Somboon's Visit to China 2009

Some of the Team Members:



Hello,
Thank you for all your pryrs and support. I was blessed to be a part of the team that went to China this past summer and would like to share Father’s work in China with you all. Even though the ministry that I’m involved is here in Thailand, for a long time now, I’ve pryed for Father to open doors for me to go to the surrounding closed countries such as Laos, Myanmar, Cambodia, and China. Praise the Lrd, this year, Father has given me that opportunity. Our team, which made up of people from the United States, China, and Thailand, was there for about two weeks from July 15th - August 2nd, 2009. It was a very humbling experience. We visited a lot of poor Hmong villages. Some of the Hmong villages have no water supply. They either depend totally on the rain as their main source or get their water from man-made ponds for cooking, drinking, washing, and feeding the animals. Some Hmong houses are made from red dirt because it was free. However, more than the physical poverty is the spiritual darkness they are living in. Almost all of the Hmong we met had either never heard of our Father or even knew who Father's Son JC is. While we were there, one young man accepted Father's Son JC and another went to church with us for the first time. Praise the Lrd! Even in the short time that we were there, Father has allowed us to see His hand at work. There are so much work to be done and very few workers. If Father wills, I would like to go back in the future to encourage them through His words. Pry with me for the Hmong people in China as well as those in Thailand that they will come to know our Lrd JC.

God bless.

Somboon





Water used for drinking, cooking, washing, etc.

House made out of red dirt:

August 23, 2009: 8 Students Accepted Christ

Hello,

Praise God for the worship time we had Sunday (yesterday) morning. God blessed all of us and touched some of the students' hearts as well. Eight students accepted Jesus into their lives! We believe there was great joy yesterday in heaven as the students prayed to receive Jesus. May God bless all of you who have had a part in praying for us here and in supporting us. Please continue to pray for these 8 students in this picture, that their faith will be strong. They are: Tong, Sai, Mai, Pin, Peace, Mone and Newt and Qia. Please pray for these 8 children. May God bless all of you in your work and may you love God more and more each day.

Somboon (Kaub Yaj)


8 Students Who Accepted Christ:

















Hmong Developing Quality of Life Foundation Group Picture:

Hmong Developing Quality of Life Foundation (HDQLF)- June 9, 2009

Students at the Hostel at HDQLF, - June 9, 2009

Hello,

Praise God for the students that God has brought to us this year. There are some students from broken families and from families that have problems. (Some students come from families whose father sells drugs, and one girl's father is currently in jail for selling drugs and her mother wants her to get married now.) Some are from families that aren't Christians, while others are from Christian families. There are Hmong in Thailand who give lip service to being Christian, but don't understand what it means to be a Christian. They aren't really Christians. When they accept Christ into their hearts, they don't necessarily want Jesus, they just want freedom from sacrificing to the spirits. Please pray for the students that are living here with us this year. It's not easy. We need to rely on God's wisdom, love and patience in order to make disciples of Jesus Christ.

Right now, the weather is changing and many students are sick. They are: Chai, Pu, Tong, Mai, and Kowit. Please pray for these students.

As for the girls, they are all doing well. Please pray for God's protection over them. Many Hmong girls in Thailand get married very quickly, about 12-15 years of age. This is too fast. They get married, and then have marriage problems and that leads to more broken families. Pray that the students here would put God as number one in their lives and that they would see the importance of an education in their lives. The reason that I am saying this is that last year one of the female students here left to get married. She was very young.

May God bless you and thank you for your prayers and support.

