“Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth labourers into his harvest.” (Matthew 9:38)

To God be the glory; great things He hath done. Egg, the man about whom I gave a salvation report in our last letter, has been faithfully coming to church. He told me after last Wednesday’s service, “Since Jesus saved me, I have peace like I never had before.” He has been soaking up all he can about the Lord. How sweet it is to see young Christians grow in the Lord!

We are rejoicing in the Lord, as Silas, my interpreter and faithful helper in the Lord, reports that his adopted mother and one of his adopted sisters called him to ask him why he had changed so much. They told him, “You are very good now. What happened to you? Did that foreigner help you to change?” “No,” he replied, “he just told me about Jesus. I believed in Jesus, and Jesus changed me.” Their reply was, “Can you tell us about Jesus?” Praise the Lord! They both trusted Jesus to save them.

I received another blessing. A missionary friend of mine asked me to pray for the salvation of a man named Bird (because he is a big man, they call him “Big Bird”). Bird had been coming to their church for several weeks, and although they had given him the Gospel, he had not yet believed on the Lord Jesus. My friend invited me to come and teach, and Big Bird came to the service. After the service, Dhet, a young man who was saved at our first church plant in Thailand, came up to me and said that Big Bird wanted to talk with me. We sat down and talked, and I got to know Bird a little bit. I asked Bird where he wanted to go when he died, and he replied, “Heaven.” He allowed me to share God’s Word with him, and he listened very intently. At the end, I asked him what he thought about what God said. He replied, “I think God is right, but I’m not sure. I’m 50/50 now.”

We reviewed a little, and he said he was still 50/50. I asked if he could read. He said that, yes, he liked to read. I asked if he really wanted to go to Heaven when he died, and he replied, “Oh, yes!” We gave him a John and Romans and told him that if he would read it every day, it would help him to believe. He said that he would, and I suggested that if he had any questions, he should ask Dhet on Sunday when he came to church.

Three weeks later, I asked Dhet and some of the men to come and help me move some heavy things at my house, and Bird came with them. When he got out of the truck, his face was beaming. He made a beeline for me, grabbed me, picked me up, and bear-hugged me. Finally setting me down, he said in broken English, “I saved! You—me—Heaven!” I knew exactly what he meant. Tears welled in my eyes as I hugged him because when I shared the Gospel with him, I told him that I wanted him to go to Heaven with me. Praise the LORD!

Please pray with us about a van. Ours was an older, “fix something nearly every week” van, and the engine finally went kablooey!
We love you all, and we thank you for all of your faithful prayers and support! May God bless you and your work for Him there, as we work for Him here!

Yours for His harvest,

Andrew & Denise Long
Romans 10:14