Yesterday was a hard day for many people on the team. After a very long (10 hour bus ride) from Pua to Bangkok, we boarded vans to Chonburi for another 2 hours. We then spent a good part of the day at the Tiger Zoo here. The team was really looking forward to this but exhaustion and the shock of the heat and humidity made it a bit hard to enjoy. Please pray especially for Ashley and some others who are quite tired now.
The Tiger Zoo was pretty neat though. For a bit more than a dollar, you could hold and feed a baby tiger or ride an elephant (I did both). I also volunteered during the elephant show to lie down on the ground and be stepped over by 7 elephants. Fortunately, they knew what they were doing and I survived the ordeal! We also saw a girl stick her hand and then her head in the head of a crocodile. Wow!
In the evening, we watched a new hip-hop ministry that they have started at the church and spent some time sharing and praying together. As I said earlier, many of the team are pretty spent and ready for a rest and home. We are staying at the church and do not have the same privacy and comfort in accommodations as we did up north - all the guys are sleeping on the floor in one room and the girls in another. Pray for continued strength and energy and health as we finish up here. Please pray especially for Ashley and others who are quite tired now. Pray for Karis who is actually not getting better from her sickness - has a bad cold at very least. And pray for Sherry who is also quite wiped by the heat and tiredness. I'm feeling and doing well thankfully.
Today, we heard from some of the Team 2000 people about what they are doing now here in Chonburi. We also heard testimonies of three Thai women who became Christians because of Team 2000's witness. So cool! We saw a little baby who they are caring for at the Abundant Life orphanage - he was diagnosed as having HIV/AIDS when he first came to them but since then the doctor has told them that he no longer has it - he and another baby were miraculously cured!
Tonight we will help the TREK team that is here with teaching English to university students at the church. Tomorrow we will put on a kids carnival in a new area where they are planting a church about 8 km from here. We'll also spend some time in personal and corporate debrief. Pray for God to encourage each one of us and continue to lead us in our next steps. We want to finish strong and be able to celebrate what God has done in and through us.
We leave early Thursday morning the 25th, 6 a.m. for the airport and home. We'll finally arrive in Saskatoon at 8 p.m. that same day. A very long day!
Thanks for your prayers!
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