How terrific is it when you experience that moment where you know God just answered your prayer?
Todd and Karen Indehar, Converge global workers with the Northern Thailand Least-Reached Peoples project of the Thailand Initiative, had such a moment after praying for a couple of years for a village. They visited that community only to discover God had gone before them.
“As soon as we went in and got out of our car, the three of us that went met a man,” Karen Indehar said.
That man, Loong (name changed), warmly received the Indehars and spent nearly three hours with them. He doesn’t know Christ, but he wanted them to return, which they were all happy to do.
His unwritten language is disappearing because of a declining number of speakers. His concern for that became a divine opportunity as he worked with the Indehars. They could read Scripture in Thai, which he could translate into his village’s language so that children could keep learning it.
A few years into their collaboration, the Indehars have done several camps with kids so children are learning God’s word and slowing the language’s disappearance.
God keeps answering their prayers because a woman, Joy (name changed), is also supporting their gospel work. Joy is the village leader’s helper but has been extremely open and welcoming to Todd and Karen’s Scripture-based ministry.
Through that witness, Joy and two of her friends have made professions of faith. That’s a tremendous advance for the gospel in the least-reached nation of nearly 70 million Buddhists.
“These groups need prayer big time,” Karen Indehar said. “The guardian spirit they believe in is a strong, strong thing we’re up against here.”
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Karen and Todd Indehar have seen God answer prayers. They know that God’s past faithfulness is a reason to keep trusting him as they face new challenges in the Lord’s work.
“Greater is he that is in us than he that is in the world,” she said, referring to 1 John 4:4.
