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Tiffany McDonald Mi s s i o n a r y t o T h a i l a n d Go ye therefore, and teach all natons Ma t h e w 2 8 : 1 9 a
Dear Pastor,
Thank you for taking your time to read this. I am looking forward to the possibility of sharing with you and your church what God has been doing in Thailand. God has blessed me this year with the opportuni- ty to serve with a team of missionaries in Thailand from January - May in 2013 . I was working at their language school and in their childrens ministry at the church. Also I was able to visit Gospel Baptist Church, which is on the Burmese border, for about three weeks. A trip that started out to be just for an adventure and for experience changed my life forever.
Pastor Emmanuel Sinoy, who has been a missionary in Thailand for ten years, has asked me to return to Thailand and serve with him and his family in MaeSot, Thailand. His church, Gospel Baptist Church, has a ministry to the English, Thai, and Burmese people. The churchs other ministries include: a Bible Institute, Bliss Learning Center (a migrant school), and Bliss Home For Children (an orphanage). GBC has also planted other churches and is currently in the beginning stages of starting another church in a nearby town. My main position will be running the migrant school which has Buddhist, Muslim, and Christian children attending it. We are praying that God will use this school to reach the Buddhist and Muslim children and their families for Christ. Also I will be taking part in the childrens ministry and the Bible Institute. There the harvest is plenteous, but the laborers are few.
I have joined Golden Land Baptist Missions (GLBM). Our vision is to reach all of Eastern Asia through training the natives. Myanmar is in the center of five Asian countries. By reaching Myanmar and sending out men to start churches in the neighboring countries and continuing to train and send, all of Eastern Asia can be reached. Please prayerfully consider supporting me. Gospel Baptist Church and I covet your prayers.
In June of last year, I started deputation, and am praying to be back in Thailand in the spring of 2014. Pastor Sinoy has thankfully promised to take care of my housing. Because of this big blessing, I will only need to raise a $1,000 in monthly support. In addition to raising full support, I am trying to raise money for a vehicle. Although living in Thailand is fairly inexpensive, vehicles are very expensive. Recently Pastor Sinoy has contacted me about a car used which is being sold for $5,600. I only need 1,700 for my first payment. It would be a big blessing if your church could help support me and or help me with the purchasing of a car.
Please find attached Thailand pictures, my biographical sketch, and letter of recommendation from my sending pastor and a letter of recommendation from Golden Land Baptist Missions.
Tiffany McDonald
With the help of my translator, I saw the man in the middle trust Jesus as his Saviour. Pastor Sinoy, his family, and I at the night market. This group of family and friends, all of whom have trusted Jesus, travel to church on one of the most common means of transportation in Thailand. We held a Bible club meeting in an area where we hope to start a new church, and twenty-two children trusted Jesus after I told them a Bible story. I am teaching new vocabulary to a group in Sunday English. Koon Maeow has taken these children in because their parents dont want them or they work too much to take care of them. Gospel Baptist Church holds three separate services every Sunday morning in Thai, Burmese, and English. This is a picture of the Burmese congregation. Address Email Cell 24 Rapple Dr. purestblue27@gmail.com 518.708.9327 Colonie, NY 12205
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Tiffany McDonald Mi s s i o n a r y t o T h a i l a n d Go ye therefore, and teach all natons Ma t h e w 2 8 : 1 9 a
About Me I was born into a Christian family and have attended church since I was a young child. My father, who is a deacon, and my mother, who is a Sunday school teacher, were my role models. My childhood was centered around my church and family. I was homeschooled for three years and attended a Christian school for the rest of my education. As a child God began working in my heart to serve Him. After soaking up missionary stories and hearing about the mission field from missionaries who visited my church and books I read, God started to plant a desire in my heart to serve him on the mission field. As I got older the desire began to fade so I thought. I had my friends and my job, but God was not giving up. When I was sixteen some ref- ugees from Thailand visited my church. The mission field had come right to me. Soon my church had a growing ministry for these refugees, and I was completely involved. I started out helping my Ma teach the young refugee children in her Sunday School class. The next thing I knew I was making two to three trips with my van every Sunday bringing the refugees to church, teaching the children and adults English on Sunday afternoons, and being a mentor to the children. I loved these people and their culture; my desire to see them and their people trust and serve God continued to grow.
After graduation from Latham Christian Academy, I enrolled into Hyles-Anderson College and began my Bachelors of Science for English Education. My goal was to teach ESL (English as a Second Language) and work in America. Once again that was not what God planned. During the summer before my junior year, I met Emmanuel Sinoy at my churchs week-long tent meeting. He and his family are missionaries to the Burmese and Thai people. He asked me to visit his ministry in Thailand. I told him I was in school and didn't have the money. For two years he stayed in contact with me. Upon completing my degree at Hyles- Anderson, God gave me an opportunity to serve in Thailand for four months with the Thailand Mission Team and also to take part in Pastor Sinoys ministry for a couple of weeks. During my time in Thailand, God confirmed that this is where He wants me.
