Give Thanks
We praise God that in spite the sudden finding that John is bleeding internallyand he needs a surgery and preferably outside Kyrgyzstan, we were able to:
1. Buy a one-way ticket to Taipei on 6/12 and arrive there within 12 hours.
2. Make reasonable arrangements with our team that all works may proceed as planned without too much delays. This is only possible because even though not all team members are believers but the faith we have in our FATHER is sufficient to carry all, knowing He is always in charge.
3. Christa’s cousin sister in Taiwan made the critical contact to a private hospital - Shu-Tien which is well known for Urology Treatment and we could do registration on Sat. 6/14 on John’s birthday. We got to see the head of the hospital in the morning. After a short chat with him with the result of ultrasound, he made a decision for us that he can operate on John’s very enlarged prostate (180+ cc vs. the 25 cc normal size) Monday morning 6/16/2014). He informed us that the surgery may take up to 3 hours and the proper recovery time should be 1 – 1 ½ months. We asked if it is possible for us to return back to Kyrgyzstan in 2-3 weeks.
4. We are most thankful the Sister Fiona again allows us to stay with her on such a short notice, even though she already has quite a few others sisters in Christ staying with her. Her house is very close to the hospital and has easy access to all things. We praise God for putting angels around us for our need. Indeed He is our provider and His provision is more than we can imagine.
5. We praise God for Taiwan’s medical effective services. Even though the laser surgery is not covered by the insurance (told by the surgeon /president), but we can tell he is touched by what we are doing in Kyrgyzstan. Thank God that He gave us an opportunity to talk about Him during the brief check-up.
Prayer Request:
1. May John’s surgery be straight forward without unnecessary complication.
2. May John’s initial recovery be shorter so we may return to our team in 2-3 weeks and may God heal him and forbid additional bleeding in Kyrgyzstan. May our faith grow by leaps and bounds by this experience.
3. May we still be able to witness for Him in Taiwan for the people He put sin front of us.
4. May God personally oversee all work in our team and put all of staff, students and their parents under His wings.
5. May God bless all our supporters, families and friends for their love and concern for us.
Love in Him,
John & Christa
Saturday, June 14, 2014
Monday, June 9, 2014
Pray for us
Dear Prayer partners, Families and Friends,
Due to unplanned circumstance we are traveling to Taiwan June 12. I am going there for medical checkup and surgical operation.
Two days ago suddenly I was urinating a lot blood out. There was no symptom of any problem before. Checked with the doctors here and had ultrasound done. They said I have polyps in my bladder and need operation to cut off the polyps in order to stop the bleeding. They recommended me to go to Taiwan for operation because they do not have good equipment here in Kyrgyzstan. They think it is not cancerous. But I need to have thorough check to make sure before operation. Please pray for me. Christa's cousin arranged us to visit 書田診所for check up. We have booked flight to Taiwan on June 12. We give thanks that Fiona will accommodate us in her house that is quite close to the hospital. Pray that everything will go smoothly.
We only booked one way tickets because not sure how long it will take.
Due to unplanned circumstance we are traveling to Taiwan June 12. I am going there for medical checkup and surgical operation.
Two days ago suddenly I was urinating a lot blood out. There was no symptom of any problem before. Checked with the doctors here and had ultrasound done. They said I have polyps in my bladder and need operation to cut off the polyps in order to stop the bleeding. They recommended me to go to Taiwan for operation because they do not have good equipment here in Kyrgyzstan. They think it is not cancerous. But I need to have thorough check to make sure before operation. Please pray for me. Christa's cousin arranged us to visit 書田診所for check up. We have booked flight to Taiwan on June 12. We give thanks that Fiona will accommodate us in her house that is quite close to the hospital. Pray that everything will go smoothly.
We only booked one way tickets because not sure how long it will take.
In the meantime there are a lot of issues that need your prayers.
