Football Club - an excerpt from this month's newsletter (written by Noom)

I have something special to share with everyone about the guidance of God in our family and ministry in Isaan. If everyone has been following our news you will already know that in the first year of our marriage and in Ubon we planned not to start our worship ministry but instead to have a break, learn more about each other, focus on married life and on building relationships with those around us. Through this we also planned to learn more about culture. Now we have been married for 6 months – thank you everyone for praying constantly for us.

In the time that we’ve been here we have learnt many things from God, especially how important it is to be prepared and ready all the time and willing to obey God in the things that He requires us to do and take a part in (even if it’s in a different timing to our own). Our obedience to God has led us to rejoice with the rest of our family. God is more faithful than we can understand, and He has shown us the importance of building relationships with the people in Ubon. With starting our worship ministry next year, God has taught us that it’s not next year when we start to build relationships but that is something we need to start doing now in order to produce fruit in the time that we do start our worship ministry (we need to be ready all the time).

The thing that we want to share and the door that God has opened to us in how to build relationships with other people is through football.

God has given me a heart to start doing a Football club in order to build relationships with other people (football is my main talent and hobby too). I have been able to build some relationships through this door already since coming to Ubon. So this year we feel like God is leading us in a ministry of continuing to build relationships with others. Many of my friends and I have come together to talk about different events and supporters. There are already many people (about 24 altogether), Christians and non Christians, who want to be involved. Therefore, we need people to support us financially in this area, in order to have enough money for games and tournaments, as in this time there are just 2 other people and us to take care of the financial side of things. But we don’t have enough.

Please be praying for us in this ministry, especially because the people in the group we are working with are not all Christians, and because we can really see that this idea has come through the guidance of God. Everyone who has come to us knows who we are and what we are doing. I am so thankful to God that He has opened a door for our ministry in Isaan, and something important is that I can see that through this my wife also has more friends in Ubon – whether they are Christian friends or not – but I believe that God has a plan.

Our prayer requests for the beginning of this ministry are:

Financial support for the Football Club.
Pray for wisdom in sharing the Good News with the group of helpers in our Football Club who don’t yet know Jesus.

Thankyou so much and God bless :)