Nakhon Pathom & Kanchanaburi

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Sorry for this coming a week later. Trying to get settled and such here in Chiang Mai has been a longer process than I planned. O well.

Handing out supplies

After we left Sukhothai, we traveled a couple of days to Nakhon Pathom to stay at a church there. Near the church the flood waters had started overtaking some of the villages, so we went to hand out care packages. While there we had the chance to join the church on Sunday morning for some great preaching and worship, and then join with a time of prayer with several local churches that evening. It was great. That next day we met up with the leaders of the village we were going to, as well as with reps from Joyce Meyers's Hand's of Hope ministry who the church was partnering with and piled onto a flatbed truck and headed out. We went to two villages, and handed out a couple around 150 care packages.We were only there 3 days, and then went to meet up with the rest of the DTS to plan a camp.

Nitro Crossing

The camp was in Kanchanburi, at a retreat area. The area itself bills itself as a resort, but the owners built it for the sole purpose of having a place where ministry leaders and their teams could go to rest, relax and recharge. It is a beautiful area. Where we stayed they also had some basic challenge course elements. The camp was for the children of 3 ministries, 2 from Bangkok and 1 from Ratchaburi. The children were mostly Burmese children of migrant workers, some from the slum areas of Bangkok. So the theme of the camp was Identity in Christ. We played games, taught dances and skits, worked on team building and unity, and taught about how to read the bible and talk with God personally. It was really cool to see all the kids come together for the three short days that we were there. Many of them said they were excited to be able to go deeper in their walk on their own.

After the camp, we traveled to Bangkok to rest for a day, then went on our way to Cambodia for the last part of our journey.

All the campers and helpers