Hi everyone..just wanted to update this before we leave for Cambodia tomorrow as a family. It’s a combined trip to the Orphanage/scout projects for upcoming missions teams and a “visa run”. By that, we mean we have to leave Thailand every 90 days (with our current visa) and reenter the country. It can be as simple as going to the border, turning around and coming back in, or taking three kids on a 14 hour train, followed by a 5 hour van ride to Siem Reap…we chose the latter!
After our time there, we are stopping at a missionary “resort” to smell the beach again on the Gulf Coast of Thailand and enjoy some days before doing the train back. It’s pretty exciting…I’m wondering what the Lord will do with all of our hearts…I am praying that I will resist the arms-crossed sneer at my children followed quickly by the “See, look at how little they have…you have it made!” Something tells me that mantra will be Turkish Delight…I am praying that I can keep my mouth shut and let the Spirit move in Truth, Grace, Compassion and all that fruit He bears. Pray with me.
Since the Thai New Year has begun, our family has enjoyed a vicious flu bug (except me), wonderful Palm and Easter Sundays where our House Church combined with a Thai Church and worshiped together.
We are excited to visit the orphanage that was begun in Stop Slavery’s initial effort. I can’t wait to meet the children that so many of you have helped love, feed, comfort and celebrate…thank you for letting us be your actual hands and feet. On our way home from buying $50 shoes for the kids (yes, as in EACH pair…and finding really well made shoes is a feat in itself), we had to move into one lane on the main drag home…I figured it was a traffic stop, but as we passed I saw the pool of blood and a blue tarp sloppily laid over a body. In America, it seems as if more people would’ve been mortified…more rubber-necking…but we passed right on through…we had just passed the earthly scene of a soul moving into eternity…one never gets used to that, I imagine. I reminded the kids that we all have to be ready…no one knows when they will be called into forever.
Our love to all and check back throughout the next 10 days for updates and pictures..!