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Comment by Daniel De Herrera on July 8, 2011 at 20:42

I am praying to the Lord Jesus for call confirmation, for the doors to open through the path He is calling. He knows I'm willing.

Comment by Mike Frith on July 15, 2010 at 14:48

Pray for the team of us, staff and volunteers, from OSCAR who will be hosting the mission advice area at New Wine festivals in late July/beginning of August. Pray that many will respond to playing their part in mission, whether it's in going into mission work or supporting others who go.

Comment by Scott Worth on June 26, 2009 at 23:52

update from Thailand /Burma urgent prayer request....

Dear Friends,

Astrid and I returned home this afternoon from the border of Thailand and Burma. The Lord performed a wonderful miracle, but we need more prayer as well.

But before I share what the Lord did, I want to thank you all for praying for this situation. I believe we needed every single prayer.

Astrid and I attended our Church Sunday morning before heading up to the border. During the first worship song I could only think of the kids on the border possibly being sent back to Burma to their deaths, and I wept throughout the song. After the service, Astrid and I both drove separate trucks loaded with aid up to the border town where we needed to spend the night before driving the next day to reach the refugees. She cried more than half of the drive to up the winding mountain road, praying for the orphans.

On Monday morning we walked in unannounced and the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) office in this border town. The director was wonderful and very helpful. We shared the situation, and the UNHCR had not heard of our two camps. They had only heard of the one large camp further away. So the director took all of our information about the location of the camps and sent it to the UNHCR office in the next province. This next province had jurisdiction over the area. The director assured us the UN would look into it and they did not want the children sent back to Burma.

We then met with the team of 21 people who were driving out the camps with us, and off we went. When we reached our first camp, the Thai Boarder Police were all in the camp. We came there with the intention of talking to them to try to persuade them not to send the children back. Sunday night we talked on the phone to a ministry friend who has worked on the borders for many years who told us to be very careful as it was extremely dangerous to upset the Thai Border Police. But if necessary we were prepared to stand between the Police and these children so they would not have to be sent to their deaths in Burma. But the Lord did an amazing miracle.

When we got out of the car, the people in the camp told us that as late at that morning, the Thai Border Police were still threatening the children and telling them that they would be sent back to Burma in two days. (The border police moved their "push the children back" date back from Tuesday to Wednesday, since they heard this large group of Americans was supposed to come to see the children on Tuesday.) The children were terrified and they grabbed onto the Grandma in the village and wept and asked her to see to it that they would not be sent back. They were so afraid. But Grandma could not make any promises, but they all prayed. But then a call came saying the UN was coming to the camp and would be there in a few minutes. A high ranking UN official, a high ranking Thai Provincial official, and the ranking Thai military commander for the area all entered the camp and asked to meet with us. They told us that the children would absolutely NOT be sent back to Burma. We were able to ask questions about their safety (since they live just across the river from the war zone and still hear the fighting) and the Thai government assured us that the Thai army would protect the children. The children would NOT be going back. After our meeting was finished, the UN and Thai officials had a good stern talk with the border police. We never had to talk to the border police, but their minds had been changed. GLORY TO GOD !!! Astrid and the team then gave T-shirts as gifts to the soldiers and the border police, and they all seemed quite happy. It's good to get on their good side. :)

I told the UN official about our second camp and asked if he could help them as well. The main teacher at the orphanage had called our Karen contact and he was frantic, saying the border police were also threatening to send them back. I got him on the phone once the UN agreed to visit his camp as well, and he was elated when he heard the UN was coming and would see to it that they could stay in Thailand. They were all about one or two days away from being pushed back into the hands of the brutal Burmese Army. And now the Lord had saved them. The leaders of these orphanages are all Christians, and most of the children are Christians as well. God has saved his children.

At the end of our second meeting at the second camp, the UN official told us that the US Ambassador to Thailand had contacted the UN and had talked to them about looking into this situation. But I don't know if they knew about our camps until we had the information sent from the UN office we visited. I'm not sure how it all worked out, but praise God that it did. Whoever contacted the Us Ambassador, thank you and God bless you!

