DRIME Thailand Team Missions Trip (August 10th to 26th)

DRIME Thailand Team - awesomeness!!!

It was so wonderful and refreshing to have the DRIME team here in Thailand with Janna and I! A lot of these people we hadn’t even met until coming here but it truly was a team picked specifically by God. Everyone was so willing to be used by Him for His work and His glory! And it was SO FUN!!! Always singing some sort of song, usually Disney but sometimes other show tunes haha, stories galore (from the wonderful story-teller, Graham), a bagillion inside jokes “it’s okay we have a frog!”, laughs and good times galore, but also serious times and growing/challenging experiences, encouragement and building one another up in the body of Christ. Such an amazing combination and I miss the team so much! So blessed to be a part of a special team!

There are so many stories I could share with you but I’ll just share a few.

my bruise from falling down the stairs

One night near the beginning of the missions trip, I needed to do my laundry. When I went down to put my laundry in the machine it wasn’t raining but when I went to get it, it was raining. I didn’t really want to go get it because it was late but I knew I needed my DRIME clothes to be dry by the morning so I needed to go get it… Kung offered to come with me. I’m so thankful she did! I didn’t realize it was raining so I had on my flip flops that aren’t the best in the rain… I had never fallen yet but they didn’t really have much grip. I walked outside and thought in my head I probably should have worn different flip flops because it is raining so hard. As soon as that thought crossed my mind, I slipped and fell down all the stairs (only 5 or 6) and landed on my butt, back and elbows. I finished getting my laundry anyways and brought it upstairs with Kung’s help. Through this incident I felt very attacked by the devil. Kung prayed for me (in Thai). A neat experience because during the prayer even though I couldn’t understand the words, I felt a difference from the beginning of the prayer to the end. My back still hurt but something had changed, I felt more of a peace or weight lifted off my body or something. Her prayer opened my eyes to the fact that our God is for everyone, no matter what language you speak or where you come from God wants everyone from every nation to be part of His family. I mean I knew that but it was cool to see that even in another language we all serve the same God. After she prayed, Kung gave me some very heartfelt and encouraging words. It’s like a good moment had come out of a not so great thing. Also even though I felt attacked, I later realized that I still felt very protected by God because it could have been worse. His angels were watching out for me. It was also cool because I refused to let the devil win! I wanted to use this experience for God’s glory because Satan felt threatened by all the work that was being done for God and he wanted to stop it, he wanted to discourage me and I wouldn’t let that happen. I knew we must be making a difference for God’s kingdom if the devil was attacking us. The next day I used falling down the stairs in a testimony during the drama set. I pray that God was glorified through it.

"Thief"

The first night of ministry was at a place called Ko San Road. I was in the drama called “Thief” and I remember at one point in the drama staring at these girls who were watching and just thinking, I need to talk to them. God wants me to talk to them. I was in another drama at the end of the set but it was one that a lot of people knew so I felt the conversation was more important than the drama (even though I LOVE performing the dramas) and so I felt bold enough to go talk to her. The group of students spoke a little English and I knew a little Thai so we started to have a conversation. But there was a point when the language barrior was too much – neither of us were understanding each other… so I asked Lillian if there was a translator around and there wasn’t. But then we noticed Grape wasn’t talking to anyone so we called her over and she helped me talk to this girl. The talk that we had with P’Matt the day before was very helpful and relevant to speaking to this girl and the look in her eyes told me she understood. I was able to share that Jesus took the punishment FOR US that WE deserve for breaking the rules – aka sin (10 Commandments- christianity or 5 Precepts- buddism). It was actually the friend of the person I thought God wanted me to talk to that really connected and was engaged in the conversation but I’m so glad God gave me the strength to be bold and jump into that conversation. THE REALLY neat part was that she had to leave at the perfect timing. Just before the last drama. I was still able to be in the last drama! God has the perfect timing. He knew that as Lillian or Michelle made up the schedule that I would need to have that amount of time to talk to this girl.

