Lanterns

 

I was in Thailand for the lantern festival !! My team was able to meet up with our whole squad for the annual festival if lights in Chang Mai and light our lanterns together and send them up into the air along with the thousand others that lite up the sky. What was a dark sky soon got brighter and brighter as the lanterns went up an invaded the night. What I saw in that moment was not just a picture of the Lantern festival  but a picture of what this past month has resembled. 

 

Lucky Tea

We were living so close  to the Burmese border and in a community that is Muslim and Buddhist. Every morning my team would go have lunch at a Burmese tea shop. We built relationships with the two girls who  worked there. There names are See and Saw 🙂 we would have bible study’s every morning in the shop with the monks who would come every morning to eat. 

 

No mans land 

No mans land is a piece if land that is between the Burmese and Thai border. It  is not claimed by Burma or Thai government therefor it has no laws or justice. It is by the river where the illegal crossing points are and the main reasons  people come to visit is sex, drugs, trafficking, and violence. We were able to witness first hand what it’s like when the light invades the dark after going and visiting this place. 

 

School ministries 

At the end of this month my team went up into the mountains of Mai la Noi. We stayed with an amazing family and they took us in and cared for us as if we had always been apart of their family. Veera Phong, our contact had moved here with his family after God gave him a vision. He has spent the last few years building relationships with everyone in the community. We were able to visit the schools because of those relationships built and put programs on for the kids that involved sharing the gospel with them for the first time ! 

 Thailand has been a month I will never forget and I found myself at so many points in awe of the beautiful things I saw and the amazing people I have met.