Blessed is he who is generous to the poor.
  Proverbs 14:21
Patpong Red Light District After Covid19
We Need Your Prayers

The Sharing Joy Project

Due to Coronavirus many women who work in the sex industry and their extended families have been without income for nearly four months. The picture to the right shows a deserted street that used to be one of the busiest red light districts in Thailand.

Therefore, in partnership with Rahab ministries, a Thai Christian organization that helps women escape from prostitution, we will distribute 40 "Encourage Life" bags in a program we've named "Sharing Joy". The bags will contain various necessities and some special things for them as well.

On Wednesday, July 15 we will host a special event for the women and distribute the bags. We need intercessors, because ministry like this here often involves significant spiritual warfare.

Can you pray for this? If so, please drop us a short a message letting us know that " I will pray." We will then send you more specific prayer points.
We Need More Prayer

The Hosea Program

The Hosea Program is a program started by us several years ago to help improve the job skills of sex workers who want to break free from that work. The program focuses on building long term relationships between us and the women, teaching them valuable job and life skills, and seeking to help them come to know the one person who is the only source of true help and hope, our Lord Jesus Christ.

We will be re-launching this program next Wednesday at the Sharing Joy event by including a book that we use in the Hosea program in the bags we distribute, and offering the women full scholarships to study. We hope that many of them will participate in classes that will meet in the late afternoon, before they typically would start working in the bars and brothels. The classes will be offered at the Rahab office in the middle of the Patpong red-light district. The Rahab office and staff are well-known to many women there as a safe, non-judgmental place for them.

  • Please pray that God would lead many women to want to have this training and to regularly attend the classes.
  • Pray for our staff and the Rahab staff to really shine the light and love of Christ to these women, and for opportunities to teach the gospel.
  • Pray that many of them would get saved from the prostitution business and from the wrath of God through putting their faith in Jesus.
  • Pray that many people will be moved to pray and financially support this program.
Together, We Can Do More

All of our work involves seeking to show Thai people the love and greatness of Jesus Christ through acts of mercy including the most loving act of all, proclaiming and teaching the gospel.

Would you pray and consider financially supporting these initiatives with either a one-time and/or recurring gifts? Here are the current financial needs:

  1. The Sharing Joy Project: Currently the project will help meet the needs of 40 women and their families for one month. We have the potential to help many more women each month until the end of the year or so. The cost to help these 40 women and their families for one month is about $2,000.
  2. The Hosea Program: Currently we have funding for six women to study for five 12-hour sessions. We anticipate that more than six women will participate, and the longer they can study with us the deeper our relationships will go, and the greater the opportunity for them come to know Jesus Christ in a saving way. The cost for six women to study for 60 hours is about $1,200.

**There is a 1:1 matching grant available for donations. **

If you would like to support any of these projects please click here, scroll to the bottom of the page, and under the "Church Planting Movement Partnership" please click " donate."

For more information, please email us at: kareni@converge.org.
Mrs. Newii, a Water of Life church member and
the leader of the Sharing Joy and Hosea projects.
  With the merciful you show yourself merciful;
    with the blameless man you show yourself blameless.
2 Samuel 22:26
As always, we thank God for you and your partnership in spreading the gospel, making disciples, and planting churches in Thailand.

Yours in Christ,
Todd and Karen