Thailand to register migrant children

Children of migrant workers from Burma, Laos and Cambodia will soon be registered by the Thai government and eligible to enroll in school, migrant organisations have announced.

The process is already underway in a number of towns on Thailand’s border with Burma, and Thai government officials are reportedly collecting lists of migrant children to ready for registration.
To register the children, parents must hold migrant workers identification cards or migrant registration forms.
There are estimated to be between two and three million Burmese migrants in Thailand, most of whom work in low-skilled labour industries, such as fishing and construction, with little pay.
The deadline for registration is 18 December. A Burmese migrant in Bangkok told DVB that he had already submitted applications for his two children.
“To apply for the registration, two photos and personal details of the child and the parents are needed,” he said. “The children whose parents have no legal stay in the country cannot apply.”
Migrant NGOs in Thailand’s border town of Mae Sot said that applications are already being accepted at the municipal office and at the town’s administration office.
Ko Aye, from the Migrant Assistance Programme (MAP) foundation office in Mae Sot welcomed the initiative, while Htoo Chit, from the Human Right Education and Development group, said the programme could “bring light to future of migrant children in Thailand”.
According to statistics from Thailand’s labour ministry, around 700,000 Burmese migrant workers registered for labour documents this year.
A number of centres have already been set up along the Thai-Burma border to register Burmese migrant workers living in Thailand. Without legal status, access to education and healthcare in Thailand is heavily restricted.
The agreement between the two countries was technically formalized in 2003, although progress on it has been slow. Thailand also has similar agreements with Cambodia and Laos.
Criticism was leveled at the scheme in July after it was revealed that Burma’s ethnic Rohingya group would be barred from registering. The Burmese government refuses to recognize the Muslim minority and thus grants them no legal status.
 
From DVB

Burma to open private schools and hospitals

Private schools and hospitals abolished under the former Ne Win regime in Burma are to reopen in an attempt to generate more revenue in the country and improve the struggling sectors.

The government’s health ministry announced a 21-point criteria list for the opening of private hospitals starting from early next year.
Dr Kyee Myint, deputy director of the ministry’s health department, said that candidate health centers who meet the 21 conditions will be granted permission to run as hospitals.
“We have already announced this in the news,” he said. “This is a programme intended to bring profit to the nation by assisting in the development of private businesses.”
Private schools will be allowed to open at the start of the 2010 academic year, the education ministry has announced.
Guidance was recently given to private boarding tuition centres to prepare for the transition, with statistics delivered on school size, location, number of buildings and teachers, planned budget and school administration structures.
“This is only to test the capability of the candidates,” said Major Maung Latt, owner of Soe San boarding tuition in the capital, Naypyidaw, which has been flagged for consideration.
“Maybe in about one year, some government schools will be opened for auction [to replace with private schools]. Nothing is definite at the moment.
“It would be better for the education,” he added. “Why should the private boarding tuition centers be in existence now if the government schools were good enough?”
Well-known private tuition centres in Burma charge between 1.5 million and two million kyat ($US1,500 to $US2,000) per student each year.
People working in the education sector in Burma have said the move could lead to the development of more education-based businesses in the country.
Private schools once existed in Burma, but were abolished by former military leader Ne Win’s Burma Socialist Programme Party (BSPP) government when it came to power in 1964.

Deadline to apply for junta issued passports set

Thai employers of Burmese migrants working in Thailand have been informed again by Thai authorities to finish submitting the completed new nationality identification forms by November, according to a copy of an official document received by SHAN.

On 4 September, the provincial employment office of Chiangmai informed employers to urge their workers to apply for passport documents under the national verification process.
The deadline is by 30 November for people from Burma and 30 December for people from Cambodia.
However, most migrants were in fear to give the factual biographical information to the Burmese government because of reports of some of their families left behind being forced to pay extra taxes to the junta on monthly or yearly basic, said an employer who wishes not to be named.
Rights groups also share the same concern with the migrants.

