Eating breakfast with Jun
Sawasdee from Mae Hong Son
We are now over halfway thru this outreach, seems like time has gone by quick. We arrived here not knowing where to go, but as always God was faithful to lead us!
The first few nights we stayed at a church. We didn't know till later, but Tom had actually worked there during his DTS for a couple of weeks.
The church needed some help with painting and cleaning-up in preparation for a believers camp they were going to have (this past monday-wednesday). We also realized later that we were in the place that God had prepared for us. Earlier, during intercession three weeks ago, one of our team members had gotten the word "klong", which means hand-made river. This church was right next to one!
Kim also got the opportunity to preach at their church service on the Sunday. It was her first time preaching, but God kept her nerves amazingly calm. It was a great time sharing about God's faithfulness.
From there we moved into a guesthouse, very simple, clean and cheap. Just what we wanted...ehh...umm...needed ;)
Every day we continue to seek what God has for us, and God has been doing some awesome things. One day we sat on the veranda ready to have a prayer meeting when two guys just came out of their rooms. We introduced ourselves and then we invited them to stay while we prayed. Surprisingly enough they actually stayed for the whole time. One of them, Hiro from Japan, later said that it was a great experience for him to see the way we prayed to God and he was interested in knowing more about this God of ours!
The other guy, Jun from LA, had told us earlier that he was not religious. But Shane spent a few hours with him answering his q's about God and got to give him "cliff notes" of the WHOLE Bible! At the start he had said he would read the Bible one day when he had time, but after the conversation he was ready to read it even sooner! :)
We invited him to stay with us if he comes to CR. We spend the next few days hanging with them alot... it was heaps of fun!
Last Tuesday we went out in groups of 3's into different parts of the city. Shane's group met a homeless lady, Ann, with her 10-month-old baby. They prayed with her, bought her lunch, got her a place to stay the night and organized for the social welfare to come and see her the next day.
They had accepted her before, but she had left not wanting to follow their rules. The big boss came and offered her another chance to come back, but after all our efforts she still wanted to stay on the streets. She has a mental illness and basically believes that she is meant to stay on the street with her baby.
It was a really hard thing to see someone who can have all the help they need reject it. Maybe we got to experience a little bit of how God feels when people reject his help.
We're still glad that we tried to help her. Proverbs 21:13 says "Those who shut their ears to the cries of the poor will be ignored in their own time of need".
Please be praying for her that she would change her mind.
It seems we don't always have to go looking for people to share Jesus with right this moments... God keeps sending people to us at the guest house where we're staying at :-) Still today we went to the hospital and a staff member there took us on a GUIDED TOUR to pray and talk to the sick there!
Below are a some photos from a worship time we had in the park >>
So pretty much things a going great and we will be back in Chiang Rai on Tuesday. Hope you are well! XOXO
US :-)
Video Update & Outreach
This is a video update that we did for our church. It was shown this past sunday, April 13th.
As for outreach... we will be leaving tomorrow (Wednesday) for the "faith" outreach. We will be gone for two weeks and will spend each day asking God for people to see, places to go, and jobs to do :-) It's going to be exciting! We're ready to go fishing for people! We will fill you in when we get back :D
Don's Cafe
Easter Sunday
SAVIOUR KING
Verse 1
Let now the weak say I have strength
By the spirit of power that raised Christ from the dead
Let now the poor stand and confess
That my portion is Him and I'm more blessed
Pre-chorus
Let now our hearts burn with a flame
A fire consuming all for your Son's holy name
And with the heavens we declare
You are our king
Chorus
We love you Lord, we worship you
You are our God, you alone are good
Verse 2
Let now your church shine as the bride
That you saw in your heart as you offered up your life
Let now the lost be welcomed home
By the saved and redeemed those adopted as your own
Chorus 2
We love you Lord, we worship you
You are our God, you alone are good
You asked your Son to carry this
The heavy cross, our weight of sin
I love you Lord, I worship you
Hope which was lost, now stands renewed
I give my life to honor this
The love of Christ, the savior king
Ending
I give my life to honor this
The love of Christ, the savior king
GOOD friday...
LEAD ME TO THE CROSS
Savior I come
Quiet my soul remember
Redemptions hill
Where Your blood was spilled
For my ransom
Everything I once held dear
I count it all as lost
Lead me to the cross
Where Your love poured out
Bring me to my knees
Lord I lay me down
Rid me of myself
I belong to You
Lead me, lead me to the cross
You were as I
Tempted and trialed
You are
Te word became flesh
Bore my sin and death
Now you're risen
To your heart
To your heart
Lead me to your heart
Lead me to your heart
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