Saturday, July 7
The guys and girls stayed up fairly late (past midnight) to talk and pray so we got up fairly late for breakfast after 8 and left at 9 to go to an orphanage supported by Pastor Gampon's church located about 40 minutes from where we are staying. This orphanage is for Lahu children and has about 60 kids. A local pastor supported by Pastor Gampon's church and his wife and a small staff run this orphanage. We sang our normal acapella program and Tia from Indonesia and Aaron shared their testimonies about how good God is and how He answers prayer. A. Sue shared the meaning of the color beads with the children but most if not all the children consider themselves Christians already, so we taught them how to make the bracelets so they can share the good news with their friends. Du and her friends cooked lunch and brought it here (paid by Vision) so we ate lunch together at this village. It started to get really warm, the second really warm day we have been here, but we went to look at the place where the orphans lived and the new half-completed dorm. They need about $4500 (140,000 baht) to finish the building. After seeing the crowded conditions the kids are living in, we took up an offering and collected more than $500 (15,000 baht) for the children. We played some more with the kids and taught them to since the VBS songs and left exhausted to get our clothes washed in preparation for Sunday and leaving for more minority villages and our overnight stay on Monday.
We got together at 6 PM for dinner, did our devotions and debriefed what we learned at the Lahu village. We had a great time as we listened to each other how God has been leading the team here in Thailand. Then we read the letters of encouragement which the parents and friends sent to the Vision team members that Marshall brought with him from LA and also from the Indonesian parents. There were many tears and sniffles as these letters were read. We are about half way through our trip so it was a blessing to read these letters of support. Thank you for those who wrote.
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