{FECA Vision Choir} Trip report 11

One additional comment about the refugee camp we visited yesterday: we were very surprised by how nice the refugee village is, nothing like we had pictured of squalid miserable crowded tents, but instead we saw neat bamboo houses typical of a farming village.

Tuesday July 28
We ate a congee and soy sauce egg plus left over bamboo shoot cooked in soy sauce breakfast and met up with Miriam Kumdee at 8 AM. She came over to brief us about the juvenile girl's prison we were going to visit later this morning. It is a minimum security prison and we were cautioned to not bruise the fruit, so we planned a light program with a lot of interaction with the inmates. We arrived at the prison at about 9:30 and waited a few minutes as the girls finished their ethics class. There were 21 girls there with most of them in their late teens but one girl said she is only twelve. Most of them are there for drug use, and we were told not to take photos of them. We sang a couple of songs and played some ice breaker games, forgetting within a few minutes that these girls were in prison and interacted with them like some old friends, as we laughed together. We taught them a few VBS songs, then divided them up to four groups and taught them conversational English. Then Katie and Katherine shared their personal testimonies, we sang some more, performed the "distracted by the world" skit we learned last year in Cebu since it was especially relevant to these inmates, and gave the gifts of toiletries we brought which were donated at FECG and FEC Arcadia. We then went to the food court at the mall for lunch and bought some more groceries. We next visited Pastor Gampon Kumdee, who hosted Vision three years ago at his new temporary church since he had sold the building we stayed in and sang a couple of songs to several German young people who had been volunteering at his church for the past year and learning Kairos, the abbreviated Perspectives class his church is giving. We then went to see their wonderful new building, about 80% complete (photo shows Vision praying at the new church's fellowship hall; Gampon is in blue, Miriam is looking out the window and our van driver, Boy, is on the right).

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