Tip is one of the DTS staff at our base. She is from the Karen tribe in the region of Omkoi, Thailand. This is her story:

Tip grew up in a Buddhist family. She excelled in her religion classes and impressed her teacher so much that she took pride in learning the teachings of Buddha. She describes her life before Christ that she was like Saul. She would make fun of and engage in fights with Christians. One day in 2000 her teacher invited her to travel to Bangkok with her class to go to a Buddhist conference/revival. The night before she was to go, she was invited by a friend to go to church. She didn’t want to go, but he didn’t have anything better to do if she had waited on her friend. She went and the Holy Spirit touched her and she cried and cried and didn’t know why she was crying. She gave her life to Christ that night. The next day, she told her teacher that she couldn’t go to the Buddhist revival because she was now Christian and her teacher slapped her. She was looked down upon by her class, but she became like Paul after her conversion; encouraging others and being filled by the strength of the Holy Spirit.

And it gets better…

In 2006, revival broke out in Omkoi with the kids thanks to Pastor Warapong (Sidney). One night she was with a group of 150+ kids gathered at night for intercession. The Holy Spirit began to work in the natural world as well as the spiritual. Many kids testified that as they were on a prayer walk, the moon became red, the clouds parted and it became as bright as day outside and there were 5 stars over her village. When they got back to the church, it had become night again and the clouds reappeared in the shape of Noah’s Ark with Noah and all of the animals. It was interpreted that God was going to send out the Karen to reach other people. Many more visions followed in the years to come. Her entire village has become believers in Christ. In times of drought they have seen provision in super-sized crops that have no explanation of why they got so big in a dry season. The Lord proves that he can do all things, change a nation, and because of their faith, change the physical ground around them!

Tip’s village also heard of a neighboring village that woke up to 2 suns rising in the sky!

Praise God for Tip and more of how He is transforming the nation of Thailand. More stories like this can be found at:

http://www.glowtorch.org/Home/TransformationInOmkoiThailand/tabid/2608/Default.aspx