8/27/08

Busy busy busy

Hello! This has been a busy busy time filled with both good experiences as well as not so fun experiences. Let's start with the good stuff :D. A few weeks ago was Mother's Day. One woman in our church, who is on staff at our church, is still single, but has spent countless hours discipling girls in our church. They decided to honor her as if she was their mother. They even made a family tree of people she had discipled (her daughters) and then people her disciples discipled (grandchildren), etc. There was about 20-30 people on this board and it was amazing to see and a true testimony to how one person's ministry can be multiplied. I had never seen anything like that before and it was amazing to me :D.

My church has been holding a special team care for students who have not yet accepted Christ for about 2 monts now and it is very encouraging to see. We had 5 college guys come from the states to help for the summer and this team care is a result of that. We have a few boys coming who were Christians once, but walked away and now they have come back! Praise God. There are also about 2 or 3 people coming consistently who still haven't fully accepted Christ. Last night there were 3 new girls who had not come before and hung out with us during team care. Pray for all of these people. Daeng, Nicky, Ree, Game, Lie, Nicky, Wa, Kat, Toon, and a few more whose names are escaping me (SORRY!).

Now for the bad stuff. Pray for the political situation in Thailand. I'm not exactly sure how much you hear about it in America, but if they say anything good about the former prime minister, ignore it. All of his claims are crazy and he knows how to appeal to the democratic mindset, yet when he was here, he would pay thousands of people to vote for him. Not exactly democracy, right? His wife was convicted, got out on bail, and fled. He fled as well. Everyone sees the current government as his puppet and thus are just as angry and agitated as before. There are protests pretty much everday (though not in my district, so I'm okay) and yesterday the opposing political party siezed a tv station and had other massive protests. I don't forsee another coup, but things are divided with the political situation. Please pray that things will calm down and people will be civil once again. Corruption is a part of government, especially here, and people are frustrated with it.

Thank you for all of your prayers and support. I really appreciate and value all of them. Please don't hesitate to update me on your life as well! I miss you all greatly! If you ever want to take a trip to Thailand, please let me know! I would love to see you.

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