News of Napada Handicrafts

First of All, we can praise the Lord for blessing Napada Handicrafts with the ability to grow. We are now an exporting company and we have been able to hire a few more ladies from Mahatthai 3(the poverty area we work in). Napada not only makes handbags, but men's shirts, other small items, and cards. We are praying how we can expand in the company. Praying God leads us in how to expand in the products we make as well as praying for opportunities of new locations where distribution can be provided.

As I have stated multiple times in previous blog posts and letters, with the political unrest, people are shaken. The women in Mahatthai are worried, as their husbands and/ sons have gotten involved in the political fighting. They have been in dangerous places. Certain days these women were unsure if their loved ones would come home alive or not come home ever again. I remind you of this so you can get a feel for what is bringing people to the Lord. This new lady, P'Lik, that we were able to hire part time(a mother of one of my students), says that she does not know Jesus. But whenever there is trouble (there is now!) or she is scared (she is now)about something, He is who she prays too. At Napada we have devotions every morning. P'Lik is now asking questions. We can praise the Lord, because she asked P'Kieow for a Bible. She is hungry to know more. To know God. To understand who our security is in. To know the same peace that we can have in the circumstances around us. Will you pray with me that this lady will not just stop at the questioning phase? Will you pray with me that as she reads the Bible, as she talks with our staff and the other Napada women, as she attends the devotions in the mornings, that she will be given insight and clear understanding? Will you pray with me for the result of P'Lik coming to know Jesus as her personal Lord and Savior? And will you Praise the Lord with me that through this ministry a few of the women are now coming to church and a couple have already accepted Jesus as their Lord and Savior?!!! God Answers prayers and He is working in amazingly unexpected ways!!