Thailand Mission Team Members Meet with Eji Osato on Sunday

ABCRM Thailand mission team members meet with Eji Osato on Sunday, February 15 to learn about his ministry of teaching Bible studies and other topics to Karen villagers up to grade-level 6 at the Chiang Mai Bible College (also known as the Siloam Karen Baptist Life Development Center). Eji and his wife Emi are native Japanese who were called to server the Lord at the Bible College in 1993, and are directly supported by the Japan Baptist Union. Eji showed the mission team the campus that was built in part with funds from ABC-International ministries.

The ABCRM mission team also enjoyed attending the Sunday morning church service at the Bible College with Emi and Eji and their two children (Naomi and Nana). It was especially delightful to hear the Karen choir sing in Karen during the service songs composed by the choir director. This was another example of how the efforts of our American Baptist missionaries in the past (especially the Judson’s and Paul Lewis) are still seen today in the continued spread of Christianity among the Karen tribal people in northern Thailand and surrounding countries. What a joy it is to be a part of this American Baptist heritage!