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| Arriving to Bangkok |
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| Representing Lebanon in the Official Opening! |
Biking for Christ
One morning, my friend Alex (Sweden) and I decided to go biking on the other side of the river where the ship was
docked. Before we left we filled our backpacks with Christian tracts in the
local language for adults and children and headed on our way.
As soon as we arrived to the other side of the
river and before we rent the bikes, we sat for some snacks, there we met an old
lady who could speak English, we saw this as an opportunity to give her one of
the booklets we had, this opened the door for a good long chat with her about
our faith in Christ. She seemed very open to listen to what we were saying and
was agreeing to what she was listening. She even said that every night she
prays, not to Buddha, but to God and she pointed up to the sky. We explained to
her that this is our God, the only God and He will listen to her prayers. We
finished by praying for her, encouraging her to read the tract we gave her and
to seek God and she will surely find Him!
We then went on to rent the bikes and started cycling in the narrow streets of the small village we were in while giving out the tracts and sharing with the people with our limited Thai “Phra Yesu Rak Khun” and “Phra Jao Uay Pon” (meaning “Jesus loves you” and “God bless you”). We soon ran out of tracts for adults and were left with 11 for children. we carried on cycling by faith hoping that God will lead us on our way, which obviously happened, because out of nowhere and without knowing which way to go we suddenly ended up in an area with Buddhist temples, statues and a school! We immediately knew that the school was where we were supposed to give the children booklets. We stopped for a moment, prayed and entered the school. We gave the first kid we saw and then decided to go to one of the classes, we explained to the teacher who spoke no English what we’d like to do, and simply she made the kids line up to receive their booklets! Only then did we realize that there was way more kids than booklets we had left. I was hoping for a miracle that the booklets would somehow multiply, I looked more than once in my backpack but apparently God had a different kind of miracle in mind. We thought we would have enough time to go back to the ship, grab a box of booklets and come back to give everybody before we both had to start work in the afternoon! We cycled in an unknown direction, which ended up being the right direction, the bike owner agreed to hold the bikes for us until we return and the most amazing part was that God even prepared a small boat for us to take us to the other side of the river, not to the pier, but directly to the ship, waited for us as we grabbed the box of tracts and brought us back to the village! We arrived to the school, were able to give all the students, even left some extras for the ones that were on break that day. Not only that but they even made the students gather, asked us to teach them some songs and perform a drama for them, we were also able to share our faith with them while one of the teachers, who could speak English and wasn't even a Christian, was translating everything we were saying!
We then went on to rent the bikes and started cycling in the narrow streets of the small village we were in while giving out the tracts and sharing with the people with our limited Thai “Phra Yesu Rak Khun” and “Phra Jao Uay Pon” (meaning “Jesus loves you” and “God bless you”). We soon ran out of tracts for adults and were left with 11 for children. we carried on cycling by faith hoping that God will lead us on our way, which obviously happened, because out of nowhere and without knowing which way to go we suddenly ended up in an area with Buddhist temples, statues and a school! We immediately knew that the school was where we were supposed to give the children booklets. We stopped for a moment, prayed and entered the school. We gave the first kid we saw and then decided to go to one of the classes, we explained to the teacher who spoke no English what we’d like to do, and simply she made the kids line up to receive their booklets! Only then did we realize that there was way more kids than booklets we had left. I was hoping for a miracle that the booklets would somehow multiply, I looked more than once in my backpack but apparently God had a different kind of miracle in mind. We thought we would have enough time to go back to the ship, grab a box of booklets and come back to give everybody before we both had to start work in the afternoon! We cycled in an unknown direction, which ended up being the right direction, the bike owner agreed to hold the bikes for us until we return and the most amazing part was that God even prepared a small boat for us to take us to the other side of the river, not to the pier, but directly to the ship, waited for us as we grabbed the box of tracts and brought us back to the village! We arrived to the school, were able to give all the students, even left some extras for the ones that were on break that day. Not only that but they even made the students gather, asked us to teach them some songs and perform a drama for them, we were also able to share our faith with them while one of the teachers, who could speak English and wasn't even a Christian, was translating everything we were saying!
Some more stories here:
http://goo.gl/44BDT 
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| Some of the kids that gathered for the improvised program! |
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| Doing some repairs and painting a school's playground |
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| Enjoying some Lebanese food with a friend in a restaurant we found in Bangkok |
