A few of us met at 8 AM to pray over our activities for today and the group left a 8:30 accompanied by 3 BH leaders to take us on the sky train to our first destination. Since today is a holiday, the streets were relatively empty and the train not crowded, which was a good thing since we have to change trains to get to Victory Station and the first hospital. We got there with no problems and proceeded to the first ward, which contained the chronically ill children. It was a painful sight to see one baby with elephantiasis with a head twice as large as a normal baby. We sang and Melissa shared. Alice felt dizzy and sat down and sipped some water and soon felt better. Afterwards, we talked to some of the children and their mothers and at least two children and their mothers prayed to accept Christ. A boy of about 10 or so in Buddhist novice clothes also said he prayed to accept Christ. We passed out toys and then went one floor down to the ward which housed the post-surgical children. We again sang and Alice shared her testimony and we gave out toys again. Then we walked to an adjacent hospital to the cancer ward where we sang to about a dozen patients. Czrilla shared about her experience from two years ago when her mom was suspected of cancer and required some surgery, but how God protected her from the wrong surgeon and eventually it was found that she did not have cancer. Pastor Ben shared a short message about how his cancer as a baby resulted in his left arm being amputated. Most of the audience responded with a desire to be prayed for so we had a good ministry time. The Thai youths and other BH church members who were there jumped right in to pray with us. We then split into two groups to sing the Thai song and pray for the patients who couldn't come to the meeting room. We were now running about an hour late so we hurried to the Bangkok Christian Hospital where met in their chapel and sang to 60 -70 staff members. Joseph gave a powerful testimony about the seduction of work and how important it is to serve God first and Pastor Ben shared about Elijah being a majority of one. We then had lunch at the hospital and recovered some of our strength back and then proceeded to our fourth destination and fifth concert of the day, at the orphan/pediatric ward of the University Hospital. Because of the fear of influenza, only the older children met with us, about a dozen in all while the younger ones, almost two dozen stayed at their quarters. Joseph led this meeting and Sue Utadache concluded the meeting by asking who wanted to go to heaven and how to do it. Most of the children responded and she led them to pray for salvation. We then gave toys away, including toys for the younger children. During this performance, it really started to pour, but we had prayed that it would not rain when we were outside walking and God heard our prayers. When we were done and started to return home, it was only drizzling slightly and anyway, we were driven back in the BH members cars. We rested for about an hour and then debriefed. Most felt very drained both physically and emotionally but all felt it was worth it to pray for the sick and to see so many accept Christ. The BH folks who went with us also felt the same way, and they were quite instrumental in praying for the sick and leading several to Christ either by interpreting or directly sharing the Lord. After this, we went to dinner but Czrilla and Alice both stayed behind to get extra rest and Jaspher had some pain so he went with Dr. Vilavun to get some tests run. We then had a short practice with the BH youths, mostly for them to teach us a Thai children's song (about what an elephant is). We also prayed for those not feeling well, especially for Jaspher. The rehearsal was short since most of us were so tired we wanted to get to bed early. Jaspher soon returned and he just had some muscle inflammation, nothing serious so we thank God for answering our prayers. Czrilla has some stomach problems so remember her in prayer. Alice has a slight cold but seems to be getting better already just from the extra rest.
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