The methodology of White Fields causes us to always look for the next village to plant a church. Our team on the ground analyzes how to move us toward the farthest fringe where people do not have a witness for the gospel. The local leadership finds the avenue to introduce the gospel to these needy people.
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Poverty Solutions-Update
Part of our comprehensive approach to transforming communities around the world is to come alongside church members and give them the means by which they can become producers and lift themselves out of poverty. We believe that work is good, that it restores dignity, and that it is God’s plan for humans to work.
Recent Ministry
We give thanks for the support you have given us to do the work of God and to teach people to overcome poverty through raising pigs and growing fruits as these generate income for our church members. May God bless you.
We continue to preach the gospel through home visits and by building strong relationships between families and our church. James is a man who opened his heart to the Lord after his family received a pig. He thanks the church that gave him the foundation for a source of income, which will help him to start paying the school fees for his children.
Over seventy family beneficiaries have seen an improvement in their lifestyle through the Poverty Solutions program. They have paid school fees for their children and paid off their debts through the sale of piglets.
Steven, Tobias, and Annah all managed to renovate and improve their houses. Annah sold the mother pig to get money to upgrade her house and bought a piglet to replace the older one. Moderate and Johnson started grocery shops to supply common household items like food and salt. The rest of the beneficiaries have seen great improvement in their soil quality through applying the manure collected from their piggery shades. These are only a few of the stories of the success and power of the poverty solutions program. It has indeed been a blessing to the families and our communities as a whole.
Some of the challenges we face include the increase in all food prices. This inflation has also affected the mash prices which has been a challenge to our farmers. We are praying that we can find a machine to start producing our own feeds to offer to the farmers at a lower price. Also, if we can produce our own feed then we can produce pigs of better quality because the feeding mash available is poor quality, yet expensive.
The east coast fever for pigs has been detected in our area so the government put a ban on all sales of pigs or their movements until the fever is cleared. Pray that the Lord will heal our land.
Poverty Solutions not only deals in piggery but also produces fruits like papaws, oranges, mangos, and vegetables.
Helping in Times of Need:
During the recent pandemic, our churches were restricted from meeting as a congregation, but our pastors and poverty solutions managers made sure people were not suffering. They went out and visited the families, single moms, and widows. They brought food and ministered to them.
Our Ministry
Richard & John Bosco oversee the Poverty Solutions Ministry in Uganda.
The brick machine is used to build projects, such as water tanks, school buildings, and the new medical center. All the workers belong to the church; they earn a wage and support their church and families.
Thank you to our partners who donate through our online poverty solutions gift catalog. Our Ministry is transforming the community and helping families lift themselves out of poverty.
before the New One was Built!
Ezra is the lead welder; he has two interns who will become welders and have a better opportunity to get jobs.
Richard visits families that have received piglets; he makes sure that the animals are growing healthy. He spends time ministering to the families and helping them find solutions with any issues they might have. Pastor Onesimus occasionally visits families to make sure our managers are taking care of them.
Richard and John oversee the garden, vegetables, and fruit trees as well. They were trained by a retired farmer from California, U.S.A. They learned the best methods of how to water and maintain the different types of agriculture. Local village volunteers also visit the surrounding areas and help cultivate the grounds. In return, they get to keep the gardening tools for their gardens.
Richard & his wife Lucky and their Son!
John Bosco & his wife Scovia with their children!
Mountains Move
During these trying times, our pastors are diligently ministering to the needy in their communities. The demonstration of their faith in action to the impoverished and helpless has a dramatic influence on the lives of people watching. Myanmar pastors are delivering some rice, some vegetables and, cooking oil. These people are delighted, says our Field Director, because they did not receive any help from the government or other organizations. The distribution of the gifts has caused people to give praise to God almighty who created everything. They know the pastors live very meager, the people see our pastors living without much themselves, and yet they are giving these gifts to them.
