President’s Message

Dear Beloved Faithful Believers and Friends,

God’s grace is so great and sufficient for everyone living on this world!  So let us take a moment of thinking how many years that Everlasting Gospel message, which is three angels’ messages and the true Sabbath, entered into to the country of Myanmar (Burma) – it has been already 115 years!  It can be said that everyone who accepts the gospel message has Faith, Joy, Salvation, and Peace.   Because of sharing the message of God’s grace offers salvation to everyone, of accepting the three angels’ everlasting gospel messages, a total of 31570 believers have been brought into the churches within 115 years of ministries in Myanmar.  It is not just bringing people to churches; but organizing a total of 233 churches and 106 companies to accommodate the souls during worship hours to have a fellowship with Christ, Our Loving Saviour too.  God has chosen us to be the lamp that gives light to people in this country.  With the perception of giving light we received to others, our Seventh-day Adventist Church not only could open 84 schools for primary education level, 9 schools for secondary education level, 1 seminary for college level, but a training center for community health promoters’ that to be able to offer true Christian education to the youth of the future generation. Furthermore, a Publishing House has been materialized, and books and literatures have been produced for ministries in places where there is no evangelist can be sent but testimony or book distribution can be done.  In addition to these, in order to spread out the gospel message country-wide, messages on evangelism have been broadcast in different languages – Myanmar, Kayin (Pwo, Sagaw), Chin, Kachin, Shan and Mon languages – through the Adventist World Radio program, and these voices have been reached to the places by using effective technical skills and methods where there is gospel message has never been heard before.  It is also a program to give the privilege of rebuilding our faith by nurturing, discipling, and retention our lifestyles to a new life of each believer. So where there is no evangelist can reach, messages are reaching there now.  In the past years, due to the political regime change, though the missionary hospital and schools had been nationalized and stopped functioning for the activities, praising God for providing several new schools are now open for teaching.  Hoping and believing by counting God’s grace that there can be a new big sanitation center in place of the previous one in the near future.

In Myanmar Union Mission of SDA, there are 321 workers serving in the ministries by joining various departments, working together with church members, both office and fields respectively. In the previous times, because of God’s guidance and much more blessings, we are filled with a feeling of being blest and having joyful hearts.  Therefore, let us praise His Name by counting His blessing given to us through all these years (115 years).  Let us invite the Holy Spirit to dwell in us for serving in His Ministries while worshipping together here.  Let us worship together while waiting and watching for Christ’s return. What a joyful experience and privilege of being gathered together at this 115th year celebrations!

Saw Timothy

President of MYUM