感恩：

• 1月8日我們離開聖荷西前往洛杉磯，然後10日返回吉爾吉斯。先是與幼教專家Jayanti Tambe見面，又參觀了她幫助開辦的一間非常特別在洛杉磯的幼兒園。這間幼兒園的確新穎，孩子都這麼幸福，它是基於「玩樂為本」的方法，每一種教具都有目的，旨在培養孩子的全人發展，啟發他們身體各部份的潛能。Jayanti與我們交談了幾個小時，她當過幾間加州著名幼兒園的執行長。 也是一位大學教授，專長幼教，培訓了很多幼教的教師， 滿有熱情。在美國，以及世界各地，尤其是貧窮的地區，如非洲，印度等，培養年輕的老師。儘管我們短暫的相識，在她忙碌的時間裡願意提供服務來吉國幫助我們。讚美主的供應和預備，在不久的將來，她會帶一些學生來參觀我們的幼兒園，幫助我們實現我們的願景和使命。Jayanti也會邀請Holly Bruno一同來，Holly常是幼教大會的主題講員，又是電台節目主持人。她們今年七月將會去印度培訓，順便也來吉國探望我們。Holly是我們參加達拉斯幼教大會認識的。感謝神為我們安排預備，也給我們鼓勵，這些連結的工作，遠超過我們所求所想。 我們可以放心，因為我們的主耶穌基督已經贏了。阿爸父，當我們走在你的旨意裡，你總是負責到底！
• 27小時的飛程和等候，我們終於抵達比什凱克機場。這是清晨，天空漆黑，預計照常有人來接機，卻沒有熟悉的面孔等著我們，感到失望，不知道有甚麼事發生。柏林試著用手機聯絡，發現我們的同工在路上發生車禍。嚴冬天氣，地上都是冰雪，居然還有車子在高速公路賽車！把她逼下八米深的溝。感謝神的保守，她沒有受傷，只是車子有些損傷，但是另外車子的一家人有許多傷亡。這是吉國常有的事，我們只好打車回到Tokmok。
• 長樂在離開聖荷西時就得了感冒，一直咳嗽不停。也知道吉爾吉斯的事工問題，從去年10月不斷堆積，裡面有大量的誤解，錯誤的溝通，衝突和團隊成員之間的傷害，需要我們及時的解決。來到這裡，馬上就要捲起袖子，了解情況，一一的面對。沒想到離開短短的三個月，就有這麼多問題發生。我們迫切需要從上而來的智慧。
• 當我們無計可施的時候，我們一直向神禱告，仍指望我們自己有能力解決。但是，最後我們完全臣服於神，知道我們不能做任何事情，相信只有祂能。事實上，神做了！祂把崔峰從上海帶回來，他在上海2年，幫助他妹妹做一些生意。再以前他是柏林5-6年的得力助理，有良好的關係，他是少有的漢語俄語翻譯，又熟悉聖經。因為俄羅斯經濟的衰退，影響了上海的工作，又趁著中國新年，回家休息，和妻子兒子團圓。他是為我們核心成員溝通的最佳人選。通過崔峰，我們明白發生了甚麼事。感謝神。崔峰也陪我們參觀一所比什凱克的私立學校，已經成立了22年，由兩位吉爾吉斯姐妹建立的，有良好的聲譽。總共有700名學生，包括250幼兒。 她們聘請了大約有200名員工，包括高級素質的管理員、教師、有心理學知識的、醫療人員、財務人員、廚師、維修隊、保安、園丁等。在吉爾吉斯的南部奧什也有一間分校。我們談了4小時，建立了很好的關係，她們也很願意幫助我們訓練一些老師。我們分享了過去9年的經歷，她們也認同我們是帶著神的使命與托付來的，她們願意幫助我們實現，請禱告她們成為我們合作夥伴。
• 我們開了今年第一次核心員工會議，回顧過去3-4個月發生的事情，不管有無數的艱辛和挫折的挑戰，讓我們吸取了寶貴的經驗，我們需要繼續前進，尋求更好的結果。能夠忘記背後，努力面前，學會如何彼此相愛，作孩子的好榜樣。
• 我們重新組合了幼兒園管理體制，讓我們的組織更健全。柏林長樂仍為創始人，也是暫時的校長，下面有兩個部門領導。一個專注學術方面主管，監督教師和實習生，還負責培訓幼教。另一個是業務主管，負責監督工作人員，如建築經理、廚師、護士、清潔工，幫助協調培訓活動與外國人聯繫。願神賜予我們智慧，力量和分辨能力，根據祂的意願做出正確的決定。
• 感謝Shirley和Patrick（我們的​​合作夥伴）過去一年一直在幫助我們幼兒園的工作，培訓我們年青的老師。如果沒有他們的幫助，我們的工作無法推進。請與我們一起禱告，求神保守他們。