On 16 September, rights groups: the State Enterprise Workers Relations Confederation (SERC), the Human Rights and Development Foundation (HRDF) and the Thai Labour Solidarity Committee (TLSC) submitted a petition to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Migrants to make an urgent inquiry into the commencement of a nationality verification process for Burmese migrants in Thailand because both the Thai and Burmese government have disseminated little information which is likely to be ineffective and places 2 million migrants at high risk.
“We hope the UN will actively take attention to this case and will try to discuss with Thai authorities to work together as we have requested,” Sein Htay from Human Rights and Development Foundation (HRDF).
The national verification process began at the end of July. Passport issuing offices are being opened along the Thai/Burma border at Myawaddy, Tachilek and Kawthaung (Victoria Point).
The only information publically disseminated is from the Burmese government about processes on its side of the border.
However, private brokers are springing up and providing answers and services at unreasonably high costs, according to their joint submission.
“Tour buses carrying migrants to border processing centres are leaving main migrant population centers in Thailand and migrants are then crossing borders to Burma and returning at varying costs with temporary Burmese passports and visas,” reads the letter.
The letter stated that the nationality verification process is two-track. Migrants can either submit their biographical information to brokers to get nationality verified and obtain a passport within months, or submit this information formally to employment offices and receive a slow response. The formal government costs are low (approx. 600 to 2, 100 baht/US$17- 60) but broker fees are unregulated and getting higher (starting costs approx. 7, 500 baht/US$200).
The groups said they fear for their safety and are disturbed at what appears to be another wave of exploitation.
According to the Royal Thai Government announcement that no migrants would remain illegally in Thailand after 28 February 2010, as all registered Burmese migrants must undertake nationality verification before this time by means of a 13-stage process involving both governments or face deportation.



The letter urges the Burmese government to conduct the verification process in Thailand and not in Burma.

Migrant workers: No meddling in Thai politics

In response to widespread reports saying that Burmese migrants may join the anti-government rally in Thailand, Chiangmai based Shan workers organizations said that they have a strict policy not to intervene in their host country’s internal affairs because they are only “guest residents”.

On Wednesday, Thai officials imposed restrictions along the northern Thai-Burma border due to a report that migrant workers might join the red-shirt demonstrations against Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejajiva during his scheduled (now cancelled) visit to Chiangmai on Saturday to attend the annual Thailand Chamber of Commerce meeting.
The Worker Solidarity Association (WSA) said that the group’s stand is non-interference. “We have warned our members to stay neutral and not to get involved with either red or yellow shirts because it is our Thailand’s domestic affair,” said Sai John, Chairman of the WSA.
Likewise, Migrant Workers Federation (MWF) says one of its policies is not to engage in the political affairs of their host country. Its members have never taken part in any political activities in the past and will remain so in the future as well, according to its chairman Sai Aung Htay.

“We are only people fleeing from the heat of our country to seek sanctuary. We are not associated with any political group. If there are members who do not follow this policy, he/she should withdraw from membership,” he said. “As workers, our rights are to only ask for equal treatment from our employers and the government if we are not treated equally and get equal pay.”
According to Jeerasak Sukonthachart, Director of Thailand’s Department of Employment, if migrants are found among the protestors they would be repatriated to their homeland and their employers will also face trial.
He said that, according to Thai law, migrant workers are not allowed to join political demonstrations because it is illegal.
To this, a Shan elder responded, “Workers are hired employees. They can only do what their employers tell them to. They are not in a position to lead their employers. It is unfair to blame them for what is happening between the red and yellow shirts.”
Some Shan workers admit they were given red shirts by their employers for what purpose they were not told.
There are more than 2 million migrant workers in Thailand, at least one-third of whom are Shans, according to one estimate.

Migrants granted access to legally owned vehicles

An announcement of the Department of Transport (DoT) of Thailand on 13 October said registered migrants from Burma, Laos and Cambodia and other minority people in the country have been granted a right to buy motor vehicles.
According to the announcement, a person who is holding Taw Raw 14 (Thai citizens), Taw Raw 13(displaced person holding a pink card or a highlander holding a blue card) and Taw Raw 38/1 (migrant worker’s card).
Although they are allowed ownership of vehicles, the authorities has yet to issue driving license for them. Nevertheless, the authorities are still discussing driving licenses how migrants could be issued, said the announcement.

A Thai source commented that, “Driving license for migrants will not be the same as those for Thai citizens because migrants cannot travel anywhere in Thailand without official permission.”
According to Human Rights and Development Foundation (HRDF) press release on 30 October, the DoT was able to grant migrants the right to own and drive motor vehicles due to the National Security Council (NSC)’s new policy.
The statement said this announcement will be a positive impact to over 1 million registered migrants and other minority persons in the country.
The number of migrants working in the country are estimated around 3 million.
At the same time, migrants from Burma are required to complete application forms for the passport document under the national verification process by 28 February 2010.

