Work and Witness season is off and running!

We hit the ground running on our return from the first leg of our home assignment in the States with minimal jet-lag. Praise the Lord! (And thank you all for your prayers!!). Kevin flew back with our first team, the Northwest Nazarene University Choir & Orchestra, while Caleb and I followed the next day. We had the great privilege of working with this 64 member team for two weeks, beginning our tour in Bangkok and wrapping it up in Chiangmai.

The purpose of this team was praise, prayer, and witnessing. This team performed concerts for blind children with disabilities (in an area where we would love to plant a church) and to children and a community in an extreme poverty area, in an international church, in two Thai churches (one a new church plant) and spent an afternoon prayer walking in addition to visiting the largest outdoor market in Southeast Asia, all in Bangkok before boarding an overnight train for Chiangmai.

In Chiangmai, the students fit in some sight-seeing, elephant riding, night market shopping, and waterfall climbing. They headed up to Maetang to spend time with, teach, play with and sing for the Children’s Home and neighbors in Maetang and to perform for the Maetang High School. On Sunday the group split up and worshipped and shared their music with two different hill tribe churches before performing their final concert on Sunday night at the Chiangmai International Church.

This group was adventurous, flexible, and so much fun! They represented their school, and more importantly Christ, very well as they served, prayed for and loved the people of Thailand. Many of the people with whom they interacted were not Christians and didn’t really know much of anything about Christianity. The NNU UCO’s praise and witness planted seeds and opened doors for ministries in Thailand and we are so grateful they came.

Kevin and I personally, loved getting to know the students and the leaders of the trip. We are blessed to have new friends and to see how God is working the lives of those who ministered to us through song and prayer.

As Kevin wrapped up their time with us, I (Jeni) flew back to Bangkok to meet the next team at the airport.

Life is busy, but God is good!