Somboon

June 9, 2009

Raising Pigs: April 10, 2009

Hello,

This year, I have a plan to start raising pigs. We have bought 5 pigs. Last night it rained really hard here. One of the pigs died in the rain last night. Maib has already cooked the pig for us to eat. These pigs are not regular domesticated pigs, but they're wild pigs. They're different in that domesicated pigs are physically not as strong. Pork from domesticated pigs is cheaper. Wild pigs are not as easy to raise as domesticated pigs because you can't really teach them anything. Wild pigs are also smaller, but there is more meat on them, and the meat is more expensive. But the wild pigs that we're raising right now we're not planning on selling or anything, this is just a tryout, a test if you will, to see how it goes. We don't have a place to keep the pigs and the area where we're keeping the pigs right now isn't very big. These pictures are of the pigs and a few of the children that are going to be living with us this year. It's now Songkran here.

I will send you another email after Songkran letting you know which students will be living with us next year. God bless you.Somboon

Raising Pigs

Pong's House: April 10, 2009

Hello,

I'm not sure if you remember or not - there was a fire at Pong's house a few months back. He was a student here at the training center this last year. They received help from the government and others and now they have a more beautiful house than they had before.

Thank you to everyone who prayed for him. Pha, thank you for the money that you sent. Today, I went to his house and visited his mother and gave them the money that Pha sent. His mother was very happy and said thank you very much for the money and for praying for them. Pong's mother said thank you to the entire Hmong youth team that went to visit them when you guys were here. They were very happy that you visited and they miss you. These pictures are of Pong's new house. Some of the Bible students helped build the house. Pong's mother really likes this house.

Thank you once again and may God bless you.

Somboon

Pong's new house

Hmong Bible Training Center Graduation Ceremony - March 22, 2009

Hmong Bible Training Center: Graduation - March 22, 2009

Hello servants of God,
This last Sunday we had a graduation ceremony as well as a closing ceremony for the Bible training center. There were about 60 people who came to congratulate the Bible students. I am sending you these pictures of the ceremony.

We have trained 5 groups of students with God leading us. All you have had a part in helping us train and build up these students. Please continue to pray for these students as they go out they may bear fruit. Praise God for last few years that we have had the Bible training center as it has been a blessing to Hmong churches. Even though the training center is closing and we feel sad, but we believe that God has a good plan for the future for Hmong people.

Thank you to each of you for your financial and prayer support. May God bless you, your family, and your ministry, and may God give you the strength to continue to fight the good fight of faith during this time that the economy is bad. This year we have a plan to open a hostel for very poor Hmong children and/or orphans. We want to make disciples of Jesus from these children. Please pray for us. Please pray that God would lead us to the children that He wants to bring here. Please pray also for the necesary money that we will need.Jesus is our hope, our life.

May God give you hope and may you have a full life in the Spirit through Jesus Christ our Lord. The troubles that we have in this life make us grow up spiritually. Depend on God with all of your heart. God bless you.

Somboon (Kaub Yaj)

30 People Came to Know the Lord - January 23, 2009

Hello,
Today Pastor Suria took the Bible students to help build his house in Chiang Rai. There is one Bible student, a staff member and all of the girls who live with Susan that are still here. God had work for us to do for the kingdom of God. Praise God! Tonight I have a lot of joy in Jesus because the angels in heaven are rejoicing with us!

We just led about 30 people to Christ in a Hmong village. There were 3 large families. They took down the spirit altars that were in their houses and burned the spirit paraphenalia. A witch doctor was among those who got saved and he burned one of the biggest spirit altars that I have ever seen. He was happy and joyful that he escaped the wrath of the spirits. The village chief in this village is the father of one of the female Bible students who is studying Bible with us right now. He is also a church leader. He told us that these 3 families were totally against God and Christianity. But now, praise God, God has softened their hearts and now 3 families have accepted Christ. There was one other family that wants to accept Christ, but they weren't home tonight when we went. I think that very soon they will accept the Lord. One of the 3 families have a son who is currently living in a Buddhist temple. Please pray for him to come to know the Lord as well.

This is the good news that I want to share with you tonight and I pray it will encourage you to stay strong in the Lord. They want us to go pray with them for the next 3 nights in a row. The health of the former witch doctor isn't very good. Please pray that God will do some miracles in his life. At first, I thought I would go back to Chiang Mai tomorrow, but now I think that I will stay here. Please pray for this. God bless you.

