The Beginning of Goodbyes

Raul, one of our team members left Thailand to return to Costa Rica today. He was the first Latin Intern to come to Thailand. God has used him in tremendous ways over the past year. Please pray for Raul as he returns to Costa Rica, and will have many opportunities to portray his vision and heart for Asia throughout Central and South America, and for future work here, as he plans on returning sometime next year.
On Friday our team threw a goodbye party for him, and on Saturday evening, a large group including some of our team, and many of Raul's Thai friends ate dinner together at a beautiful restaurant in a private room that we rented. It was such a fun evening of community!

A Beautiful Celebration

Saturday was such a SPECIAL day! Our friend Pon was baptized. We all gathered together, brought food, and shared a meal together in Bang Bo at our friends Wanna and Uthai's home. It was a really neat time, worshiping and praying together in three different languages. Pon spoke of what God is doing in his life, and just how significant this is to him. It was such a reminder to me of God's faithfulness, goodness, beauty. The baptism took place in a canal at the nearby Wat....it was beautiful.

Things of Late

On Thursday I meet Sharon, Tawan, Payao, and Tawan's sister Poom for dinner. We had a blast eating together and catching up. I simply love them! Then I went to Bang Phli where I met some of our team and our Thai friend, and we had a blast listening to music and having fun in a small one room apartment! You will probably see that I have changed my hair color recently and in all these pictures it probably looks different. I don't know what I was thinking....because I didn't like the results I went to a salon on Friday and spent 6 hours having the color stripped out, and then dyed close to my natural color again...absoulutly not good for your hair, but O well, what do you do? Use a very intense conditioner I guess!?!?!?.... Anyways...it is now close to my natural color again.

Mae Sot

I think that the best way to describe my trip and experience to Mae Sot is to use nothing else but pictures. I am sorry that this update has been delayed! ...it has been a busy month!
Mae Sot is located in Northwest Thailand close to the Myanmar border. Our group spent time teaching children in the local villages, and refugee camps teaching Bible stories and songs. Our Thai friend Blue, who is working with a organization/ministry who is working among the the refugees, was our contact there, and was a tremendous blessing. Being able to see his heart for these people and desire to bring the truth of Jesus to unreached people groups was amazing. Along the border of Myanmar and Thailand, an enormous settlement of around 60,000 refugees from Myanmar are living. Many camps are illegal, and it is difficult for the Burmese to find work. Many plant corn for around 80 Baht a day ($2.50) Our team had a beautiful serving and living together for a short few days, and I loved getting to know each person better. It was my favorite place in Thailand that I have been to so far. I loved it, and would like to return soon. Here are the pictures!



















Here are some videos of some of the songs we taught in Thai and Spanish...and the last one is the children singing in Thai!