Hoidetop- Daughter church of City Gate Church, Chiangmai Thailand

Daughter Churches

Name of church and village	Tribe group	Size of village No. Families	Size of church No. Families	Pastor	Distance from paved road	Electricity in village	Water	Land owned by village
1. Hoi De Top	Po Karen	65 people/ 17 houses (2 more families will be moving in sooon)	Entire village except for the chief's family. Even the Spirit Doctor is now Christian.	Sombat, He wants to plant a daughter church.	10 km .Need 4WD or motorbike to get there. Otherwise have to walk.	solar	pvc from remote stream	leased from government.
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2. Tung Pradeng Prao	Lahu (nearby Thai village with 1 Ch’n family)	?	22 20 children	Paul age 44	0 km	Mains	Spring	20 Rai
Pastor Paul is self-supporting and has led the church for 10 years. He is 44 years old with grown up children. He wants to move the church building to the top of the village. An Asian team has visited. They do not have a vision for what they want. They farm 30 Rai with corn. The children go to a local Thai school, so understand Thai. There is a need for children’s work. Potential of outreach to neighboring Thai village.
3. Pratoo Din	Lahu, Akha, Chinese, Burmese	Large	7 families	Young leader, bible school trained	0.5 km	Mains	Spring
The young leader went to a bible school in NE Thailand. They need leadership training and teaching. Potential of outreach to large village. Recently a husband nearly killed his wife in anger and then comitted suicide. Please pray for the village.
4. Huay Bpong	Black & Red Lahu, Bpalong	78	10 35 children <7years	Ajahu Leho (brother-in-law of Paul) Leadership team	5 km (need 4WD)	No	Spring	Rice fields, Pomelos, Mangoes
Large well kept church building. Need Sunday school for large number of children under age seven in church. German missions came before. School 5km away, children know Thai. Potential of outreach many non-Christian in village, and neighboring village.
5. Ban Mai			14	Moses	0 km	Mains	River, all year
Leader’s wife lives in Pataya and he is thinking of quitting church work and joining her because of low income from fruit trees. No teaching for children, only one meeting per week, on Sunday. A quarter of the church building has subsided and is about to slide into the river.
6. Betlehem					1km climbing on foot
This is located 1km up hill from Ban Mai, but it was not possible to visit because the rains had made the path too slippery.