Zoo siab thiaj qhia tuaj rau nej pab nrog peb zoo siab xwb.

Somboon (Kaub Yaj)

Hmong Developing Quality of Life Foundation: Blue Print Plan

PROJECT: BUY FIELDS

BACKGROUND AND REASONS:
Hmong Developing Quality of Life Foundation is a foundation established for the purpose of helping Hmong hill tribe children. Hmong people live in northern Thailand. For the most part, they live high up in the mountains. Some Hmong villages have schools and some villages do not. However, the schools in Hmong villages are not very good quality schools because there are not enough teachers and the teachers who are there do not pay much attention to the children. Even though children graduate from 6th grade, many of them are still unable to read and write at a 6th grade level. Also, many of these children are deceived into taking part in illegal activities. Teenage sex is also rampant. Because of these issues, we bring orphans and very poor children to live with us in order to build them up in Christ and give them opportunities to study.
Presently, the foundation has no fields on which we can plant rice in order to feed the children we’re taking care of. We are looking at the future and we would like to own fields of our own so that we can plant rice in order to be self sufficient and help keep costs down. It’s very expensive to buy rice to feed the children we take care of, and the price of rice just keeps going up and up. We would therefore, like to ask churches and individuals who have a heart and a burden to help Hmong children to have a part in serving God in this way.

PURPOSE
1. To have fields that belong to the foundation in which to plant rice that will be able to support the children who live with us
2. To not have the necessity to buy rice and in turn keep costs down
3. To have a place of our own in which to do agricultural vocational training

TARGET GROUP:
Hmong people in Thailand and surrounding countries

PLACE:
Chiang Khong District Chiang Rai Province

METHOD:
STEPS WE WILL FOLLOW:
1. Pray and share the project with the Foundation Board of Directors
2. Share the necessity of the project with supporters
3. Send the project out to various churches
4. Pray and follow up

LENGTH OF TIME:
January 2009 – December 2009



BUDGET:
Write up a project asking for support from various churches in order to purchase land – 20 rye (8 acres) at 4,000,000 baht or $121,212. 1 Rye = 200,000 baht ($6,060) OR 1 acre = $12,121.

ASSESSMENT OF FRUIT:
From the general response and money received

FRUIT WE HOPE TO RECEIVE:
- Have land that belongs to Hmong Developing Quality of Life Foundation for use in planting rice

- Have rice that we have planted ourselves and help reduce costs

RESPONSIBLE PARTIES:
Hmong Developing Quality of Life Foundation Board of Directors

SUBMITTED BY:
Mr. Somboon Rompanatham (Kaub Yaj)
President — Hmong Developing Quality of Life Foundation


AGREED TO BY:
Mr. Duane Carmody
Advisor and Supporter

PROJECT: FOR BUYING LAND

BACKGROUND AND NECESITY:
Hmong Developing Quality of Life Foundation was established to help very poor Hmong children and to make their lives better. The goal of our foundation is to work with Hmong people along the northern border of Thailand and the surrounding countries where Hmong people live. The reason we are working along the border is because many Hmong people in that area don’t have Thai citizenship and many children don’t have the same opportunities for an education that other children have. Hmong people in general don’t have the same opportunities that others have. Our foundation was established to share the gospel of Jesus Christ and to help make the lives of Hmong people better. We have been doing this ministry for 5 years, but we don’t have land of our own to use in ministry. We don’t have land in which to build a ministry office or hostel/dormitories for children. We are currently renting and now the rental costs are rising, but the funds are decreasing. We would therefore like land of our own, land that belongs to the foundation. We believe this land will be of benefit to many Hmong people and will be used to further the kingdom of God. It is to be a place where the Name of Lord will be earnestly proclaimed.

PURPOSE:
1. To have a foundation center that will benefit all Hmong people
2. To have a children’s hostel, a Bible training center as well as other ministries
3. To have a place for teaching vocational skills and an agricultural center that will enable us to be independent.

