Friday, May 9, 2008

Sawat-dee,

Today was unfortunatley our last day of the carpentry class. We decided to get there early this morning and we climbed the mountain at Frontierland and had our bible study at the top. It was an awesome view from up there. It really makes you stand in amazement at all that God has done. I hope you enjoy some of the pictures from the top. After the long climb back down, we finished up the work on the podium. It turned out really nice. Jon pointed out to everyone how it was cool that the first thing the men their built, was a pulpit to be used to spread the word of Jesus Christ. We all thought that was really cool. We had an awesome opportunity to give Deezi a glucometer for his diabetes. He was all to happy and excited to receive such a gracious gift from Antioch. Thank you all who donated different medical supplies for the trip. We got back to the hotel afterwards and had to get all of our stuff packed up. We are leaving at 10:00 tomorrow morning for a 6 hour trip to Hui-Bong village. We will be there all of tomorrow and we will have church their and see their detox center before returning to Chiang Mai on Sunday evening. We are very excited about getting to go out to this village. Unfortunately we will not be able to send updates while we are there because there is no electricity believe it or not. We will send a nice long detailed report of the short trip when we get back to Chiang Mai on Sunday. Jon will preach on Sunday and i will be singing "How Great is Our God" accapella. Please pray for us as we are there in the village.

- Jon & Michael

(on top of mountain: Frontierland near bottom & Chiang Mai in the distance)

(Jon teaches "sermon on the mount")

(Deezi accepts Glucometer happily)

(carpentry class with their finished podium)

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hey Guys, What an amazing opportunity to teach from such a location! Sounds like you're headed to a little more primitive location. We will pray for you while at this village (in addition to the other praying, of course). Happy Trails! Clark

Unknown said...

hey guys we will keep you both covered in prayer while you are in the village. i guess when you get back to the US, the phrase "roughin it" will have a different meaning for you. the pics are beautiful and what a great place to teach about the creator.
have a great and safe trip
the steplers