Dear Marshall and Vision team,
Thanks for the update. Praise the Lord for using you all and for Pastor Tom's strong message and the many decisions for Christ that followed! I am praying daily for you Pastor Tom as you let God use you to speak His messages, and also for all of you as you sing and share, for Sue as she interprets, and for Meiring and her back pain. I trust and pray that she will be feeling better soon. I praise the Lord that my left ear problem is much better and the ear is no longer blocked! Take care and keep up the good work, and Blessings!
Warmly,
Siang Yang
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On Jul 3, 2012, at 6:41 AM, Marshall <umarsh07@gmail.com> wrote:
> Tuesday, July 3
> At the Light for Kids Orphanage yesterday, Natalie had an opportunity to share her faith with one of our van drivers, Ed, with Auntie Sue interpreting. Sue also shared with an Australian who was visiting the orphanage but no decisions were made. Just continue to pray for these divine appointments. The driver is quite curious and open and asked Ching a lot of questions on the drive back. Our primary van driver is a man named Boyle, who is not only a believer, but an ordained pastor who earns his living driving and using the money he earns for ministry. Joseph`s team arrived on time and got to home at about 11:30. Reina slept on the second leg of the flight so she was OK.
> Today, we met at 6:15 to eat a quick breakfast of PB&J or nutella sandwich. Our full team is finally here and we need 3 vans now. Our third driver is Simon, also a believer as is Moses who sometimes substitutes for Boyle. Simon also is in ministry. We sang at the Payab Nursing University`s chapel service from 7:30 to 8. There were only about 20 students there but we enjoyed singing with a real piano and they enjoyed our singing. We then went to the Royal Prince College to sing at their service for 11th grade students. The school has 6000 students and there were about 500 students there. Glory and Denise shared their testimonies and we did the puppet skit from last year in English while Sue translated to Thai. Pastor Tom gave a strong message and about 30 to 50 indicated their desire to accept Christ. The numbers were hard to estimate since some did not seem serious but some were quite serious. The school was started as a Presbyterian school and they said they will follow up, but we are concerned because there is no regular Bible study for the students. Pray for these new believers and the Christian staff here. We spent some time with the Christian staff as they provided us some snacks. We then returned home to debrief.
> We prayed for Auntie Mei who is experiencing a lot of back pain during debriefing. Pastor Gampon who was at church for staff meeting joined us and reminded us about ow much spiritual warfare is here in Thailand. He prayed doe A. Mei`s back also. We ate another delightful home cooked meal from Du, who not only serves us by cooking so well, but saves us so much money by going to market and buying the food. After lunch, we did our small group devotions and took a short but needed nap, leaving at 3:30 for the Agape Children`s Home, started by a missionary for children with HIV/AIDS.
> The weather has been wonderful here, cloudy and reasonably cool, but it started to pour when we were napping. But God is gracious, and it stopped raining before 3:30. We drove out to the orphanage and met Ellen, a missionary who has been there for more than 10 years. She explained how their founder saw this little 2 year old dying with AIDS 17 years ago with a tag by the doctor to let her die, but just by loving her, she did not die but got better even without the strong HIV drugs available now. This started the Agape Home, where we could see the love the staff pours into these little kids. This 2 year old is now 19, we met her, smiling and full of life, and there are over 90 other kids here in this beautiful facility. There are also 6 families living just outside the compound who have adopted some of these children with AIDS so they are actually living in real families. It was heart warming to see this. We sang a couple of songs to the kids, interrupting their homework (with permission, of course), and spent some time playing with the kids before their dinner at 5:30. We then left to go to Ching and Thang`s house where they cooked a special dinner for us, kind of a (delicious) Filipino meal. We found out that God really gave them this place, since the owner was looking to rent it unsuccessfully, and asked the Ngaihte`s to rent it at the same price as a much smaller house they used to live in so they could also act as caretaker We prayed for them, blessing them for their love for God and their ministry and returned home to rest since tomorrow is another long day.
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