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Pastor Aye Min Htun’s Testimony
I was born on March 15, 1984, at Hlaingtazar town. My parents are U Htun Kyi and Daw Tantan. I was raised Buddhist until my mother became a Christian. My mother was the first among our family to believe in Jesus Christ in 2006. Sometimes, my Mom told us about Jesus, but until 2010, I was a Buddhist. Pastor Aih Kham Ko came and shared the gospel with us. After two years of marriage, we had one daughter who had suffered from heart attacks since she was born. Many times, we had to bring her to the hospital, and we went through many difficulties and hard times. Believers were praying hard for my daughter and my family. After that, we experienced the goodness of God and His salvation. Praise the Lord. My wife and I believed in the Lord Jesus Christ as our Savior. Both of us were baptized in 2010 by Pastor Thawng Nei Bil. When I became a Christian, I felt that the Lord was calling me to be a witness for Him and preach to my people, so I became involved in an outreach ministry to non-Christians around us.
I attended an education program from Elementary to High School at No. (3) High School, Hlaingtayar Township, Yangon. I felt in my heart that I had a responsibility for my people, specifically those who did not know the love of God and the salvation of Jesus Christ. I have the vision to plant a church in the Yoo Lee area, Hlaingtazar township, where many non-Christians are living, mostly poor people. The Burmese tribe has the highest percentage in the area, and there are some small other tribes too. I have studied and prayed about this area since last year; my overseer, Pastor Thawng Nei Bil, came to investigate this location two times, and I looked for a house to rent. We found one apartment for rent, and I will be moving in January 2020. Please pray for me as I begin as a new church planter under the White Fields Ministry. Thank you very much. May God bless you all.
Recent Ministry:
Despite the political problems, our small new church weekly ministry has continued because of your prayers. Though our outside evangelism is limited, I strive to reach new people and gather to worship God on Sundays.
I continue to conduct a home cell program at member Ma Ih’s house; her husband is not a Christian, but when we shared our prayer items, her husband requested prayer for the success of his business. He could not get profits in his own business, but two days after our prayers, he told me, “God answered our prayers, and now my business is a success.” The Lord provided for his needs with answered prayer, and he is ready to believe in God; I am now teaching him the gospel. Praise the Lord.
The Lord is faithful in answering prayers; my members have a challenging situation with their daily meals; sometimes, they eat only porridge, but the Lord used the women’s group of Insein Biblical Presbyterian Church to provide rice and distribute it to all our church members.
We have about fifty members now. Three young men will be baptized soon: Ko Moe Lee, Ko Piang Kyi, and Ko Myiang Kyi Ngi; they have accepted Jesus Christ as their Savior and Lord. Praise the Lord.
Thanks to God for answering our prayers, for the one man ready to receive Christ as his own Savior and Lord. Thank God that the three young men are prepared to take baptism. Pray for my plan to conduct gospel camping during the water festival. Pray for our country, for political peace.
By the grace of God, we look forward to the blessed New Year 2024. Sometimes, I hesitate to share the gospel with new people, but I am encouraged to have the boldness to share the gospel when I remember from the Bible: “Then spoke the Lord to Paul in the night by a vision. Be not afraid, but speak, and hold not thy peace; For I am with thee, and no man shall set on thee to hurt thee: for I have many people in this city.” KJV (Acts 17:9-10). The Lord sends people with health, financial, social life, and shelter problems who come to church to meet their needs, which means they see God’s helping hand. We pray for them, and God answers our prayers that we can help solve many of their problems. All glory be to God the Father. Thank you for your prayers and financial support for my family and ministry. May the Lord continue to bless you.
Prayer Request:
Give thanks to God for the success of our New Year celebrations and weekly services and programs. Pray for the Water Festival holidays when we plan to conduct gospel camping. Pray for our country for political crisis and peace. Pray for a permanent land and house for our worship place.
New Year greetings to all of you, my prayer partners. May the new blessings be poured upon you all. My Christmas season ministry was doing well; we celebrated Christmas, and about 250 people came. They all were non-Christians. Our weekly services were doing well, too. Praise the Lord.
