The Power of the Gospel

Through one of our literature distributions in Chiangmai, Unoope Pimpar, an airforce man with a hot temper, responded to argue against us and the Gospel message (see our post "Seeing God at Work in Thailand"). However, the Lord convicted him and he surrendered his life to Jesus and was wonderfully saved, together with his wife, Noongluk, and their children. Unoope was discipled and led the follow-up team of 12, who handled the responses of hundreds of thousands of Thai from the 71 provinces all over Thailand. I have not witnessed anyone who kept such immaculate records. He had photos and details of every one of the enquirers from all the Newspaper Campaigns and Gospel tract distributions. He had records of every piece of correspondence to each one and the communications to missionaries and Christian workers closest to where they lived in each province.

In Thailand many people read every piece of literature. Some of the accounts that reached us were wonderful. Here are a few examples...

A woman was standing on top of the bridge which spans Bangkok's Chao Phraya River. She was about to commit suicide. However, before she jumped, she looked down for a moment and saw a package lying at her feet. She thought maybe her luck had changed and it was something valuable. She picked it up, opened it and found a small bottle of medicine. She was angry but then she noticed the colourful paper it was wrapped in. It was one of our Gospel tracts called "The Light of Life". She read it, responded and wrote in to tell us she had received Jesus, the gift of eternal life.

A missionary went out into a remote unreached area of Thailand. To his surprise he found a strong lone believer. Upon enquiring how he had come to faith in the Lord Jesus, the man explained how he had read the message in the newspaper. One of our full-page Newspaper Campaigns had been the wrapping for goods he had bought at the local village market.

After we left Thailand and returned for a visit, I was having lunch with Unoope. He handed me a response to a tract that had just come in that day. He knew I would understand, without telling me. On every piece of literature we distributed we put a date and a symbol to show where it had been distributed. This tract had been given out 15 years earlier. And now a response had come from a 19 year old man in Rangoon, Burma. This meant he had been 4 years old when the tract was given out in Bangkok and somehow that Gospel message had got all the way to Rangoon and reaped the harvest. Great little missionaries are Gospel tracts. The Book of Acts says...

"The word grew and multiplied" Acts 12:24.