That means "Mennonite Brethren Missions Service International"...we think. It also means that we know missionaries in Thailand! A couple of weeks ago 2 friends form here and us went to visit (help out if we could) some missionaries you might recognize from "Team 2000". They have a few church plants and an orphanage for children with AIDS about an hour and a half from Bangkok.
This is the worship band at the Saturday evening service they held. It has most of the older boys from the orphanage and some other members of the church playing traditional Thai instruments. Very fun to hear!
They even played some worship songs that we recognized translated into Thai.
We had the BEST timing in the world and showed up for a baptism service. All of the seven Thais that were baptized gave their personal testimonies of how they decided to follow Jesus in spite of very intense "social pressures" and rejection from family and friends. It was an amazing thing to witness.
We asked what we could do to help out for the weekend, and they said we should take the kids from the orphanage on an outing. So we rented this Sawng Taew and went to the zoo with 17 kids!
The elephants, like always, were a big hit! Apparently tourist aren't the only people that LOVE hanging out with pachyderms.
Hi Everyone! Guess what we found out once we were in China...The Chinese government blocks out websites like blogspot, facebook, and YouTube. So, we're a little behind on the blog after 2 very exciting, very packed weeks in China.
Yup, this is exactly how we felt when we saw what "Sports Days" means in Thailand.
All the schools in Thailand have Sports Week. Despite what the title eludes to, this does not mean that all the students put on their sneakers and get sweaty. No, no, no. Sports days clearly means that the girls put on as much shinny frill and lace as possible and perform dances/cheers.
All the school is divided up into different colored "teams". Stu was on the red team. The part that really confused us was that the "teams" cheered for their color of cheer leaders to win the dance/cheer contests.
This is the worship band at the Saturday evening service they held. It has most of the older boys from the orphanage and some other members of the church playing traditional Thai instruments. Very fun to hear!
We had the BEST timing in the world and showed up for a baptism service. All of the seven Thais that were baptized gave their personal testimonies of how they decided to follow Jesus in spite of very intense "social pressures" and rejection from family and friends. It was an amazing thing to witness.