No Country to Call Their Own

Stateless Burmese children in Thailand are still being denied basic rights such as access to education and health services, and they are vulnerable to many kinds of exploitation and abuse, according to migrant rights advocates.



It’s estimated that there are about 1 million stateless children in Thailand, with about two-thirds thought to be children of Burmese migrant workers who come in search of a better life.


In 2008, the Thai government amended the country’s law on civil registration to allow all children born in Thailand, regardless of the legal status of their parents, to receive birth certificates. The change has been greeted by many in the international aid community as an important step forward.


“Efforts are underway to ensure that the system is accessible and well known to parents, including stateless parents, local officials and communities,” said Amanda Bissex, chief of the Child Protection Section of UNICEF Thailand.


Under the revised law, the Thai government, which ratified the 1989 Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), has instructed all state hospitals to issue birth registration documents to any baby born to any parents, regardless of their background.


However, rights advocates say that in practice, hospitals often fail to issue birth certificates to the children of migrants. This is partly due to the fact that many parents simply don’t ask for these documents because they don’t realize how important they are for their children’s futures.


Another problem is that many unregistered Burmese migrant women are afraid to go to state hospitals to give birth, as they fear arrest and deportation. As a result, they deliver their children at their homes or worksites with the help of local midwives.


Unregistered migrants’ constant fear of arbitrary arrest and deportation also discourages them from taking their children to local health-care facilities, causing them to miss basic inoculations against crippling diseases such as polio.


Pockets of the education system also remain largely inaccessible to many stateless children, say advocates. According to the Peace Way Foundation in Thailand, in some areas a migrant child can only be educated if a teacher is willing to accept the child and the family can afford it. Some children can attend classes, but with little hope of obtaining a Thai certificate of education, which is essential for further study.


In 2005, the government adopted a policy called “Education for All,” which was intended to give all children in Thailand equal access to schooling. However, even Thailand’s deputy education minister, Chaiwut Bannawat, has admitted that a large number of children still fail to receive an education.


While a language barrier prevents many children from entering Thai schools, poverty forces many others to forego study so they can work to support their families. The inability to get Thai certificates of education is another reason that few Burmese children continue their education when they migrate to Thailand with their families.


A very small percentage of stateless children are able to further their studies in Thai schools and go on to foreign countries on scholarship programs. For the rest, any hope of achieving a better education is soon abandoned.


“If children see no prospect for their future, they just take any job available in their community, which does not help them towards establishing better livelihoods,” said Aye Aye Mar, the founder of Social Action for Women (SAW), an NGO that provides shelter, training, and learning centers for Burmese women and children.


Aye Aye Mar noted that many teenagers turn to employment agents to help them find better jobs in cities, which sometimes makes them vulnerable to human trafficking, exploitation and abuse.


According to Tattiya Likitwong, a project coordinator for the Child Development Foundation, the child labor situation in Thailand has not improved because many children, including stateless children from Burma, Laos and Cambodia, can still be seen working in low-paying jobs, particularly in large cities.


More than 200,000 migrant children between the ages of 15 and 18 have been registered by employers, while many more are not registered, said Tattiya. Many of the children work in the fishing industry, while others sell flowers by the roadside or beg on the streets.


Unlike refugees, stateless children get neither recognition nor aid from regional or international agencies.


“Shockingly little is being done to protect the basic rights of millions of stateless children around the world,” said Maureen Lynch, the research director of Refugees International and author of the report “Futures Denied: Statelessness among Children, Infants and Youth.”


“These children are stigmatized and blocked from such basic services as health care and education because a government won’t recognize them as citizens,” she said.


“Although the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states that everyone has the right to a nationality, these children are forced into an underclass with little hope for the future through no fault of their own,” she said.


Lynch said that reducing statelessness is achievable. “Ensuring that every child is registered at birth, granting citizenship in cases of disputed nationality, and strengthening the UN Refugee Agency so it can do more to resolve this problem are just a few of the simple steps that can help millions of children access a brighter future,” she said.


The Asean Human Rights Body (AHRB), mandated by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations’ (Asean) recently ratified charter, can help to resolve some of the problems facing stateless children and others who are particularly vulnerable to human rights abuses, say advocates.


While some human rights specialists expect the AHRB to address the cross-border issue of registration and improve information sharing among Asean countries, there are still serious doubts about the effectiveness of the AHRB.


