Tuesday

I know we are behind! We have just been so busy and that is a very good thing.

Tuesday: We arrived at Mengrai school and prepared for our teaching time for the 12th graders. Around 50 were selected to participate in our "Intensive English Program" (as you can see in the picture from our last post). Now mind you, this is a Buddhist school that we are working in. Just before we were about to start, we changed the song we wanted to teach to "How Great is Our God." We taught them the chorus and the kids sang with us! It was amazing to see God in this school where just moments earlier they had prayed to Buddha as a school.

Everyone's sessions were fantastic (crafts, English and & games). Their English is limited, but we had translators with us (other people working with Shoulder to Shoulder) and were so blessed by the students. We met some students that were Christian! The huge blessing was at the end of our time, the head of the English dept. gave us an open invitation to come back whenever! They have no native English speakers as teachers at their school and really love when native speakers come to help their students with English. Bill (missionary) was really stressing good relationships and God worked that out 100%.

Straight from there we hopped on a trolley ride that brought us around to temples in Chiang Rai. We used this time to prayer walk the land where all of the temples are. We also met some other people in Susie's (missionary) prayer group. It is incredible to see people from ALL over the world that have hearts for Thailand, especially the children.

After the prayer walk, we went to the Antolec's (Bill & Susie) home and had some team time which we have most days. We use this time to talk about how people are feeling, what they see God doing and to debrief about our time.

They live right next to the home for the boys and the home for the girls, so we all met up and walked down to the street market. We bought dinner and brought it back to the girls' home. It is fun to eat with them because large mats are brought out and we all sit in a huge circle and line the food up in the middle. This particular night was another huge rain storm that ended up shutting the electricity off. Candles were brought out and so was one of the student's guitars. The night turned into a beautiful worship night with songs being sung in Thai and English. What an incredible evening!

Love from Thailand,

Mission: Thailand '14