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Greetings everyone in the Name of Jesus!
We pray that everyone had a wonderful Christmas and New Years holiday and that God is pouring out His blessings in you life. May God give you all a very safe and prosperous year 2022. Amen!
We celebrated Christmas last month with our family at Lamp of Khon Kaen Church here in Khon Kaen. We had a great time as I shared about the Greatest Gift at Christmas, Jesus. Afterward we had a great time of fellowship and gift exchange. It was a great blessing to be able to be back in a live services again.
Last month, I went to the doctor to have a nodule on my nose removed because it was bothering me. The doctor took a specimen to examine first and found out that it was a basal cell carcinoma nodule and must be surgically removed. So, on the 6th of this month, I had the surgery done and am now recovering really quick and fast. I get the stitches removed this week and all is going super so far thanks to all the prayers of all our friends and family. All glory to God!
Covid has started rising up again after all the the new year celebrations. So, we are having to be careful in all things here again and the government is staring up more restrictions everywhere. So pray for our protections again.
On the 15th of this month, Annie and I are celebrated our 50th wedding anniversary. Wow! Because of my nose surgery and Covid rising up again, we didn’t make it to Hawaii, nor were we able to tour Europe, our spiritual children had to officiate a funeral and couldn’t join us, and we didn’t make it to the beach. But we made it as close to the beach as we could and went to the seafood restaurant here in Khon Kaen to celebrate as best as we could in the time being. We had a great time just enjoying the day together. Later we shall celebrate the right way. Amen?
It is truly hard to believe, but it is real, Annie and I have spent 50 years together! Doesn’t seem like it has been a half a century since we made that first decision to live our lives together, and the amazing thing is that we are here at the same place we started at 50 years ago, Thailand. After we were married we were in Thailand for 2 years, then made the big move to America. We stayed in America for 23 years before coming back to Thailand. Just as hard to believe, we have been back here over 25 years already. We went back to America with our 7 month old daughter, Ruby, and our luggage. We came back to Thailand with only our luggage and of course Jesus. I often say during weddings that Annie and I have already fulfilled all of our wedding vows except for one. We have been poor and well to do, been sick and in health, and the last one death due us part is still to come. But Annie and I are believing and promising to each other before God that we will hold hands when that day comes and go together into the kingdom of heaven.
As I look back over our life this last few weeks, I see how God destined Annie and I to be together even before we knew Him. Everything since we met over 50 years ago, I can see God’s Hand upon us from beginning to end. Everything in our life has been one miracle after another, including how we met till today. I truly praise God for all that He has done because God always knew that one day we would be serving Him back here in Thailand!
Today we give God all the Glory and thank Him for keeping us together all these years. God kept us together when we didn’t know him for 18 years and after we knew him for 32 years. It has been quite a journey all these years but here we are still going and still serving God. COVID has been quite a hindrance to our celebrating milestones over the last 2 years and we are hoping we can make up for it this year. I am planning for the year 2022 to be a year of celebration. This last year Annie turned 69 and I turned 74 years old, we passed 32 years of ministry, 25 years in Thailand and now 50 years of marriage. So we are overdue for a lot of celebrating. Amen? So we continue our journey and always waiting on God to direct us and lead us in His paths. So we will see as this year goes on, what God will have us to do. We are ready for whatever that might be.
We also want to thank all of you who support us financially and pray for us because of you we can and have been serving God here in Thailand the last 25 years and continue. We love and appreciate everyone of you. We pray for you everyday that God will bless you, protect you and fulfill all your needs and desires!
We love you all!
Ralph and Annie
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