Thailand!!

Sawadee Kah! Hello fromThailand! So we finally have internet after 10 days. Yeah! I will give you a brief update on how things went. We arrived in Bangkok on the 17th of May and stayed at the YWAM base for a couple nights. During this time we explored Bangkok and had orientation. Then we took the night bus up to Chang mai where we stayed at another YWAM base called the Lighthouse that works with prostitutes in the red light district. We were able to visit the redlight district but we did not do any ministry at the time. The next morning we headed out to the mountains! We arrived in Musagee last thursday after a 6 hour tuk tuk ride (this is a pick-up truck that has a covered bed with benches). We met our translators Tei Tei and Tanin. The girls stayed in a house and the boys stayed in a room in a house with some of the school boys. This place is a center for kids to go to school in a Christian atmosphere. Some of the kids are orphans, some are abandoned and others just don't have a school near where they live. Tei Tei is the wonderful Christian woman that runs the center and God has blessed her ministry abundantly! These kids are well fed both physically and spiritually. Tanin is the young man in charge of the children. He is in charge of the nightly worship/teaching sessions and he is so good with the kids. When I told him that, he just said, "I love them." Simple as that. He is 23 and loves God passionately. He reminds me of David, a man after God's own heart. We stayed in Musagee for 10 days taking over the worship/teaching sessions every night, visiting schools, working in the rice fields, planting trees and peanuts, teaching english, praying for the sick and generally just being with the kids. Thai children are so beautiful and amazing! They will make you cry when you hear them sing because they worship with their whole heart. It is incredible. It didn't matter that they didn't speak the same language when they sang, they helped me worship God. It was a relaxing , fulfilling, amazing week and it was incredibly hard to say goodbye. The children did a program for us last night and thanked us for coming. It must be so hard for them to have people coming and going from their life. There were many tears on both sides as they said "I love you" and "God bless you" in broken english. Thank goodness hugs and smiles don't need translation! Now we are back in "civilization" and i want to go back to the mountains! Tonight we take the night bus to Bangkok and then fly to Kolkata, India on Wednesday. In India we will be working in Kalompong and Darjeeling for a week respectively.
Prayer points:
-Musagee village-for the leaders Tei Tei and Tanin that they will bless the kids' lives
-Travel -We will be traveling ALOT in India, pray that everything goes smoothly
-Spiritual protection- India is pretty dark spiritually, pray for the armor of God over our team and over any spiritual attacks
-Health- Everyone has been pretty healthy but Erin is struggling with stomach issues and fever and I have a cold.
- Those we will meet in India- softening of hearts
In Chirst,
Alison