Hello from Mark

WOW what an amazing day......it started with a time of praise and worship at the church with Chatchai on the  guitar singing great songs i haven't sang for years and an awesome time of prayer. A few of the team had asked if we could hear Chatchai's testimony as we had heard individual snipits but not the whole story. I was so amazed by his testimony and his faithfulness to the Lord and his perseverance  and commitment throughout his life and how God used him in such difficult circumstances.

After a short break we set out in teams of three with a member of the church into the neighbourhood speaking to the local Thai's about the English Lessons we were holding at night and giving out tracts. I was fortunate enough to be out with Annabel and Amy who were just incredible at conversing in Thai. We spent some time with a group of young kids about seven or eight years old and ended up singing and doing the actions with them to 'Heads and Shoulders, Knees and Toes'.

We were also invited in to one family home and shared a great time with them with Hope, our Thai leader talking to them about the church

In the afternoon we found an awesome little Cafe that served great coffee.......it was heaven.....and i thought Annabel and Ellen would never leave !!

There was great anticipation for our first English Evening classes just not knowing what to expect and how many would turn up....if any.........and what a blessing it was to see not only about 25+ turn up but to see the kids with some of their parents there which were the kids we had met earlier in the day.......I helped Deb with the adults class and six of the parents there had never been to the church before and Deb had an opportunity to share the gospel at the end of the lesson...and you could have heard a pin drop....!!!

For Liz it was a tough day as she was unable to speak to her dad back in Coffs before he went into hospital for surgery of his cancer and she took this really hard so spent most of the day in the hotel but at night was busy cutting the hair of the missionary ladies who were just thankful and looked like the hottest looking missos I've even seen when she was finished.

Well tomorrow is a huge day so ill sign off now.....love to all especially our kids that i miss greatly

A very happy Ellen after finding a great little cafe!

Yeah - we hope it's not real as well.

The "What's my name?" Song at the Church english class

Pet Working on a family tree.

Chris helping a student with his english.

Mark