This was my day

Greetings from Thailand...

This was my day. We visited Kotchanan, my Compassion child. We left on our journey at 8:30 a.m. by van for 2 1/2 hours and then transferred to 2 pick up trucks and drove another hour up red dirt ruddy roads with lots of gullies and bumps - whoa! We arrived in front of the school and Kotchanan was waiting. We all went to the Compassion office/church on a top of a hill with beautiful scenery. They served us lunch and we then went to Kotchanan's home. It was beautiful with ornate staircases and neat. Her father, mother and paternal grandfather were present. They explained her 15 year old brother is apart from them (the mom had gone away to work for 7 years for money for the home when he was young and that had a lasting effect). The father suffers with alcohol addiction and the mom is not happy in the marriage. These are all prayer concerns. Even though the family members are not believers, they allowed us to pray for them.

We gave them their gifts and headed for the school where we taught her kindergarten class of about 12 students. We back tracked with the same transportation and returned to Chiang Mai about 6:00 p.m. In the evening we went to the night bazaar and "shopped till we dropped." All in all it was another adventurous day of serving our Lord in Thailand. We are really feeling your prayers...thanks for your faithfulness.

Mary Alice Gin (team member)