{FECA Vision Choir} Trip report 14

July 14 – We started our group devotion at 9 this morning and then talked about yesterday's visit to the University and slum families. Auntie Sue said she saw many people interested in Christ at the University, but she also witnessed much opposition from many Buddhist people. Several people commented that there was much spiritual darkness at the University, yet God still worked through us. Auntie Sue and Joe both said that people accepted Christ when they shared with them, while Tiffany and Own also saw several groups of people interested in Christ. Auntie Mei and Melissa said that after sharing with a group of girls, one girl accepted Christ into her heart as well. Nadia, Melissa, Eric, and Josiah said they formed a quartet at the University and sang to people after sharing with them. They said that they met a girl and talked to her about Jesus, and after witnessing and singing to her she said she would call the church number and pray to accept Christ into her heart. The quartet said they met many people and sang throughout the food court area, passing out tracts all the way to the bus stop. Melissa commented that while most of the people in the group are usually shy, they felt God using them and helping them to sing and talk to people about Christ throughout the day. Joni commented about how she saw many different kinds of ministry. She said that she saw some people pray, others sing, and others talk, and Tiff also commented on how God used all of us in different ways. Czrilla said that it was hard sometimes to reach into the peoples' hearts because many of them were Buddhist and often laughed at us. Yet encouragement still abounded in the people who did accept Christ. Uncle Marsh said he sat with some engineering students and shared a tract with them, but they were distracted by other friends. Visiting the University was a challenge, and yet God worked through us to bring many to Christ in ways we never expected.

Visiting the slum homes was a very eye opening experience. Uncle Marsh said his group visited three houses, and the third one had twenty people living in one small house. Joni commented that at the slum area it was hard to breath and odd because in the middle of the slum area there was a huge Buddhist temple with gold facing and marble columns. Yet there was light in the darkness among the small Bible studies that took place in some of the houses. Czrilla said that her group visited three families, and it really opened her eyes and hurt her how so many people lived in poverty. She was also touched by Pastor Ohm's ministry. Uncle Marsh said he has seen how the church really comes to the people – incarnational, like how Jesus brought God to us. Own said that at one of the houses his group went to, the father of the house was blind. When we sang the Lord Bless You and Keep You, he cried. Own felt that it was not just us singing that brought this, but that God was working through us. After that Josiah prayed for the blind man. Josiah's group also visited a house with many children. Nadia commented on how the houses were all built together and were built on stilts on top of trash and water, and yet the man at the house still offered us bottled water to drink. This really showed us how willing and generous they were – they gave what they had even though it wasn't much. Tiff said that after visiting a house she was filled with a compassion at the way the people lived. Alice said that at one house a boy had a sty in his eye, but the parents gave him glasses not knowing what to do, so she shared with them how to treat it. Then Alice prayed for the boy. Own closed our debriefing with prayer. Yesterday turned out to be a wonderful day of ministry; praise God for bringing us to the University and for having a greater plan for us than we had for ourselves.  We then continued with our tour debriefing for the rest of the day, breaking for lunch and dinner.  After dinner, BH church has a small group meeting with us and Joe is sharing.

Tomorrow is our last ministry day here. We will be going to Bangkok Christian College to sing once to the fifth grade class and once to the sixth grade class. There are about 500 students per class. The past two times we have sung here, several hundred students responded to accept Christ. Pray for us and Pastor Ben as he brings the good news to these students, that God will speak through us to bring many hundreds of students to Christ at these two chapel services.

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