Thai Church!

So this is a little long but I encourage you to read it all! I want to start off by saying that God is really moving in this place. Yesterday I had the privilege of going to Pii Sun’s home church. It was just so great to listen to them worship in Thai. Last night around 5pm here, Baan Kanoon holds a worship service and the girls and I all went to it together. Everything was in Thai and it just felt so great to listen to these people worship the same God in a different language. You could feel their love for Christ being poured out through their praise and it was so incredible to witness. Then Pii Oom shared the Word with us and Pii Sun was sitting next to me and translated for me. Although I only got a summarized version of what he was saying, I learned so much. These people have a deep desire to know God more and it is such a beautiful thing.

Last night the Word came out of Mark 2 and 3. First we discussed how Jesus did not come to call the righteous but the sinners, the beautiful thing about this was that at the end of the night one of the young women who had recently come to faith explained how her sister, who is very involved at Baan Kanoon, told her that God wanted her to be His child because she was a sinner. She had felt that she was too bad because she had been Buddhist and worshiping other Gods and that God did not want her. But Saa (her sister) explained that is was because she was a sinner that Jesus wanted her in His kingdom. What a beautiful word from such a young believer!

We went on to discuss how God changes people from the inside out. A believer does not cover the old with the new but gets rid of the old to let in the new. The whole sermon was such a great word. One of the last things that really hit me was that we were made to love the people that are not lovely! I just loved the way he put it. I was just so filled with joy! How blessed I was to witness people worshiping and learning about the same God but in a different language. How great is our God that He proclaims His word to all nations! I just loved sharing in that experience with these Thai people! Thanks for all your prayers, they are really working! I love you all!