YWAM Ratchaburi would like to introduce one of the missionary families that has recently moved to Ratchaburi. We are excited to see the plans that God has for them, and look forward to sharing more of their story with you in the future.
About the Piawongs
We are a family who among ourselves are very different even
in language and culture, but we have one heart to see those who live in
Thailand and neighboring countries know and experience the pure and
unconditional love of God.
Our focus is to disciple and pour love into families,
children, and youth. Our goal is to one day see these people that we're
reaching grow and step out to be leaders in their own families and communities,
taking initiative to reach out through the unique gifts that God has given
them.
Noom grew up in a small village in Thailand. When he was in
his twenties and after many years of involvement with alcohol, drugs, women and
being the leader of a gang, God transformed his life through a YWAM DTS in
2006. He made the commitment to serve God and stayed on staff there in Chiang
Rai for another few years.
Karis grew up in Australia and moved to Thailand
with her parents in 2007. At the beginning of 2008, Karis did a DTS with YWAM
Chiang Rai and it was there that God confirmed His calling on her life for
Thailand and gave her a heart for Isaan (where Noom is from and where we
ministered through mercy ministries, sports, music and discipleship from
2009-2016). In late 2009 after getting married and moving to Isaan, Noom
started a cultural music ministry. The goal of this group was to share God's
love with the people using their own unique culture and language. We worked
together leading this ministry until 2013, as well as being guardians for a few
teenage boys who lived with us from 2009-2012. However, after becoming parents
to our first son Eliyah in 2011, Karis started to feel the time was coming for
her to start pursuing her dream of reaching out to mothers-at-risk. This slowly
evolved into a mercy ministry that reached out to whole families-at-risk. The
initial vision was for it to be a home, but it ended up being more of a
ministry that reached out to families in their own homes and communities. This,
along with training, sports and music, was our main focus until late 2014.
Between 2015-early 2017
God did many things in our hearts by slowly "weaning" us off ministry
and helping us to see how much more important it is to have an intimate
relationship with Him. He took us on a 5-year journey of travel where we lived
in a few different provinces in Thailand, learning how to live in Sonship and
learning about what our true passions are. Now, after those 5 years we are now
in Ratchaburi where we plan to stay until God says otherwise - and our hearts
still beat for children, youth and families. We run the Bridge Ministry with
another family who moved with us from North Thailand in 2021. Our heart is to
connect/bridge and restore Thais hearts to God’s heart, to each other, and to
the nations.
We have three children, Eliyah (2011), Solomon (2015) and Tidah
(2018) and love to open our home for teenagers or young adults to stay. At the
moment we have a high-school girl from Chiang Rai living with us. We are very
passionate about journeying together as a whole family to live in God's love
and bring that love to the people of Thailand.
No comments:
Post a Comment