talking with my translators, Buay and a group of girls about the dramas

Another day, actually our last day of ministry, we went to CRU. Don’t ask me how to actually say the name of the university because it’s long and hard to pronounce haha. (spelt like this Chandrakasem Rajabhat University) Anyways, after performing the last drama I was in, I went into the crowd to see if I could explain the dramas to anyone. I started talking to some students and a translator just showed up out of the blue and handed the students a card to a student website. Those students didn’t stay around long but since I had met a translator, I said, “let’s go find some more people to talk to.” So that’s what we did. We found a group of girls sitting and watching the dramas… one of those girls name was Buay. I started to try and explain what was happening and just about who Jesus is and stuff but I felt myself getting stuck and not knowing what to say. So my one translator stepped in and shared her testimony and the other girl translated to English for me. It was great, I just kept praying for the conversation and all of a sudden my translator told me that Buay wanted to accept Christ. Amazing! That’s great! Although, I found out that they expected me to pray with her… in my head I was like, Ah! I’ve never done this before; I don’t know what to do! But I just was like okay God use me, give me the words to say, let’s do this. So I prayed a simple prayer to have her ask Jesus to come live with her in her heart. We were even able to give her a Bible! So great! So those girls left to go to class and I continued to talk to my translators. They asked me about how I became a Christian so I started to share my testimony with them. As I was doing so two girls came up, Apple and Gay, and they asked if they could listen to what I was talking about. They also wanted to know about the dramas and about Jesus. So I got to share my testimony with them and my translators help. And I wasn’t finished my testimony when Apple asked, “how do you pray?” which I found out meant that she wanted to pray to accept Christ. Wow, God is moving in this university! Praise the Lord! My translators talked to the girls for about 5/10 more mins just sharing more about Jesus and what it means to be a Christian… and then she was like okay she’s ready. I’m like okay I guess I’m praying again. Haha. So I did again… Not really as good this time for whatever reason, but I just hope that God used my words and that they were what the girls needed to hear. And I was able to give Apple the last bible we had. Gay had a Christian friend who had previously given her a bible to read so it worked out perfectly since we only had one bible left to give away!

This has never happened to me before. In most of my conversations, I may be the person who plants a seed about God or waters the seed a little bit but not the one who harvest the plant. So I’m just so shocked and amazed that God used little old me to lead these three girls to Him! Praise the Lord… all the glory goes to Him!

P'Eaw explaining the dramas to Breze

Another conversation that stood out to me was one at a place called Major Rangsit. We had been there before and the taxi drivers begged us to come back! It definitely was God’s will that we go back there because our university location that we were going to go to fell through so we went back on the Tuesday. I saw a mom and her baby watching the dramas and so I went over to her and spoke the little Thai I knew to start a conversation. I said hello and pointed at her baby and said cute and asked how she was doing, in Thai. I asked if I could hold her baby (that I don’t know how to say in Thai but she understood somehow). Then P’Eaw was nearby so I asked her to help me translate because that’s about as far as I got. I asked if she understood the dramas and who the man in the white shirt represented and the conversation went on from there. P’Eaw did most of the talking and I was glad to be a gateway, to have these two moms start talking together about Jesus. I was content to hold this precious 6 month old baby as well as pray for the conversation and for God to use P’Eaw and add little bits to the conversation as she asked. Turns out Breze, the mom, had encountered a Christian and she had prayed to Jesus to ask for a baby. I was holding her baby, Organ, in my arms so I knew that the Lord answered her prayer. The Christian she knew was actually working nearby so we went over and chatted with her for a bit. I was encouraged by the work she was doing for God. And she could tell without seeing the dramas that our music was worshiping God. I think that was encouraging to her. After talking with Breze’s Christian friend, Nun, we went back to where the dramas were taking place and P’Eaw’s husband P’Mann came over and started talking with Breze as well. P’Eaw told me she wanted to accept Christ but she had more questions. So P’Eaw was going to keep in touch with her and try to answer her questions. Even that hope that one day soon Breze would be a Christian and maybe even come to our church was so exciting; it brought a tear of happiness to my eyes. I was so amazed that God had let me be a part of this experience as well as helped my baby withdrawal by being allowed to hold this strangers baby. This missions trip was full of many blessings.

Breze and her baby, Organ, watching the dramas

me holding baby Organ

I think that even though I hurt my back when I fell down the stairs and couldn’t be in many dramas, that forced me to be in more conversations than I would have if I hadn’t fallen. So I’m kinda glad that I was able to experience those conversations. I mean I wish my back was fully healed but it’s all part of God’s plan right? And we can’t see the bigger picture. But God sees it. So one day we’ll get it. Oh! That’s why I fell down the stairs – it was to accomplish this purpose. Even if we don’t understand until we get to heaven and ask. Haha. (It’s A LOT better than when I first fell but if you could still keep it in your prayers that would be great)

