Month 8 in Laos for Team LOL was an Unsung Heroes Month. This means that we weren’t assigned to a specific ministry or contact but were given the task of finding new contacts that future World Race teams could partner with. So that means we would also be on our own for food and would have to eat out due to staying in a hostel. Not easy when you are given a budget of $4 a day for food. Even in Asia. We found out pretty quickly that the city of Vientiane in Laos was priced very high due to all the tourism. So we had to soon deal with the fact that we would have to dip into our personal spending money quite a bit. Soon after my teammate Paige was reading 1 Kings about Elijah being fed by ravens and God gave her a vision that we would not have to worry about food; God was going to put “ravens” into our life that month. Her vision shortly after started to come true, and we were blessed by many people throughout the whole month!!!! Here are our “ravens”:
-Our first day in Vientiane we went to Taj Mahal Restaurant as a team. As we were leaving the restaurant we decided to attempt to find a nearby grocery store, and an elderly Caucasian man was walking down the street. After he pointed us in the right direction he all of a sudden said that he was leaving tomorrow and had a full jar of peanut butter he wanted to give us. He walked back to his hostel as we waiting and sure enough handed us the beautiful World Race treasure that we call peanut butter!
-Our lovely Team Fire’s contact got them massive sandwiches one day, and they had many left over and decided to bless us with them for dinner!!
-A random stranger gave his Naan bread he didn’t want to my teammates
-At another Indian restaurant a man gave my teammates bananas leftover
-A Serbian gentleman took my 2 teammates out to get coffee and cookies
-Unsung Hero contacts we met with bought us pastries when we met them for a meeting..they later then blessed us with Easter Sunday dinner and a dinner at their house the night before we left Laos.
-Free samples at Joma Bakery
-Another Unsung Heroes contact welcomed us into their staff New Year party and fed us Chinese food!
-Free samples at Common Grounds Cafe and Bakery
-A missionary family we came to love gave us their home to stay at while they were on vacation for 3 days; then their friends did the same for the remainder of the week!!!! So we were blessed with 2 huge kitchens so we could cook for ourselves and save money on food!!!
-We stopped into a cafe that we thought was Christian..met with the owner and learned they were indeed underground missionaries..Within the hour of us meeting with her she invited our whole team back the next morning for a huge breakfast buffet!!
Unsung Heroes Months make you depend on the Lord to show up. And show up He did. He not only provided for our physical needs but he also brought missionaries and contacts out of the woodworks in a country that highly persecutes Christians. A country where people are kicked out of the country, their villages, and killed for sharing the good news of Jesus.
God is good all the time. All the time God is good.