“The AHRB will be nothing more than a paper tiger if regional governments, most of which have records of violation of human rights in their countries, fail to respect it,” said Aung Myo Min, the director of the Human Rights Education Institute of Burma.

Pray Alert!

God have many blessings to His Church and His peoples. We pray for our church van and God already provided very nice van to us. Thanks for friends from abroad to contribute the ministry of school bus. This van is very useful for our church ministries. Please pray and continue for this ministry we need to pay some of the payment for this van. We bought about 260,000 Baht and we already collected 154,650 Baht. Here is the list of contributions.

We need to pay about 100,000 Baht. Please pray and continue for this issue.

Contribution for The School Bus

1) Fund Raising from 2007 = 3,800 Baht
2) Singapore Methodist Mission = 10,000 Baht
3) Germany Chin Fellowship = 10,000 Baht
4) May San’s Team = 9,000 Baht
5) Friend from (USA) = 10,000 Baht
6) U Aik Seik = 50,000 Baht
7) Aunty Cherry Scatchard = 8,000 Baht
8) Mr Mang Pu (USA) = 16,750 Baht
9) Mr Enno (USA) = 16,750 Baht
10) Mr Kham Lam Cin (USA) = 3,350 Baht
11) Korean Short Term Mission = 2,000 Baht
12) Aunty Cherry Scatchard = 10,000 Baht
13) Samuel Tang (Singapore) = 5,000 Baht

Total Collected Amount = 154,650 Baht

Thanks

In Loving,
Rev Go Shin Muang
maesaigrace@gmail.com

Good News for Burmese Migrant and Displaced Children

Thailand’s Ministry of Education is drawing up a proposal for the cabinet to initiate an education system for migrant, refugee and stateless children, according to the United States Committee for Refugees and Immigrants (USCRI).
Weerawit Tienchainan, Director of the USCRI told Mizzima that currently the group is holding discussions with the Thai Minister of Education. The ministry will propose to the cabinet to start an education system for migrants, stateless children and refugee students from neighbouring countries.
“We discussed that the Thai government should take the responsibility for the education of the children in refugee camps along the Thailand-Burma border. The minister agreed to involve refugee children in the new education system, to be provided for every child in the country,” Tienchainan said.
Currently, education for refugee students in the camps is being provided by non-governmental organizations. The Thai government has been trying to organize short Thai-language courses but has failed to include children.
Chaiwut Bannawat, Thailand’s Deputy Education Minister insisted that “the new education policy of Thailand will provide every child in the kingdom with child and human rights principles.”
Chaiwut said the group includes stateless children, who are mostly tribal children living in the countryside, particularly in northern Thailand. These are children whose parents are migrant workers.
Chaiwut also thanked both national and international non-governmental organizations for taking care of these children. However, he urged the organizations to include local children around the camps and in the countryside, who need support to improve their quality of life.
He added that currently, the Ministry of Education is drafting a regulation for cabinet approval, which will provide equal education opportunity for every child in the country so that they can access public schooling without exception.
According to Weerawit currently there are about 70,000 refugees under the age of 18, who should be in schools.
“The Thai government’s initiative marks a significant progress,” he added.
However, Chumpon Srisang, Director of the Education Department in Tak province said there are several learning centres for migrant children in five districts of the province near the border, which are operating illegally.
While these centres take care of more than 10,000 students in the area, the government will decide to set up a system for these centres, and monitor the new regulations to bring these students to study in Thai public schools.

A report in a Thai news website, quoting the Education Department of Tak Province, said in Mae Sot district, opposite Burma’s Myawaddy, alone, there are more than a hundred learning centres.