A. We still have not gotten our kindergarten license yet. We were told that we should get it soon. In Kyrgyzstan we can never be sure how things work. Something look simple may take months to complete. We can just patiently wait.
B. We still need more teachers for the kindergarten. They also need training for the Montessori method and will not disrupt our current teachers' teaching.
C. Shirley, our trainer is back in Singapore for the funeral of her mother. Pray for her.
D. Jenny, a trainer from Singapore plans to come, but we will be in Taiwan. Pray that God will lead to make the right decision and timing.
E. I am attached the pictures of our workers and the eight lovely children. The workers are John, Christa, Sophia (Administrator), Anna (Translator), Kasbek (Building manager),, Shirley (Trainer), Gulmira (Cook), Eleaner (Music teacher), Nurzada (Teacher), Sanura (Teacher). The children are Amil, Aiya, Timur, Lika, Ruffa, Nika, Samat and Islam. May we have opportunity to make a difference in their lives.
In God we pray.
John and Christa
Saturday, June 7, 2014
Urgent: Please pray for John
Dear All,
I just receive a letter from John:
I just receive a letter from John:
This morning I found out I was urinating blood and went to doctor who asked me to have ultrasound done. The ultrasound indicates that I have floating polyp in my bladder that is bleeding and need to be surgically removed. The doctor here recommends me to go to Taiwan for the operation. She also think this is not cancer.
So we are preparing to go to Taiwan while there are so many things to do here. Pray that God will be in charge of the situation and give us peace. Please ask our prayer partners to pray for us.
In His Name.
John P Tsai
Thursday, June 5, 2014
2014蔡柏林, 何長樂夫婦六月禱告信
親愛的禱告夥伴，
迫切需要祈禱的幾件事情：
Shirley Lim
雪莉，我們的首席培訓師，她在2014年4月2日回到Bishkek， 4/15來到Tokmok。可是由於她母親林太太於一天前去世，星期一她必須要飛到新加坡去辦她母親的後事。儘管雪莉沒有機會在新加坡現場跟母親見最後一面，但她已經通過Skype跟母親說過話了。雖然如此，雪莉仍需要回去跟姐姐去辦她母親的後事。我們要為雪莉祈求，祈求上帝給她額外的力量和恩惠去應付這困難的時刻。
執照
卡米拉Camilla已經安排了從教育部來的兒童早期教育主任於週一上午來參觀我們的幼稚園。請為我們祈禱，使她的訪問對我們的申請執照有所幫助，讓我們可以順利得到執照，幼稚園可以開班。
求上帝保護員工的健康 (包括 蔡柏林, 何長樂)
儘管天氣逐漸回暖，但我們似乎輪流生病 - 工作人員，教師和學生。請為我們的健康禱告。
RE：我們的美國護照與應用文件神秘遺失
感謝神，我們的美國護照找到了。我們發現有一個不良的員工在我們申請執照的那一天偷走了所有需要的文件和相關的護照。幸運的是，那些文件和護照幾天後在另一個地方找到了。那些丟失的護照至少覆蓋7個國家。感謝神，牠大大地減少我們的損失！
你們的禱告繼續支持我們度過了過去的挑戰，我們從我們的心底感謝你們，但還有更多我們需要克服的新的障礙。所以，我們指望你們能給我們更多額外的禱告支持。
主內，
柏林, 長樂上
迫切需要祈禱的幾件事情：
Shirley Lim
雪莉，我們的首席培訓師，她在2014年4月2日回到Bishkek， 4/15來到Tokmok。可是由於她母親林太太於一天前去世，星期一她必須要飛到新加坡去辦她母親的後事。儘管雪莉沒有機會在新加坡現場跟母親見最後一面，但她已經通過Skype跟母親說過話了。雖然如此，雪莉仍需要回去跟姐姐去辦她母親的後事。我們要為雪莉祈求，祈求上帝給她額外的力量和恩惠去應付這困難的時刻。
執照
卡米拉Camilla已經安排了從教育部來的兒童早期教育主任於週一上午來參觀我們的幼稚園。請為我們祈禱，使她的訪問對我們的申請執照有所幫助，讓我們可以順利得到執照，幼稚園可以開班。
求上帝保護員工的健康 (包括 蔡柏林, 何長樂)
儘管天氣逐漸回暖，但我們似乎輪流生病 - 工作人員，教師和學生。請為我們的健康禱告。
RE：我們的美國護照與應用文件神秘遺失
感謝神，我們的美國護照找到了。我們發現有一個不良的員工在我們申請執照的那一天偷走了所有需要的文件和相關的護照。幸運的是，那些文件和護照幾天後在另一個地方找到了。那些丟失的護照至少覆蓋7個國家。感謝神，牠大大地減少我們的損失！
你們的禱告繼續支持我們度過了過去的挑戰，我們從我們的心底感謝你們，但還有更多我們需要克服的新的障礙。所以，我們指望你們能給我們更多額外的禱告支持。
主內，
柏林, 長樂上
June 2014 Prayer Requests from John & Christa Tsai
Dear Prayer Partners,
Urgent Prayers needed on a few things:
Shirley Lim