One funny story: One night after ministry Janna went to leave and she could only find one flip flop. She gave up looking for it, took her shoes and went over to talk to P’Natti about something at her house. Lillian was still outside the guest house where the team was staying and I asked her if she had seen Janna’s shoe. I said it looks like this one (beige and with beads on it) except it is the right foot not the left foot. Lillian said nope I haven’t seen it; I was with you all day! Haha, I know! Anyways, she wanted to ask P’Natti a question so we got our shoes to head over to her house but funny thing was: Lillian couldn’t find HER right flip flop! It was missing as well! Weird! Lillian’s flip flops were black. (It plays into the story) She took her DRIME shoe on one foot and her flip flop on the other and we headed over to P’Natti’s house. When we got there, I SAW JANNA’S SHOE!!! And I was like, “Hey! It’s Janna’s shoe” and Lillian says in reply, “Hey! It’s MY shoe!” Both Lillian’s and Janna’s RIGHT flip flops of DIFFERENT colours and designs had ended up at P’Natti’s house!!! BAHAHAHA! How did this happen??? Who steals TWO RIGHT FLIP FLOPS of DIFFERENT colours! They said it was a Thai initiation thing but they were all laughing hysterically and as confused as us!!! Oh man… SO FUNNY!

Random Thought: During debrief in Ampawaa, Jess and I: held a snake, and held a baby tiger and rode an elephant!!! Woot! Yay FRIEND!!!

Jess and I riding an elephant!!!

There’s lots more stories but I’ll save those for another blog or you can just ask me about some of my favourite conversations J

My GLORIOUS Birthday (August 12th)

So I got to spend my birthday in Thailand AND I was blessed to have the team here for it! So we celebrated big time thanks to my wonderful teammate Jenjira! Love you! So funny how “stelth” the were (not) about what I wanted to eat on my birthday! Crazy how they made it happen tho! That’s cuz P’Natti is amazing!

celebrating with friends!

at the salon

So the day started off like this: I went with P’Kung to the salon to get my hair shampooed and styled! I never straighten it here cuz I left my straightener at home (on purpose) so this was a nice change! It was a glorious start to my morning! And it only cost 70 thb! That’s like just over 2 dollars! So good! The road was kind of empty in the morning because it was Mother’s Day in Thailand (the Queen’s Birthday) so it was a holiday but I was thankful this hair salon was open! J Then I ran home to grab my guitar because we were going to worship together with the team! When I walked in the room, everyone started singing Happy Birthday and then they gave me a present from the team! I got some movies and chocolate and earrings and Captin Flint (a stuffed giraffe) and a card full of encouraging things J! Then we sang a couple worship songs together and I headed off to skype with my family! Just before lunch time Matt came to give a Buddism talk to the team because it was a -training day for them. He a little bit gave away that we were having “sa-pagetti” for lunch… But that’s okay I kinda new anyways since Janna and Lillian were SO STELTH at asking me the day before ;) (love you)! So we went and had lunch and it TASTED LIKE HOME!!! A’Roi Mak Mak Mak ka! P’Natti had made it herself AND made garlic bread with no dairy just for me! J So thoughtful! And for my birthday cake: COW NEAU MA MOUNG!!! With candles in it!!! I blew out the candles and had one left over hehe… Throughout the day the DRIME team had different presents for me from people back home! I felt so special and so celebrated! Zipp even stopped by the office to give me a chocolate bar – she remembered it was my birthday! J Aww! So sweet! We continued training and practicing dramas and everything that was scheduled. For dinner I got to pick first and so I had cow pad gai – obvs ;) haha. (chicken fried rice). After dinner we shared some testimonies and I felt like I got to know my team a lot better. (Who knew HOW much better I would get to know them by the end of 2.5 weeks!) And we did a team activity where we wrote what we wanted our team to look like and what we didn’t want it to look like. It was fun! Myraya stopped by at some point and said happy birthday and a few other things happened… Near the end of the night Jenjira came over and asked me how my day was… It was just wonderful and glorious! So blessed to have a teammate like her that made me feel so celebrated on my special day! And it was so awesome to have things I missed and or needed from home! J I’m a little bit spoilt! Love everyone who helped in any way to celebrate me on my birthday! It truly was amazing!

Here's a few pictures:

presents from Emily and Elsie: earrings and Captin Flint the giraffe

worship time with the team

skyping with my family

practicing Redemption

Eating Sa-pagetti that P'Natti made: mMm! Tastes like HOME! <3

Blowing out the candles on my cow neau ma moung cake!

