Watermelon of Peace

I received the following letter in an email this week. I wanted to pass it on to you all to encourage you to continue praying for and supporting Dave and Louise Sinclair-Peters and their family in Thailand.

Hi Friends,

Last night at the Burmese worship service, the church was packed with seekers and worshippers of Jesus, enjoying God's presence. Suddenly out of the blue, our drunk neighbour became irate with the noise and started yelling and cursing at everyone, especially Sandy, telling her to stop the noise.

In a rage, the man went and got a gun and started firing it off into the air repeatedly!

Sandy quickly got all the kids and adults to go inside and shut the door. We felt very bad for all the Burmese inside, and their constant fear of being arrested by the police.

With everyone safely inside, Sandy stood outside the church all alone, guarding her people. With news of the angry neighbour, Dave raced back from the market to help Sandy. He boldly went over to the man with the gun and spent time listening to his complaints.

Then like a good Anabaptist, Dave said sorry for the noise and gave the man a watermelon (too bad he didn't have any roll kuchen with him :)! After that, the man calmed down and went back to his house.

So today I would like to give a medal of bravery to Sandra Fender for her courage shown protecting our Believers last night.

I would also like to give a peace prize to my husband, Dave, for bringing the "watermelon of peace" and so gently diffusing the conflict!

Please continue to pray for the Thai and Burmese church as we live and work in this "wild west" Thai community.

Please pray with us for God's favour and protection for all the Believers.


Thanks for standing with us in prayer!

Louise