So we have come to the end of our official ministry work. Of course we are witnessing everywhere we go, but we aren't stopping at any more churches. We are back in Bangkok for a night and then we head down south. We are going to Hua Hin for about 3 days. Down there we are going to the beach, going elephant riding, kayaking, and maybe a littl ebit of waterfall jumping. It is going to be scary but fun! I am glad that we had a couple days to just kind of chill and whatnot before we cam eback.
Ministry has been going so well. Our DRIMES are getting so good and we have had to do a couple special numbers. The poeple from our choir at school sang Holy Holy Holy accapella andit was so nice. We have done that a couple times and yah poeple like it! I didnt' really know lots of the people before I came here so it's relaly neat to hear everyone's testimonies and know a littl ebit about them. It is has been so good! I am sad to leave, I love it here... But anyways, I may update you all from Hua Hin, but who knows I might be sooo busy! So until later!
Friday, May 16, 2008
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Fang!
Hello all! So last I wrote I was an invalid in my room for days on end, but today i write to you not as a prisoner, but as a free person! I am no longer having to be in my room. My rash is not completely gone, but but it is good enough to be out and about. YAY! We went to Chiang Mai after Mae Sot and I love it. It has alot of white people because apparanetly it is a really big touristy town and alot of the old missionaries go retire there. But we went to nice market there and our hotel was really nice. We only stayed there for a night as a lay ove rand then the next day we went to Fang! It was about a 4 hour drive with switchbacks most of the way. Fang is surrounded by mountains and so we had to go over and through them to get here, but it is so beautifu7l. It is just a quite city and everywhere we go we have to be travleing through the countryside.
Yesterday afternoon we went to the church toplay with the children. They are so cute. I love them. We basically just made sock puppets, made balloon swords and animals, and they got to pick out a couple books that we brought over. I was just about to grab the balloon pumps and the bag of balloons away from the guys by the time we were done. I sat there with my ears plugged! I can't stand it but all th eballoon activities are over, so yay! I never want to hear another balloon squeak ever again in my life. It's like dad and the tearing of the cloth!!!! Boo. In the evening we went to a church, we thought it was going to be the same one, but the drivers took us up to some hill tribe about 45 min away. We did some music, 2 testimonies, 2 DRIMES, and we prayed over the children, and the pastor and his family! It was really cool. You could feel the presence of the Holy Spirit and we prayed for one guy to get over his addiction of alchol and I believe that he will be healed. It is so cool. The children and the people in general here have such huge faith! Today we just went and played with the children at another hill tribe. There were so many of them, but it was alot of fun. We told them bible stories, did some DRIMES, and played games with them, it was fun. I took tons of pictures...
Tomorrow we are on the road again, another church heard that we are here and what we are doing and they want us to visit their church too. So that means an 8 hour drive for us tomorrow, back through the mountains!
Anywyas, God is doing such great stuff here and I love it. Last night the pastor mentioned one of his visions for the church to me and I think it's so cool, he told me to pray about it and really think about it. So I guess that's what I need to do. I also would like prayer for the team to keep on going. We only have o ne day of ministry left, but we still need strength and endurance. Prayer for the drivers of our vans, it is dangerous driving in the mountains and the rules of the road are a little different that here. Sometimes we have 3 vehicles across on a one lane highways! But it's fun! I like it! I feel safe, so yah... Yah, but other than that, i will write when i can! Thanks so much for your prayers!
Yesterday afternoon we went to the church toplay with the children. They are so cute. I love them. We basically just made sock puppets, made balloon swords and animals, and they got to pick out a couple books that we brought over. I was just about to grab the balloon pumps and the bag of balloons away from the guys by the time we were done. I sat there with my ears plugged! I can't stand it but all th eballoon activities are over, so yay! I never want to hear another balloon squeak ever again in my life. It's like dad and the tearing of the cloth!!!! Boo. In the evening we went to a church, we thought it was going to be the same one, but the drivers took us up to some hill tribe about 45 min away. We did some music, 2 testimonies, 2 DRIMES, and we prayed over the children, and the pastor and his family! It was really cool. You could feel the presence of the Holy Spirit and we prayed for one guy to get over his addiction of alchol and I believe that he will be healed. It is so cool. The children and the people in general here have such huge faith! Today we just went and played with the children at another hill tribe. There were so many of them, but it was alot of fun. We told them bible stories, did some DRIMES, and played games with them, it was fun. I took tons of pictures...
Tomorrow we are on the road again, another church heard that we are here and what we are doing and they want us to visit their church too. So that means an 8 hour drive for us tomorrow, back through the mountains!
Anywyas, God is doing such great stuff here and I love it. Last night the pastor mentioned one of his visions for the church to me and I think it's so cool, he told me to pray about it and really think about it. So I guess that's what I need to do. I also would like prayer for the team to keep on going. We only have o ne day of ministry left, but we still need strength and endurance. Prayer for the drivers of our vans, it is dangerous driving in the mountains and the rules of the road are a little different that here. Sometimes we have 3 vehicles across on a one lane highways! But it's fun! I like it! I feel safe, so yah... Yah, but other than that, i will write when i can! Thanks so much for your prayers!
