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It’s crazy to think that tomorrow we will be leaving Thailand to take a thirteen hour plane ride and will be landing in Nairobi, Kenya in Africa in a couple of days.  First country is Kenya, where I’ve had a heart to go for about four years now and soon to be reality.  Tonight we’ll be saying goodbye to our ministry contacts Aroon, Pbang, their family, and Big.  I’m   Our work has progressed so much, to where they are almost getting ready to start the second level floor of the training center; not without scratches and scrapes to show for.  We’ve received a sickness bug that hit about five of our guys in these last few days but God has kept us all mostly safe as they have rested. 
I met a guy named Noon, one of the workers there who I’ve befriended very much there over the last couple of weeks.  I’ve tried to speak in Thai about God’s love and about friendship to him.  He’s really opened up and become friendly while working together, of course he still talks tons of Thai to me while I just nod my head and smile.  He is Buddhist, wears a big silver bracelet of its image, and Aroon says that he is slowly introducing him to Christ.  I hope in some way I was able to help him through our bond and talks of telling him that Jesus and God loves him.  It was until the last few days that Noon started calling out my name instead of just tapping on me.  Aroon has asked for two special request in prayer: Pbang’s grandmother is near death as we prayed over her at the house before she left for a hospital and the family has caught a sickness, and for new Christians and the current ones to remain faithful at their church.
I am going to miss these people really bad, have had incredible growth with the guys, got to build some good relationships for Aroon here, and have appreciated the beauty of the Asian countryside God has created.  Last night we had an incredible night of worship where we all would share testimonies as the men of the squad and Aroon’s family; speaking in English and in Thai giving testimony and reading Scripture.  There’s always something special about two languages in one worship service to one God, knowing He understands both and searches the heart of every individual. God laid on my heart a very popular Scripture passage which I won’t mention until the end.  I hope that you might be able to read the words slowly and truly meditate on what the verses say about God to you.  It’s a lovely passage, one of my favorites, and in our time of worship God just spoke so deeply to me about this one.  Please let Him speak to you through these truths:

O Lord, you have searched me and known me!
You know when I sit down and when I rise up;
You discern my thoughts from afar.
You search out my path and my lying down,
and are acquainted with all my ways.
Even before a word is on my tongue,
behold, O Lord, you know it all together.
You hem me in, behind and before,
and lay Your hand upon me.
Such knowledge is too wonderful for me;
it is high: I cannot attain it.

Where shall I go from Your Spirit?
Or where shall I flee from Your presence?
If I ascend to the heaven, You are there!
If I make my bed in Sheol, You are there!
If I take the wings of the morning,
and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,
even there Your hand shall lead me,
and Your right hand shall hold me.

If I say, “Surely the darkness shall cover me,
and the light about me be night,”
even the darkness is not dark to You;
the night is bright as the day,
for darkness is as light with You.

For You formed my inward parts;
You knitted me together in my mother’s womb.
I praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
Wonderful are Your works; my soul knows it very well.
My frame was not hidden from You,
when I was being made in secret,
intricately woven in the depths of the earth.
Your eyes saw my unformed substance;
in Your book were written, every one of them,
the days that were formed for me,
when as yet there was none of them.

How precious to me are your thoughts, O God!
How vast is the sum of them!
If I would count them, they are more than the sand.
I awake, and I am still with You.
Search me, O God, and know my heart!
Try me and know my thoughts!
And see if there be any transgressions in me,
and lead me in the righteous way everlasting.

Psalm 139:1-18; 23-24