၂၀၀၉ ခုႏွစ္သမာက်မ္းစာေန႕က်မ္းစာျပိဳင္ပြဲ

ႏွစ္သိမ္႕ခြန္အားေပးသနား၊ႏႈတ္ကပါတ္သမာတရား

အသင္းေတာ္၏ႏွစ္စဥ္ႏွစ္တိုင္းျပဳလုပ္ေလ႕ရွိသည္႕သမာက်မ္းစာအလြတ္ဆိုျပိဳင္ပြဲကိုလည္း ၂၉.၈.၂၀၀၉
ရက္ေန႔တြင္က်င္းပႏိုင္ခဲ႕ပါသည္။ဒီႏွစ္မွာေတာ႕ျပိဳင္ပြဲ၀င္ဦးေရသည္မႏွစ္ကထက္စာရင္ပိုမိုမ်ားျပားလာ
သည္ကိုေတြ႕ရွိရေပသည္။စုစုေပါင္းပါ၀င္ယွဥ္ျပိဳင္သူ(၂၅)ဦးရွိပါသည္။အတန္းအလိုက္ပါ၀င္ယွဥ္ျပိဳင္ရသည္႕
က်မ္းခ်က္မ်ားမွာေအာက္ပါအတိုင္းျဖစ္ပါသည္။
(၁)အငယ္တန္း ဆာလံက်မ္း ၂၃း၁-၆ ျဖစ္ပါသည္ဆုရရွိေသာသူမ်ားမွာ
ပထမ ၊ေယ႕ပလိပ္
ဒုတိယ၊ေမာင္အိုက္လူႏွင္႕မအားေဆာ
တတိယ၊ေယ႕နယမ္းတို႕ျဖစ္ၾကပါသည္။
(၂)အလယ္တန္း တြင္ ဆာလံက်မ္း ၁၂၁း၁-၈ထိျဖစ္ပါသည္။ဆုရရွိေသာသူမ်ားမွာ
ပထမ ၊ေယ႕နန္းရိုင္း
ဒုတိယ၊ေမာင္လီေလာင္
တတိယ၊ေယ႕နန္းမိန္ တို႕ျဖစ္ၾကပါသည္။
(၃)အၾကီးတန္းအဆင္႕တြင္ ရွင္မသဲ ၅း၁-၁၂(ေတာင္ေပၚေဒသနာ)ကိုအလြတ္ဆိုယွဥ္ျပိဳင္သြားၾကပါသည္။
ဆုရရွိေသာသူမ်ားမွာ
ပထမ ၊ေညာင္စန္းလြန္း
ဒုတိယ၊ေနာ္ေသြးသိန္း
တတိယဆု၊ ေစာေက်ာ္ဆန္းျငိမ္းႏွင္႕ေနာ္ေသြးသိန္းတို႕မွပူးတြဲရရွိသြားပါသည္။
(၄)အဂၤလိပ္စာက်မ္းမူအလြတ္ျပိဳင္ပြဲကို Psalm 121:1-6(NIV Version) ျဖင္႕ပါ၀င္ယွဥ္ျပိဳင္သြားၾကပါသည္
ဆုရရွိေသာသူမ်ားမွာ
ပထမ ၊ေစာေဂး၀ါး
ဒုတိယ၊ေစာေအာရိန္း
တတိယ၊ေနာ္ေသြးသိန္းတို႕မွအသီးသီးရရွိၾကပါသည္။
၀ိုင္း၀န္းကူညီမစၾကသည္႕အားလံုးကိုအသင္းေတာ္မွေက်းဇူးတင္ရွိပါေၾကာင္းမွတ္တမ္းတင္အပ္ပါသည္။
အမွတ္တရဓာတ္ပံုမ်ားကိုလည္းေဖာ္ျပလိုက္ပါသည္။

Bible Competitions

• Every year we celebrate bible chapter memorise competitions. We celebrate during the bible sunday program and this year our competitions is delay. Because here Maesai , many peoples are feeling sick. We have any aged level competitions and about 25 peoples of migrant workers are participate.
• Here is the list of winner of 2009 competitions.
• First Niiang San Lun, Second Naw Thway Thein, Third Saw Kyaw San Nyein and Dim Ngaih Lun.

