Friday, July 13
Debriefing day 1. We went around and each person shared how they heard or saw God on this tour. One common theme was the letters of encouragement we received. Many of the words were just what we needed to hear at that point in time. Seeing God through other people was significant to many. Devotions was just so appropriate as well as verses given by the parents. Another common theme is how we saw God through nature, the beauty of God's handiwork. The Saturday night when God showed up was the highlight of the tour for a lot of people. We then took a lunch break since sharing is a quite tiring and emotionally draining.
The second question is how we will react to our culture after seeing t,he culture here and how we can live a missional lifestyle when we return home? Here are a few of the comments shared (some of the comments are similar so they have been consolidated):
- The village experience changed me in showing me how much extra stuff I have and I should be grateful for what I have. I need to consistently read the Bible, the whole way through, not just randomly, and read daily.
- Idols here are easy to recognize but not so easy to recognize back home. It is easy to see opportunities here but I want the awareness back home to be more purposeful to serve God in all I do.
- Thai culture is very respectful, as a Christian I should be much more respectful of my teachers.
- I want to minister to my friend for Jesus. Pray for me, maybe even just to plant the seed and let someone else reap the harvest.
I am so grateful for what I have back home. People here seem happy living here, as little as they have and that's OK. When I work with children, I feel so rewarded and this is a passion God has given me, so I feel my calling in life is for education and I want to teach children in American schools.
- I hate American culture, but God is teaching me to love the American people, who needs God so badly. I want to live back home like we do here on tour.
We went out to a local "steak house" for dinner, spending twice our normal meal budget (over $4 a person instead of $2) and invited Ping, Bee, Pastor Tong Kam, and Duke (he is a young, shy, college student also living at church and helping Du out) to join us. The place is kind of a Korean BBQ, with beef, pork, chicken, and lots of variety of seafood which one grills by themselves. Sue had backache for the last two days and took too much Vicodin so she is groggy and did not join us for lunch or dinner. During dinner, someone called and she called us to tell us the girls' room was left unlocked with the lights and AC on and a stranger was seen leaving the church property on a bicycle. But praise God, when we returned, a preliminary look revealed nothing missing, so the girls learned a valuable security lesson. We then retired for the night so we can continue debriefing tomorrow.
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