Southeast Asia Seminar Blog

I am writing this post in Michael Phillips office in ChaingKham, Thailand.  This has been an amazing part to our trip.  Yesterday we ate an amazing meal on the back patio by the local church families.  The students enjoyed conversations with the Christian Thai families, Jake became friends with some of the Thai boys his age, and Michael introduced us to the group of men and women who are serving the Lord in Thailand. 

Today we got up early and drove up to the hills outside of ChaingKham and walked through a market where local Hmong and Laotian people were selling their goods.  It was quite impressive.  After the market we walked up the road to the location where the Christian people are working on building a church.  We cut the dead brush and branches with machetes and worked with the local Christian Hmong people.  The women were experts at cutting down the branches and they got the nickname “superstars” by our team.  After we cut, the church families made an amazing meal for us.  It consisted of rice, fern, chicken, omelet, and spicy sauce.  It was amazing.  After our meal we were able to climb to the top of a cliff overlooking Thailand into Laos.  We actually stepped our feet into Laos.  The cliff was over 5,000 feet high.  It was incredible to overlook into Laos and at the mountains of Thailand and Laos. 

Our group has been amazing.  The students have had many memorable experiences and we will never forget the memories made here in ChaingKham, Thailand. 

Please pray for the people here that the Lord would work in miraculous ways.  The missionaries here ask for special prayer for the church to grow spiritually and that the people would develop deeper relationships with Christ.

Seeing Him at work,

The Southeast Asia Team