One additional correction for trip report 6. There were approx 500 high school senior at Dara.
The two attached pictures provide a glimpse into the cozy living arrangement at City Gate Church. More pictures to follow ...
Joseph Hsiung
From: Marshall <umarsh07@gmail.com>
To: Visionsings <visionsings@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, July 5, 2012 9:19 PM
Subject: {FECA Vision Choir} Trip report 6
Thursday, July 5
Some minor corrections, we started our program last night at 7, not 6:30, and Pastor Nippon spells his name with one "p", so it should be Nipon. One exciting note is that the Vision kids composed a medley from the hymn "Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing" and "In Christ Alone" and performed it wonderfully in both the afternoon and evening concerts yesterday with Andrew C. conducting the piece! Health update: the following people don't feel very good, but are all still functional, so pray especially for them: Holy (cold), Czrilla (cough), Reina (headache), Jeremy (stomach), Eric (infection from mosquito bite). Besides these, Jason and Jeff's leg hurts and A. Mei's back (some improvement, but still painful).
We left at 7:20 to go back to Dara Academy and said good bye to Andrew and Glory who left at the same time to return to Jakarta. In spite of all our prayers, they had to leave to start their 4 months intern teaching assignments in a small island 5 hours from Jakarta. These two young men go with a desire to not only teach academically but touch their students for Christ and build up disciples and become their mentors, so pray for them (along with Ronald and Rian who are now full time teachers and couldn't even join us in Thailand). At Dara, we sang in a nice auditorium to about 50 senior high students who all kind of understand English, so we did not have any translation. We sang and Pastor Tom gave his testimony and invitation (in 5 minutes!). We are not sure but perhaps 5 or 6 students indicated a desire to follow Christ. We then enjoyed a snack prepared for us by the assistant school chaplain and was joined by the student leader of their campus Christian club (only has about 15 members, so pray for them). We then returned home to do our small group devotions. At the conclusion of our devotion time, Reina started to weep. Pastor Tom told the group that she is feeling God's pain and weeping for the Thai people and we prayed for her.
We left to go to a government hospital to visit the pediatric ward and pray for the sick kids and their parents. We separated into 4 groups to sing and pray for these sick kids. Our hearts are broken to see all these sick kids and their parents sleeping on the hospital floor to minister to their kids. May God have mercy on them. We returned to eat lunch, this time, Du cooked Dr. Tan's favorite, a delicious green curry chicken. Yum! A. Sue brought Eric to see a doctor since us running a low grade fever from his mosquito bite and his leg is kind of swollen. Meanwhile, we moved all 8 guys left to 4 rooms at the guest house to give some separation between the guys and girls. We do not want the issues that stem from close proximity between the young people to become a hindrance to our ministry.
At 5 we left to go to Payab University where we have an outreach concert outdoors. We faced some difficulties getting there, because it was moved from the central campus to the dorm area die to a sports event someone scheduled on campus. This caused fewer people to attend and caused us to drive through heavy traffic so we got there after 6. There were only a handful of people there when we got there. After we started to sing, people drifted in and we could see students standing on the dorm porches listening, even though there were only about 40 students sitting there. Nevertheless, we felt we were singing to an audience of one, the Lord Himself and these students were just listening in. Reina gave a powerful testimony of her life's struggle to fill the emptiness after her father left her when she was a toddler. Pastor Tom gave another strong message based on Matthew 7:21-23. He did not give an invitation outright but we had a good time talking to the students there after the concert, since they know some English. We then returned home to eat dinner and sleep. The good news is that Eric did not have a fever and was given some medicine for his bite. Jeremy has eaten two meals now without losing his food, and Holy's throat is getting better. Praise God. Ching is leaving with Thang early tomorrow to Singapore so Pastor Gampon will be our host and guide starting tomorrow until our last Sunday when we meet up with Ching again. Pray for their trip to Singapore.
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