Well if you watch the news at all these days then you are probably already aware of the crazyness going on here in Thailand. I’m not going to go too deep into all that’s happening but basically this is not the greatest time to be a foreigner in Thailand. With that in mind I thought I would give you all a little update as to how much attention us guys are paying to all the crazyness durring our month of “manistry”. Not much. Insted here is a little video about some other fires we heard about that threatened the home for girls we have been working at all month and how we decided to act.
It’s was our first sunday afternoon since getting to Chiang Mai. Elsie, our ministry contact came running in short of breath and panicked.“There is a fire at the Girls home! Nam will be here in the truck to pick you up in 5 minutes!”
The house of 13 guys got silent. No questions asked, no seconds wasted. We dropped our playing cards, and closed our computer. In no time at all we were out of our church clothes and in our work clothes, we had collected all the buckets we could, and before we knew it all 13 of us and 5 missionaries were sardined into one truck, flying towards the girls home.
Clueless of any details about the fire, we were praying for the best, and grabbing whatever we could in preparation for the worst. We were laughing and excited because we are guys and guys love adventures, mysteries and challenges, and yet we had a sick feeling in our stomach that something terrible could have happened to the 30 little girls living at the ranch that was burning.
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Crammed into the back of the Tuk Tuk (truck with seats and roof in the back) it was impossible for most of us to see anything outside. It was when Tyler said he could see smoke from about 2 kilometers away when we started to get silent and started praying.
“God we are nothing, and we can’t stop this fire with buckets. But God here we are and we are willing to help. Use us. Protect these girls. Save this property. WE NEED YOU GOD TO STOP THIS FIRE!”
Here’s what happened.
