Sawadee Ka from Bangkok!
We arrived in Bangkok safely yesterday. This morning, we were able to have some down time getting massages and eating dessert around town. One of the team members said it was the BEST massage he's ever had!
In the afternoon, we had an opportunity to visit a local childrens home. A husband and wife team takes care of 8 teenagers at Baan Chu Jai childrens home. They take in children who are at risk for various reasons and provide shelter, food, and send them to school. They also teach them about God and pray with and for them constantly. They seemed like they were a one big family. We spent some time hearing about the kids' background, met few of the kids and prayed with them. It was encouraging to meet the people who are doing the actual leg work for God, full-time, in these areas of need. The people in the various ministries have been all very himble, asking for nothing more than our prayers. It was very evident that they live solely on their faith in God.
After visiting the childrens home, we headed over to the Bangkok slum community. This is the second slum community we've visited so far and the conditions were pretty bad. Their homes were built with some metal sheets and wood boards, sitting on top of garbage and nasty green still water. It is a 400 family community and out of the 400, only 5 were christians. We visited the house of the first christian in the community and a few others. But the story that stuck with us the most was of the people in the last house we visited.
In the last house, we met P'Mu and her daughter. She used to worship many idols before she became a christian. After she accepted Christ, although her circumstances make it very difficult for her to go to worship, she HAS to go worship God. She suffers from various illnesses, but about three months ago, she had to get her leg amputated because of diabetes. Ever since then, her 13 year old daugther became her sole care taker and has not been attending school. P'Mu has a wheelchair but cannot easily get around, even to see the doctors, because of the road conditions in the community and the wheelchair is too heavy for her daugther to lift. They can't even catch a taxi because the wheelchair is too big. She could have told us that she needed and wanted many things in life, but told us that only thing she really wants to do is to go to church and worship God. She told us about the times, when her daughter pushed her in the wheelchair in the pouring rain to go to worship on Tuesday nights. Her story put a lot of us in tears, grateful for her faith in God even in the worse conditions. Before we left, we held P'Mu and her daughter and prayed with her. Seeing these people and hearing their stories made me reflect on my attitude towards worship. Am I absolutely always ready to worship God no matter where and when in any condition?
MJ
We arrived in Bangkok safely yesterday. This morning, we were able to have some down time getting massages and eating dessert around town. One of the team members said it was the BEST massage he's ever had!
In the afternoon, we had an opportunity to visit a local childrens home. A husband and wife team takes care of 8 teenagers at Baan Chu Jai childrens home. They take in children who are at risk for various reasons and provide shelter, food, and send them to school. They also teach them about God and pray with and for them constantly. They seemed like they were a one big family. We spent some time hearing about the kids' background, met few of the kids and prayed with them. It was encouraging to meet the people who are doing the actual leg work for God, full-time, in these areas of need. The people in the various ministries have been all very himble, asking for nothing more than our prayers. It was very evident that they live solely on their faith in God.
After visiting the childrens home, we headed over to the Bangkok slum community. This is the second slum community we've visited so far and the conditions were pretty bad. Their homes were built with some metal sheets and wood boards, sitting on top of garbage and nasty green still water. It is a 400 family community and out of the 400, only 5 were christians. We visited the house of the first christian in the community and a few others. But the story that stuck with us the most was of the people in the last house we visited.
In the last house, we met P'Mu and her daughter. She used to worship many idols before she became a christian. After she accepted Christ, although her circumstances make it very difficult for her to go to worship, she HAS to go worship God. She suffers from various illnesses, but about three months ago, she had to get her leg amputated because of diabetes. Ever since then, her 13 year old daugther became her sole care taker and has not been attending school. P'Mu has a wheelchair but cannot easily get around, even to see the doctors, because of the road conditions in the community and the wheelchair is too heavy for her daugther to lift. They can't even catch a taxi because the wheelchair is too big. She could have told us that she needed and wanted many things in life, but told us that only thing she really wants to do is to go to church and worship God. She told us about the times, when her daughter pushed her in the wheelchair in the pouring rain to go to worship on Tuesday nights. Her story put a lot of us in tears, grateful for her faith in God even in the worse conditions. Before we left, we held P'Mu and her daughter and prayed with her. Seeing these people and hearing their stories made me reflect on my attitude towards worship. Am I absolutely always ready to worship God no matter where and when in any condition?
MJ
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