repeat after me- hello, my name is _______.

I didn’t really know what good we were doing in the village. When Teaching came up, our team was a little intimidated. None of us knew how to teach, we didn’t really know we were going to be singing or preforming skits, but by the grace of God we were able to come up with a simple routine which seems to be working pretty well. It’s not hard to want to help improve these kids English speaking skills. We only spend about an hour with each class just going over the basic English- “hello, my name is _____. What is your name? Nice to meet you” These kids are incredibly smart, and my prayer is that with the ability to speak English, God will provide the opportunity to get better jobs. One of the major problems in this area of Thailand is lack of money and jobs. This is tearing tons of families apart. In order keep the families surviving, parents have to leave town to get better paying jobs.  Knowing English helps with getting jobs, but there is still a deeper issue of having enough jobs to go around.  Our contacts here have a WONDERFUL vision of opening a factory for the locals to work in and I can see that little by little, God is allowing that dream to come true.

We also had the opportunity to do a little bit of hospital ministry.  Ram (our contact here-love her!!) has a uncle who is extremely sick. The doctors aren’t exactly sure what is wrong with him, but they know it has something to do with his heart.  I knew going into the hospital was going to be a hard thing, since I did hospital ministry when I was in Peru, but it was still extremely hard walking into a place that was over crowded and full of people in need of help.  Praying for Ram’s uncle was one of the most difficult things that I have done yet. But it was also very rewarding.  I got to see the faith of Ram’s family and the love that they have for each other. Keep Ram’s uncle in your prayers!!! He’s still in pretty bad shape, but I know God is a healing God.