View, Download and Print here: Legacy Letter December 2015
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Dear Friends and Fellow laborers,
Satan never sleeps. We are under constant attack and meet roadblocks thrown in our way. Fellow laborers generously donated to get Kawn Yee and Toomya Shwe to attend a Thai language school in Chiang Mai so they could acquire an ED education visa from the Thai government. Then they could come to Thailand, study Thai, and attend classes at Legacy too.
In order to obtain an ED visa, we had to pay the full fees to the Thai language school. They then wrote a letter of request for an ED visa from the Thai Embassy in Laos. Kawn Yee and Toomya Shwe went to Laos accompanied by Adja and Oom, two of our Legacy employees. All the paperwork was correct, including the letter from the Thai school, and fee money ready to pay for the ED visas. But the request for ED visa for Toomya Shwe was rejected. They said he had studied Thai long enough since he had been in Thailand on an ED visa for one year already. They refused to give Kawn Yee an ED visa with no explanation.
What a disappointment! We all were dumbfounded. There is no known reason for the change.
They were able to get a 2 month tourist visa with a one month extension from the Immigration office in Chiang Mai. After 3 months they must return to Burma and we start the process all over again. Thailand red tape can be extremely frustrating, especially when the rules constantly change.
Kawn Yee and Toomya will stay at Legacy for the three months and then go back to Burma for the Passover and Days of Unleavened Bread. We must then figure out another avenue for them with the help of Almighty God. Kawn Yee is in her first year. Toomya will graduate in February and I had wanted to keep him for one more year of education before sending him back to Burma. But perhaps that will not be possible now. At least he will be graduating before his tourist visa runs out.
Please remember these 2 young people in your prayers to God. And remember others God may want to bring from Burma to learn His Way of Life at Legacy. It is getting harder and harder and more and more expensive each year to sustain our school. Now we have to deal with more stringent immigration laws.
It will soon be time to send funds to Burma for the expenses of COG operations. The members there are only just learning the importance of tithing. Many feel that they are too poor to tithe. That mindset is difficult to break when a person has grown up in poverty. Those that understand the importance of tithing do what they can in tithes and offerings, but it is not nearly enough to be self-sufficient. What this means is that we must subsidize the church in Burma. We will need to wire money there in January. In February we have the expense of our graduation. Then we will have the Spring Holy Days in April. Gloria and I plan to go to Burma for the Passover and U.B. All expenses for the meetings and meals must be supported by Legacy. As you can see, between now and the end of the Spring Holy Days we have many financial responsibilities. These expenses are all above and beyond the day to day operations of our Legacy school.
Please remember Legacy in your prayers. Ask Our Heavenly Father to supply all our needs. We rely solely on donations from individuals and small congregations. We have no large COG organization funding any of our projects in Thailand or in Burma. The brethren in this part of the world earn little or are subsistence farmers.
We have been doing God’s Work here in Thailand for over 16 years now and God has always supplied our needs, sometimes in the eleventh hour! But God also tells us to knock on the door. I have had people tell me, “please let us know what your needs are so we can help you.” So, I am letting you know our needs at this time.
Time is short. Prophecy is racing ahead. Jesus admonishes us to work while it is day, because the night is coming when no man can work. There is so much to be done here and it is important we train up workers for the Lord’s harvest fields.
We keep pressing forward.
In Jesus the Christ’s service,
Leon Sexton
The death toll is over 120, mostly innocent concert-goers, including dead Americans. Some of the terrorists behind the bloody and cowardly attacks have been caught. Others are still loose and they are armed. These atrocities were done by ISIS, the Islamic Caliphate which is at war with Western civilization. French President Francois Hollande has declared a state of emergency and closed the borders. It appears the terrorists came into France among the thousands of refugees fleeing Syria. They were armed and financed by ISIS which has terror cells across Europe and even in the USA!