More training - Silence practice.

Darrell the DRIMER: team covenant

Blog Number Bad (8)

So… It’s almost that time… The team from Vancouver comes in only a couple days! They arrive late at night on August 10^th. There are lots of little last minute things that need to be done and we are still re-arranging our ministry schedule and locations… just with getting permission and confirming locations and that sort of thing. But we are hoping to finish everything up and be able to have a day of rest on Wednesday – because whenever we plan days off… It doesn’t really happen… Something always comes up. And even if we try to explain how busy we are… people don’t really understand and therefore we end up doing things on our days off. (Pray that Wednesday is protected as a day off!) We are grateful to have Emily here to help if something does come up for Wednesday.

Blowing out her candle

Emily arrived back to stay with us last Thursday afternoon! And it was her birthday the day before so Janna and I bought her a mickey mouse cake and had cards for her and a few things. She loved it! J On Friday night, after work, Emily and I went out adventuring – we went grocery shopping at the Big C, then we walked over to Robinson and had some yummy dinner, then we went looking for Esplanade… We asked a Tuk-tuk driver where Esplanade was but he didn’t understand… So we just went looking for it ourselves… When we thought we went too far, I ASKED someone in THAI… and they pointed us in the right direction… so we walked the opposite way (oops) back to the mall… and ran inside just as it started to pour! Inside after walking around for a bit we found a shop called Swensens… and OH MY WORD it is amazing! It’s an ice cream shoppe with MENUS… So many choices wow! (I know I know my stomach doesn’t really like it but it was okay cuz I had my lactose pills)

Amazing Creations of Ice Cream from Swensens!!!

Emily and Janna went to explore JJ Market on Saturday while I walked over the overpass to a coffee shop on the otherside (no I didn’t order coffee :P) called Café Amazon. There, I wrote some letters, cards, postcards, journalled for a bit, read my bible a bit and just had some quiet time to do my own thing. The sky kept looking like it would pour at any moment but it didn’t until after I was at home. Thankfully! Because atm Janna and I share an umbrella and she had it with her at JJ Market. I had been there for a little while and my smoothie was done so one of the employees brought me over a cute little glass of water. So sweet of them! When I was done hanging out at the coffee shop… I walked around and found A&W for dinner! Had some curly fries with my meal! And I was content eating by myself in the restaurant… Which is weird because I’ve always found it awkward to eat by yourself in a restaurant… Maybe cuz it was a fast food restaurant it’s different, I dunno? I saw some other for-rung come in to get food as well. Funny funny. 

watching Gnomeo and Juliet

I walked home and Janna and I introduced Emily to cow neau ma moung, while watching Gnomeo and Juliet! It’s the first time we’ve had cow neau ma moung in like a month!!! I miss it so! After we watched the movie in English – Janna had never seen it – we found out that you could change the language to Thai and have English subtitles. It was funny to hear them speak in Thai but I feel like it would be good practice and helpful for us learning Thai to watch the whole thing in Thai you know? Even tho the only words I could pick out were words I already knew tho. Too bad Emily will take the movie with her when she leaves with the team.

"coffee" after dinner with the Chees

On Sunday we saw the Chees at our church. They are staying at the TCCC guest house but they had just arrived in the night before. We chatted a little at church and made plans for dinner. We took them to what we call “the far place” (it’s really not that far but that’s just our name for it haha) After dinner, Jerry wanted coffee… I think Lillian’s going to like having Jerry around for this reason – lol. So we went out for coffee (neither janna nor I had coffee – because it was late and I don’t like coffee anyways) but it was good. I had cha mannow instead (lemon tea).

Out for lunch at the Black Noodle

Today Caleb and Kong trained in some dramas with Emily! They learnt really fast! They learnt 3 before lunch (in 2 hours of training) Way to go boys!!! I’m so excited that Kong is able to come out with us to some ministry times during the trip! We thought he would be too busy! But Por (his discipler) is being very flexible! So great! So we went out for lunch together at the Black Noodle (a Korean restaurant) My food had a SMILEY face on it! J So great! When we came back the boys were going to learn some more dramas but their brains were done for the day. Janna and I decided to split up because Jerry had arranged some meetings for us, however we both had a lot of work to do yet before the team came so we couldn’t afford to have both of us in meetings for the next two days when we have lots to prepare for the team coming. So I stayed at the office and worked on some details for that!

