It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas?

Greetings from Thailand!

Now, close your eyes and picture this... December is right around the corner... all the churches (and everywhere else!) are madly decorating with Christmas trees, lights, streamers, and tinsel... Every coffee shop and restaurant is playing thai renditions of Christmas Carols... the words "I'm dreaming of a white Christmas" are wafting through the air... it's +35C... Sweat is rolling down your back...?!

Welcome to Christmas in Thailand! The whole country is crazy about the holiday, and nobody knows the meaning behind it! This December, we get to be a part of a big evangelistic push called "Give Christmas Away", which is basically all the churches here going into OVERDRIVE! We are going to be joining with them as they preach the gospel through Christmas programs, parties, and productions! Everyone here wants to have a Christmas party, so we are going to be throwing them right left and center! In homes, businesses and even in factories! Please pray with us as we gave this unique opportunity to reach people for Jesus.

I'm getting ahead of myself though... Before all that happens, we have language learning and music teaching to do! This last week, we moved to Bang Sai, a small community right on the outskirts of Chonburi, a city of 1 Million people. The church here is being watched over by a young couple of Burmese interns, who just had a baby last week!!

We are going to be stationed here for the majority of the rest of our time, to support the church and immerse ourselves in life here! 

The Church is built right on the Ocean... but not a very nice section of Ocean. 

We are in the process of starting language learning, which is already a crazy experience! We are ministering to Burmese people, so our main language learning will be in Burmese... but we live in Thailand, so we also need to know some basic Thai! AND the 2 languages are nothing alike! pretty wild... just yesterday we learned a word which means 3 different words if said with slightly different tones! Please pray for us as we dive in.

Some of the guy who come every night

Outside the Church

Thankfully, our musical gifts give us a language that everyone can understand - we have been blessed with many opportunities to teach music to children, youth, and adults! Every evening, the young adults of the church gather after work to jam with us, and we are so blessed to get to teach them music and hang out. This last week, we got to help lead some worship with the Thai church and experienced a powerful prayer time with them. The church here is so alive! Many are added to their number daily... It's like we're in the middle of Acts! 

Worshiping in Bang Sai on a Sunday!

Please Pray that we will be faithful as we work hard here, and that God will keep giving us the strength we need! Pray that we will be able to understand the language, and work hard to learn more. Pray that we will connect with the believers in Bang Sai, and that we can be a blessing to them! Pray that the church here would grow!