While the U.S. is playing “pattycake” with ISIS in Syria and Iraq, they are killing innocent civilians in Paris, including Americans. When is the U.S. Congress going to wake up and get serious about an enemy intent on killing or enslaving ALL AMERICANS!! It is just too insane to believe! Paris is the Capital of France. Does any thinking brain fail to believe that Washington, D.C. isn’t on the hit list? One of the Paris terrorists said, “Soon we will be drinking American blood. It tastes the best.”
President Hollande called the killings “an act of war.” and vowed a ruthless response(1).
What will be the results of these acts of terror in Paris?
I believe it will act as a wake-up call for Europe. Liberal leaders have been foolishly permitting thousands of Syrian, Iranian and other Muslim refugees to flood into Europe for “humanitarian” reasons. How many among them are trained terrorists intent on killing Europeans? No one knows since the vetting process is a joke. Germans, Austrians and other Europeans are buying guns to protect themselves from knife wielding Muslim gangs of young military age “refugees.”
People are afraid. They are rapidly losing confidence in their liberal leaders that have allowed a Muslim invasion of their countries. This will allow for the rise of strong, Right Wing leaders. People like Angela Merkel will fall and be replaced by a Chancellor that will deal swiftly and decisively with the Muslim “invaders.” Poland has already moved to a right-wing government:
A new political era began in Poland on Thursday with the swearing in of a parliament dominated by a right-wing party, signaling a major power shift in the European Union’s largest eastern member(2).
Muslim refugees are faced with strong, anti-Muslim sentiments in Germany, so much so that some want to return to Syria or Iraq. Anti-Muslim sentiments will only increase in Europe. Europe is getting fed up!
ISIS also brought down a Russian passenger plane full of tourists over the Sinai and all aboard died, including infants.
It is no doubt that Putin will react with deadly force. These terrorist acts could actually be the “pushing” of the King of the South that brings about the whirlwind invasion of the Middle East by the combined forces of the European King of the North lead by NATO.
(Dan 11:40) And at the time of the end shall the king of the south push at him: and the king of the north shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.
It has traditionally been Christian Europe against Islam. Islamic armies tried three times to invade (push into) and conquer Europe. These “pushes” were stopped in their tracks. The first time was at the Battle of Tours in what is now present day France in 732. The Frankish army that defeated the Moors (Muslims) from out of Spain) was led by Charles Martel, the grandfather of Charlemagne.
The Muslim Turks were finally able to bring down the walls of Constantinople in 1453, and invade Europe. They were stopped twice at the gates of Vienna: First in 1589 when Vienna was attacked and besieged by Sultan Suleiman I (the Magnificent). Suleiman was finally forced to retreat due to running out of food for his animals and heavy rains forcing the Turkish army to abandon many large siege cannon to the mud. The second time Vienna was besieged by the Turks was in 1683 with 140,000 soldiers. The siege was lifted when Polish King Jan Sobieski arrived with an army of Poles, Austrians, and Germans. King Jan Sobieski finally broke the lines and destroyed the invading Turks with the largest cavalry charge in history, he himself at the head of his own Polish Winged Hussars. This was the high water mark of Muslim encroachment into Europe.
The Muslims have always set their sights on conquering Christian Europe, their chief rival for world domination. And do not fall for the false propaganda that Islam is peaceful. It is the goal of Islam to create a worldwide Caliphate under Sharia Law and force everyone to become Muslim.
The terror in Paris will also wake up many Americans to the threat of Islamic radical terrorists infiltrating into the United States with the intent of repeating Paris in America. Now President Obama wants to bring as many as 250,000 Muslim refugees to settle in the U.S. How many of these are part of a Trojan Horse invasion of America?
Prophecy marches on. Keep watching the news every day. The End of the Age is unfolding before us.
In service to the soon coming King of Kings,
T. Leon Sexton
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(1) http://edition.cnn.com/2015/11/14/world/paris-attacks/
(2) http://news.yahoo.com/members-polands-wing-parliament-sworn-124838492.html
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