So about this whole leadership team thing: God told us to wait. (which is definitely hard for me but the stress of having them chosen before the team came is now gone) Please continue to pray for this decision because it is very very important! We are hoping that the applicants can come out to ministry so we can see them in action and get to know them better. And/or that God will show us someone we haven’t met yet that is a perfect fit for DRIME leadership! We do however feel very confident in Kung and she will definitely be a DRIME leader J Just please please please keep praying that the rest of the leadership team will fall into place!

So I probably won’t have that much time to blog once the team arrives, so I’ll be older the next time I talk to you! Haha. I can’t believe my birthday’s THIS Friday – even tho I keep reminding everyone else that it is ;) (what!? – I’m in a new country with new friends… how would they know unless I tell them – subtle hints of course! ;) bahahaha) I’m turning older in a DIFFERENT country! In Thailand! Crazy! Haha. Plus - I kinda get 2 birthdays because of the time difference ;) haha. 3 more days of being 22!

me with my smiley face lunch!

Until next time,

I appreciate your prayers! And thank God for having you in my life! I'm so glad I'm surrounded by people who support me! Love you all! God bless! Pra Jaow Auay Porn Ka!

Summary and Prayer Requests

(I don't really know why I made this a separate blog... But here it is:)

I think I’m just really having a hard time all around. With the leadership stuff. With change. With the busy-ness. With the transition. (I’m looking forward for the end of August because I feel like that is when we will finally get a break! Even tho I’m excited to see people from home!) I love being here – I still do. I’m not homesick or sad or down at all. That’s not why I’m having a hard time. The task of planting a base was just harder than I expected (not that I really knew what to expect). I think sometimes, I try to do it on my own strength and I CANNOT!!! Please pray this for me. I so want and need God’s guidance and this task seems way too big for me. But I KNOW it’s NOT too big for God!

Things you can pray for me are:

To hear God’s voice – to be listening and have ears to hear. That I would trust what I hear from him to be TRUE.

For God’s strength in this big task (Choosing the Leadership Team)!  For energy, wisdom, insight, flexibility, adaptability and endurance!

For focusing on God always despite the many tasks I feel need to get done.

Prayer for restful sleeps. Both of Janna and I, to one degree or another have had trouble sleeping. It’s hard to function properly and make good decisions about the Base Plant without adequate sleep.

Also my eyes have been bugging me lately – itchy, red, little puffy at times. Prayer that my eyes stop bothering me (I especially need to wear contacts during when the team is here)

And my stomach acts up from time to time. Sometimes it’s hard to tell if something has dairy in it. So prayer that my stomach would not bother me. (Health in general would be great! But especially with my stomach)

Praise for:

God’s provision through his servants in so many ways! God just takes complete care of us through the amazing people he has placed in our lives and surrounded us with. One of which is each other! Praise the Lord!

That some of the details of the trip and ministry locations are falling into place! (Pray that this would continue)

Khorb Khun Ka Sumrop Khun Atti-tan! (thank you for your prayers)

Blog Number Jet (7)

Well it’s been a while… let’s see, what can I tell you? To catch you up it’s been a harder last week. Harder than I realized until Monday night. Monday night was when all my thoughts had the opportunity to start to process rather than before, we’d been soo busy with meetings and DRIME work that all this ever changing information that was being given to us was being stored away and suppressed. Because before, we just had to get through this meeting or that meeting and THEN we could have time to think or figure out this structure (the way DRIME will operate in Thailand) when we thought it was that structure and then we’d talk to someone else and it would be a completely new structure! I was trying so hard to be flexible and adapt DRIME to what it needs to be in Thailand, and it does NOT come naturally for me to be flexible. I need to have a plan. I need to know when this is happening, on what date, at what time. I’m a scheduler or planner – it’s in my nature. But I want DRIME Thailand to be what God wants it to be and to look like – not necessarily something we’ve seen in the past (although it might end up looking like that) but I wanted to be open to something different if that was God’s plan, you know? We just never knew if this new information or these changes in structure were the start of what made DRIME Thailand unique, you know? And we totally want to be an aid to the already existing ministry at the TCCC and we just don’t completely know what that looks like yet.  So by Monday night I had just worked up this almost anxiety, more of a stress – my brain is telling me we have to be at this point by this day and we thought we knew how to be at that point but now it feels like we are 3 steps behind when we thought we took a step forward. It was a combination of a bunch of things: lack of sleep, busy-ness, always meeting with people, all this information and ever changing structure, always needing to have answers for people that we don’t have until we figured out (the structure which essentially depends on the people applying for leadership) and just utter exhaustion on thinking about the same thing in so many ways! And, to top it all off feeling the dynamics begin to change with the team coming and that was really hard because I just didn’t feel like the “me and janna stage” was finished yet and I just was feeling like I was resisting it because I wasn’t ready for it. And all my thoughts and emotions poured out along with that combination of everything.

