I have a new blog
Visit it at
www.lydia-taiforthesavior.blogspot.com
Why a New Blog?
My team decided to create a “Tai for the Savior” blog and have each of our individual blogs linked to it, a sort of collective ministry blog. The link above will direct you to my particular blog and my blog will link back to the main blog of Tai for the Savior and from there to all my team mates’ blogs so that you can browse them all and get a bigger picture of the ministry going on in Thailand
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Monday, June 23, 2008
Up and coming
Sorry I haven't posted in a while. I have a new blog up and coming; please have some patience with me while I'm getting it set up.
Friday, May 30, 2008
Pat
We gained a new sister in Christ this past Wednesday night! Her name is Pat and she has been frequenting the English center for about 3 months now. Pat came to know Christ largely through our new Christians. It's what Pat saw and experienced in spending time with them that got her interested in studying the Bible and getting to know God.
You can view a video of the baptism on YouTube under "Pat's Baptism" or by following the link. (The person baptizing Pat is my team mate P'Yai. I am just out of the camera shot to the left).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSob4Kgz89c
You can view a video of the baptism on YouTube under "Pat's Baptism" or by following the link. (The person baptizing Pat is my team mate P'Yai. I am just out of the camera shot to the left).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSob4Kgz89c
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
All Request Hour
Ok, so what do you all out there who actually take some time out of your lives to read this blog want to hear about? Leave me a comment and let me know what you're interested in hearing about.
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
New Christians
We have 9 people in our new Christian group right now (people that have been baptized in the past year): Son, Yut, Thoe, Tak, Jeab, Poopay, Gie, Jan, and Nut. Working with them is one of my favorite parts of the ministry here. Four of them have university exams coming up which is a stressful experience in Thai schools, so they have all been studying hard and are anxious about taking their exams.
Thoe is soon to join the military (it's long to explain the military and draft systems in Thailand, but joining was not Thoe's choice). He'll be serving 2 years in a city about 12 hours away from Bangkok.
Gie is still looking for a job. She must find one soon or she'll have to go back to her home town, something which she does not want to do as she'd be leaving her friends and her Christian family behind.
The new Christians have still been finding time to hang out and help out at the English center though. Some of them are especially good with the new students and it is wonderful to have them working with me. One in particular I've gotten a chance to work with lately is Tak. We have come to be as good of friends as two girls who don't speak the same language could be. The two of us have come to find that we work well together in talking to new students and those who come to visit the RCC.
It is a wonderful thing to be part of the new Christians' lives and to be able to discuss life and their growing faiths with them. As many of the new Christians are girls, and so my team mates and I have been discussing some ideas to further minister and mentor them. We already have a monthly women's Bible study, but we wanted to do more. Right now we're trying out some mentoring groups in which each of my female team mates and I have a couple of the girls that we focus on and spend time with.
Thoe is soon to join the military (it's long to explain the military and draft systems in Thailand, but joining was not Thoe's choice). He'll be serving 2 years in a city about 12 hours away from Bangkok.
Gie is still looking for a job. She must find one soon or she'll have to go back to her home town, something which she does not want to do as she'd be leaving her friends and her Christian family behind.
The new Christians have still been finding time to hang out and help out at the English center though. Some of them are especially good with the new students and it is wonderful to have them working with me. One in particular I've gotten a chance to work with lately is Tak. We have come to be as good of friends as two girls who don't speak the same language could be. The two of us have come to find that we work well together in talking to new students and those who come to visit the RCC.
It is a wonderful thing to be part of the new Christians' lives and to be able to discuss life and their growing faiths with them. As many of the new Christians are girls, and so my team mates and I have been discussing some ideas to further minister and mentor them. We already have a monthly women's Bible study, but we wanted to do more. Right now we're trying out some mentoring groups in which each of my female team mates and I have a couple of the girls that we focus on and spend time with.
Wednesday, May 7, 2008
A new post
It's high time I wrote another entry as it's been near 3 weeks since my last post. This time I'll tell you a little about what's going on in the work just now, and then about some of our students.
Right now (aside from our usual English and Bible classes/studies) we are busy preparing for the upcoming LST team that will arrive the 18th. We've been passing out alot of fliers and putting up posters in our area and around the university to recruit readers for the LST team. Responses have been good so far, but we could take more students as the team coming is pretty big. Kat and I have been reading with several bnew students preping them to read with the upcoming team, so our reading schedules are pretty full just now.
