This is Yingwhit, a member of The River Team who was previously a Buddhist Monk.  Yingwhit now lives and works in a very remote hill tribe village as a cross cultural missionary within his own country.  He is from the Hmong tribe, a tribe with its own distinct language and culture and works with the Karen tribe, a tribe with another distinct language and culture.  Though both of these tribes (and many others) live in Thailand, neither has language or culture in common with the ethnic Thais.  Yingwhit is currently seeing numbers of families coming to Christ through his community transformation work in that village and many of the surrounding villages that have also requested that he work with them.  He is also seeing many miraculous healings in these communities. 

Above to the left, Yinwhit stands in his small bamboo hut demonstrating the environmental and time saving benefits of using a simple gas burner rather than cutting local timbers to light fires side the hut to cook each and every meal.  So far Yingwhit is the only one in his region using such technology, but others will follow as they watch Yingwhit benefit from the gas cooker....  Just as they followed when he modeled how to build a toilet, how to plant and use vegetable gardens and how to farm fish.

 

These are just a couple of the faces of lives that have been transformed thought the work of Yingwhit and the church he leads in remote Northern Thailand. Please pray for him as he continues this often lonely work, in harsh conditions, and bears so much fruit!