Day two in Fang and I couldn't be happier! Last night four of us went on a house visit about 25 minutes outside of where we are staying! We went into the rural area where the night sky glistened with stars! It was beautiful, but more beautiful than that was the experience we had there! A young boy and a young girl, probably in their early twenties, they excepted Jesus as their Lord and Saviour!! They had been thinking about it since Christmas, but what a privilege is was that our group was there to witness it and to pray over them! We sang worship songs in norwegian and englished & listened as they worshipped in their own language! It was truly a wonderful experience and I feel so blessed to be a part of it!

This morning we went to the Ywam school again! This time we prepared 2 bible stories, one for the younger kids and one for the older. I was with the younger kids who learned all about David & Goliath and that there is no fear when we have Christ Jesus on our side! Theo, Channah, and I were then in charge of teaching English to the middle kids! We are supposed to teach three hours of English a day, 50 minutes at a time, so we have three sessions per day, two in the morning and then one after lunch. For the first hour I taught them the alphabet and was able to draw pictures that went along with the letter and we also played some games with the letters as well!  Channah then taugh the kids the colors and after lunch Theo worked with them on simple addittion and counting! We had a whole hour for lunch where we got to play with the kids and bond with them more! We were all exhausted after running around, giving piggy back rides, picking up kid after kid, but we all were loving it. As we watched the kids drive away we all had huge grins on our faces, we were so in love with these children and so excited for the weeks to come!

Tomorrow we will have a short Ywam staff meeting and then we will go to a baptism! In the afternoon we may be handing out clothes to the children, but I don't have all of the information so I will update you tomorrow night!

Thankyou for your prayers and support! Please continue to pray for our team as well as the ministry here in fang, the Shan refugees, and our friend G from Chiang Mai! We are still praying that one of the ministries there will get in touch with him and help get him out of prostitution! We are also in prayer for a rice cooker for the school because the one they had broke and their gas stove is leaking which is dangerous and could potentially cause an explosion! So please pray for God's provisions in this!

Be blessed like you have blessed me!

Eliana

After a 3 hour drive up North from Chiang Mai, we made it to Fang! Our new home for the next 6 weeks! We are staying at the outreach center, a 3 story building with a pristine view of the jungle and hill tops! The showers are cold, but when it is 80 degrees Fahrenheit and humid, it's more than tolerable and actually quite refreshing! The staff of the Ywam school along with Tore, our contact in Fang, had a welcome dinner for us! We had a Shan dish, noodles & sauce, kind of like a twist on spaghetti! We also tried the tamarind fruit, as well as a fruit nobody new the name of, it looked like a rounder kiwi but tasted more like a pear or apple! Anyways it was a perfect first evening! We 

are so blessed that we have a stove to cook with so this morning for breakfast we were able to have oatmeal! :)

My heart is exploding with love and happiness after this morning! We went to visit the Ywam school we will be working with for the next 6 weeks! Some of the kids are Shan refugees, others Thai, and others are Karen refugees.  The school is a safe place for the children to be while their parents are working in the orange fields! They are taught bible stories, English, Thai & Shan! As soon as we got out of the car children came and jumped on us hugging us, just wanting to be loved! It brought some of us to tears to see their beautiful smiling face and to hug them tight! After multiple hugs we had a prayer meeting with the staff and then taught the children a bible story! We acted out the Good Samaritan, sang songs, and drew pictures! We then were able to just play with the kids, paint their faces, play soccer, give piggy back rides, and give endless amounts of hugs!

Tonight we will go to a house visit to meet one of the local families! Continue to keep us in your prayers!

• Prayer for Unity in the team
• An openness to the gospel for the Shan people
• That we will see God's hand at work through healings, miracles, and salvations
• That we can be a blessing to the community and encourage them in their walk with Christ
• For safety, health, and protection

I will add pictures asap! God bless you like you all have blessed me!

Eliana

My heart is so full of the joy of the Lord as I write this tonight! We went back to do evangelism to what is called Thapae Gate! It is the place where G has his bench.  Ria and I were so excited to meet with him again for the last time before we went to Fang! Last time we got to pray for him and were excited to see what more God could do through us! Ria and I split up but we both ended up getting to him, Ria was talking to him when I got there and telling him about how he can get out and how we want to help him, he was listening but I wasn't sure how he felt.  We told him about lighthouse ministries who helps rescue prostitutes out of brothels and get them out of the streets and bring them healing along with the love of Jesus. We told him he could help him and we shared God's heart for him and how much God loves him and see's his heart. We asked him about the dreams he had when he was a kid and he said "I don't ream I just wanted to be cool like the rest of the people."  What a heartbreaking fact that is, that we as humans are just searching for acceptance, we all have the desire to be loved and to be wanted and to "fit in". He then told us how he used to be an accountant and a receptionist and that he taught himself English so that he would be better at his job, but somehow the job had failed.  We encouraged him and said even though we were leaving we could talk to people that can come and get him out and that can help him find a job.  The next words he said were like music to my ears "If you are giving me this opportunity, I need to take it" We just kept saying yes! yes! we are going to help you! We are going to find you a job! We are going to come visit you after we come back from Fang! We got his phone number and are going to give it to Lighthouse Ministries so that they can work with him and find him a way out! He let us pray for him again and once again expressed his thankfulness to us and the ways his eyes lit up you could see how happy he was! I felt so blessed, even though we had been the ones to be a blessing I felt like I had been blessed by him, by hearing his story, by being his friend, I was blessed! I want to cry and laugh and shout and dance for Joy, I just praised God as I walked back to the market! For me this was worth the whole outreach, if I was able to help him get out of prostitution and into healing and eternal life and love with Jesus, I would be more than content! My heart is so happy and I just can't stop smiling! Please, please, please, join us in praying for G! Pray that God would continue to reveal himself to G, and that he would feel an outpouring of love from his Father God, and that Lighthouse Ministries would be able to find him a job where he is happy, safe, and appreciated! Do not underestimate the power of prayer, prayer changes things, your prayers can help change his life and bring him into the kingdom of God! I praise God for this Divine Encounter! 

Ria, G, & I