Goodness gracious! So its
been like almost two weeks since we last wrote-thatd be my fault. Whoopsy!
Thanks for waiting dear friends! :D
So I believe we were
walking about what the Jesus Festival/Miracle Night/Henry Madava (they’re all
different names for the same event just in case I say different things, Im
still talking about the same night, alright? Alright!)
So Friday and Saturday
morning, the 22nd and 23rd of March, we had early morning
seminars with Pastor Henry for the leaders and pastors of the churches in Ubon.
He talked about prayer and the power of Christ within us. That as we would see
miracles happening that night and within the next three days, we needed to
remember that it was God’s power working through us. He talked about a verse that
told us to 1) preach the gospel. 2) heal
the sick. 3) cast out demons and 4)
raise the dead. It was very good. We had worship and then he spoke and they
provided lunch. Yum! On the first day, Bekah, Piak (our friend from the house
church) and I went over to the field that we were going to have the Miracle
Night to help set up but it was during the hottest part of the day so no one
wanted to work yet so we ended up just sitting under a tent and talking to some
guy that wanted to sell us some Organo coffee. Haha! Make new friends
everywhere. Then at about 4:00 Bekah and I went up to help Kris and Silk set up
for the Prayer Team time. The first night…so many things happened! So many
things went wrong! Lets see here: the projecting wasn’t projecting onto the screen,
the sound wasn’t working properly, Henry Madava and his team were lost in the
University (where we were having the Miracle Night). Guess what? As people on
the prayer team started to arrive, those prayer requests were lifted up to the
One True God who hears His people and answers them. And He did! I don’t think
there was a prayer request that wasn’t answered within the first five minutes
of us praying. IT WAS CRAY! GOD answers us soo fast! Hurray for Jesus! :D So yeah. We started at like 5:30 to pray. We sang
songs and prayed for people to come, for people to be open, for Henry to have
the right words, etc. At about 9:00 some of the team went down onto the field
because Henry was having a time of prayer for the sick. There was a row of
people that were sick-paralyzed, slumped over, hurt backs, hurt knees and legs,
blind people, deaf people, people that couldn’t speak…it was nuts! Ive never
seen some of that before! :O Yet, GOD is
the Provider and the Healer now and forevermore. Bekah and I stayed up in the
Prayer Room and prayed for the people on the field. AS the night went on, Henry
asked anyone that was healed to come to the front and give a testimony. There
were lots of people healed. Some people who couldn’t see were gradually
beginning to see. An older lady that couldn’t hear out of her right ear for 20
years could finally hear. Lots of older men and women with hurt backs who had
to walk bent over, could finally walk up straight. Let me tell you what, guys.
You hear this kind of stuff and you can see videos of it but sometimes you
still may have a bit of doubt in the back of your mind…I was that person. Not
so anymore! I saw the before and after of people who couldn’t hear well or who
walked funny walking perfectly fine! :D
GREAT! It was sooo cool! GOD is such a cool God guys! There are no
limitations to His wonder and His power and His healings! After the prayer, we
helped clean up the Prayer Room and went home.
We pretty much went
through the same thing the second day-Saturday-except that we went home in the
afternoon from 1-3:30. That’s a two and half hour break, folks! It was a long
day to say the least. And more healings the second night! Bekah went down to
the field the second night but I stayed up in the Prayer Room and just watched
what was happening and prayed for everyone. All peoples; the helpers, Pastor
Henry and his team, the translators, the Prayer Team, the sick, the other
people praying for the sick.
On Sunday, we did not have
a seminar with Henry in the morning so our house church went to a market close
to the field by the university and handed out fliers to the workers there. It
was hot but I think it was good! :D We
ate with our house church and got a wonderfully delicious dessert. It was
sticky rice with coconut milk and sweet mango on the side with these little
crunchy things. Oh my stars! It was soo delicious Especially because this is
the season for mangos now! Yummy! They were all so surprised that we had never
had it before. :O GASP! Haha. That evening was the last evening for
the Jesus Festival. Both Bekah and I went down to the field and prayed for
people. For the whole group and with people personally. Nothing really changed
to the sick people that I prayed for as I was praying for them but we know that
God can continue to heal them! :D We
stayed afterward to help clean up and that was actually really fun. SO! We learned a ton and lots of miracles
happened and God did His stuff there and stirred in the peoples hearts…and ours
as well….and yeah! Just all around good stuff. We were ready for Monday to come
though because we were exhausted.