代禱

• 帶來很好的幼教培訓老師。
• 帶來當地愛孩子，肯學習的優秀教師。
• 為國家的穩定和提供人民安逸的生活。
• 為我們團隊的同心，聖靈充滿，完全順服神的旨意。
• 保護青少年不受ISIS的謊言，保護兒童免受各種疾病，包括麻疹的爆發。
• 祈求我們的家庭能持續支持我們，免遭邪惡勢力，受到神各樣的祝福。

 

雖然無花果樹不發旺，葡萄樹不結果，橄欖樹也不效力，田地不出糧食，圈中絕了羊，
棚內也沒有牛；然而，我要因耶和華歡欣，因救我的神喜樂。主耶和華是我的力量；
他使我的腳快如母鹿的蹄，又使我穩行在高處。
哈巴谷3：17-19 

　　主啊，我們相信祢已經供應我們很多需要的夥伴（錢財、祈禱、諮詢、鼓勵等），祢知道他們是誰，雖然我們並不清楚。主啊，謝謝祢對我們的愛，把他們放在我們的生命裡。請祝福他們，因為他們一直這樣祝福我們。我們祈求禱告是奉主耶穌的名！阿門

 

主內，

蔡柏林、何長樂 敬筆

 

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John & Chrisita Tsai Prayer Letter 2015/1