Thanks
Pastor Go Shin Muang

maesaigrace@gmail.com

သာသနာျပဳေသာအသင္းေတာ္

မီး၏ရွင္သန္ျခင္းသည္ေတာက္ေလာင္ျခင္းျဖစ္သကဲ႕သို႕အသင္းေတာ္၏အသက္သည္လည္းသာသနာျပဳျခင္းျဖစ္သည္ဟုသီအိုလိုဂ်င္တစ္ဦးကဆိုခဲ႕ပါသည္။မွန္ပါသည္သာသနာျပဳျခင္းမရွိေသာအသင္းေတာ္သည္ေသေနေသာ္အသင္းေတာ္ျဖစ္ပါသည္။မယ္ဆိုင္ေက်းဇူးေတာ္အသင္းေတာ္သည္လည္းသာသနာျပဳေသာအသင္းေတာ္အျဖစ္ရပ္တည္ႏိုင္ရန္ဆုေတာင္းေနေသာအသင္းေတာ္ျဖစ္ပါသည္။အသင္းေတာ္၏မိခင္ေက်းဇူးေတာ္သာသနာ၏ရည္ရြယ္ခ်က္တြင္အသင္းေတာ္တည္ေထာင္ျပီး(၅)ႏွစ္ျပည္႕ေသာအခါထိုအသင္းေတာ္သည္ဆက္လက္သာသနာျပဳေသာအသင္းေတာ္ျဖစ္ရန္ဦးတည္ခ်င္ထားပါသည္။
မယ္ဆိုင္ေက်းဇူးေတာ္အသင္းေတာ္သည္လည္းယခု(၅)ႏွစ္ျပည္႕ျပီးျဖစ္ပါသျဖင္႕သာသနာျပဳေနေသာအသင္းေတာ္ျဖစ္ပါ
သည္။နားေကာင္းမူးဟုအမည္ရသည္႕ေက်းရြာေလးတစ္ရြာတြင္သာသနာျပဳေနပါသည္။အမႈေတာ္တြင္ပါ၀င္ဆက္ကပ္အေစ
ခံလွ်က္ရွိေသာဆရာက်ေရွာရွင္းႏွင္႕မိသားစုအတြက္ဆက္လက္သတိရဆုေတာင္းေပးပါရန္ေခၚဖိတ္အပ္ပါသည္။

Study of Master of Ministry Program

A Statement for Entrance of Master of Ministry Program
Or
My Reason for Entrance to Master of Ministry

Praise and Thanks the Lord of our Jesus Christ for writing and attachment of my statement to Myanmar Institute of Theology for the entrance to Master of Ministry Program.
In March 2000, I earned Bachelor of Theology from Myanmar Institute of Christian Theology and than I started of my ministry for the mission and glory of the Lord and Savior at Evangelical and Mission Director in Mingaladon Zomi Baptist Church. In that time I have feeling and I need of more study again at Seminary. I decide at study in Myanmar Institute of Theology for the course of Bachelor of Religious Education until March 2002.
In 2004, God call me for his outreach mission in foreign country at Thailand. This is a big challenge for us and I decide to go and start for this challenge. In 2004 March we are started of Grace Church Maesai, Thailand. The border area of Myanmar and Thailand and our mission is outreach for Burmese Migrant peoples. A lot of Burmese peoples are migration into Thailand for their living situation and for shelter and food.
In that time we are a lot of challenge of our theological knowledge for our ministry. Over time I had developed a philosophy of biblical interpretation that allowed more for eisegesis than for exegesis from the scripture. However, even with this perspective, I sensed that I needed to study the word more. Here is the word of God said to me from the book of proverb “blessed is the man that findeth wisdom, and is rich in prudence: The beginning of wisdom, get wisdom, and with all thy possession purchase prudence.” The Lord continually asked those around Him to check out and verify His claim in the scripture. I thank God for choosing me to receive the gift of faith that allows me to recognize the scripture for what it is.
During the time of my ministry we have a lot of ministries in here Maesai, like Early Child Care Development Center, Basic Primary School, Mission Training and Church Planting. Some time I am thinking for further study and but I have no time so study and some time we need to upgrade of our theological education. We want to try to study in here Maesai, Thailand. But in our area, most of the bible seminaries are using in the local Thai language and they don’t have English teaching class and no graduate program.
In today’s environment, I saw a lot of changing. The world is becoming narrow and becoming global village and they called this century and society is knowledge society. Information Technology is essential needs for every peoples and anywhere.
Having made that statement, what is the purpose for study of this program? This is a big challenge for me. Yes I have a good and clear vision and purpose of this question. I want to be upgrade of my theological education and I want to be becoming of the servant of the Lord of our Jesus Christ. Amen

By :Rev Go Shin Maung
Email: maesaich04@hotmail.com

ေက်းဇူးေတာ္ခ်ီးမြမ္းျခင္း

ဘုရားရွင္၏ေက်းဇူးေတာ္ေၾကာင္႕ကၽႊန္ေတာ္မ်ား၏ျမန္မာစာမ်က္နာသစ္ကိုဖြင္႕ခြင္႕ရသည္႕အတြက္ဘုရားရွင္၏ေက်းဇူးေတာ္ကိုခ်ီးမြမ္းအပ္ပါသည္။ေနာင္မ်ားတြင္အလွ်င္းသင္႕သလိုအသင္းေတာ္၏လႈပ္ရွားမႈမ်ား၊အသင္းေတာ္၏သတင္းလႊာမ်ားကိုေဖာ္ျပသြားမည္ျဖစ္ပါသည္။အားလံုးကိုကၽႊန္ေတာ္မ်ား၏ျမန္မာစာမ်က္နာသစ္မွေႏြးေထြးစြာၾကိဳဆိုအပ္ပါသည္။အားလံုးကိုဘုရားရွင္ေကာင္းခ်ီးေပးပါေစ။
အသင္းေတာ္ႏွင္႕ပတ္သက္ျပီးဆက္သြယ္လိုပါကေအာက္ပါလိပ္စာမ်ားအားျဖင္႕ဆက္သြယ္ႏိုင္ပါသည္။

