FELLOWSHIP NEWS

September 2006

TBMF Comings and Goings

The Goings… some of the folks who are traveling this month include

Pete and Lizz Maycock headed to the UK on September 3rd for Home Assignment. They plan to return to Thailand on January 8 th and will be relocating to the Musikee district of the KBC.

Lyndal and Lukgade Brunner are currently traveling in Laos .

Ingvar Skeppstedt has journeyed back to Sweden for two weeks to attend a conference.

The Comings…

Welcome to TBMF!

Anna Cheng, GiA Thai Team, arrived from Australia in May and is currently studying language at ULS.

Chandra Denherder, IM, has arrived to teach at Sammuk Christian Academy .

Jessica Cehlin and Viktoria Silfverdal, BUS volunteers, are teaching English at the Mae Sarieng hostel.

Jason and Christy Edwards, CBF short-term personnel, are currently studying language in Chiang Mai and will be moving in early November to the UHDP Center (Mae Ai). They will be in Thailand for 1-2 years.

Scott and Taen Coats, long-time TBMF friends, have recently been appointed as IM missionaries and are now members of TBMF.

Stan Murray, IM Area Director for SE Asia/Japan, will be in Thailand from October 28-November 3. He will be traveling with Rev. Ray Schooler , Board of International Ministries President, as he visits the work and ministries of IM missionaries.

The Movings...

Oryvind (Anan) and Phethsamai Hadland (BUN), along with their children, have recently moved to Chiang Mai from Bangkok .

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Regional Fellowship Opportunities

TBMF Potluck Dinner

Friday, October 6, 2006

5:30 PM

At Rick and Ellen Burnette's house

Details to follow

Fellowship Meeting/Prayer Time for Nan-Payao Area

Tuesdays at Noon

Contact the Martins or Vanlalmuanas for more information

Events to Put on Your Calendar!

CCT Biennial Meeting

Bangkok

October 16-20

Upland Holistic Development Project 10 th Anniversary Celebration

Saturday, December 2, 2006, at the UHDP Center in Mae Ai

125 th Year of Jubilee of Baan Nook Church (the first Karen church in Thailand )

February 3-5, 2007

Contact Jacqui Wells for details

KBC Annual Convention

Baw Kaew

April 3-6, 2007

7 th Asian Baptist Congress

Chiang Mai

May 2-6, 2007

Information on how to register will be coming soon.

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Prayer Requests:

• Please pray for Lee and Lyn Morris as Lee's mother is in failing health. Pray that they will have wisdom in knowing when Lee should travel back to Australia and for comfort, strength and peace during this difficult time.
• Please pray for Bekah Morris as she adjusts and settles into dorm life at Hebron School in southern India .

• Continue to pray for Pat Brown and her father as he deals with a cancer diagnosis.
• Please remember BUN General Secretary, Magnar Maeland, in the recent death of his father.
• Please pray for Rev. Shigemi (Jimmy) Ono, the head of Japan Overseas Mission Society. His father, Rev. Ichiro Ono, passed away after a serious fall. Pray for Eiji as he goes back to Japan to attend the memorial service and the funeral on the 13th and 14th. 
• Continue to pray for Marcia Binkley in the U.S. as she has just completed her radiation treatments for breast cancer.

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Got something to share?

Send any news items, events, prayer requests, “comings and goings” to Ellen Burnette for the next Fellowship News ( communications@tbmf.org ).