A family who are good friends of mine came to visit Noom and I a couple of weeks ago. They stayed for one week and were a huge blessing to us! We had a chance to take them to visit Noom's village and family - a future place of ministry for us! We have a dream to start an orphanage on Noom's family's land there in about 10 years time. It was a great time of encouragement for us both to have this family here. Below are some pics!!
^on the last night we all had a dinner with the ywam ubon team^ this is our leader Josh!
On the last day that my family friends were here, Ice also arrived. He is the 17 year old boy that I talked about in my last blog. He has now been with us for about a week and we have already seen growth and a change in his life! Please pray for God to give us both the strength to keep giving love and sharing our lives with Ice and Pedro. Here is a photo of both of them: (in thailand, guys can ride pink bicycles!)
Pedro is on the left, Ice is on the right:
And the same day that Ice came, a team of 12 Korean YWAMers also arrived in Ubon - the guys (6 of them) staying in our house. In the last few days we took the team to a village about an hour away and helped them in translation or whatever they needed as they ministered to the people there. They will be here for another week! Here are some pictures of the last few days with them:
Noom and I helped with translation - this is Noom translating from english into thai - there were 3 languages in this talk!
Giving bibles to the children at a school we visited
The thais really love Koreans and were very excited to see them (especially the girls) - because they love Korean movies. Me too...I was very excited to meet this team because of all the Korean movies I have seen. It was exciting to actually see Koreans off the tv screen :-)So there you go...we have a full house at the moment!
The Korean team is helping out our local church to build a house for one of the members in these next few days, and after that we will be taking them to do some ministry in Noom's village. They will leave on the 3rd Dec and we have 10 days until a team from Singapore comes! After that, my family is visiting and then it is Christmas time :D
I am happy to see Christmas trees up and for sale now! Hopefully we can buy a small Christmas tree in the next few weeks to set up :) A few years ago, Thailand had absolutely no Christmas celebrations, and I, being someone who LOVES Christmas-time, struggled with this fact. But things are changing. Christmas time for us missionairies in Thailand now means a huge opportunity to share about Christ!
Hi Karis and Noom, I don't know what "ministry" you plan to start in 2011 but I do know your vital ministry has already started as far as the Lord is concerned! Do not underestimate how He can use you both because you have willing hearts and a a huge love for Him and His Word. You are destined to nurture young lives and certain to bring the Word of God to life for the Thai people around you!
ReplyDeleteLove God, love each other and let your family be a living lighthouse into the dark places of Thailand.
"Shine Jesus shine,fill this land with the Father's glory..."
Wishing you every blessing as you seek His will and honour Him with your lives
love always
Lynn xoxox