My Testmony At a young age I knew many Bible stories and about heaven and hell. On the way home one night when I was four, I told my parents I wanted to get saved. That night my Ma knelt with me at my bed and led me through the plan of salvation. The following morning was Sunday; I walked into church and announced to my pastor that I had gotten saved. After the Sunday morning service, I was baptized. When I was ten, I started to doubt my salvation, and after hearing a sermon on hell, I was scared. I talked to my Ma and received my assurance of my salvation shortly after hearing that sermon.
Rensselaer Open Bible Baptist Church 1615 Third Street Mailing Address: 4401 State Route 43 Rensselaer, NY 12144 Pastor Glen Hamilton (518)312-2143
April 3, 2013
Dear Pastor,
I would like to recommend Tiffany McDonald as missionary to Thailand. Tiffany has grown up in our church. God has been preparing Tiffany for the mission field for many years. He has put many Asian families in her life as neighbors, friends, and employers. He also brought many refugees from Burma to our church while Tiffany was a teenager. She used her own van to pick many up for church week after week. She attended Hyles-Anderson College and once again worked with the Asian ministry there. Tiffany is a dedicated soul winner and has a sincere desire to serve the Lord where ever he leads. She has already learned some of the Thai language as well as some of the Burmese language and has been in Thailand for the past three months. Her heart is already knit to the people there. She is an experienced teacher of ESL (English Second Language). God has prepared her well for the task he has for her there.
I am confident that she will be a good investment for your prayer and/or even financial support. If you have any questions please feel free to call me at (518)312- 2143.
Sincerely,
Pastor Glen Hamilton
There is gold, and a multitude of rubies: but the lips of knowledge are a precious jewel. Pastor Richard Hack, President Dr. Bob DeWitt, Founder/Director Re. Tiffany McDonald, GLBM Missionary Dear Pastor and friends: I am very pleased to present to you and your church our missionary, Miss Tiffany McDonald. I, personally, have known Tiffany and her family for years through her home church and pastor. I have witnessed her love for the Lord and for souls. That God would call her to work as a missionary among the Thai and Burmese people is a natural re- sult of her involvement with those refugees in her hometown and church. Her Pastor will testify that she gave of herself graciously and faithfully through her high school years to bring these people to church and to Christ. Tiffany will be working at the Gospel Baptist Church, near the Myanmar (old Burma) border in Mae Sot, Thailand with GLBM Missionary church-planters Emmanuel and Aivie Sinoy and their staff. Manny became a Christian through the ministry of FBMI missionary Steven Heidenreich and his work, the Gospel Baptist Church in Ilo Ilo City, Philippines. He graduated from the Gospel Baptist College there. Brother Sinoy answered the Divine Call to reach the Burmese through the World-wide Missions Conference in the Philippines that is connected with Missionary Rick Mar- tins work. The Sinoys moved to the Philippines nearly twelve years ago and have built a strong ministry along the Burmese border in Thailand where they have regular services in several different languages and dialects. They have an orphanage with 60 wonderful children and they administrate GLBMs school of 160 Burmese students who come from both Buddhist and Muslim families. These children are learning the Word of God everyday and many of them have already turned to Christ with their families. It is in this place that we sent a gospel tent in 2011 and saw several thousand Burmese people saved. Brother Sinoy operates a Bible Institute, preparing young men and women to return to their homeland to plant churches for GLBM. He has trained, sent, and now supports six Burmese preachers who have already planted churches. They also have an open door to reach hundreds of thousands of Burmese still living in Thailand along the border in nine refugee camps. It is to the city of Mae Sot that we ship ocean containers bearing mil- lions of Burmese Scriptures to be smuggled across the border into Myanmar. So there is a great work going on there and I would invite you to go with us on one of our annual mission trips to see it for yourself. I hope that you will prayerfully consider investing in Tiffany McDonald and GLBM. This is a golden opportunity for you and your church to reap a great harvest of souls and to send the light of the Gospel to the uttermost part of the earth. Please feel free to call me on my cell phone if you have any questions: 607-426-8034 Your servant for Christs sake, Dr. Bob DeWitt A ministry of Lighthouse Baptist Church, 209 Gardner Rd. Horseheads NY 14845 Office: 6077399062 On the web: www.lbchorseheads.org www.goldenlandbaptistmissions.com
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