Our Mission team's goal in Thailand includes a commitment to the Gospel, to proclaim the good news of Christ's resurrection and share the forgiveness and new life found in Him, to be instruments of His love and peace. In everything we do, we must practice what we preach.
In world news headlines today there is this story from the Associated Press ..... "NA PRADU, THAILAND - Muslim militants fatally shot a Buddhist teacher as he pulled out of his driveway to head to work Thursday in restive southern Thailand, police said."
We will be working in central and northern Thailand, hundreds of miles away from the far-southern region where more than 80 Buddhist teachers are among the more than 2,800 people killed since a Muslim insurgency in January, 2004. The AP report goes on to state, "public school teachers, viewed by insurgents as government collaborators, are targeted along with civil servants and local officials in almost daily attacks in Thailand's southernmost provinces of Yala, Pattani and Narathiwat. The three provinces are the only Muslim-dominated areas in the Buddhist country."
But the insurgents' ways, means and ends - as described in this and other reports - does provide a contrast for our work, for our message, and for our commitment to practice what we preach.
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