Pastor Tha Hser

One of seven children, Pastor Tha Hser Tun was the only child who was given the opportunity to get an education. His parents put him in the home of a distant relative and they allowed him to attend school. From 1977 to 1981, he studied at the Karen Baptist Theological Seminary in Burma. Although his school years were poverty-stricken, Pastor Tha Hser graduated successfully and chose to work as a missionary for five years among indigenous Karen who practiced animism and lived in the mountains. Pastor Tha Hser got malaria and almost died, but God’s mercy sustained him.

From 1987 to 1997, Pastor Tha Hser served as pastor for two churches: Tha Nay Kler and Amo Mission Church in Tavoy District. Due to political instability, Pastor and his family fled to Thailand. He lived in Maniloi and Htam Hin refugee camps where he also served as a pastor. In June 2003, Pastor Tha Hser and family were resettled in California where he learned English and assisted many refugees.

After moving to Phoenix in July 2007, Pastor Tha Hser immediately got involved in the Karen ministry. He supported his family by holding a full-time job as a factory worker at a printer repair company. In early 2009, the Arizona Karen Baptist Church was blessed to find the funding necessary for Pastor Tha Hser to quit his factory job and devote full time providing support and leadership at the church.

Pastor Tha Hser is thankful for his wife, who has always been supportive of his ministry. Pastor and Mrs. Tha Hser Tun have four children and three grandchildren. He is grateful to God for the privilege of serving Him, and also expresses his deepest appreciation to everyone for their continuing support and prayers.

