Archive for August, 2008

God continues to find solutions

MomoCat August 27th, 2008

This week it has been amazing answers to pray.

We have been short of volunteers, while the work load has been increasing.  Individual kids had less individual time, so their behaviour reflected their needs!!   Ho, hum.  Firstly sickness struck the volunteers, common colds, another round of dengue fever, teething babies, etc.  Then, Phillip decided that God was callinh him south to start another BAMBOO School!!  (However his plans changed, and he is now enroute home).

We were approached by a local foundation, (big in Thailand) to become the offical emergency responders in the Bong Ti area.  They require us to have their sticker on our cars, and to have regular first aid training for our senior kids.  In return we will be known as an NGO under Pitikarn Foundation, and we will be funded for our mileage to/from hospitals.  Hence Somsee and Kay have started their initial training at Sai Yok hospital, 5 days a week!! Free training, but it means we only have Amy and I to take care of everything else, including the emergency response, the little children and babies, the cooking and shopping trips, etc.  With God’s strength!!  

Then our visitors, Chad and Tarsh arrived with a neat idea…. let’s make an audio Karen Bible.  Chad gained the help of the older kids who read Karen well…… the project is one third completed already, with most of the new testament done.  Chad had to taker his family out of Thailand for a week, to visit family in the south.  So my computer is freed up for me to email, blog etc… sorry for the silence…. it will happen again soon too!!!

Hong Kong people came and gave us 5 days of joy and attention… we miss them heaps.  The extra cooking and caring is vastly outweighed by the love shared.  These young people extend the hearts.  The basketball hoop reminds us of the favour God showers upon us. 

The funds have arrived for the new hospital building. No we await rainy season to finish so we can start building the foundations.  God answered our prayers, with two volunteer nurses showing an interest in coming.

We have heard via others, that we have “broken away” from the Adventist Church.  This rumour has been circulating and worrying me for the past two months.  May I assure you that I have broken away from nothing… I have always been an independant ministry, funded by a number of individuals and churches.  We live according to the Bible, as best as we understand.  We keep the Sabbath as did Jesus, and make every endeavour to show His love to the people we serve.

My best reassurance comes from a text message I recieved from my collegue and friend, Dr Supat, (director of Sai Yok hospital).  As a buddhist man, he wrote me: “God bress you”.  If he can see God’s blessings flowing through our ministry here, why worry.

Baby girl, Dok mai (Fleur) is crawling and has her first tooth.  Moremorechore thinks Bilay is papa, little Johann is standing up, Zac is at school with all the other little ones.  Lukai comes home often, Kum came for the mid year break.  God surely blesses us again and again.