Maesai Grace International Church
P.O Box(103)
Maesai, Chiang Rai, 57130
Thailand
Email:maesaigrace@gmail.com

Child Rights and Advocacy Training

In our Maesai Grace International Church we have Burmese Migrant Primary School and Early Child Care Development Center. We have 130 children are take care in everyday. So Child Rights is very important for us. We conducted Child Rights and Advocacy Traning in Last month and all of our staff are participate in this training and also thanks to HREIB for conduct tha training.

Micro Credict Program for Burmese Migrant Workers

In this time Thai government are allowances to register of work permit for Burmese Migrant workers. It is good opportunities for Burmese Migrant Workers because if they have work permit they are free and work in Thailand and the have good health insurance.

But the workers are needed to pay one time for their registration fees about 4,000 Baht per each. They have not enough money for this critical issue. Their salary is very low some are get under 3,000 Baht per month in here Maesai.

In our Maesai Church we have Micro Credit and Saving Project. In this project about 40 workers and families are membership. They saving 300 Baht per month and if they have emergency need (like apply work permit) they can loan from this project about 4,000 Baht per each.

We don’t have much money and in this time all the membership are want to borrow from our Micro Credit and Saving Project for apply to work permit. We need about 60,000 Baht. Some are giving back to within 3 months and some are 4 months….

So, we need this amount 60,000 Baht and to borrow 15 Burmese Migrant Workers and families. For one family 4,000 Baht and they are giving back to our Church within ten months (depending on their family income conditions).

For this project we have 12 members working committee and this committee is monitoring and evaluation to them for the project impacts.

Our aim is to lead each member out of poverty by offering loans that are paid back within a system of accountability. (As loans are paid back, the money remains within the group and is used to fund the giving of loans to other members who are waiting patiently to receive their loan.)

If you have Any Questions:
maesaigrace@gmail.com

School Open

Burmese Migrant Primary School, Maesai project is very effected to who Burmese people are living in Thailand. This year we have more students are apply for register. Last school we have 58 children are learn in our school. This year we have 90 migrant childrens are learning in our Primary School.
We are invite to you come and teach to our school as volunteer english, computer, music teacher. Please pray and continue for this school and to more useful for migrant children living in Thailand.

Curriculum Workshop

This year is becoming three year for our Burmese Migrant Primary School Ministry and we want to upgrade of teaching skill for our school teachers. We request to World Education Consortium to teach us. They sending Four trainer and we have finished curriculum workshop. Thanks for partnership in curriculum development.

Listen to Myanmar Gospel Song

New Church Planting

After the celebration of 5th anniversary thanksgiving we have blessing from our God. To start a new church planting in side of Myanmar. Narkaungmoo village is the village of Wa in the border area of Myanmar and Thailand. God send his son Joshua, now he has our field pastor in that village.
Thanks God for this new church planting ministry.

Sponsor of Bible School Student

Maesai Grace International Church have sponsor to one Bible School Student.
His name is Aik Aung and He has Wa (one of the ethnic of myanmar) and he came from northern part of shan state and now he study in Taung Gyi Baptist Theological School.
Now he has final year and 2010 March he will graduate from the seminary.
Please pray and continue for him.

Summer English Camp

During the every summer we are conducted Summer English Camp for children. This year we conduct 3 days and around 30 children are participate. Narlin Delapaz has a director of camp and she have a good plan and very good sacrifice life. She has missionary from Philipine and one of the our partner Singapore missionary are helping with her .
Now our children are very very grow up of their English skill. The topic of this year camp is 'Walking with Jesus'.
Sure we need to walk with all the time.
Bye By

5th Anniversary of Maesai Grace Church

God is good all the time. We have a big celebration of our 5th anniversary thanksgiving service of Maesai Grace International Church on 22 March 2009. Our Church has established on March 2004. Now we are becoming 5 years old.Thanks God for leading and providing opportunities to your ministry.
In the celebration we have a very nice foods and very nice sermon from our Korean Missionary who has Rev David Hang. He has a missionary from Korea and he speak and preach very good in Burmese Language.
We have 3 missionary from Korea. Rev Dr David Shin (founder of Grace Mission), Rev Paul Shin and Rev David Hang they can speak and preach very good in Burmese Language and they are very love Burmese peoples.
Thanks God for sending this 3 missionary for partnership in your ministry.