Now about some of our students:
Nit and Nut are pretty new to RCC. Nit has been coming for about a month, and Nut (her twin sister) just for a couple of days. Nit was brought to RCC by her brother, Snap. Snap was an RCC member several months ago but started a job that kept him very busy nd away from RCC, however, when his sister, Nit, came to stay with him in Bangkok he brought her to RCC and told us to take care of her (shows that he knows he can trust the people of God),and so that is how Nit came to us and now she has started bringing her sister. Right now Kat is reading with Nit and I with Nut, They will both read with LST when that team comes. Their English is very minimal right now, so there isn't much discussion about God or Christianity right now. Much remains to be seen with these two girls.
Yohd has been reading with me for a coupe of months now. She's a sweet, quieter girl, and she's become friends with me (as much as possible, considering that neither of us are very good at the other's language yet). Yohd understands the passages we are reading from Luke very well and is talking in Thai with my team mate Tuli. I say talking because she has not officially agreed to study Bible yet, but she and Tuli are talking, so she's open. One big thing that must be overcome in her thiking, is that all religions are equaly valid.
Pan has been my reader for about a month now. Since we've been reading Luke, I've been able to see him slowly go from being interested only in English to being interested in the stories we are reading. He asks lots and lots of questions about what things mean and wants to know the bigger story surrounding the people in the stories, especialy the Old Testament people and events reffered to. Tuli has been talking with him a little recently trying to get him to study Bible in Thai, not sure where their discussions have gone so far, and there is a long way yet to go with Pan, but there's always steady progress seen in him.
Right now (aside from our usual English and Bible classes/studies) we are busy preparing for the upcoming LST team that will arrive the 18th. We've been passing out alot of fliers and putting up posters in our area and around the university to recruit readers for the LST team. Responses have been good so far, but we could take more students as the team coming is pretty big. Kat and I have been reading with several bnew students preping them to read with the upcoming team, so our reading schedules are pretty full just now.
Now about some of our students:
Nit and Nut are pretty new to RCC. Nit has been coming for about a month, and Nut (her twin sister) just for a couple of days. Nit was brought to RCC by her brother, Snap. Snap was an RCC member several months ago but started a job that kept him very busy nd away from RCC, however, when his sister, Nit, came to stay with him in Bangkok he brought her to RCC and told us to take care of her (shows that he knows he can trust the people of God),and so that is how Nit came to us and now she has started bringing her sister. Right now Kat is reading with Nit and I with Nut, They will both read with LST when that team comes. Their English is very minimal right now, so there isn't much discussion about God or Christianity right now. Much remains to be seen with these two girls.
Yohd has been reading with me for a coupe of months now. She's a sweet, quieter girl, and she's become friends with me (as much as possible, considering that neither of us are very good at the other's language yet). Yohd understands the passages we are reading from Luke very well and is talking in Thai with my team mate Tuli. I say talking because she has not officially agreed to study Bible yet, but she and Tuli are talking, so she's open. One big thing that must be overcome in her thiking, is that all religions are equaly valid.
Pan has been my reader for about a month now. Since we've been reading Luke, I've been able to see him slowly go from being interested only in English to being interested in the stories we are reading. He asks lots and lots of questions about what things mean and wants to know the bigger story surrounding the people in the stories, especialy the Old Testament people and events reffered to. Tuli has been talking with him a little recently trying to get him to study Bible in Thai, not sure where their discussions have gone so far, and there is a long way yet to go with Pan, but there's always steady progress seen in him.
Thursday, April 24, 2008
Songkran (April 12-15)
It was the Songkran holiday last week, an even though the holiday officially only lasts four days, everyone took the whole week off. Songkran is the Thai new year, and it is celebrated with a water festival, what that means is that the entire country has a four day long water fight (this holiday also conveniently takes place during the hottest week of the year). Traditionally people throw water on each other to cleanse from the old year, and they also smear power on each other to "refresh" from the old year; but in all actuallity the holiday is just for fun. Everyone is game during this holiday, all of your friends and family, and even complete strangers, everyone will crowd into the streets and play. This holiday was such a fun experience (and definitely one of my new favorite holidays). It was a great time to relax and play during an otherwise miserably hot time of year.
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