Author: Tom Schumacher

Now that we have been in the midst of the dry season we have been able to move fairly quickly with the building of the Children's Home. Actually the builders have moved the project along quicker than I had thought. We have a good portion of the eastern wall up and also the walls of the children's home in place. This coming week we will be putting the roof on as well as the windows. Believe with us that we will be able to get both of the buildings up and completed by the end of 2017 as well as much of the landscaping and the water drainage through the property. We are quite sure that it is the will of God. We should be putting the first group of…

On the 9th of January we began our new school term and we have all the students back ready to tackle the new semester. We had quite a Christmas as we did some local outreach right here in Mae Sai with our students to the local area. We had lots of children and families show up for the outreach and we are proud of how our students gave their hearts to the work. We were also blessed and honored to have Pastor Scott Fletcher, Pastor Stephen Eicholz, Pastor Henry Schmidt and Pastor Ed Elliot with us over the past 2 1/2 months.

We are back in the Bible Training Mode again this fall. In September we moved the school to a village where my sister in law is now pastoring the Victory Life Church Mae Sai. This has made it quite easy for the school to now function under a legal covering and we are grateful. As for the students we have all the same students from last year plus 1 more. This fall we had a new teacher from the US come and teach the students on the Love of God. Pastor Stephen Parker came and ministered for our students and another Bible School nearby. Pastor Stephen minister on the Love of God and the students were impacted by his message. Thank you Pastor Stephen! Just this past Monday we sent…

As for the wall around the property we finished a good portion of the wall. Another $7000 will finish the east side of the property. We are certainly grateful for what we have been able to do thus far. Some people may ask, "why the wall around the property?" In this area it is really necessary for the safety of the children. Most Bible schools and children's homes have wall's around the property for the safe-keeping of the children and the equipment. Believe with us to finish this and to put up our first building. We should be able to put a children's home up for around $35000. We will then have to drill a well for the property. Thanks for praying and believing with us on this endeavor.

The school year is finished for the spring of 2016 and I am sincerely grateful for our hard working staff. We had 11 students for the second part of the year and an additional student who is a pastor's wife also audit the classes. Susan who has been in the ministry with her husband Joseph said, "she learned more in 7 months than she did the previous 4 years of schooling." One of the goals of our school is to not only bring spiritual impartation but also bring in the practical part of ministry. Most ministry schools in this area have a tendency to focus on just the knowledge part of ministry. Also on the last weekend of school we sent our students out to do practical ministry in the…

Since the end of December we have been building a wall around the property in Burma. We are almost finished with two sides of the wall. We have great expectations for the future on this property. We are believing to give a children a wonderful home where they will experience the Love of God and where we will be able to give them the tools to develop into Godly leaders for Jesus. Hundreds and thousands of children in this area lack the opportunity and the skills they need to succeed in their lives. Believe with us that we will be able to provide them a home! I want to thank all of you for believing and giving into this work!

It is now the end of the year and we are so grateful that all God has done and is doing. Jeremiah is certainly growing quickly and he is so fun to be with. It hard for me to believe that he is already 5 years old. We had a great birthday party for him at the end of September. We have him enrolled in a good school where the staff have been wonderful to him. My wife has been a great help to me in the Bible School and I am very proud of how well she works with the students. Here are pictures of Jeremiah, Elizabeth, myself and our students over the past few months.

This past November we had some wonderful Bible teachers come and teach our students. We were so blessed to have Pastor Lorne Davis from Swift Current Saskatchewan Canada teach our students on the "Pathway To Success." We had the students from VABC Thailand and Dr. Al Purvis here also...so our house was very very full. Lots of food, lots of fun, and lots of study. On the weekend of the 20th thru the 22nd we had Pastor's Paul Hays and Dan Holegate from Phoenix Arizona share with us and the local church on "Fellowship In The Church." We are so honored that other minister's would come and help us with our Bible Training Center. During the Thanksgiving week I ministered for Charlie and Cathy Milbrodt at their Living Word Ministries…

Just an additional note...many of you may already know that Myanmar (Burma) had it's elections last week and Aung Sung Suki party was the winner of most of the seats in the congress. This will bring great changes through out the country of Myanmar. This should help us move forward with our project in Myanmar. That means means sometime in the month of December we will begin building the wall that we have been planning for. We will need much more additional finances for the children's home and for the wall in this phase of the project. We want to thank you for those who have so faithful in giving for this project.

We had a great four weeks as I finished teaching on the subjects of Healing and the Old Testament. My wife Elizabeth and brother in law Samuel did an awesome job translating for me during that time. We also take time on Monday mornings to minister on some leadership principles. Our goal here is to raise up a new generation of leaders filled with integrity and with God's Word. I have blessed with the ministers we have had teaching here at the Bible School. This we have Pastor Lorne Davis from Swift Current Saskatchewan teaching our students on the "Pathway To Success." We are certainly blessed to have him here as well as Dr. Al Purvis and the VABC students participating with our students. We also have Simon Crowe teaching…