I love my teammate and through this, we were able to have a good heart to heart. It definitely helped.

So a little glimpse into the events leading up to Monday: On Thursday we had a conversation with one of our friends who made us aware of some confusion that was going on that we were unaware of between – well a lot of people. So we were thankful for him sharing this knowledge with us and some insight about Thai culture as well. From there we were able to meet with the head of campus ministries and get more on the same page of their expectations versus our expectations and how leadership MIGHT work out for two of the campus staff despite their busy-ness – He was SUPER excited for them to be on board with DRIME. So we took that home and processed a little bit and tried to come up with a way that we could be flexible to work around the busy busy schedules of campus staff and see what that might look like. On Saturday we didn’t do DRIME stuff but we were out all day at a park until late and so although it was a fun day – we’d been going all week and I felt super exhausted. And with needing to talk to a bunch of people at church on Sunday – leadership thoughts kept floating through my mind. On Saturday night I had a moment where I was just like I can’t, like I don’t want to do it. I don’t want to be in this cycle of ever changing confusion. Lol. It’s so hard to describe. I’m not good with change. But of course, this is what God called me to do and He has blessed me with being here, so you just keep on keeping on. I’m just longing for that connection with Him and that affirmation that my thoughts are in line with His. On Sunday we had individual meetings with Por, Pond, Fook, Air, Kong and Suwit. Clarifying if they still wanted to be in leadership, clarifying their schedules and setting up interviews to go over leadership applications and get to know them better.

After all the meetings P'Por took us to a mall to look for a sound system for the DRIME team. He's good with all that technical stuff and sound equipment and was happy to help! So great! You can so see the Body of Christ at work - each have their own talents that they excel at and they are willing to so graciously offer them to others. ie Looking for sound equipment, making a (very professional looking) poster, helping fix our computers, translation etc. It's so perfect! 

When we were looking for a sound system with P’Por; we wanted to know if it would be loud enough outside. And… Get This!!! The employees of the store let us take it OUTSIDE to TEST the VOLUME!!! When in Canada would anyone let you do that with something you haven’t BOUGHT??? They WOULDN’T!!! Awesome, right? We didn’t end up buying the sound system on Sunday. We are very nervous to make this sort of purchase: a) because we’ve never had to make this decision before and b) because stuff in Thailand is non-returnable. So we have planned another day to go to another mall to see if they have anything better. So by Sunday night it’s been a long day and a long week and we just feel like we need a day off…  (and we felt like Saturday was just too far away) so that’s probably a contribution to my Monday night revelations. I didn’t realize I was as upset as I was, until I started talking and externally processing.

Few things to touch on (and catch you up on):

Interviews – We’ve had 4 interviews this week with potential leaders with Kung, Kong, Rahel and Fook. More on that later.

Emily from the Vancouver Team (that’s coming August 10^th to 26^th) arrived on July 27^th for about a day. The original plan was that she would stay with us and help us and then go visit some friends in Chiang Rai around the 4^th of August, but that all changed as we felt we would need her more closer to when the trip was starting. On Thursday she came to the office with us in the morning and we went to check out some ministry locations (Silom Road/Patpong Market etc) in the afternoon and she was able to come with us then as well. Then she headed up to Chiang Rai until next Thursday!

Vancouver Team: Comes in 9 days! We will be packing in the ministry times! Pray that this energizes me and Janna!  Pray that our hearts would be ready for this transition, change of pace and active times of evangelism, as well as unity for our team that is coming!

We’ve just been having a lot of long days – We end up taking work home with us a lot. The TCCC office closes at 5pm so we usually pack up and continue working after dinner til late sometimes. So just pray for adequate moments of rest whether it would be during the day at the office or less taking work home with us or having that time at home to just do something different – whatever it may be just adequate moments of rest so we have energy for all the tasks we have on our plates. I tend to need time to wind down but if I’m working until late and then I need to wind down then it’s LATE by the time I get to sleep. So keep us in your prayers!

Us and some friends at Suan Rod Fai Park (the train park)