School Building for Burmese Migrant Primary School

Long resting for new post because very busy month.God provide very nice new school building for our Burmese Migrant Primary School. We already celebrate to God for the dedication service on 22 March 2009. Thanks God providing this school building for Burmese Migrant Children. Now Burmese Migrant Children are learning in new school building.
And we want to say the words of thank for all of friend for who helping to our school building construction project. Especially the team from Singapore, May San's group and Charles Fong family, we are very appreciation of your hard work for this school building project. May God bless you and your ministry.

Ministries of the Church

(1)Burmese Migrant Primary School
(2)Early Childhood and Development Center
(3)Migrant Community Development Program
(4)Children Hostel Ministry

Mission Statement of Maesai Grace Church

We believe the Bible to be the inspired, the only infallible, authoritative Word of God.
We believe that there is one God, eternally existent in three persons: Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
We believe in the deity of our Lord Jesus Christ, in His virgin birth, in His bodily resurrection, in His ascension to the right hand of the Father, and in His personal return in power and glory.
We believe that for the salvation of lost and sinful man, regeneration by the Holy Spirit is absolutely essential.
We believe in the present ministry of the Holy Spirit by whose indwelling the Christian is enabled to live a godly life.

Mission of Maesai Grace Church

To serve for the Burmese Migrant Workers and Displaced Persons. In case emergency relief, rehabilitation, protection of human rights, resettlement services and advocacy for those uprooted or affected by conflict and oppression.

Background History of Maesai Grace Church

Maesai Grace Church started five years ago and being strategically Located in the Northern most part of Thailand, we believe that God has given us the burden to envision that the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ is preached to the various people groups homed within the region .We are committed to proclaim the kingdom of God in Mekong Region and to the World.

In here Maesai migrant communities are came from the neighboring country Myanmar(Burma) and fill the low-paying “three D” jobs (dirty, dangerous and degrading).limited opportunities in their Home countries and high rates of poverty act as push factors that drive many young or able bodied man and women to cross into Thailand to support to their families or to build their future. Pull factors include numerous job opportunities for migrant in Maesai, primary in sectors that Thais have abandoned, such as construction, factories, domestics works and agriculture, small shops, restaurants, selling flowers, as well as being prominent in sex work.

The Church aims to serve Migrant workers and displaced person in Maesai (The northern of Thailand) Greater Mekong Region. Who could not get any help from both government and non

Government sectors? It has been a place where Burmese are coming for temporary shelter while their legal documents are being processed.

Background History of Maesai Grace Church

Maesai Grace Church started three years ago and being strategically Located in the Northern most part of Thailand, we believe that God has given us the burden to envision that the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ is preached to the various people groups homed within the region .We are committed to proclaim the kingdom of God in Mekong Region and to the World.

In here Maesai migrant communities are came from the neighboring country Myanmar(Burma) and fill the low-paying “three D” jobs (dirty, dangerous and degrading).limited opportunities in their Home countries and high rates of poverty act as push factors that drive many young or able bodied man and women to cross into Thailand to support to their families or to build their future. Pull factors include numerous job opportunities for migrant in Maesai, primary in sectors that Thais have abandoned, such as construction, factories, domestics works and agriculture, small shops, restaurants, selling flowers, as well as being prominent in sex work.

The Church aims to serve Migrant workers and displaced person in Maesai (The northern of Thailand) Greater Mekong Region. Who could not get any help from both government and non

Government sectors? It has been a place where Burmese are coming for temporary shelter while their legal documents are being processed.

Christian Home and Family Program

Every year of November we have Christian Home and Family Program. This year about 90 Church
members are participate with us. All the members are bringing food of many kinds and we all are eat together for fellowship and this is means for one family and one body of Christ.
During the discussion time one of the our Filipino missionary presented a good topic for Christian Home and Family and after that we have water baptism program. We are baptize 9 new believers.