{FECA Vision Choir} Trip report 3

 July 3 – We started our first day of ministry with an early wake-up call since we have to leave at 7:30 for Nontaburi. Pastor Ohm who pastors a church in that suburb of Bangkok, has great relationship with a Buddhist school there because some of the students from the school attend his church and impressed the school with changes in their character after attending his church. What a great testimony for the life change Christ gives to young believers. Fighting traffic, we arrived there about 9:30 for a program to start at 10 AM. All the elementary chilfren were there to hear us, about 300 in all. Josiah led the children in "Simon says" and red light-green light to warm up the children. It was strange to paly "Simon says" when the commands have to be translated to Thai, but Sue soon picked up the game so she could lead it. Since we were going to sing in an open playground with no instruments, we quickly revived an old wordless Vision skit "I give you my heart", a vignette between a young man who gives his heart to God and a girl who tries to steal his heart away, learned in a few minutes by Eric and Tiffany while Josiah and Sue were leading the games. Joseph led the meeting as he generally does when it is a children's program. We sang, Joni and Josiah gave their testimonies, and Joe and Sue did a wonderful job of providing continuity between the songs, skit and testimonies. At the conclusion, Sue asked how many children wanted to go to heaven and led about 200 children in praying for salvation. When we left on the vans, we prayed that their decisions were genuine and we ask you to pray that Pastor Ohm will be able to follow up these young hearts.

We then drove to the YWCA, located fairly close to our Guest House to have a good lunch provided by the hosts thre. We got a chance to talk to several of their leaders, some of whom attend BH Church and found several believers who love the Lord. After lunch, we started our program at 2 PM attended by about 70 YWCA staff members and the leaders we meet at lunch. The YWCA gave a slide show of their work and ministries (education, to the poor, prisoners, etc.). Marshall picked up on this theme and gave a message from Matthew 25 commending the YWCA on their work, but asking the question who were the righteous, emphasizing that there is none righteous except for those who have placed their trust in Christ. Although no one from the crowd responded, we pray that God will use the seed we planted to bring some of these YWCA staff members to the Lord in the days to come. Fiona shared her testimony during the program about how she had to give her life to Jesus during her high school years. In all, it was a good program and time of mutual encouragement both before and after the program with the leaders of the YWCA.

We returned to our Guest House at about 4:30 PM and were greeted by Pastor Ben Poli and his daughter Nadia. We rested a bit and had dinner at 5:30 with four youths from BH Church and started our first rehearsal together at 6:30. Soon a total of 10 youths joined us some of whom could not come earlier due to school and traffic. Since they have been practicing on their own with Dr. Vilavun, who directs their choir, we reviewed 6 of our songs together and also showed them how to act out the "Come to Jesus" skit. Several of us were quite tired so we finished practice at 9 PM and went to sleep.

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