Update & Give Thanks

• We left San Jose on Jan. 8 to go to Los Angeles before flying out to Kyrgyzstan on Jan, 10. We had an important date to visit Jayanti Tambe, an early child education expert, who we met in San Jose while attending a 2 days Early Child Education (ECE) Leadership Training. She asked us to visit a “one of a kind” preschool she helped to build up in Pasadena many years ago. It was indeed an awesome place for the young children from toddler to up to 7 years of age. These children are so blessed to study there! It is based on “PLAY BASED” methodology, but totally designed by God Himself. Every so called play is intentional, purposeful, meant to develop each child for his whole being, and to bring out all the potentials in his body parts.We had a few hours together with Jayanti, who has been executive directors of a few well-known preschools in California. She is also an educator, professor, and trainer to many early child education teachers and administrators. How does one describe her? Words are inadequate to do so, because, she is a bundle of positive energy and just has a consuming passion to train workers for education of the young. She does that in USA, as well as in the other parts of the world, the less fortunate areas, needy places such as in Africa, India etc. of all nations. In spite of our short acquaintance, she is to ready to offer her service to us by coming to Kyrgyzstan, out of her already packed schedule. WE praise our Lord for His provision and knowing that in the near future, she will come to visit us with a short term team of (ECE) students to help us in our vision and mission.Jayanti plans to invite Holly Bruno, (JD attorney, and keynote speaker, Radio program host) to first to go to India to train her people there in July. Before we left USA, she suggested to John and I that we should also invite Holly to visit us in Kyrgyzstan to do similar training. After all, we first met Holly who we met in NAEYC conference in Dallas 2014, where she taught us being leader how we need to be “Thick skinned” even we may be born “Thin skinned”. During our short interaction with her during class, she became quite excited with our work in Kyrgyzstan. She suggested for us to take the leadership workshop offered in San Jose a few weeks later, and talked her further to see how she may be of some help. Indeed, she kept her promise and introduced us then to Jayanti and other educators during the workshop. She even took her precious time from her final speech as a keynote speaker to introduce to the audience about our work. We can only bow down before our amazing God for such unexpected affirmation, encouragement and connection. This is more than we can ever imagine. Lord, you know so well of our hearts, and how much we long for your confirmation of our work in that moment of life storm we were facing. We needed so much to be recharged, refreshed to be able to return to the mission field. Again, we are assured of the truth that our Lord Jesus has already won and Abba Father, You are always in charge; we cannot be safer when we walk in your will!
• We arrived in Bishkek airport after a 27 hours trip from LA. It was early in the morning, the sky was pitched dark and we expected to be greeted at Manas airport as before. However, there was no familiar face waiting for us. We were disappointed and started wondering what could have happened. John tried to call and found out his phone was not working. We suspected that our phone unit probably expired. After we picked up our luggage, John was able to purchase additional phone unit at the airport and we contacted Sophia (our administrator/translator), and found out she had a car accident coming to pick us up.The severe winter weather, plus the ridiculous race of two cars against one another ended pushing her car off the highway into an 8 meter deep ditch. We can only thank God profusely for His protection over Sophia. And we gladly took a taxi back to Tokmok knowing she was OK, even though the ride was rather costly with all our many pieces of big and small luggage. Sophia’s car had to be pulled out and up the ditch by a crane many hours later and she was stuck on the cold winter highway for almost half a day. But, such is the life in Kyrgyzstan faced by the locals as well as for foreigners. May God have mercy on all of us and give us strong hearts.
• In the following week Christa continue not feeling well with the bad coughs caused by germs she caught from San Jose, through Los Angeles and brought them back all the way to Tokmok. John was also very tired from the trip having to take care of all business of travelling and also Christa. All the bad and sad news about Central Asia, Kyrgyzstan, Tokmok, and Kindergarten since October 2014 were continually piling up on us. It seemed to be never ending and now wait for us to handle. How? We had no idea. We just know there must be incredible amount of misunderstanding, miscommunication, conflicts and hurts between the team members.How did it get to be so bad in our absence? We thought when we left, with the exception of “No License”, other matters were still manageable. At that moment, we had no idea where or how we could start, to get to the bottom of this massive confusing problem.  How could we untie all these tight knots, especially our most trusted translator was right in the center of this ugly storm? There is no way that anyone in that position can be objective and stay neutral in translation. We were also afraid to bring in a new translator to deal with our internal issues. After all, Tokmok being such a small place is known where gossiping is common and rumor spreads like wild fire. Bad news usually travel fast!! We desperately need wisdom from above to select the right person to help us to collect data enough to understand the problem and stop and hopefully reverse the damage done.
• We were at our wit’s end. We had been praying to God but still were counting our own abilities for solutions. But, finally we totally surrender to God, knowing that we could not do anything, but believing only He can. Indeed God did! He brought Peter Tsui back into our life at this moment of desperate need. He has been working in Shanghai for the last 2 years, helping his sister to do some business with Russia. In 2005, he was brought in to work with John for 5- 6 years as the assistant to the president under MCCF. Peter and we had great working relationship and he is one of the few workers in Kyrgyzstan that could do Chinese Russian translation and knew bible well. Peter has been translating sermons for many preachers that came to Kyrgyzstan in the past many years.Recently, Peter’s work in Shanghai slowed down because of the downturn of Russian economy. He was also taking some time off because of the oncoming Chinese New Year to be with his own family here (wife and son). So, he is just the perfect candidate for our communication with the core members. Through Peter, we gain some insight of what had happened and trying to be light and salt as Jesus instructed, we tried to work through these issues one by one. We really appreciated Peter’s willingness to help us in our time of needs and pray that God will use him in His mighty ways in the future.It was also with Peter’s help, we could visit a private school which has students from preschool age, through elementary school, Junior High and High school in Bishkek. This school was built 22 years ago by two Christian Kyrgyz sisters with intention of establishing a school with good reputation of being professional and dedicated towards education. This is the largest private school in the whole of Kyrgyzstan. They did what they planned and now they have a total of 700 students with about 250 kindergarteners. In order to do so, they hired a team of around 200 workers of high caliber in all levels and areas. On their team, they have recruited and retained qualified directors, administrators, teachers, psychologists, business, medical staff, financial staff, good cooks, maintenance team, trustworthy guards, professional gardeners etc. and they also have a large branch school in Osh, the second largest city, in the southern part of Kyrgyzstan. We spent about 4 hours with the founders and were totally impressed and convinced of their principals of good operation. We plan to learn their methods and strive for excellence for God.