Monday evening we went to
Pizza Company with the House Church to celebrate Geng’s birthday and because
Bonus is leaving for London soon! :O
Soooo that was a celebration and goodbye and that was fantastic! Afterwards, we went bowling and Took Ta &
Bonus’ mom and dad came as well. That was super fun. They’re both super cute.
Also, our friend Katie’s brother was visiting so that was nice to have him join
us as well.
Tuesday we had Thai
tutoring, as usual, but theeeennn! We went over to Took Ta and Bonus’ house to
make some Hamburger Soup! It was
delicious! We were so happy to have a stove to cook something with and we
taught Bonus how to make it. She said she wants to make it in London…score one
for the American Cooks! Aww yeah! ;D
On Wednesday we went to
the Psychiatric Hospital and then went out to dinner with Geng, Took Ta and
Bonus. We got delicious dessert after that. It was bread with this green milky,
sweet sauce. Yeah! Don’t remember what it was called but still good! :) Oh! And guess what guys!? Les Mis is out there on watch32.com for
free! Bekah and I watched it. Good times!
Our last day of Thai
tutoring was held on Thursday the 28th from 12:30-2:00pm. Thank you
very much to all you people who supported us in this long journey! ;D teehee. We got coffee with Bonus and then
watched a movie with her and went out to dinner. It was our very last time to
see her so we exchanged some gifts. What a good friend we have! :)
On the 29th, we
flew to Bangkok and joined some of the friends that we went to Thai school
with! It was great to see them again and have a bigger group of girls to spend
our time with/ We went out to lunch and then just caught up with them until the
sun went down and evening came. We went to a steak place with some of our other
friends with the Team we were with before-we’re going to be spending a few days
in Bangkok with them just to see what theyre doing now and to encourage them
and then we’re all going on a retreat and staying a few days afterward to hang
out at the beach! It’s gonna be great! :D
Saturday we went shopping
with Brittany (one of the girls on the team. There is also Rachel and Nikki and
they’re terrific girls! Glad we can hang out with them!) and her leader, Lynn.
Got lots of stuff! Super hot but good. I think we shopped for about five hours,
I believe. We went with them to the park and joined Nikki and Rachel in the late
afternoon, got some grub and then went back to our room in the apartment.
Sunday the 31st we had an
Easter service at their leaders house with a whole bunch of people. Bekah and I
have become accustomed to being with about 8-12 people for church. There were
30 people there…bit of a change but it was fun. So we sang some songs and
shared about what we learning from God that week and what we wanted to thank
Him for. Then we split up. There were a lot of visitors there; people from
Laos, Nicaragua, America, Thailand and the Philippines…soo! We split into Thai,
English and Spanish speaking groups and read the Easter Story together and then
talked about it. There was some leftovers candy so we gladly helped the little
kids finish that up! :D We went to
another friend’s house and went swimming. We babysat their six year old boy-all
five of us…haha!-and got some street food. Then we watched Ice Age 3 with him
and talked until it was time to leave.
Today is April 1st
which is crazy to think about because April seemed so long to me in November
when I left. We took Claire, Eliza and Silas (Tom and Candice’s kids…I believe
we talked about them…oh my….back in December maybe?) to the mall to go to a
waterpark on the top level. Went down slides, played in little pools and
fountains and such. Then we got some ice cream and now I am writing this as we
are back home relaxing. Tonight we will grab some supper on the street and
watch a movie. Bit tired now. Busy busy busy! :O Hope you guys were okay holding up for so
long. Thanks for reading this everybody! :D
Until next time!
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