Friday, May 9, 2008
Mae Sot
Hello! So I am here in Mae Sot and it is beautiful. The church and our hotel is out in the middle of now where basically, but it is beautiful. I love the country side. We have gone to the church and performed a graduation ceremony for the pastor there. They providced lunch which was good becuase it was noodles for a change, instead of rice! We went to an orphanage here and I love the kids there. We were only there for an hour, but we played games, read them a bible story, made a craft, and then they sang a song for us and then we sang a song for them. After that all we prayed for them and then the children prayed for us. They were so pure of heart and so sincere and so kind and generous with everythign they have. It was soooo good to see! I would really like to go back there to play with them.
The last week or so I have had pretty bad heat rash and a couple days ago they were sooo bad, like my body was covered in them and they were itchy. So yesterday mornign I wento the the hospital to see what it was and it is either allergies to something or it is heat rash. So I have to apply some lotion and stay inside where it's cool for 3 days! I am on day 2 and so bored and it is driving me nuts cuz I want to be out side building and playing with the chidlren, but ic an't. I guess I will just have to ocntinue to pray it heals and be patient. On monday we are heading to Chiang Mai and then to Fang. Hopefully I will be better by then. This trip is going so fast, we are over half way done. Anyways, I will post you again soon when I know more.
The last week or so I have had pretty bad heat rash and a couple days ago they were sooo bad, like my body was covered in them and they were itchy. So yesterday mornign I wento the the hospital to see what it was and it is either allergies to something or it is heat rash. So I have to apply some lotion and stay inside where it's cool for 3 days! I am on day 2 and so bored and it is driving me nuts cuz I want to be out side building and playing with the chidlren, but ic an't. I guess I will just have to ocntinue to pray it heals and be patient. On monday we are heading to Chiang Mai and then to Fang. Hopefully I will be better by then. This trip is going so fast, we are over half way done. Anyways, I will post you again soon when I know more.
Tuesday, May 6, 2008
PS
I forgot to give you a littl ebit of an update of what is to come....
Tomorrow we leave for Mae Sot and it takes 8 hours to get to Chiang Mai. We are staying there over night and then co ntinuing onto Mae Sot. We wil lbe there for 3 days I think working in orphanges and the music team is doing a Worship Arts Seminar for the day. We may also be building a wall of sorts for them there. We are then going to Fang and I think we are doing the orphange thing there too. And for about 3 days. We are then travelinbg back towards Bangkok with a brief stop at some place that starts with a P. There are monkeys that run wild there that you can feed and take pictures with and whatnot, so yah we are going to stop and do that. We will get to see the Floatiing Market too which is cool. Maybe we'll see a couple Komodo Dragons as well, I hear they dwell there. We will come back and spend a day here in Bangkok and then we are going down south for the last couple days of our trip to do debriefing and have a relaxing time. We are heading to Hua Hin and doing adventerous things like maybe some elephant riding, or kayaking. I thin kwe might be going to look at some waterfalls too, and of course hit up the beach too. We have invited the Pastor here and his family down there as a treat because we love him. So that will be alot of fun. There is also a translator (Woon) who is ocming with us and I love her, she's so sweet! So I look forward to the times ahead and updating you....
So until then...
Tomorrow we leave for Mae Sot and it takes 8 hours to get to Chiang Mai. We are staying there over night and then co ntinuing onto Mae Sot. We wil lbe there for 3 days I think working in orphanges and the music team is doing a Worship Arts Seminar for the day. We may also be building a wall of sorts for them there. We are then going to Fang and I think we are doing the orphange thing there too. And for about 3 days. We are then travelinbg back towards Bangkok with a brief stop at some place that starts with a P. There are monkeys that run wild there that you can feed and take pictures with and whatnot, so yah we are going to stop and do that. We will get to see the Floatiing Market too which is cool. Maybe we'll see a couple Komodo Dragons as well, I hear they dwell there. We will come back and spend a day here in Bangkok and then we are going down south for the last couple days of our trip to do debriefing and have a relaxing time. We are heading to Hua Hin and doing adventerous things like maybe some elephant riding, or kayaking. I thin kwe might be going to look at some waterfalls too, and of course hit up the beach too. We have invited the Pastor here and his family down there as a treat because we love him. So that will be alot of fun. There is also a translator (Woon) who is ocming with us and I love her, she's so sweet! So I look forward to the times ahead and updating you....
So until then...
Leaving Bangkok!
Hello all! So it's been along time since I wrote on here, I appologize. Things have been really busy here and I havne't had time to get to the internet cafe at all! Things here are going so well. I love it! Where do I start....
Well, we are done our construction work on the church. We layed down and tied rebar on it. We have finished digging the septic hole. And on Sunday they came and poured the cement for the third floor which we were working on. It is the Sanctuary so that worked out cool that we were the team that got to help build that. I got to help with English registration the other day too. It was neat because the children/adults have to write a test to see where they are at and then we do an oral examination and it's neat to ask them questions and see how much they know. Some poeple are soooo smart! we got this one boy and he was soooo cute! HE left the table cuz we were done and then he came back cuz he wanted us to keep asking him more questions. So cute! I also sad in on a class and it was really cool, I think I might like to teach!
