What a couple days! After flying through Honolulu, Tokyo, Taipei, and arriving in Bangkok we have been experiencing a beautiful part of the world with our outreach team. We are staying with YWAM Thailand and have been blessed to be hosted by an amazing group of leaders. Yesterday we were overwhelmed by an orientation that helped us understand Thai culture and how to stay here and be effective in our ministry in this area. We also watched a DVD showing the collection of ministries that are based out of YWAM Thailand. Incredible! This place is busting at the seams with vision. Every ministry highlighted brought us to tears and made us hope we were going to be working with all of them!Unfortunately with only two weeks we don’t have time to do that…but we get to work with the incredible team that runs King’s Kids in Thailand. We are going into some broken communities close by and will be working with 40 to 60 kids ages 2 to 15. As we learned about how they serve these communities our hearts began to break and fall in love with every kid even before we have met them!
Today we continued our orientation to this area by visiting a Buddhist temple. What an amazing experience to see how deeply engrained this religion is in Thailand. Over 94% of those in Thailand are Buddhists. Our hearts truly broke for the people living under the lies that they need to earn merits with a god to gain favor with him. My Jesus is so good! He has loved me when I merited nothing and gave me complete and total forgiveness when it was the last thing on my mind.
This evening our team ventured out to the university campus across the street to meet people and trust for open doors to share Christ’s love on this campus. The reports have been so wonderful as many friends were made and doors are opening to see God move powerfully in this part of Bangkok.
Tomorrow we begin our work with the wonderful King’s Kids team and will also continue to build relationships at the university here. Join us in prayer as we trust God to breakthrough in this nation!
