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Hall
Missionaries to Thailand
9/14/2026
Dear Praying Friends,
I’m so happy to be writing this letter from Thailand! Yes, we made it back safely to our home on this side of the world at the end of August and we appreciate the many prayers that went with us on our journey. It was a long but uneventful trip home and the kids were amazing through it all!
Our summer in America was a time of tremendous growth for our family. We saw some big steps forward in our children and Alyssa and I were both spiritually refreshed by the fellowship and preaching. I’m so grateful for the many folks who stepped in to minister to our children along the way. You left an impact on them! While we all enjoyed the familiar English language and the quality time with our family and our church family, we were quite eager to return to Thailand and continue with “normal life” here in our home.
It was such a blessing to me to come back to our people having been faithful and consistent during our absence. What a joy it was to reunite and share fellowship again! Of course, there were trials they experienced during our three months away. But God has shown himself to be faithful to the Thai believers. And now we return to a great need for sowing the seed and reaching more lost souls for Christ. Please pray as we build our English classes back up. In our absence, attendance has dwindled and I’d like to grow the number of students in order to grow opportunities for spiritual influence in lives.
I appreciate how the men have taken the responsibility of preaching each week while we were gone. Even with our return they’ve expressed a desire to continue to rotate together with me in the preaching schedule. This is a blessing!
Pray for MJ. MJ was saved before we left for America and needs discipleship. He also needs to make some important, but difficult, steps of obedience to the Lord. Would you pray for him to make the right decisions? His girlfriend, M, needs to be saved.
I also ask that you pray for Diamond. He just recently received his Thai ID card (he was born in Myanmar but grew up in Thailand). Now that he has his ID card he has many options ahead for education that he is considering. Would you pray for him as he considers God’s will for his life?
Upon our return to Thailand, Alyssa quickly got to work preparing for our school year. This year we have five out of the six children homeschooling! It’s a busy school room and I know Alyssa appreciates your prayers as she takes on the responsibility of our children’s education. And, of course, the wonderful opportunity to raise these children to love and serve the Savior is a big responsibility as well!
If you would like to receive more frequent updates, please refer to our Facebook page (The Halls to Thailand). We greatly value your faithful prayers for the ministry here. We are reminded every day the great task that is ahead of us in an extremely dark place. But God is able! God is able to have a Thai church planted right here in Mae Sai and we trust Him to see that happen.
To God be the glory, the Hall family,
Benjamin, Alyssa, Chloe, Gideon, Silas, Judah, Arabella, and Ethan
4/8/2026
I'd like to start off by saying "thank you" for your praying for our family and the ministry here. It seems like a common thing to say in a "prayer letter" but we often see evidence of faithful prayers on the other side of the world and want to thank YOU for praying, and thank GOD for hearing and answering as He sees fit.
Last month we were able to renew our rental contract for the Lighthouse English Center building. We were expecting a reasonable but significant increase in rent due to the rising cost of living and the ideal location of the building. In an amazing way, God allowed us to sign a five year contract with a very minimal increase in rent! Considering the current market of rental cost in Mae Sai, this is a miracle and we can see God's hand so clearly.
The month of February was a busy one for our family! The lady who teaches our children Thai twice a week had asked us to pray with her to find employment for one month while she was in between jobs. It just so happens that she has experience teaching foreigners Thai full time! So we hired her to spend a month with our family, 8 hours a day, to give us an "immersion experience" and help Alyssa and the kids to get to the next level. And they did! On many days Alyssa would spend roughly five hours in Thai conversation, while also learning how to cook Thai food and gaining more insights into Thai culture. Because we homeschool, the kids aren't around the Thai language every day. So it really helped them to have a formal lesson every afternoon and to hear the language spoken all day, every day. I also spent the afternoons with her husband conversing in Thai. It was a great opportunity for our family!
Our first week of the immersion program, our house had a major electrical problem and nearly caught on fire in several places. Had we been sleeping, I might be writing a much different letter right now. I'm very thankful to God for keeping our family safe by revealing the issue during the day! It took several days to resolve the problem, which was caused by old exposed wiring outside that was not installed properly in the past. God has been incredibly good to us!
In quite a few of our prayer letters we've mentioned a group of teens that attend on Sundays. The school year has nearly ended and they will all be returning to their families in various provinces. We thank God for the opportunity to plant seeds of the Gospel throughout this school year. Pray for them, that the seed would take root and that we would have more opportunities with them in the next school year to water the seed.
While ministry has been "slow" in the way of visitors, it's been "fast" in working with the believers concerning their daily walk with God. It's my goal to be used of God to establish a solid church that can stand even after the Lord calls me away from here. This requires tedious, but important, foundational work in spiritual growth. Pray for them! We've continued to minister the Gospel to M and MJ, as well as to Boon, a man who has visited on and off over the years. He's faithfully attended for quite a few weeks now and seems to have a seeking heart.
I'm grateful to you who pray and support the ministry here. As always, feel free to reach out to us personally if you have more questions. It's impossible to add all the details in these letters.
May God bless you!