This last Friday we took a trip to the Univeristy here. It is the biggest in the world. It has 500,000 students but it is sooo ocheap. It only costs 20 baht (75cents) per credit hour! and to rent a nice apartment it is 2000 baht a month, so that is cheap also! But anyways we went there with some of the Thai young adults from the church and did our DRIMES for them. After we did some DRIMES we would go into the crowd with a Thai and tell them the gospel and stuff and then we also invited them to the church service that night. It was really cool, the language barrier was tough, but good. Then that night we got about 5 people fromt he Uni to come and it was such a good service. We did another DRIME and then our team was in charge of worship for part of it and it was cool! I love it when they sing their songs in Thai but they also have an english translation, it's so cool to hear at the same time!
On Sunday night the Thai Young Adults invited our team to the movie with them just for fun and relaxation. It was in english with Thai subtitles so we were able to understand it! We went to Iron man and it was relaly good, most of the people from our team, if not all, really liked it! And it was so cool to hang out with the Thai's. Their theatres are so nice and Yo, our travel guide from the church, says it was one of the worst theatres in bangkok!!!!
The last couple days have been more relaxing because we are preparing to go up north to Mae Sot and Fang! We leave tomorrow morning! Today we went over the church so that we could dedicate the new church building with the Thai's. We just sang some worship songs and then we prayed over it togther. Pastor (the Thai pastor) thanked us for all the hard work and half the girls on our team started to cry, including me of course, it was so nice! They are so sincere and beautiful. They have such tender pure hearts and I love that so much. i am going to be so sad tomiss them. They don't have anything to give financially or whatever but they thanked us with all their hearts for doing this for them and being in their lives! And then the workers bought us drinks which is so nice because in Thailand if you buy someone a drink it means you are friends with them! keke.
Anyways, this is sooo long, but this is what we have been up to and we are going to be moving up north and I don' tknow how frequently i am going tobe able to check this. So I want to ask you all to continue to pray and thank God for safety so far and continue safety and health. It is a spiritual battle and so we are all constantly getting worn out and tired. Prayer is much needed! Anyways, I will go but I will talk to you all when i can! Much love.
Well, we are done our construction work on the church. We layed down and tied rebar on it. We have finished digging the septic hole. And on Sunday they came and poured the cement for the third floor which we were working on. It is the Sanctuary so that worked out cool that we were the team that got to help build that. I got to help with English registration the other day too. It was neat because the children/adults have to write a test to see where they are at and then we do an oral examination and it's neat to ask them questions and see how much they know. Some poeple are soooo smart! we got this one boy and he was soooo cute! HE left the table cuz we were done and then he came back cuz he wanted us to keep asking him more questions. So cute! I also sad in on a class and it was really cool, I think I might like to teach!
This last Friday we took a trip to the Univeristy here. It is the biggest in the world. It has 500,000 students but it is sooo ocheap. It only costs 20 baht (75cents) per credit hour! and to rent a nice apartment it is 2000 baht a month, so that is cheap also! But anyways we went there with some of the Thai young adults from the church and did our DRIMES for them. After we did some DRIMES we would go into the crowd with a Thai and tell them the gospel and stuff and then we also invited them to the church service that night. It was really cool, the language barrier was tough, but good. Then that night we got about 5 people fromt he Uni to come and it was such a good service. We did another DRIME and then our team was in charge of worship for part of it and it was cool! I love it when they sing their songs in Thai but they also have an english translation, it's so cool to hear at the same time!
On Sunday night the Thai Young Adults invited our team to the movie with them just for fun and relaxation. It was in english with Thai subtitles so we were able to understand it! We went to Iron man and it was relaly good, most of the people from our team, if not all, really liked it! And it was so cool to hang out with the Thai's. Their theatres are so nice and Yo, our travel guide from the church, says it was one of the worst theatres in bangkok!!!!
The last couple days have been more relaxing because we are preparing to go up north to Mae Sot and Fang! We leave tomorrow morning! Today we went over the church so that we could dedicate the new church building with the Thai's. We just sang some worship songs and then we prayed over it togther. Pastor (the Thai pastor) thanked us for all the hard work and half the girls on our team started to cry, including me of course, it was so nice! They are so sincere and beautiful. They have such tender pure hearts and I love that so much. i am going to be so sad tomiss them. They don't have anything to give financially or whatever but they thanked us with all their hearts for doing this for them and being in their lives! And then the workers bought us drinks which is so nice because in Thailand if you buy someone a drink it means you are friends with them! keke.
Anyways, this is sooo long, but this is what we have been up to and we are going to be moving up north and I don' tknow how frequently i am going tobe able to check this. So I want to ask you all to continue to pray and thank God for safety so far and continue safety and health. It is a spiritual battle and so we are all constantly getting worn out and tired. Prayer is much needed! Anyways, I will go but I will talk to you all when i can! Much love.
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