Burmese or Thai people at every opportunity & the Holy Spirit is moving! There is one particular salvation story we would like to share of a girl name, Det Trey. She is precious! She is a Burma refugee. She had been in Nam Khem only 3 days before entering our Burmese church in the village. On her first visit, she heard the Gospel & wanted Jesus!!! Hallelujah! Following asking Jesus to be the Lord of her life she asked us to pray that she would have a job. She had no money. Within the week we are excited to share that the Lord provided Det Trey with a very blessed job! Jobs are not in abundance & we thank God for His provision! Our God is FAITHFUL!

Healing! At a local hospital Trent was asked to come and pray for one of our Thai friends family members who was in a vegetative state. He had a tumor in his head the size of ping-pong ball & was unresponsive. Through prayer and the laying on of hands, the Holy Spirit awoke this man & he later left the hospital walking around. A few weeks later the operation was set to remove the tumor, as it was believed to be cancerous. This man was back in the hospital in I.C.U. and back in a coma. Trent and the Thai family drove to the hospital to pray again. This time the man was scheduled to be care flighted to a major city, as he was unresponsive yet again. The surgery had a 20% survival rate and believed medically to be his only hope. Immediately upon Trent and the family entering the room his machines were going crazy. He awoke again & wanted to write. Trent and the family prayed and the Holy Spirit touched this man. 3 days later this man had no surgery & was eating on his own! Thank you Jesus for this healing!

Discipleship! The work continues in rising up nationals to preach and teach among their own culture. The Burmese church is still going strong with more people coming to the Lord each month! Thank you Jesus! Si Mo Mo is still our lead disciple & the plan is for him to start a church plant at the jungle site. Our team is also praying over a Thai work. Up to this point the interest has been among the Burmese people & we are praying for an opportunity within the Thai community. Please labor with us in prayer, as we feel led to pursue this.

Jungle School Update
It has been such an amazing few weeks! We have had our ups and down’s of ministry at the Ba NY Ci Jungle School site. We have lost one of our National Burmese Teacher, Cia Thone to Hep C, and to Siroccos of the liver. He had a passion to teach & he is the main reason this school site ever began. He faithfully went and talked with all the parents to get the children to come to school & they did! He will be greatly missed! We are thankful that through the last few weeks of his life he was able to fix his eyes on Jesus! As his family here, we are thankful for that time for him to end his life with this mindset! In Cia Thones’ death it was an opportunity for the children to be brought to the “edge of eternity”. This helped them to see the urgency and need for their Savior. I am very excited to share the story of Than Than Sin (left in picture). She is a young girl who comes from a rough home life. Than Than Sin is one of the regular students. It took her several weeks to warm up to me, and she finally has! She was 1 of 3 of our “regular” students that had not yet prayed or showed an interest in receiving Christ. The exciting news is that this is our 2nd student that has had Jesus visit them in a dream! Her dream is beautiful! I will share this for you because it is a powerful testimony! Than Than Sin in her dream was out in the middle of the ocean in the deep. She could not swim and was scared. She saw Jesus walk to her (on the water) and pull her up and out and hugged her and told her “I love you”! She says she knows Jesus loves her! She prayed that day and asked Jesus to to be her Lord and Savior! She is excited that her life will be a prayer to her Lord! Hallelujah! Thank you Jesus!

Household News!!!

Well, our little family is happy & healthy! Thank you Jesus! The kids are all still loving Kindergarten & so am I! It is such a thrill to teach my kids. I really appreciate them to a new level as they are learning to read. They are AMAZING kids!

We are sad to say that we did have to give our puppy away L “Shugz” turned out to have a “mean-streak”. We all prayed that the Lord would bring us the perfect dog. I hope you are not shocked, but our prayers were answered!!!!! Woo Hoo! This is huge because of the heartache our children had. In our community there was an Australian man who had a dog & when he left, he also left his dog. This dog had no home & was an amazing sweet, gentle and obedient dog. Well, she is ours and her name is Glory!

We also have a girl from Canada living with us, Donna. She works in a soup kitchen back home. She came out last year and taught the kids at Ba Ny Ci for 3 months & she came back for a few more months. We are so thankful for what she has brought to the team here! She has an amazing voice & we are always greatly encouraged by her leading us in worship.

Thank you for all your prayers! We feel them J We are nothing without you all who support us in prayer! The mission field is easier in some ways than I thought, but way harder than a lot of the ways I had thought. Your encouragement is so appreciated & we love you all and miss you sooooooo much! May the Lamb that was slain receive the rewards of His sufferings!

Love, Trent, Amy, Jackson, Braden & our big 5 year old as of April 25th – Trinity!

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Prayer

May 01
Prayer
Hello! I hope you have enjoyed the updates. We are still laboring in the field :) Along with homeschool, the Jungle School & 4 meetings a week within the community we are BUSY! We do love the Lord and His work, so that is our fuel! He is all that we need. He is our All and All!

The kids are doing great! We are still learning to read. Braden is quite the reader:) Jackson and Trinity are coming around too. These kids are such a gift of God! It is true what God says about them being gifts! I am so blessed to have these precious joyfull children to love and serve. It is always REFRESHING! The kids can make anything FUN! They are AWESOME!

I was just emailed and asked for ideas on how to pray for us. I started getting excited as I typed & stirred up! SO, I decided to post them on this site for those faithful prayer warriors the Lord has risen up for us to stand in the gap. Here they are:
1. Always pray over unity within the local and extended team. The devil is the acuser of the brethren & he is always trying to bring discord!
2. Pray that the love of God would flow through those laboring in the field. That every response would be responded in love. That as witnesses to Christ, to remember and live by Ephesians 5:1 : Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children
3. Remember our significance is 1st and foremost that we are sons and daughters to the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords, the risen Christ! That we would find our strength in that and not our ministry.
4. Intimacy. Always pray the fire of God over the personal lives of those laboring. Pray that there would be a zeal and a passion for the Presence of God in their lives. An ever increasing gift of supernatural faith. An ever increasing hunger for the Word of God and a thirst for His Almighty Presence!!!!
5. If there are children in the field. ALWAYS, plead the blood of Jesus over them! The devil regularly attacks the physical of the children. Call down Heavenly Angelic forces to guard over them! Pray also over the mind. That they would be protected by what comes before their eyes.
God Bless You all & may you burn with the fire of God & ever increasing ZEAL!!!
Love, Trent & Amy

We are 'on-line'

March 06
March 2007
Well! We are officially "on-line"! Thank you for all the emails & all of the support and love that you all have shared while we have adjusted to living in Thailand! It has meant so very much to us the few brief moments we were able to get online. So thank you for your patience! It isn't the "things" we miss - it is you, our loved ones. So it is our joy to stay connected & maintain our relationships with you! True friendships never die! So we will be able to communicate & keep you all up to date on our family and the work here in Ban Nam Khem Thaialnd & Ba Ny Ci Jungle Site :) So! If you have questions: be sure to email us & we will write back. If time permits, I will try to narrate the pictures. I hope you enjoy seeing these beautiful smiling faces :) We are already in March! I can't believe it! February was an amazing time of sharing the Gospel & I am sure March will follow! God is moving! Your prayers are being heard :) Thank you! Love, The Pruetts!