Saturday, June 21, 2008

Thailand Part 1

Thailand is amazing!!! The people here are so friendly and welcoming. Just being an American gives us immediate favor with them. We have been here for about 3 weeks now. We spent the first 2 days in Bangkok and then flew to Khon Kaen.
Since arriving in Khon Kaen, we have been working on the NEU college campus here. Each day we go on campus trying to meet and build relationships with as many Thai students as possible. Our goal is to broaden the contact base, build deep relationships, and connect these students with the permanent Thai Campus Outreach staff.
God has really been giving us favor and we have been able to meet and build relationships with lots of students already. Everyday my heart breaks more and more for the people here. They kneel before idols and pray to them to pay for the short comings in their life and hope that their end will be better than their beginning. We are praying that in our brief 2 months here that God would do something in us that would last a lifetime in our development, relationship with God, and heart and vision for missions over seas. Also, we are praying that God would allow us to be apart of meeting students on the campus that he would bring to salvation and that the staff here would be able to train them to go back onto their campus and reach their peers with the Gospel.
Well, this is one of the few updates we will send this summer. Here are a few pictures that we have taken so far!