  As we presented our projects to them in the past 9+ years and shared with them our new vision and mission from God, they were also touched by our love for the children of Kyrgyzstan. They offered to help us to achieve our goals for the young ones in Kyrgyzstan. Please pray that we can be partners in God’s ministry. Our hearty thanks to Brodie and Hilary to these two wonderful ladies. You both are God sent! Bless you for your insight.

• We held the first staff meeting with the core members on 1/23/2015. Our main goal was to recap on what has happened over the last 3-4 months since we were gone. We went over all the challenges that we have gone through and gave thanks to God that regardless there were numerous hardships and setbacks, we all survived. We suggested that we all learn lessons from our past mistakes, especially the lesson of humility and not linger in the past. We need to move on and seek for better results. Being able to forgive is a must if there were wrong done to each other and we must learn how to love one another. Be a model for our children.
• We started our kindergarten management restructuring and aim for better allocation of human resources. John and Christa will remain as founders and also the interim directors and working alongside with us there will be two heads. One head is heading the academic area overseeing the teachers and interns, she will also with trainings directly related to early child education. The other is the business head who will oversee the staff such as building manager, cook, nurse, cleaners and help to coordinate the training activity especially related with foreigners etc. We will continue to work out the details in the next 2-3 months. May God grant us wisdom, strength and discernment from Him so we make good decisions according to His will only.
• We must give thanks to two special people (our wonderful partners) – Shirley and Patrick who had been instrumental in helping us with the kindergarten work for the last year. They are continuing to help us in the critical training of our young teachers. Without their assistance, our work cannot advance. Please pray with us that our Lord will bless them for their efforts and protect and guide their service for Him in all areas.

Prayer Requests

• Brings us good trainers for teaching teachers in Early Child Education.
• Bringing to us potential teachers who love children, learning, and willing to be trained to be excellent teachers.
• Pray for the stability of this country and provide decent living for the people of this country.
• Pray for the unity of our “newly” formed team, may we be spirit filled and totally obedient to God’s will.
• Protect the young people from lies of the ISIS influence and protect the children from all kinds of disease including the outburst of measles.
• Pray for our family who supports us endlessly that they are protected from evil and blessed by God in every way.

Though the fig tree does not bud and there are no grapes on the vines,
though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food,
though there are no sheep in the pen and no cattle in the stalls,
yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will be joyful in God my Savior.
The Sovereign LORD is my strength;
he makes my feet like the feet of a deer,
he enables me to go on the heights.
Habakkuk 3:17-19Lord, we have so many partners (in finance, prayer, advice, in encouragement etc.), you know who they are. Thank you, Lord, for your love for us and for putting them in our lives. Please bless them accordingly as they have been such blessings for us. We just want to ask all these in the name of our precious Lord, Jesus!

Amen

 

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