Since we will be spending the next three days (four total including yesterday afternoon) with Remember Nhu, it is worth sharing about these orphanages. It was started only nine years ago when an insurance salesman named Carl from Ohio visited Thailand and learned from a missionary from Cambodia about the plight of a young lady, Nhu (who was then about 18) who had been sold to a Japanese man as a sex slave. Carl was so shocked that this could be happening that as he pondered what to do while sitting in a Starbucks shop, he heard the words "remember Nhu" so he started an orphanage (www.remembernhu.org) to prevent at risk young girls from being sold into the slave market (verses other organizations that do intervention to rescue them out after they are already sold). Remember Nhu now also rescues young boys who are at risk of being sold into a rapidly morally degrading slave market who cater to the homosexuals. In only nine years, Remember Nhu has orphanages in 9 countries with a total of about 900 children in their orphanages. There are now 11 orphanages in Thailand alone; two for girls and two for boys in Chiang Mai. Nhu is now a young lady who shares her story and helps raise funds for this orphanage. Indeed God can redeem even in the most desperate situation (as He will surely do for the Rohingya people if we continue to pray).
We left early and arrived at Dara Academy and found out we were to minister in a large auditorium which seats about a thousand people. The room was empty and microphones had to be quickly set up since we could not be heard in a place that large with noisy fans and A/C blowing without electronic aid. Praise God everything was set up just as close to a thousand nicely uniformed students got seated. We sang several songs, Hannah shared her testimony, we did the heart skit again, and sang our Thai song "Churn tahn tung lai" (Come take the water of life) just before Sue came to share the bridge message as she had done yesterday. This time, following the advice of Ching, Sue asked the kids to close their eyes and bow their heads before she gave the invitation (so that the kids would feel freer to respond without fear of harassment by their peers). Praise God, we counted at least 40 students who raised their hands to accept the Lord for the first time! We were given small gifts by the school (like at Prince Royal yesterday) and refreshment and were given a tour and short history of the founding of the school in the late nineteenth century, we then drove to the OMF office and were briefed by Monica on the AIDS/HIV ministry they did which we will be going to next week Thursday. We returned home to debrief last night and this morning's activities, ate lunch, did our group devotions and spent quite some time in silent meditation and prayer, before getting some rest and leaving at 3:30 to Remember Hnu orphanage #2, this time a boys' home with about 20 orphans. We had to leave Jayme home as she was running a slight fever this afternoon and we thought the rest would quicken her recovery.
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