In November 2023, I contacted some non-Christians and shared the gospel. One of them was the family of Ma Tandar Htun. The health of their family members was not good; Ma Tandar Htun’s mother has diabetes, her daughter suffers from hard breathing, and her small son has TB disease; they are in a challenging situation. My member Ma Khin Tan Myint brought them to my church, and we prayed for their physical and spiritual health. It was amazing that God healed them so they could continue coming to my church every Sunday. They said they believed in Jesus Christ. Praise the Lord.
Due to your prayer help, one man who refused the gospel when I first met him came back from Shan State and now believes in Jesus Christ. When he was in a challenging situation while he was staying in Shan state, because of fighting, he was saved by Jesus; he shared with me. He confessed that he believes in Jesus Christ and joined the church. The Lord saved three persons, Maung Kyaw Zaw, Maung Balah, and Ma Kyi Kyi Maw; they were baptized on January 1, 2024 (New Year) by my overseer, Pastor Thawng Nei Bil.
Thanks to God for our Christmas season ministry and celebrations! Thanks to God for the conversion of three persons. Pray for my member’s daily food and the weekly programs. Pray for the peace and freedom of Myanmar.
Greetings to you all in the name of Jesus Christ. Under many pressures, the Lord blessed my ministry this month so that we could continue our weekly programs regularly including prayer meetings, Bible reading time, and Sunday worship meetings. I also do outreach during the weekdays. We were very happy to continue our weekly services without fail. How God is good towards His children all the time. He cares, feeds, and provides for us.
I praise and thank God that I met some people in my outreach ministry, namely two young men, Ko Chan Mih and Ko We We Aung. I shared the gospel with them, after sharing three times, both of them have accepted Jesus Christ as their Savior and Lord. They will take baptism soon.
Ma Ih Ih Naing and Maung Hung Thang accepted Jesus Christ as her Savior and Lord this summer and were baptized by my overseer Pastor Thawng Nei Bil.
Ma Ih Ih Naing’s testimony from last month’s report: “Among the new believers in Yaki is a woman named Ma (Ms). Ih Ih Naing, who had accepted Jesus Christ as her personal Lord and Savior this summer. When I met her, she had a problem with debt. She had made a guarantee and borrowed a large amount of money from a family for her friend. But her friend had run away, several months had passed and Ih Ih was not able to contact her friend anymore. Her debtors had asked her to repay the money back. Ih Ih was disappointed and very worried about what to do. It was during this time that I shared with her about Jesus and asked her to pray for her problems. She prayed, Jesus, if you are a true and living God, please solve my problem as soon as possible and I will believe you and worship you. After two weeks, she was able to contact her friend and she repaid the debt completely. So, Ma Ih Ih Naing received Jesus Christ as her Savior and Lord.”
I am recruiting young people for the football team and they joined the fellowship football tournament and got third place. Three of them are my church members and believers, the other eleven are non-Christians. They attend my church’s Sunday service regularly. We hope and pray that they may know and accept Jesus Christ in the near future. This outreach is one of our key ways to draw the youth. It is good because then they all participate in the Youth Fellowship worship services and activities. I visit the Yulee area once a week for evangelism and to meet with my members there.
My eldest daughter has been suffering from heart attacks since her childhood. Recently her disease flared again, and she went to the hospital. After two days, she was getting better and has been discharged from the hospital. Praise the Lord!
- Give thanks to God for the conversion and baptism of two persons. Pray that they may grow in spiritual life.
- Give thanks to God for the success of the football team; it is a good outreach to share with young people the gospel of Jesus Christ. Give thanks to God for the youth believers who are reaching their friends with the gospel.
- Pray for the peace and freedom of Myanmar.
- Pray for my member’s daily food; it rained heavily and flooded, destroying their properties. Pray for their survival.
“The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. He makes me to lie down in green pastures, he leads me beside the still water.”
