Today was a special day as GROW hosted guests from ACT (Aka Christians Thailand) for church. Nine pastors and leaders represented the group. This is a group of Christian Aka people who are seeking to spread the Gospel to their own tribe of people all over SE Asia. Aka people live in several surrounding countries. One of the pastors/professors was traveling to Burma to share the Gospel there. But the Burmese stopped him because he looks like the king of Thailand. They said the king cannot just walk around like this. He needs security. We need to be prepared to welcome him in a big way. He needs to be honored. Even when they looked at his passport, they didn't believe he wasn't the king. Since he doesn't speak the Burmese languages and the border security doesn't speak Aka, they held him there for 5 hours until they found someone who could speak both. So now he cannot travel to Burma because they will stop him thinking he is the king of Thailand. Wow! he really does look like the king!
This group of people have commissioned one of Faa's brothers to be a missionary in the surrounding countries, but they have no money to send him. They are praying that God will provide a way for them to send him out. He is a volunteer pastor in his village and a member of this group. The two women here today desire to teach their women how to let God change their lives as well as how to care for themselves and their children. These ladies say it is hard to overcome a mindset of "this is how we have always done it so why change". But their health is poor and their relationships with their children are not strong. Please pray for these two as they seek to train new Christians and share the Gospel.
After spending time with this group of Aka and playing with the GROW kids a little more, I stopped by Grace Place to spend a little time there and then say goodbye. The girls and I had a lot of fun playing games.
I always love seeing this little girl below. She almost died twice from 2 different accidents (one involving water and the other fire), but God rescued her twice, and she is thriving today!
Back to Chiang Mai earlier than originally planned because we just haven't had enough time to finish things here. Please pray as a team from Fremont is here too. Tutu is going to ask them if they have luggage room for me to send stuff back with them to Ohio. It would really help if they have room and are willing to carry items for me. We hope to figure this all out today. If not, we will need to ship some things back which isn't cheap, but doable. Then some things will wait for Faa to come to the US and the Wooster team to come in August.
The Chiang Mai flower festival is going on this weekend, so this town is hopping! Sunday night market was a lot of fun. Hopefully you caught my Facebook post about Faa helping a vendor sell things as I was shopping for GROW there! You can find those pics on my FB page. So fun!
Faa and I have both been under the weather, but doing better. I think I gave whatever I had to her. But now that I am back at Tutu's, I learned that her son has been sick with a head cold. Today I feel like I might be picking that up. Too little sleep, too much go go go, such a short time! But Oh so fun!
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