Chiang Khong Health Seminar

Aw, sweet rest! I'm sitting on my bed, eating some papaya, in the center that Leading to the Light Ministry has up in Chiang Khong, Thailand. Leading to the Light is the Rawlings ministry. They are renting a place to do the health work up here. Unfortunately, when we first got a here a few days ago, the first night I didn't sleep very well because the bedspring was very hard with no mattress. I woke up all through the night and when I got up in the morning I was in soo much pain because I had knots all over in my back from the hard surface! I think that was part of what took my immune system down. I then started not feeling too good. I may have gotten the flu or just eaten the wrong soup, that, by the way, was really spicy! Anyways, I have been in bed the last day or two just trying to regain my strength. Right now it is Sabbath evening and I am feeling a lot better now! I was able to be up a lot more today and walk around without feeling very dizzy!

Now, for the more interesting part! We are up here doing a four day health seminar in Chiang Khong District! They have already done 8 health seminars up here but this is the first one that we are working with the local government. The local government clinic opened the doors of its lecture hall above the clinic for the meetings and Supot Wicha, who is the director of the clinic welcomed us and introduced us to the locals as "Ambassadors of Health".

Of course we want to be more than just ambassadors of health down the road but there are a few more steps for these people than in America, where most are already Christian. Now you can see how powerful the Health work is as the "Entering Wedge"!

The district leader also stopped by to welcome our team and shared how this was one of the first times someone had come from outside the district to teach the people about health! He was very excited to see us here! The seminars have been going well so far! The people are really enjoying it and one of our local Adventist workers up here said she would follow up and visit the families that were at the seminar to make contact with them and start befriending them!

Festival of Lights

We went to the Festival of Lights several weeks ago at Maejo University in Chiang Mai. They have a mass lantern release, where they release several thousand lanterns at the same time! It was breathtaking and really got me thinking! We are to let our light so shine before men that they may see our good works and glorify our Father in heaven! It almost seemed like an object lesson to me, where we are the lights! When the lights are lighted they can't help but rise higher into the sky. The higher they rise the more they can be seen. I saw many lanterns that had lost their fire later that had plummeted back to earth. They were useless when on the ground but when their fire was rekindled they would rise again into the sky! When you have Jesus in your heart you can’t help but shine out to those around you! Let Jesus love burn in your hearts today!