ဒီပုၢ်ဝဲၢ်နွံဂၤအကျါ သရၣ်ဒိၣ်သးဆၢထိမ့ၢ်ပှၤတဂၤလၢန့ၢ်ဘၣ်တၢ်ခွဲးတၢ်ယာ် လၢကမၤလိဘၣ်တၢ်လၢကၠိ လီၤ. မိၢ်ပၢ်လဲၤပာ်အီၤ လၢဘူးတံၢ်အဟံၣ်လၢကထီၣ်ဘၣ်ကၠိအဂီၢ်န့ၣ်လီၤ. ဖဲ ၁၉၇၇ တုၤ ၁၉၈၁ န့ၣ် သရၣ်ဒိၣ် လဲၤမၤလိဘၣ်လံာ်စီဆှံကၠိ လၢကညီဘျၢထံယွၤဂ့ၢ်ဖၠၣ်စိမိၤ န့ၣ်လီၤ. သရၣ်ဒိၣ်ဘၣ်မၤလိဝဲတၢ် ဖဲလံာ်စီဆှံကၠိ လၢတၢ်ဖှီၣ်တၢ်ယာ်တၢ်ဃံးတၢ်စ့ၢ်အပူၤန့ၣ်လီၤ. အဝဲဖျိထီၣ်ဝံၤ ဃုထၢလဲၤမၤတၢ်သးခုကစီၣ်ဖဲ မိၢ်လုပၢ်လၢ် ကညီဆ့မိၢ်ဝါ ကစၢၢ်ခိၣ်ဖိအကျါ ၅ နံၣ်လီၤ. အဝဲဒိးန့ၢ်ဘၣ်တၢ်ညာ်ဂိၢ် ဘူးတ့ၢ်မးကသံ ဘၣ်ဆၣ်ယွၤပာ်မူ အီၤ န့ၣ်လီၤ. ၁၉၈၇ တုၤ ၁၉၉၇ နံၣ်အပူၤန့ၣ် သရၣ်ဒိၣ်ကွၢ်တၢ်အိၣ်ဖှိၣ် ၂ တီၤ ဖဲ သန့ချၢၣ်တၢ်အိၣ်ဖှိၣ် ဒီး အမိၤမ့ၤၡၢၣ် တၢ်အိၣ်ဖှိၣ် ဖဲ ဘလံး ဒဝဲၣ် န့ၣ်လီၤ. ခီဖျိထံကီၢ်တဂၢၢ်တကျၢၤအဃိ သရၣ်ဒိၣ်ဒီးအဟံၣ်ဖိ ဃီဖိ သုးအသးဆူယိၤကီၢ်န့ၣ်လီၤ. အိၣ်ဘၣ်ဝဲလၢ မဲာ်နံၢ်လွဲၣ် ဒီး ထါမဟ့ၣ် ပှၤဘၣ်ကီဘၣ်ကဲ ဒဲကဝီၤ ဒီး ဖဲန့ၣ် သရၣ်ဒိၣ်ကွၢ်ထွဲစ့ၢ်ကီးတၢ်အိၣ်ဖှိၣ်လီၤ. ဖဲ ၂၀၀၃ နံၣ်အပူၤ သရၣ်ဒိၣ်ဒီးအဟံၣ်ဖိဃီဖိ ဟဲသုးဃီၤဘၣ် အသးဆူ California ဝံၤမၤလိဘၣ်ကိၤလၤဝါကျိာ်ဒီး မၤစၢၤဘၣ်ပှၤဘၣ်ကီဘၣ်ခဲတဖၣ်န့ၣ်လီၤ. ဝံၤအလီၢ်ခံ သရၣ်ဒိၣ်သုးက့ၤအသးဆူ ဝ့ၢ်ဖံန့းက်စ်, အရံၣ်စိနါ, ဒီး မၤစၢၤဘၣ် တၢ်အိၣ်ဖှိၣ်ဒီး ကညီဖိတဖၣ် လၢအိၣ်တပူၤဃီဒီး လုၢ်အီၣ် ဘၣ်ဟံၣ်ဖိဃီဖိ ခီဖျိတၢ်မၤလၢ Printer Repair ခီပနံၣ် န့ၣ်လီၤ. ဖဲ ၂၀၀၈ နံၣ်, အရံၣ်စိနါကညီဘျၢထံ ခရံာ်ဖိတၢ်အိၣ်ဖှိၣ် လိၣ်ဘၣ်လၢ တၢ်ကတီခိၣ်ရိၣ်မဲတၢ်အိၣ်ဖှိၣ်အဃိ သရၣ်ဒိၣ်​နုာ်လီၤမၤတၢ်ဒ် တၢ်အိၣ်ဖှိၣ် သရၣ်တဂၤအသိးန့ၣ်လီၤ. သရၣ်ဒိၣ်ဘၣ်တၢ်ပာ်စုအီၤဖဲ လါအ့ဖြ့ၣ် ၁၈, ၂၀၁၀ လီၤ. သရၣ်ဒိၣ်မၤတၢ်ပှဲၤဒီး တၢ်သူၣ်ဖှံသးညီ တၢ်သူၣ်အိၣ်သးအိၣ် ခီဖျိ လၢအမါသးဘိအတၢ်ဆီၣ်ထွဲမၤစၢၤ အီၤလၢလၢပှဲၤပှဲၤအဃိလီၤ. သရၣ်ဒိၣ်အိၣ်ဒီး အမၢၤ အိၣ်ဒီး အဖိ ၄ ဂၤ ဒီး လံၤ ၃ ဂၤန့ၣ်လီၤ. သရၣ်ဒိၣ်စံးဘျူးကစၢ်ယွၤ လၢအဃုထၢအီၤ လၢအတၢ်မၤဖးဒိၣ်အဂီၢ်န့ၣ်လီၤ. စံးဘျူးဝဲစ့ၢ်ကီး တၢ်အိၣ်ဖှိၣ်ဖိ ကိးဂၤဒဲး လၢအဆီၣ်ထွဲမၤစၢၤအီၤ လၢခရံာ်အတၢ်အိၣ်ဖှိၣ်အတၢ်မၤအပူၤဒီး အဝဲမုၢ်လၢ်အဒိၣ်အအါလၢ တၢ်အိၣ်ဖှိၣ်ဖိတဖၣ်ကထုကဖၣ်လၢ အဂီၢ်န့ၣ်လီၤ.