Mission Trip Experience (Part 3: Children of God)
For most of the mission trip, we stayed at an orphange home (House of Grace - H.O.G). Just to give you a general picture of what is like living in Chiang Rai. We all slept on the walkway of the dorms (sepereated girls and boys). We bathe in really cold water with weather going down to as low as 10 degrees at nite (and most of the time we have to bathe after 10pm, its really cold!). Generally, the facilities were better than most of the facilities we had in other mission trip.
Anyway, after a tiring two hour drive from Chiang Rai airport to the home, with bums all flat and acheing, the first form of energy we saw were the children living in the house whose faces were litted up wif joy as they gathered around us. When we stepped out of the van and unload our things, the children, polite as they are, began to greet us. With both hands clasped together, they bowed and said "Sawadi Kup" - which is a thai greeting. Without hesitation, they help us unload our things. It was funny to see them try and carry the bags as they were so much smaller than the bags.
The first night, after dinner we got to know the children and some of the youths from Romyan church back in Bangkok. We had a combine service which was just great. Well it was through that service where i saw children, despite their tender age and not so good background history, their hearts were devouted to God. Never did i see children worshiping God, singing their hearts out to him, wanting to know him more so desperately. This made me wonder...can we as young people (or people of any age), be that desperate for God? Putting aside everything, can we still go back to God as children who need their Father for strength and support?
As the service continued, i have to admit that the worship session we had was amazing. While we were singing in english, the children were singing in thai. It was so melodious...sounds like angels singing in heaven. Now that is something new. It was great worship...despite the language barrier, we were still able to sing and worship the same God. This just goes to show that putting aside our differences (culture, language, dinomination), we still worship and serve the same God.
To end, let me encourage you all with this verse:
Hebrews 13:8
"Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever."
God bless.
Anyway, after a tiring two hour drive from Chiang Rai airport to the home, with bums all flat and acheing, the first form of energy we saw were the children living in the house whose faces were litted up wif joy as they gathered around us. When we stepped out of the van and unload our things, the children, polite as they are, began to greet us. With both hands clasped together, they bowed and said "Sawadi Kup" - which is a thai greeting. Without hesitation, they help us unload our things. It was funny to see them try and carry the bags as they were so much smaller than the bags.
The first night, after dinner we got to know the children and some of the youths from Romyan church back in Bangkok. We had a combine service which was just great. Well it was through that service where i saw children, despite their tender age and not so good background history, their hearts were devouted to God. Never did i see children worshiping God, singing their hearts out to him, wanting to know him more so desperately. This made me wonder...can we as young people (or people of any age), be that desperate for God? Putting aside everything, can we still go back to God as children who need their Father for strength and support?
As the service continued, i have to admit that the worship session we had was amazing. While we were singing in english, the children were singing in thai. It was so melodious...sounds like angels singing in heaven. Now that is something new. It was great worship...despite the language barrier, we were still able to sing and worship the same God. This just goes to show that putting aside our differences (culture, language, dinomination), we still worship and serve the same God.
To end, let me encourage you all with this verse:
Hebrews 13:8
"Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever."
God bless.
posted by cjs | Wednesday, December 15, 2004
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