But now for the prayer request. On Monday, the children's lives were saved. But on the other side of the border, the fates of other children changed, and not for the better. The Thai Border Police were in close contact with the Burma army on the other side. We suspect the Thais told the Burmese that the children would not be coming. Because on Tuesday, 40 young boys, ages 12-14, were taken from villages in Burma that had been overrun and occupied by the Burmese Army last week. The people are slaves to the army. These boys are now in the Burmese Army base across the river from our first camp. They are working for the Burmese army carrying their guns and ammunition, and digging bunkers, and we hope they will not be used as mine sweepers.

There are still two Christian Karen army units who are holding out. At least one unit is surrounded by land mines. This protects them. The DKBA, the Karen faction that fights with the Burmese Army, was sent against this Christian group. But at least 8 of the DKBA soldiers were killed by land mines. So the DKBA soldiers retreated to the Burmese Army. The Burmese soldiers told the DKBA to get back into the fight, but the DKBA told them they could not win the fight. So the Burmese soldiers shot and killed all the DKBA soldiers. This is what the Burmese Army is like.

If the Burmese Army makes the children mine sweepers, they will tell the children to march in front of them into the mine field. If the children refuse, they will be killed. But if they go ahead, they will most likely step on a land mine and be killed. But that's what the Burmese Army seems to want, since that will clear the mine field for the soldiers. We've heard that not just these 40 children, but many, many others have been rounded up to support the Burmese Army battalions all over the war zone. So our prayer request is for these children. They are the same Karen people as our kids whom the Lord has saved. The children at risk may not be Christians, so their eternal destinies are also at risk.

One hope we have for the 40 children is that one week before the war started, Astrid was in that camp in Burma (where our orphans lived) with a group, and many Gospel comic books were handed out to the children. Those books are still in the camp as far as we know. We pray that the children will read the Gospel and be saved. Pray also that the Lord would turn these Sauls (persecuting Burmese Soldiers) into Pauls (evangelists for our Lord Jesus Christ).

Thank you again for your prayers. God has done in incredible miracle for our orphans. I can't tell you the change in emotions everyone feels and our thankfulness to God. It's simply amazing. With God, all things are possible.

Mark and Astrid

Comment by Fiona on June 23, 2009 at 11:23

Lord give those able to provide shelter and protection for these children the courage to do so.

Comment by George Owens on June 23, 2009 at 8:33

Scott, I to have Prayed that God will intervene.
Lord protect those children.

Comment by Bob Hitching on June 23, 2009 at 7:38

I have just prayed and sent it on to a group who are interested in the Karen. May God give you much wisdom and Grace

Comment by Mike Frith on June 22, 2009 at 10:02

I'm praying for them, Scott.

Comment by Scott Worth on June 21, 2009 at 17:37

From my friends who are helping those who are fleeing - please pray!!
Dear friends,
We just got a phone call from the border, the Burmese Army talked to the Thai Army and are demanding that all the kids from KT Shekinah and all the children from Mark's camp need to return to Burma by Tuesday. At this moment the KT Shekinah children are across the river from Burma on Thai soil. Mark's camp children are on a mountain also on Thai soil.
The Thai army set up a base next of the KT Shekinah children's place.
We can not have our children and others send back to Burma, they will be used as mine sweepers and porters for the Burmese army, young girls will be raped and killed! If the children are sent back, many of the children could be killed by the end of next week!
Please, pray for this urgent situation.
Mark and I are going up to the border tomorrow and will visit the office of the United Nations in Maesariang on Monday and ask them how they can be involved.
Will still are still feeding and bringing other aid to these precious Karen people.
Thank you for your prayers.
God bless,

xxxxxxxx

Comment by George Owens on June 10, 2009 at 12:19

May God Bless you guys in this

Comment by Scott Worth on June 10, 2009 at 12:13

Please be in prayer for the Children's Gala in Dunfermline, Scotland. Our little fellowship is sponsoring a game booth for the children. unlike the other events at the Gala ours is free to the children. We have a number of businesses who have donated prizes for the event.

We are praying specifically that many will ask questions that lead us to be able to share the Gospel with them... If not at the event then individually at a later date via the flier they will receive. The Gala is June 17th...

Thank you for praying... and may God be Glorified through all of the efforts He has enabled us all to do.

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