The second part of the trip took us across the border and into another country. A pastor met us at the border and took us to a church where church members were waiting for us. We started the training especially for church members who were all converted from Buddhism. Most of the people who live in this region are workers and farmers. They came from our country and spoke our language, so we could communicate with them easily…
One principle at the core of the ministry of GNPI is cultural relevance. We talk about culture in countries other than the US. The GNPI-Thai team was invited to film the testimony of a Thai-American dentist living in St. Paul, MN. It was a rare and interesting opportunity for them to offer a reversal for our US mindset of missions and show us what cultural relevance looks like as our Thai co-workers did “missions work” in Minnesota.
…I was raised on the farm where young men wore jeans and chewed tobacco. A mark of manhood was to have the round imprint of their tobacco can on the back pocket of their jeans. I’m definitely not endorsing tobacco as a mark of manhood, but I noticed something from [a] young preacher that has the potential in our era to be a definite mark of godliness.