Shirley, our chief trainer who returned on 4/2/2014 to Bishkek and came to Tokmok on 4/15 had to leave for Singapore on Monday for her mother, Mrs. Lim died 1 day ago. Even though Shirley did not have a chance to be there to say farewell in person, but they did speak to each other briefly over Skype. Still, Shirley needs to be back to be with older sister to take care of what needs to be arranged. Do pray for Shirley and ask God for additional strength and grace for this difficult time.
Licensing
Camilla has arranged for Director of Early child Education from Ministry of Education to visit our kindergarten Monday morning. Please pray for us that her visit may be helpful towards our application process, so we can be fully official in operation.
God’s Protection of Staff’s Health (including John & Christa)
Even though the weather is getting warmer, but we seem to be taking turns to be sick – staff, teachers as well as students. Pray for our health.
RE: Mysterious Loss of Application Documents & Our U.S. Passports
Praise God that our US passports were recovered. We found out there was an unhappy employee who stole all the application and associated passport on the day of our application. Fortunately, they were all found days later in another location. Those missing passports covered at least 7 countries. We praise God that He minimized the extent of damage!
Your prayers continue to sustain us through the past challenges, we thank you from the bottom of our hearts, but there are many other new obstacles that we need to overcome. So, we are counting for your additional prayer support.
Urgent Prayers needed on a few things:
Shirley Lim
Shirley, our chief trainer who returned on 4/2/2014 to Bishkek and came to Tokmok on 4/15 had to leave for Singapore on Monday for her mother, Mrs. Lim died 1 day ago. Even though Shirley did not have a chance to be there to say farewell in person, but they did speak to each other briefly over Skype. Still, Shirley needs to be back to be with older sister to take care of what needs to be arranged. Do pray for Shirley and ask God for additional strength and grace for this difficult time.
Licensing
Camilla has arranged for Director of Early child Education from Ministry of Education to visit our kindergarten Monday morning. Please pray for us that her visit may be helpful towards our application process, so we can be fully official in operation.
God’s Protection of Staff’s Health (including John & Christa)
Even though the weather is getting warmer, but we seem to be taking turns to be sick – staff, teachers as well as students. Pray for our health.
RE: Mysterious Loss of Application Documents & Our U.S. Passports
Praise God that our US passports were recovered. We found out there was an unhappy employee who stole all the application and associated passport on the day of our application. Fortunately, they were all found days later in another location. Those missing passports covered at least 7 countries. We praise God that He minimized the extent of damage!
Your prayers continue to sustain us through the past challenges, we thank you from the bottom of our hearts, but there are many other new obstacles that we need to overcome. So, we are counting for your additional prayer support.
Love in Him,
Christa & John
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