General News

Hello all fellow-laborers,

This is a prayer request for Stelyn Shwe. He is the Legacy student who contracted dengue fever and was hospitalized. He was released and came back home, but was just not getting his strength back. He then began to complain about being very cold and needed several jackets to stay warm. It was discovered that he had a low grade fever and so Gloria took him back to the hospital to get a check up. He was admitted today and the doctors are running several tests to find out the cause of his continued weakness and the low grade fever.

Please pray that we can find out quickly what the problem is and ask God to heal him.

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For those of you who donated to help get two of our students from Burma into the Thai language school so they could obtain visas to stay in Thailand: We had an outpouring of generous support and now have enough to pay their tuition for them to attend the language school for one year.
Pray they have no problems getting an Education Visa from the Thai Embassy in Laos.

Thank you all for your prayers and generous donations.

T. Leon Sexton

Hello Fellow laborers,

The laws have changed again! It seems to me like they keep changing the laws every month or so.

In order for us to bring students from Myanmar (Burma) to Legacy in Thailand, we must have them attend a Thai language school. In order to attend a Thai language school, they must acquire an Education Visa (ED visa). In order to acquire an ED visa, we must pay a local language school a yearly fee for them to attend on Sundays. They can then attend Legacy school on weekdays.

All the smaller schools can no longer request and get ED visas for Myanmar nationals. Only one school in Chiang Mai is recognized by the Ministry of Education, so we must send our Burma students to only that one school. All the smaller schools are being run out of business (Do you smell a rat?).

Both Toomya Shwe and Kawn Yee, students from the COG in Burma, must now go to Laos to get ED visas. The large language school in Chiang Mai will issue a letter for each that is approved by the Thailand Ministry of Education, so that the Thai embassy in Laos will give them an ED visa. Legacy is not recognized by the Ministry of Education since we are chartered by the Ministry of Culture, not the Ministry of Education.

The cost for them to attend the large Thai language school is now 1500 USD per student per year. This is outrageous, but since this one large school has a monopoly, they can take advantage, particularly if one is sponsored by an American foundation.

This means we need to find sponsors for both Kawn Yee and Toomya Shwe for this next school year of USD 1500 each. If you or your charitable organization can help, please let us know. We have one month only to get Toomy back from Burma and get them off to Laos to get the ED visas.

This is an emergency request. Toomya has only one more year to go and he will graduate. Kawn Yee is studying in her first year at Legacy. Please let us know if you can help.

With great appreciation,

T. Leon Sexton

Dear Fellow laborers,

One of our Legacy students, Stelyn Shwe, came down with Dengue Fever and had to be admitted to the hospital. I just visited with him this morning and anointed him according to God’s instructions in James 5. He is feeling better and hopes he can leave the hospital soon. Dengue is dangerous because it can turn into Hemorrhagic Fever which is very dangerous. It seems we got him to the hospital in time.

Please pray for Stelyn Shwe that he can recover quickly and get back home.

Thank you for your prayers.

T. Leon Sexton

40 COG members (including children) gathered at Kyawk Taing, Myanmar for the Feast of Tabernacles with much worship; singing songs to God; and lots and lots of feasting.

Thoo Mya Shwe leads songs.

Children enjoy special Western treat – hamburgers!

Yum – yum.

Seng Aung, our Student Pastor in Kyawk Taing; his wife Seng Pan; Legacy student Htoo  Mya Shwe; and our Deacon in Rangoon, U Myo Zaw and his wife Tumar, are there to lead services and festivities throughout the 8 day Feast. Some COG members from other parts of Myanmar were able to attend.

Travel is more difficult since the Feast of Tabernacles falls in the midst of the Monsoon season. But all who were able to travel and attend received daily spiritual food as well as the physical feasting that goes along with celebrating God’s Commanded Assemblies before Him.

Leon Sexton

Dear Fellow laborers,

Here is the latest from Seng Pan, wife of our Pastor Trainee in Kyawk Taing, Myanmar. She was in the hospital for four days with a very high fever and low red blood count.

She just wrote us and email.

Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2015 19:43:33 +0630
Subject: Re: FW: Thank You for Praying
To: mail@legacyinstitute.org

Dear Aj. Gloria

We celebrate feast of Trumpets is well done.

Chyi Tin and Tan Nu come at FOT day. They did not come the church for along time. Some guest also come on FOT day. Two boy students are come and enjoy with us from Thapye school. They are friend with U Lashi Naw’s son.They come from Inn Daw Gyi and study at Thapye School.

I found the sickness name was circulatory failure.It happen from dengue virus.

May God Bless You All
Yours Sincerly
Jum Seng Pan

Seng Pan is recovering at home now and able to nurse her baby boy which was a very big concern for her. Gloria was able to give her an old family recipe to drink to help her get her strength back and to help produce mother’s milk.

Please continue praying for her and the whole family; Seng Pan, Seng Aung, Blessing, and little Naw Naw. And pray that they are given extra strength from God to take care of those coming for the Feast of Tabernacles.

Serving Our Lord Jesus,

T. Leon Sexton