Tsei Ton has a very exciting and a strong story to tell!

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I am very thankful to God to be able to tell you this story.

My name is Tsei Ton. On the 13th of January 2007, I became a Christian. Before that I did not know God much. I was born in the Shan state in Burma, a place called: Gon Hing.

I am a Shan, and my parents were Buddhist. We are six people in our family, I am the youngest one. When I was young we had a lot of joy in our family. It the mountains a bit far from where we lived, they found diamonds, and one day my father went there and dig for diamonds.

First he went away for one month, and he came back for seven days. Then he went away for three months, and then home again seven days. After that for six months. My mother found a new husband during this time. I wrote a letter to my father about this. My father came back, and fought with my mother. One night we were eating a meal together and my mother and father was shouting and quarrying. After this they separated, and my sister and I went to live in a school close to Thailand. My mother and stepfather went to live in Thailand and my father went to Gon Hing.

My sister and I were waiting for our father or mother to come and pick us up, but we needed to wait for a long time. Sometimes I was looking towards the mountains and I did not see them because I was crying and was longing for my father and mother. One day my stepfather came and picked us up and brought us to Thailand. This was in 1996, and then I met my mother and my other sister again. I could almost not recognise them; they had become darker because they were working in a field. When we met we cried of joy. My sister and I stated to work, and I was happy even though it rained. But my life was not really good, I started to worked in a bar and sometimes I went and slept with girls in the nighttimes. 2-3 years after I came to Thailand my mother died. I become really sad and depressed and I did know what to do, and my life went worse after this.

I took my two sisters and lived at a school. When I earned money I gave a lot to my brother that lived I Burma. Sometimes I could not send it because the police took them. This world thought me a lot, and I wanted to change. I really knew have to get drunk and sleep with girls.

One day I got the thought that I wanted to go to jail so I found a police man and hit him in his back head hard with a stick. After I had been in jail for six months, one in my family paid a bail for me and I started to work at the bar again.

One day I was visiting a friend called Ngje. He wanted me stop working at the bar, because I was constantly drunk (and high on drugs). At this time I started to get to know the Shan team in Fang, which I work with now. I said to them that I really wanted to change and get a new life.

I continued to work in the bar, but one day I became really depressed. It was the children’s day, and I saw the children holding hand with their parents at the children festival. I also went to the festival but I was holding hand with my beer. I had spent all my money and I cried out: Why is my life like this. After this I went to another festival in the evening, and there was some christens there who gave out tracks. The tract was about Gods love and was called: a gift of love. I was very interested in the tract. When I read it, I wanted to know more about it, so I went back to my friend. I said I wanted to know the love of God and who God is. This tract made me cry for a whole day. I went to a cell group that the Shan team had and they prayed for me there.

After this I felt I should not go and work again at the bar. I wanted to read the Bible, but I did not understand it and one day I just throw it away.

At this time I could not sleep or eat. A lot of demons came and tormented me and they were after me all the time. I sometimes throw cups at the demons; I was really afraid of them. Sometimes I felt the demons bound me with a rope and I could not move. The Shan team tried to take care of me and pray for me. I felt the demons tried to drag me to the grave. My friend, Ngje, came and picked me up. I don’t remember much from these days, I just remember the demons. One night I was really afraid. I felt the demons were binding my hands and feet, and I felt like they were pouring acid on my body and my flesh was melting away. I felt they said: Don’t breath, and I also wanted not to breathe. When I was in this condition I felt like I was leaving my body. I was so tired. When I did not breathe I felt I left the body, when I took a breath I felt like I came back. I was so afraid, I was shivering.

But then I remember that one in the Shan team said that I should pray in the name of Jesus when I was afraid. When then I prayed I felt the demons that were binding my hands and feet left me. I sew the wall disappeared, and I saw the lime tree outside the house.

I also started to pray to God that he will take away all the demons. I had a knife and, I thought if God would not help me I would kill myself. When I took the knife I saw the heaven with the stars. And a saw a light like a rainbow that was white, with no colour. I it was like a picture of a person, but he was big and only light. I was covering my eyes, because the light was so strong and I could not see. I closed my eyes. The light was like the sun. And I heard a voice said: Child come and sleep here don’t be afraid anymore, I am a father for you. I went to sleep and slept very well. I had not slept for three days and nights.

In the morning a child came and wakes me up, and I was frightened. I was angry at the child and said: What are you doing. The child was afraid and found one of the teachers in the Shan team at the school were I slept. When the woman saw me she was amazed and said: Are you healed? I said: Healed from what? I did not understand what had happen to me. She started to cry, and I did not know why she was crying either. I went and eat and took a shower. I was stinking because I had not taken a shower for weeks.

After I have showered I suddenly remembered what happened yesterday. I first thought it all was a dream, but then I went out and saw the knife and I understood that something had happen to me, I also understood it was not only a dream. When I started to thinking about God I really remembered what had happened. I started to believe in God because of this.

On the 13th of January 2007, one in the Shan team, prayed with me to salvation.

The old life was gone. I turned totally away from my old life, and God have given me a new life. Because of Gods grace, I have a new life. I prayed for a wife and a child, and now God has blessed me with that.

When my wife had labour pain the 4th of March I did not know what kind of name we should give our child. The child was born on the 5th of March this year (2009) and that was Palm Sunday and I remember when Jesus came to Jerusalem and the people said Hosanna. I said that if I got the child this day I would like to call here Hosanna.

Before I had nothing, but now God has given me everything. I want to give thanks to God in the name of Jesus.

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When I first met Tsei Ton, at the beginning of 2007, he was a very disturbed and depressed man. I thought if this had been in Norway he would have been admitted to psychiatric hospitals. I also realized that he had problems with alcohol and drugs.


One day this friend, whom he describes, came to us and he did not know what to do with this Tsei Toon. He had found him nearly naked on the road, completely out of his mind. We talked together in our team and wondered if we should sent him to a Christian rehabilitation center. But some of us did not have peace for this.


Before we parted, one of our staff had a very good idea: Let us pray for him again. Our staff and myself put our hands on him and prayed! I prayed a short prayer, it was: In the name of Jesus I command these demons that torment this man, to go away now! During this day and the following night he was set free.


When I came to school the next day, I realized that something had happened to him. He was suddenly quite normal! Remember that he had used alcohol and drugs for many years, but he did not have abstinences. Something supernatural had really happened!

And I know now that he had a strong encounter with Jesus, and He had set him free.

If you read the Bible you will see that some of the same thing happened during Jesus' ministry. The Bible says that Jesus Christ is yesterday and today the same, yes forever, and we have experienced that.


Today Tsei Ton work with us, and is a very efficient and eager evangelist who loves Jesus! And although he in the beginning did not understand the Bible so much,  today I don't know other people that read the Bible and study it more a he do.

T J