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สวัสดีค่ะ (Sah wah dee kaa~)! That’s “hello” in Thai! We just ended our fourth day in Chiang Mai and wow! Yes, wow. It’s amazing how so many events, memories, and beautiful new relationships can bloom in just 24 hours. God has definitely been actively present and working in the lives of our team from the first few days, but God answered our prayers and Darren allowed us to members, the staff, and the students. For our team, many of us felt drained extra-extroverted and intentional with the students at The Centre. Before we sleep in this morning! The extra hours of sleep gave me a boost of energy to be spoke or understood Cantonese/Mandarin so learning new languages shouldn’t be went to The Centre, we attended our very first Thai class and learned “basic” phrases…“basic” as in “not that basic”. Growing up, most of our team either was a challenge, let alone the actual words. Despite all the embarrassment and difficulty, too difficult…but oh were we wrong. Even getting the tones and pronunciations correct it was still a great experience and reminder that the feelings of embarrassment we felt were likely what the Thai students felt when they spoke English to us. After hanging out and playing games at The Centre, we went out to get dinner with a few students. They were extremely excited to lead us through the night market and introduce us to pork bone soup, soft serve, ice cream, and certain topic – k-pop. Through music, people from different parts of the world crepes. We had various fun conversations, but mostly enjoyed talking about one can be connected! How awesome! I can’t wait to lead the conversations towards a deeper level and share my beliefs in the one and only true God.
Here are some ways you can be praying for us and our team:
Half of our team is feeling unwell and many of us have been bitten by mosquitos so pray for healing and energy.
Kevin shared an Evangecard with a student and has had meaningful conversations and interactions with him, but he has strong opinions about religion. Alisa has talked to a couple of people from house church, one a believer and one not a believer. Pray for courage to take our conversations with the students towards a deeper level.
If you have time, check out this somewhat long video I made that brings what we do into a clearer visual perspective. It summarizes our trip to Thailand as well as days 1-4 spent in Thailand. Thank you for your prayers and support!
Weekly Sun | 8:45am: Passage; Life Center, 302-303 Sun | 10:45am: English Worship; Worship Center Mon | Annex (see below) Wed | 7:45pm: Prayer Meeting at FCBC Fri | 7:30pm: Commuters (1st & 3rd Fridays)
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