TAN Mission to Myanmar

MYANMAR 2011

In October of 2011, Peggy and Linda Easton (a member of the TAN board of directors) traveled to Thailand and Myanmar, ministering and teaching in thirty-two meetings during their twenty-day mission trip.  They were hosted in Myanmar by Pastor Dong Mang who had been a student of Peggy’s at World Harvest Bible College in the 1980s.  While still in school, he had told Peggy that one day she would be teaching her class to his ladies in Burma.  Pastor Mang has a real heart to train and teach women to be all that God has called them to be and has had Peggy’s Women for the Harvest book and syllabus translated into their local language.

Peggy and Linda started their ministry in Yangon with a packed church of eager learners—one hundred twenty-five ladies from sixty different churches.  For hours, the women sat and took notes—so eager to learn, so eager to be used by God.  Many came to receive the baptism in the Holy Spirit and to receive the power so that they could actually fulfill their dream of reaching their tribe.  Many more came to be released to operate in their gifts.  Peggy commented that there is nothing like a woman mentoring another woman to step out and use what she has.  All that many of these women needed was the example they saw in Peggy and Linda and permission to be used in the ministry.  Then they received the freedom to decide to do what they sensed God was putting on their hearts. 

Next, they traveled to Mandalay, a city where tourists flock in to see the Buddhist pagodas and shrines.  The ladies did visit one Buddhist temple where they watched intently as the poor, deceived people knelt and bowed before a dead Buddhist statue.  They were saddened to watch as some of the devotees bought sheets of gold to rub onto the huge Buddha statue.  Peggy commented that it not only brought tears to her eyes but also an even stronger determination to raise up women to go out and teach deceived people the truth about our living God, Jesus Christ.  The women’s conference in Mandalay was the first they had ever had.  Forty women came forward to be released into the five-fold ministry.  Linda and Peggy remarked that they felt like they were in the book of Acts when these women came up for prayer because all they were in one accord as the Spirit fell on them; they
were crying, laughing, shaking, and spontaneously falling out in the Spirit.

Pastor Mang commented that God used this mission to answer the prayers of the Burmese people through the scriptures: "I will pour water upon him who is thirsty, and floods upon the dry ground…Behold, I am doing a new thing!  Now it springs forth." (Isaiah 44:3, 43:19-20).  He said that he believes that God will bring Peggy and Linda back to Myanmar next year and that they are already looking for bigger facility to hold next year’s meetings in Mandalay.  He is also making plans to travel to other areas of Myanmar to teach Peggy's materials because the people, especially the women, desperately need the touch of God and need to be equipped for the harvest.