For the last couple weeks as a team we have had a growing sense that the young people we are teaching are very receptive and hungry to know Jesus. In prayer, we felt that this Friday was going to be a day where many would come to Christ. We have learned from our hosts that in Cambodian culture people will raise their hand when asked to in response to a Gospel presentation out of respect for the speaker. We were wrestling through how to give them a chance to authentically respond to the Gospel and not simply respond out of respect for our team. In prayer we felt that we would ask anyone who had a desire to commit their lives to Christ to stay after class so we could clearly lead them through the decision to say no to every other religion and say yes to Jesus. We wanted it to be very clear that you cannot worship Jesus and Buddha, but only Jesus!

All week we had been sharing the reality of God’s desire for relationship with us, our separation from God because of sin, and God’s solution through the sacrifice of His Son Jesus on the cross. Friday we reviewed all these details and gave them all a chance to respond by staying after class and out of 120, 37 stayed after to commit their lives to Christ! Our team is thrilled that this village is being transformed by the love of Jesus Christ! This is only the beginning and we believe that there is going to be many more young people that give their lives to Jesus. We are trusting for an entire village to turn to Jesus and follow Him alone for the rest of their lives!

This has been one of the greatest highlights of our outreach in Thailand and Cambodia! The great thing is we still have four weeks to disciple our new brothers and sisters in Christ and believe for more and more to come!

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!