Category: Thailand

Baan Zion – One Village at a Time Update

Dear friends,

Greetings and blessings from all of us.
We already are in the month of June and as many of you have read in our
news flashes, lots of things are happening in our Baan Zion Ministry.
Our in-living girls are doing well and being here I cannot say anything else
than they, together with our staff, function as a close knitted Christian family.
As they grow up, it gets more and more evident how great the blessing of
Baan Zion has been and is in their overall development and growth in
the Lord. They are the future change makers.

But there is more. As you know we have started our “One village at the time” project with the aim to help and change the lives of girls in the villages of whom the mother is in prison.

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Baan Zion – The Year of Restoration

Dear friends,

The Lord promised that 2019 would be the year of “RESTORATION” for us.
And we do experience this restoration and renewal
in the things that are happening.

*For the first time in 16 years of Ministry here, we now
have a house of our own.
*In January we could start our new “One village at the time”
project.
*And since February a church in the USA teamed up with us.

But all these blessings do not mean that we can sit back. On
the contrary, it gives us even more drive and motivation to reach
out to girls in need and rescue them from the hands of our adversary.

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Baan Zion – One Village at a Time Project

Dear friends,

Time to give an update on our new project.
“One Village at the Time”

As mentioned in previous blogs, news flashes and our Facebook page, we next to our Baan Zion home per January of this year officially started with helping girls of imprisoned mothers living with their poor grandparents in the Hill Tribe villages.

This apart from the support we do give to girls that live in Baan Zion, but can be reunited with from prison released mothers. Support to set up a new and better life and if needed can continue up to two years.

After taking the first girl into this new program, word in her village but also the surrounding villages spread fast.
Even toward Hill Tribe villages as far as 70 kilometers away.
The number of applications for help really overwhelmed us, and are still coming in.

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Baan Zion Update – Where Have We Been?

Dear friends,

It has been a while since you heard from us and saw frequent
posts on our Facebook pages.
The reason is not alarming, but caused by travel and I am staying in
Baan Zion in Thailand. Internet here is not that great and it has its vulnerabilities.

Reason for my long stay here, first of all of course are our girls and
seeing how they are doing, spending time with them and where
needed have conversations about what ever is on their minds
or needed.

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Baan Zion – God’s Grace

Dear friends,

We serve an Awesome Lord and Savior and we see His Grace
and life changing power over and over again in the lives of the
girls we care for.

Over the years we have rescued many girls out of dangerous and
child unworthy situations. We take them from prisons, out of severe
abuse situations and human trafficking.

We bring them into our house(s), raise them as our own and provide
in all that is needed. Here with us, they receive healing of their traumas
and are given the opportunity to grow physically and mentally into very
strong and stable individuals.

In 2012 we saved these girls out of their village and a life of abuse,
after they were left when the mother went to prison. As so typical
here no one cared about them.

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Baan Zion Update – Moving is Close

“Except the Lord builds the house,
they labor in vain who build it”
Psalm 127:1a Amplified Bible

There is a time and place for everything under the sun.
And the best time and place are the ones determined by
the Lord Jesus Himself.
Sometimes difficult to wait for in patience, but if we do
in faith, the result will always bless us in ways we could not
arrange ourselves.

For us here in Baan Zion, it is a time of great anticipation
knowing that this year will bring a major change in our
living circumstances. Being the moment we later this year
will buy and move to our new house(s).
A moment that now is coming close very fast.

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