Psalms 23:1-2
Pastor Paw Oo
Pastor Paw’s Testimony
I was born on January 1, 1969, at Eh Thar Duh Chaung village, Yalun township, Delta Area. My parents were U San Thein and Daw Yin Shwe; there are eight brothers and sisters in my family. I am the fourth son. When I was born, my family was an active Buddhist family. My father was a local pharmacy doctor, and my mother was a gardener. I was taught Buddhism from my childhood, and I became a staunch Buddhist.
I attended government education from Elementary to High School at Hintarah town, Ayawady division (Delta Area). My parents always encouraged me to be a monk. I entered into one monastery and became a monk in 1998. I preached Buddhist beliefs to our people, and I also built one Buddhist Temple. I served as a Buddhist monk for ten years. During this time, I had no peace and no reality in my heart; my confidence for life after death was not there. So I resigned.
After I had resigned, I went to my relatives in Shwe Pyi Thar, Yangon. In the year of two-thousand, I heard a pastor preach from the book of John, he read verse 14:6, “I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life.” This passage touched my heart deeply, and I believed it. An evangelist named Benjamin shared about Jesus and the salvation story. I was touched and decided to believe in Christ. I received Jesus Christ as my personal Savior and Lord. I was baptized on February 13, 2011. After that, I had joined the Myanmar Power Mission Training School for one year. I was appointed as a church planter on June 1, 2012, by the Myanmar Christian Mission. I attended the Word Bible Seminary from 2013-2014, and I completed a Bachelor of Ministry degree and, after that, a Master of Ministry. My wife’s name is Daw (Mrs.) Saw Si Hlaing (SiSi). We have no children.
I felt in my heart that I have a responsibility for my people, specifically those who do not know the love of God and the salvation of Jesus Christ. The love of God compels me to be a witness for Him throughout my life. Thus, I have been sharing the gospel to non-Christian in Htan Chauk Pyin, Shwepyithar Township, Yangon. The Lord saves souls through my ministry. Praise the Lord. In my area, there are mixed tribes; they are the Karen tribe, which is about twenty percent, Burmese is sixty percent, and the remaining twenty percent are other ethnicities. I rent a house for the worship service and as my family residence. I reach my community by visiting and praying for the people and inviting them to attend the worship service. Presently, I have about thirty to forty attendants every Sunday. Please do continue to pray for me and my ministry. Thank you very much. May God bless you all.
Recent Ministry:
Greetings to you all in the name of Jesus Christ. Due to your prayer help, my ministry is doing well, and we can conduct worship services and prayer meetings regularly. We need to do God’s ministry in or out of season, as Jesus said, “I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves, be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves” KJV; (Matthew 10:16).
I was invited and conducted a gospel training for ten non-Christians gathering at Hlawka, Swepithar township, on February 4, 2024. I taught the whole day about salvation compared with Buddhist belief; they were pleased to hear it. I also had the opportunity to reach out to more people at Yile Kyautdan, TanLin township; 35 people were gathering in one place. They were both Indians and Burmese; I taught them the whole day about the salvation story, and they responded to me by some people that they had first heard about it, and they were interested in knowing more about Jesus and His salvation story.
We thank God for our weekly services, which we do regularly. Give thanks to God for the success of two gospel campaigns in different places. Pray for those who heard the gospel that they may come to know Jesus Christ and accept Him as their Savior and Lord. Pray for our country; only God can change and give us peace.
Prayer requests:
Due to your prayer help, my church’s weekly worship services, prayer meetings, and home cells were held regularly. Though our political problem is not changing, the Lord allowed us to reach new people. I conducted a one-day gospel campaign from 9:00 am to 3:00 pm on January 19. Twenty-three people joined us; amongst them, 15 people are of non-Christian background. Praise the Lord that Daw Thidar, Daw Chaw, Sandar, and U Kyaw San Htay were interested in my teaching. They promised to join our home cell programs and Sunday worship services. I was invited to teach the salvation story at Ye-kyaw village, Hlawka, on January 24. I had the opportunity to teach the great salvation of Jesus Christ to fifty new people whom we invited to join our training. I hope they all may repent and believe in Jesus Christ.