TARGET GROUP:
Hmong people in Thailand and in surrounding countries

PLACE:
Chiang Khong District in Chiang Rai Province

METHOD:
1. Pray and share the project with the foundation committee.
2. Share the necessity of the project and what’s involved in the project with supporters.
3. Share the project with different churches.
4. Pray and follow up.

LENGTH OF TIME: January 2009 – December 2009

FUNDING:
6 Rye (3 acres) = 2,400,000 baht ($72,727) 1 rye = 400,000 baht ($12,121) or 1 acre = $21,242

EVALUATION:
We will be able to evaluate the project based on the response and giving from various churches.

FRUIT THAT WE HOPE TO RECEIVE: -
Have land that belongs to Hmong Developing Quality of Life Foundation for use in ministry - Have a center for Hmong people that will be used in proclaiming the gospel and for various activities.

RESPONSIBLE PARTIES:
Board of directors of Hmong Developing Quality of Life Foundation

SUBMITTED BY:
Mr. Somboon Rompanatham (Kaub Yaj),
President Hmong Developing Quality of Life Foundation

AUTHORIZED BY: Mr. Duane Carmody Advisor/Supporter

PROJECT: 4 WHEEL DRIVE CAR

BACKGROUND AND NECESITY:
Hmong Developing Quality of Life Foundation was established to help very poor Hmong children and to make the lives of Hmong people better. The goal of our foundation is to work with Hmong people along the northern border of Thailand and the surrounding countries where Hmong people live. The reason we are working along the border is because many Hmong people in that area don’t have Thai citizenship and many Hmong children are disadvantaged and don’t have the same opportunities for an education that other children have. Hmong people in general don’t have the same opportunities that others have. Our foundation was established to share the gospel of Jesus Christ and to help make the lives of Hmong people better.
We have been doing this ministry for the last 5 years and we have children that are living in the hostel run by the foundation. But we still don’t have a vehicle of our own that we can use in transporting the children to and from school and for use in the ministry. Every time that we take the children out somewhere or we go on outreaches to Hmong villages, we need to ask to borrow someone else’s car. It’s a very inconvenient way of doing ministry . We therefore have a great need of a vehicle to use in the ministry. Hmong people for the most part live high up in the mountains. A winding dirt road that can get partly washed out during the rainy season is the only way of accessing some villages. It’s therefore very important that we have a 4 wheel drive vehicle that we can use to reach our target group that live in hard to reach places. We are hoping that you will be able to help us meet this need.

PURPOSE:
1. To have a car for use in taking the children to and from school and for use in outreaches.
2. To have a car for use in the work/ministry of the foundation.
TARGET GROUP:
Hmong people in Thailand and surrounding countries
PLACE:
Chiang Khong District in Chiang Rai Province
METHOD:
1. Pray and share the project with the Foundation board of directors
2. Share the necessity for having a vehicle with supporters
3. Share the project with various churches
4. Pray and follow up.

LENGTH OF TIME:
January 2009 – December 2009

FUNDING:
We would like to buy 2 4X4 vehicles
1. New 4X4 vehicle
1 vehicle = 800,000 baht ($25,806) 2 vehicles = $51,612
2. Second hand vehicle:
1 vehicle = 550,000 baht ($17,741) 2 vehicles = $35,484


EVALUATION:
We will be able to evaluate the project based on the response and giving from various churches.
FRUIT THAT WE HOPE TO SEE:
-We will have a car for use in taking children to and from school and to various activities
-We will have a car for use in ministering to Hmong people in various villages and in doing the work of the ministry of the foundation.
RESPONSIBLE PARTIES:
Hmong Developing Quality of Life Foundation Board of Directors

SUBMITTED BY:
Mr. Somboon Rompanatham (Kaub Yaj)
President, Hmong Developing Quality of Life Foundation


AUTHORIZED BY:
Mr. Duane Carmody
Advisor/Supporter