近況和感恩
回顧過去三年，2013年5月我們開始了彩虹幼兒園的動土；2014年試著開辦，沒有執照，收了三個孩子，那時我們老師同工有八位；9月我們慶祝開學日，中福團的國際總幹事朱昌錂牧師來探望我們，又邀請了政府官員、朋友、贊助者、家長及學生來一起慶祝，感謝神！
2015年1月終於拿到了執照，若不是神的掌管我們可能現在還沒有拿到。2015 年5月我們慶祝1週年，這時有20個孩子，許多是幾個月禱告後篩選出來的。原先我們只憑著人的判斷來聘請老師和收學生，所以碰到許多問題。現在學到功課，要先尋求神的旨意，然後作決定。感謝主我們開始時收的三個孩子，仍舊在我們學校，並且平衡的成長，同工都非常愛他們，孩子的家長也信任我們，成為我們的好朋友。
感謝神，現在幼兒園有24個孩子，其中有幾位才來了兩個星期，已經非常適應。這是我們期望蒙式教學應有的結果。現今世界混亂，到處戰亂不和，天災人禍，但在這裡我們感受到神的同在。暑期到了，我們的孩子在院子裡玩耍，非常開心。
教育同工的一個課程就是要注重關係，讓他們知道在職場上「講閒話的殺傷力」。當我們1月回到吉爾吉斯時，發現許多同工溝通的問題，需要我們立刻解決，防止彼此的猜疑，特別是經過跨文化跨語言的障礙。這裡的人普遍是彼此缺乏信任。
前一封代禱信我們提到不同的培訓，感謝Jackie 帶了當地她訓練出來的同工，來教我們如何建立團隊，他們不僅教我們團隊理念，也示範應用出來。但願我們可以學好，並廣泛傳遞出去。請為我們的團隊更清楚好團隊的重要性來禱告。下面相片是我們為孩子們慶祝生日。
我們隨時都在傳講異象及目的，鼓勵彼此幫助達到目標。我們也開始英語教學，希望將來他們能與我們溝通，並且能明白外來用英語的各種培訓教導。長樂開始了品德教育課程，柏林繼續教導蒙式教學理念。求神帶領這些老師，能成為很好的同工，將來也能夠成為好的培訓老師。
聽說吉國法律，來了吉國五年後就可以申請PR。這十年我們為了簽證花了不知多少的時間和精力，去年6月決定開始申請PR。這需要花很大的人力資源，要許多的文件加上翻譯所有證件，面試了三次，也知道現在吉國敵對外國人，尤其是持有歐美護照的。我們幾乎要放棄了，好不容易最後總算拿到了，而且花費低於每人$300。感謝神，這樣我們可以方便於5年內進出境，不怕警察隨時的抽檢。最近聽到許多長期的宣教士，孩子出生在吉國，因為拿不到工作許可和簽證，只好改變計劃要離開。
5月20日柏林的父母慶祝70週年結婚紀念日！很可惜我們不能參加。我的兄弟姐妹，他們的孩子孫子一起在洛杉磯慶祝。附上照片。神的恩典，父親95歲母親93歲，身體都尚健壯！感謝神，請繼續為他們和家人禱告。
6月1日兒童節，早上在幼兒園慶祝，下午我們又有送撒瑪利亞鞋盒的活動，藉著這些禮物我們把耶穌的愛及世界各地孩子的愛心，帶給當地的孩子們。他們都非常高興，趕緊到處告訴鄰居們，願我們明年能辦得更大更好。
代禱
- 讓適合的孩子來到我們幼兒園，我們可以影響他們。也給我們好的幼教老師。
- 神帶領我們的團隊建立，品德教育，能天天應用出來。
- 願神帶領有能力的老師來教蒙式教學，領導的方法及品德教育。
- 我們主要的同工：Elena、Sophia、Peter 和 Kasbek。
- 我們其他的老師同工，孩子們，還有他們的家庭。
- 神賜福給順服祂的人。
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John & Chrisita Tsai Prayer Letter 2015/6
Update & Give Thanks
Looking back last 3 year, we remember in May 2013, we started the actual construction of the Rainbow Kindergarten. In the following May 2014 we did the Test Trial of the kindergarten with only 3 children and 8 staff without license. In September, 2014, we had a Thanksgiving Celebration to show our appreciation to God, and to show to VIPs from Government, friends, supporters, parents of our students of what we are doing.