Give thanks to God for our weekly services.Give thanks to God also for the success of two gospel campaigns.Pray that God may open more doors for outreach evangelism.Pray for our country; only God can change and give us peace.
I bless you all in the Name of Jesus Christ. May the Lord bless you with abundant blessings in this New Year 2024. Your prayer changes things in ministry. In the last week of October 2023, my church was closed by authorities. We were apprehensive about it, and I requested my overseers and all prayer partners to pray hard for us. The Lord answered our prayers. I met the leader of authorities in our area, and he allowed me to re-open for worship service. Praise the Lord. In November and December 2023, we could continue our weekly ministries without fail. I had reached out to three new family members near our place. I meet them and teach salvation stories every Sunday afternoon. They joined our worship service on Sunday. Pray that they may genuinely believe in Jesus Christ.
We celebrated Christmas on December 24, and about 80 people came and joined us. I also invited our area authorities and gave them Christmas gifts; they were pleased. We also celebrated New Year on January 1, 2024, with my neighbors and members. Praise God that He provided all our needs and kept us safe. I also plan to conduct gospel camping in the early month of 2024 and hope to invite at least 25 new people. Pray for us.
Thanks to God for the re-opening of our worship service. Thanks to God also for the success of our Christmas season services. Pray for the gospel camping for non-Christians. Pray for the ministry in the new year. Pray for the peace and freedom of our country, Myanmar.
November Prayer Report
I would like to express my thanks for all of your prayers and financial support. Due to your prayers, my family and all my church members are doing well and are safe from all kinds of evil and illness. There are tropical diseases in our area, such as eye diseases, flu, dysentery, and fever.
I did my best to reach some new people by visiting neighbors with gifts of rice. Insein Church helped us with some bags of rice, and I shared with the people about the story of Jesus Christ. I was invited to share at a gospel rally which was conducted by my friend Yekyaw Ukphu. It is about a thirty-minute drive from my place. I thank God that many came and were interested in my teaching.
We ask for a special prayer request of U. (Mr) Maung San and Daw (Mrs.) Mar Mergret, they are Burmese nationals. Their house was destroyed and they were chased out of the place because it belongs to one rich man. He had allowed them to stay a build a small house there for many years and many poor people had made tents and stayed there. Maung’s family are faithful members and were converted from Buddhism. They need a house for their family, and they tried to build a small tent. Pray for them. They need a house for their family residence.
Our weekly prayers occur regularly, including the home cells, prayer meetings, and Sunday services. I visit my members and pray for their family’s daily needs. Pray that we can continue in our ministry without hindrance. Some of my new converts went back to their hometown in the Delta area, if they can get a job, they will return to Yangon again.
I had the opportunity to teach the gospel to seventy people Cherry Street, Planning Ward, South Oklapah, Yangon this past month. I also preached the gospel to Alat Chaung, Ngiang Dung Village in the Delta area, about ninety people were gathered there. They were all very happy and listened, I also was happy for this opportunity.
- Give thanks to God for the two places where I had the opportunity to hold a gospel rally and preach the whole day.
- Give thanks to God for our weekly services and the safety of our members.
- Pray for my member’s daily food. Pray that they may grow in faith.
- Pray for our new church building fund, and for the peace and freedom of Myanmar.
- Pray for my members’ daily living; many are finding it difficult in daily survival and are struggling for food.
- Pray for our country, we trust in God that He alone can change our country
This Works!
Solving poverty in impoverished communities is no easy task. Poverty is present everywhere we minister. Giving people welfare relief may have an air of compassion but we have recognized that it could hurt them in the long run. How does White Fields address this portion of our ministry to become a solution instead of compounding the problem?
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