the last two weeks or so, our team has spent all our time working with a church in a small town called Selaphum, in the north east region of thailand. We stayed with a pastors family, who's daughter, Tik, is our translator for our whole trip. (she is adorable, and we have become good friends.)
we were involved in a whole bunch of ministries:
- the selaphum church nursery, which cares for toddlers who are waiting for compassion supporters - these kids all come from underprivlaged homes (this was definitely my favourite ministry that we did. the kids were adorable)
here are a couple of photos of them:
- the leper colony the leper village was located right behind the church where we were staying, and the pastor has a longstanding and fruitful ministry with them, so we didn't do a whole lot more than talk and pray with them.
- primary school ministry, where we visited all the local schools and performed evangelistic dramas and ran game sessions for them. we visited 4 or 5 schools.
- english teaching, we taught ALOT of english classes in one of the primary schools which was really challenging. but we all developed good relationships with the kids. i took 6th grade most of the time, which was a bit like pulling teeth sometimes, because they were all so booksmart, but couldn't speak a word of english to save their lives.
- after school kids camp, for middle and highschool kids. this camp went for 4 nights and was a combination of english teaching, games, drama teaching, and eating together. the church runs this every year as a way of keeping track of all the kids in the area - compassion uses it to run health checks on them as well.
tik's family were wonderful hosts. her mom organised our schedules and cooked for us. we did praise and worship times with the family and other staff members in the morning and taught them how to play dutch blitz and rummy at night :) the living conditions have been surprisingly good. we sleep on concrete, which is painful for the back. and the showers are outside, so it's always a struggle to keep one eye open at all times to make sure the array of bugs don't crawl up your legs or attack you. so that has been fun, especially for some of the girls who have never really experienced anything like this before.
anyway. that's a little about the last 2 weeks. it has been great, and was really hard to leave the people there. we are now in an even more remote village called Sisaket. but i will tell you more about that when i have more to tell!
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