This month we are in
Thailand and our teams look a bit different. The guys are all together in northwest Thailand serving together and the girls have been split into three teams. The Dynomi girls are with the Powerhouse and Citizens of Hope girls in Ubon Ratchatani which is in northeast Thailand. Here we are working with a local church doing ministry to villages, helping with children and youth programming and pretty much anything else that they need us to do.
What you may or may not know about Thailand is just how unreached a nation it is. As a whole there is only 1% of the country that claim to be Christian. When you come up to northeast Thailand the number drops. There are less than 1% of the population up here who are Christian. That is crazy!
We have been visiting local villages while we are here and these numbers have been seen in tangible ways. Like the church we went to where the congregation is literally 8 people from 3 different families in the two surrounding villages. Then there is the woman who is the ONLY Christian in her village. Then there are the youth. We were invited to be a part of a monthly youth meeting where all the youth in the surrounding area meet together, do you know how many youth that is? Just 40 and we are talking young teens to older teens not just one group or the other. My youth group in high school was that big and we were just one of many youth groups in my small town. Can you even imagine this being the case for you?
We are so blessed in America to be in a place where Christianity is so easy to access. We are so lucky in fact that we take it for granted. I know I have. We can walk down the street and run into at least a few churches. Each one is a little different and has some different ideas, but they all still teach about Jesus dying for our sins. Here there is probably one church in the town, if you are lucky. Buddhism rules here. The children are taught Buhudist prayers in school and if someone becomes a Christian they are looked down on and some are even disowned by their families. Would you be willing to pay that price to be a Christian?
I have really had my eyes opened more to what it looks like to be a Christian in a country where Christianity isn’t the accepted belief. Please pray for these believers here and all over the world who daily seek God’s wisdom and courage to be a light in a place that doesn’t know Christ.
