{FECA Vision Choir} Trip report 9

Sunday, July 8
After the old people left, the rest of the team stayed to process and pray for each other, especially those who did not get letters from home. Natalie led the group in worship; it was a special anointed time and the Holy Spirit's presence was evident. After a few minutes of worship, Reina started to cry, feeling God's heart for the darkness of Thailand. Then others started to have visions (it was not a coincidence that our devotion was on Peter's vision before Cornelius' delegation arrived). Elisabeth prophesied for Eugene and Nadia, Andrew sensed an evil presence in one of the trees outside the church and we prayed to bind it in Jesus' name. Aaron saw 35 people dressed in white inside a castle with 40 some people in black trying to storm in. After a while, they succeeded. While we are not sure what it means, we think it is tied in with our plans to do street evangelism tonight and think this is a warning from God to be more prepared so we will not lose the battle. This is also about the same time the parents are gathering at the Gilmores to pray for us, a significant spiritual covering we covet. At breakfast Pastor Tom reminded the team that we are indeed blessed to have this visitation from the Lord, that we should not fear, because fear is what the enemy wants to do to discourage us.
We then left to go to the First Church of Chiangmai to sing at their 9 AM service. This was not a planned event. When we sang last Tuesday at Payab Nursing School, one of the ladies heard us and arranged for us to come to this church, a very large and beautiful church well known to the locals. The worship was traditional, all hymns, with a small orchestra and piano. We sang for a half hour with Meghan giving her testimony about putting God first and missing her cousin's wedding. We left to return home for the City Gate Church morning service. The worship was very different, all contemporary songs, loud, energetic with children sitting in front and running at the back. We sang two songs before the children left, then Natalie shared her testimony of how she found her identity as God's daughter, worshipped some more, and Pastor Tom gave a long message with Pastor Gampon interpreting. We then sang two more songs after the message. Fellowship lunch was like FEC, noisy and warm. The elderly father of one of their church leaders came to service for the first time. Pastor Gampon had been trying to witness to him without success. Today he came, sat through the service, and then accepted Christ during lunch! What an amazing God we serve!
Because of the visitation of the Spirit last night, many did not sleep well, so after lunch, instead of meeting with the youth from the church, we went to get some rest and catch up on sleep before getting ready for the street ministry tonight. We met at 5 PM and spent a few minutes to process how to accept prophetic words. We also spent some time asking God to show us who we should be speaking to. Several of us saw people wearing red shirts, green, a white short, etc. We prayed that we will be bold when we meet these people tonight to do the street ministry. Unfortunately, we did not do that. When we got there, we met a Korean group and sang with them, listened to them sing, and we sang on the sidewalk. Then we walked to the other side of the night market where there was a stage. In walking there, we lost Denise and Andrew so Joe, Jeff and Jaspher went to look for them but it was time for us to sing, so we went on short-handed. When singing, a drunk started a fight on the side which took everyone's attention from us. Pastor Gampon called security which might have saved the man who was getting beat up. We walked back to the other side where we found Denise and Andrew and waited for the jeepnies to pick us up. While waiting, we sang to a group of Chinese tourists and at least had a chance to talk to them a little. One young man is from Kunming and he said his 90 something grandfather is a Christian. We then returned home tired and sweaty.
Health-wise, this has been one of the healthiest tours Vision ever took. There have been no serious or long illnesses or disorder, with Eric's mosquito bite being the worst. Tomorrow, we are leaving right after lunch to go to one of the hill tribes. We should get there by dinner time and we will have a program at the church where we expect some non-Christians there. We will sleep over, the next morning visit some of the families from the church and then after lunch, drive to a second hill tribe. Pastor Gampon has established daughter churches at both these places. We will have our program in the evening and then drive back, arriving home at close to midnight. It is unlikely we will have Internet access for the next 2 days so do not expect any reports until Wednesday. Some of our kids are excited about this adventure, while others are apprehensive and anxious. We need your prayers.

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