We're in Thailand

We arrived in Thailand on Saturday night.  Wednesday was an emotional goodbye to the kids at the orphanage.  There were many tears from every chid ages 4-20.  I had 3 little boys I taught in kindergarden that would not let go of me that night.  Everyone on the team had the same experience.  They wanted to pray over us and how powerful that was.  Every child in there was screaming out to God for us and crying their eyes out.  They gave us so many presents.  It was an emotional night.  It's hard to say goodbye to kids who you fell in love with who are used to people leaving them.  Thursday morning we woke up at 6:30 to see all the kids outside our guesthouse.  It was another goodbye for us.  They didn't leave until our tuk tuks drove away (I think they were all late for school).  We stayed in Phnom Penh for 2 days.  Friday we went to see kids who live at a dump, well we actually went to feed them.  It was pretty hard to see but awesome to be a part of something that is really changing these kids lives.  The people who bring food come in every 2-3 days to bring food as well as medical attention.  We had 3 pretty serious medical problems while we were there.  They had to take one little boy to the doctor right away to have surgery.  More and more we've been learning on this outreach how blessed we are.  

Sunday we hung out all day and flew to Bangkok that night.  We arrived close to midnight but waited up for the other girls team in Thailand to get back from doing ministry.  It was awesome to catch up with them and hear their stories.  They are an amazing group of 4 girls really working hardcore with prostitute ministry.  Sunday we hung out with them all day and saw some of Bangkok.  We got to have our first Starbucks in a month!  We traveled back to the YWAM base and had some prayer time with the girls as they were leaving in the morning.

Monday we had orientation with YWAM here in Thailand and went on a scavenger hunt of Bangkok.  We had dinner and then met together with Merv (who came to visit from Sunshine Coast).  He was awesome to have around to talk to and just kinda talk to the team about outreach.  Today is a Buddhist temple tour and tonight we fly to Phuket.  Once there we will drive 2 hours north to Phang Nga to work with a church there.  We will be doing construction, working with the church, and teaching English. We plan to be with them until February 1st when we will be working with another church in Khao Lak.  Keep us in your prayers that we would stay focused these last 25 days here in Thailand and for team unity.