Our Children

Some of you have kindly asked how our children are doing living and serving in Thailand. I wanted to take a blog entry to show you. The photos show the 'predominant' attitudes and feelings. There are however many days...when sticking to Micah 6:8 (Love mercy, seek justice and walk humbly with your God) is extremely difficult. Please continue to pray for these four children. Pray for their safety, pray for their hearts to be soft, pray for wisdom and pray for strength. Thank you for loving our children.

We visited some of the student's home village (Sangkhlia). Our children swam and played with the children. The house we were staying in became the centre for play while our children where there.
After church at the same village we went to the pastors home for lunch. This photo shows Casey interacting with the girls...who could speak no English. Not sure how it is done...but Casey seems to communicate without a common language - making 'best friends' in the process. Kum is a student at Bamboo School and we stayed at his mother's house on mats, underneath nets, on a wooden floor. His aunt lived in this house also and has lived her life with severe mental disorder. She behaved like a two/three year old. On one of the days Casey and Kenz went down to the river with their new friends and Kum's aunt. Casey came home and retold the story of how the children had begun teasing the aunt and that the aunt (approx 60years) had begun to cry. Casey continued to tell of how she went to Kum's aunt and helped her across the rocks and hugged her. The aunt began laughing and sat closely to or held our girls hands for the rest of their time there. One night Casey needed to go to the toilet...which is down the ladder and out the back. Kum's aunt woke and walked with her. It seemed that she wanted to care for someone who had cared for her. We were able to encourage Casey saying that she was leaving that village having 'loved mercy and sought out justice'.Casey taught the children 'Duck, Duck Goose'. However she adopted the Thai word for 'run' (wing) to help them understand what to do. It was thrilling overhearing her teaching the giggling girls what to do. Kenz was her support teacher.
The rainy season is beginning. Our children run outside and bath/play. The laughter is loud and the rain brings refreshment.
The boys played football/piggy in the middle....many high fives were given and laughter shared.