We finally got our license in late Jan. of 2015for His provision to accomplish what we knew was impossible by our own power. In May 2015 we celebrated kindergarten one year anniversary of our startup. Currently we have 20 children that were selected pray fully over the last few months. In the past, we depended on our own judgment to bring in teachers and students without waiting on the Lord. God made us learn some hard lessons- to let go some teachers and students who were not meant to be part of us. Now we know better and we seek His face and His will in every interview, every decision to be made and ask for His blessings be upon us. We were thankful that the first 3 children are still with us, they are growing well in spite of their initial weaknesses in different areas. Our whole staff love them dearly, and their parents/guardians now learn to trust us with appreciation. With good relationship, we have become friends.
Now we have 24 children. Even when some of them are only with us for 2 weeks or less, we can see them fitting quite well in our established environment and with each other and our staff. This is how we envision Montessori school should be operating and we just want to give thanks to God that it is happening. The world may seem to be in chaos in many parts of the world with many man-made troubles and natural disasters, but here we feel God’s presence. Summer is here and children can spend more time playing in the playground and they simply love it.
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One of the Classes we were concentrating on is RELATIONSHIP and the first one was on “the Damage of Gossip at workplace” which caused a great deal of mess at the beginning of the year when we returned from USA. Communication among people has always been one of the greatest issues that require the most attention and if not well understood will definitely cause problem at workplace and in home life resulting in mistrust between people especially across different cultural and language barriers.
In the previous letter we mentioned training in various areas. We really want to thank Jackie who started the training with us in Teambuilding which we desperately need and she brought her local team from Bishkek whom she trained herself in the past few years. Together, they not only taught us the concept of teamwork, but more importantly demonstrated how principles should be practiced; applied so how good things can be multiplied and spread to many. Please pray that our staff can learn to see the significance of a good team. Following pictures we also celebrated birthday with the children.
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Every opportunity we have, we review our vision and goals of the organization with staff. We are also encouraging each other to grow and work toward these goals. We also started English classes with our staff for better communication with us and for future teaching in English from the outside. Through translations, Christa started Character Building class while John also continued with the Montessori training. Please pray that through our combined efforts, we build them up to be excellent staff, teachers and one day become good trainer for others.
According to Kyrgyz law, any foreigners having been here for more than 5 years are eligible to apply for PR. After spending countless number of hours in the past 10 years just to get visa for us to stay legally and work in Kyrgyzstan for our ministry, we decided to go for the PR status here, a year ago. It is a great deal of preparation of necessary documents and Examinations/Investigations from both USA and Kyrgyzstan. However, after almost one year of waiting – 3 not so promising interviews, numerous trips of submissions of documents by Sophia and our understanding of the general opposition of Kyrgyz people against foreigners applying for PR, especially Americans and Europeans, we were ready to give up. Then, we were finally granted the PR status with just normal fees of less than $300/per person. Now, this means we can come in and out without visas for 5 years. We can only thank our Lord for His extra grace and mercy, for we hear that many other Ms who are not getting their working permits rejected are forced to change their plans to leave Kyrgyzstan.
May 20 is John’s parents’ 70 year anniversary! We were sorry that we were not able to celebrate with them with the rest of our big family of brothers, sisters, their children, grandchildren and great grandchildren in LA on such a special occasion. Please see attached picture. We are indeed blessed for John’s father is 95 and mother is 93, still in relative good health! Please continue to pray for their health and our whole family’s protection.
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June 1 we celebrated “Children’s Day” in our kindergarten. In the afternoon we also pass out the shoeboxes from Samaritan Purse which we hope this may still be the means by which we can evangelize. The children were thrilled and excited to receive these gifts and they talked about this event for days among friends and neighborhood. Of course, we did share with them that these gifts are packed by Christian children of many different churches of the world with their own pocket money and are most willing to share Jesus’ love with other children in the world.
Prayer Requests
- May God bring appropriate children come to our kindergarten so we can make a difference in their lives. May He also bring interested candidates for training to be preschool teachers.
- Pray God lead our efforts in our team building and character building through daily practice .
- May God bring suitable trainers to us, on Montessori, leadership, character building.
- Do pray for our core team members – Elena, Sophia, Peter and Kasbek.
- Pray for other staff, our students and their families.
- May God bless all that are obedient to Him.
CEM Missionaries
John & Christa Tsai
Email: [email protected] Blog: Christajohnmission.blogspot.com
If God touches your heart to support our ministry please write check to CEM (China Evangelistic Mission, Inc.) with memo “for His Ministry in Kyrgyzstan”
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