April-July

April-May was a time of preparation for many things, all the action has been in June and July, so we'll skip forward to those.

The beginning of June saw two of our team mates, Andy and Kathryn (and their kids) depart for a six-month furlough. Alot went into preparing for that, and the team still here has been adjusting and figuring out how to work as a smaller team.

Also in the beginning of June one of our students was baptized! Her name is Winnie. Winnie came to us from a catholic family and so was already somewhat familiar with Christianity. She studied the Bible in English with us for a little over a month before deciding that she needed to be baptized as an adult. Thank God for our new sister and pray for her new walk and spiritual growth.

Also In June, a new church plant was stated in Pratchinburi province not far from Bangkok. Pratchinburi is the hometown of a few on our staff and of one of the Bible school students who just graduated. It's this student who is leading the church plant. This student also offered their home to be the meeting place for the new church, and the first sunday the church was to open, we all went and helped prepare the house. Pray God will bless this work and grow the new congregation.

In mid-June a six-week LST team arrived. The team has four college students from South-West Oklahoma State. They have been great! The team has brought their help and energy and enthusiasm to the center, and have been patient and flexible handling culture and weather, and we have all enjoyed them and their work.

In late June a group of us from Bangkok had a chance to serve at an English camp in Leui province (in the far north-east of thailand). The English camp was in collaboration with the schools in that area. We had nearly 300 children attend for a 3 day camp.

We are now gearing up for our outreach camp this week-end. We invite the LST students to join us for a week-end spiritual camp as an opportunity to grow our relationship with them so we can follow-up on the LST team's work.