The weekend
Hey all, this is Dave
This Saturday we had our Party in the Park thing. It was our first big evangelistic event. We had about 34 people crammed in a songthao(kind of a army van with benches in the back) who came from Phitsanulok (including James, Jonny, Alice & I) and maybe another 20 peeps from Nakhon Sawan (including the rest of the team).
It was a really cool event. About half of the people weren't Christian, which was great. We started with lots of random games, including a treasure hunt where they had to find where we were hiding in the park. We were all doing random things, so Carissa was an angel, Alica was an old lady, Phil was Santa, Johnny was something I can't remember, Esther & James were parents and I was a trombone busker :) Esther gave her testimony of how she became Christian after being a Buddhist in Malaysia. I remember one particular Chinese guy who through this event has gone from not really knowing about Christianity to being keen to read the Bible.
Sunday we all split up and went to various churches. They couldn't translate for us at the church that Jonny, James & I went to, but it was great to participate on celebrating the Lord's suuper with them which was something we could understand regardless of language. It all looked pretty much like a western church service though. Because it was father's day they had all the fathers go up the front and put on some Thai surrong type thing. The Thai's really do enjoy having fun. Also, because it's the king's birthday on tuesday, they had a picture of the king up the front. It seems kinda weird for us, because there is no equivalent person in our culture, but everybody here just really respects the king. Of course, being Christians they are absolutely sure that while they give the king their respect, they worship God alone.
After having lunch at church (which I reckon is a cool idea), we led CU in the evening. There about 20 people in the CU, but there were a few non-Christians who were very interested and were asking questions (mostly to the people who actually speak Thai) along the lines of "so... how does someone change a religion" so it's all very cool.
This Saturday we had our Party in the Park thing. It was our first big evangelistic event. We had about 34 people crammed in a songthao(kind of a army van with benches in the back) who came from Phitsanulok (including James, Jonny, Alice & I) and maybe another 20 peeps from Nakhon Sawan (including the rest of the team).
It was a really cool event. About half of the people weren't Christian, which was great. We started with lots of random games, including a treasure hunt where they had to find where we were hiding in the park. We were all doing random things, so Carissa was an angel, Alica was an old lady, Phil was Santa, Johnny was something I can't remember, Esther & James were parents and I was a trombone busker :) Esther gave her testimony of how she became Christian after being a Buddhist in Malaysia. I remember one particular Chinese guy who through this event has gone from not really knowing about Christianity to being keen to read the Bible.
Sunday we all split up and went to various churches. They couldn't translate for us at the church that Jonny, James & I went to, but it was great to participate on celebrating the Lord's suuper with them which was something we could understand regardless of language. It all looked pretty much like a western church service though. Because it was father's day they had all the fathers go up the front and put on some Thai surrong type thing. The Thai's really do enjoy having fun. Also, because it's the king's birthday on tuesday, they had a picture of the king up the front. It seems kinda weird for us, because there is no equivalent person in our culture, but everybody here just really respects the king. Of course, being Christians they are absolutely sure that while they give the king their respect, they worship God alone.
After having lunch at church (which I reckon is a cool idea), we led CU in the evening. There about 20 people in the CU, but there were a few non-Christians who were very interested and were asking questions (mostly to the people who actually speak Thai) along the lines of "so... how does someone change a religion" so it's all very cool.
posted by James Allaway at 3:27 AM
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Great work guys. Good to hear how everything is going. Bless you all.
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