Monday, July 2
Today is a fairly light day so we slept in and had breakfast at 8:30. The lady cooking for us is a wonderful cook who makes delicious, healthy balanced food and we thank God for her. After breakfast, we worshipped, did small group devotions and discussed shared a little. Since it is a light day, we took the time to get some of our clothes washed, and ate lunch at the church.
We left around 3:30 to go to the Light for Kids Orphanage, an organization supported by Linda Lau's foundation. Located on the outskirts of Chiangmai, we found a well organized farm with rice fields, covered vegetable garden, fish pond, chickens, ducks and pigs and 33 children with 2 sets of host parents and a pastor named Nippon and his wife. Nippon founded the orphanage 6 years ago when God called him away for his government job as a broadcaster to care for orphans. He poured all his money into the orphanage and learned to live day to day trusting God to meet their daily needs and teach the children about Jesus. He told us how the early days when the children wanted a TV or pizza to pray and how God miraculously provided. The most amazing story was when they still had grass roofs and a monsoon came to Chiangmai. As the winds blew, the roof would start to lift off the building. One of the children said they should pray and so every time the roof started to rise, they would shout "hallelujah, praise the Lord" and the roof would fall back in place. They survived the storm this way intact. We found the children to be extremely well-behaved, friendly, and full of smiles. We sang a couple of songs to them and taught them to sing the Orchestra Song with us and had a joyous time together (we will be returning there on Wednesday for a concert in their chapel for their congregation) and ate a great dinner they cooked for us. Each of us gave a donation to this orphanage and we collected over 5,000 baht (about $170) and we will be buying dinner for them when we go there Wednesday night for the concert.
By the way, the YouTube video will be posted when I figure out how to do that given the poor quality Internet connection after Joseph arrives later tonight.
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