A busy week…but a great one!
As I’m writing this, I am exhausted. It has been a very busy week with classes, planning for Sunday Activites and planning for English camp.
Wednesday morning, I went to the airport to pick up a group of 8 AFCers who will be teaching English in Northeast Thailand, and I also taught a few classes in the afternoon. I had an advanced student come in the evening for his class. He said he had gone to the hospital earlier in the day because he had some type of stomach problem that was most likely caused by missing normal eating times, stress, and little rest. He said that the doctor told him that he should rest more and try not to work more than he has to, so that he can get better. It was interesting that we started talking about the importance of rest, because the night before, I listened to a podcast sermon over Psalm 23. In this podcast, the preacher talked about the important of rest and how God “MAKES us lie down in green pastures.” We read Psalm 23 together and talked about how God knows what is best for us. We then started to explore certain passages about Christian living, because he wanted to know if Christians were supposed to live a certain way. When Thai people think of America, they see it as a “Christian” nation. So anything that comes from America must in some way reflect Christianity. When they see movies that are filled with cursing and other awful things, they think that its ok for even Christians to act or talk this way. After we ended class, he told me that he would like to learn more from the Bible. I would ask that you pray for him and that you pray for me as we study God’s Word together.
On Thursday, I took the Kranuan team, 1 Thai Christian, and 1 Non-Christian, to the zoo here in Bangkok. When we got back, I went with P’Rung to pick up our T-shirts for English Camp, before I had class in the evening. Friday and Saturday were just normal teaching days so we really didn’t do anything more than teach.
Today’s English Activities was about American Idioms. We a game where the students were put in groups of 5-7, and had to match an idiom with its definition. After the game, we explained idiom one-by-one. There were a total of 21 idioms that we taught. After we finished our English lesson, we taught the students the song, “I will enter His gates,” then sang the songs we learned in the past activity days, so we sang, “Hide Me, Away,” “Sanctuary,” “Soon and very soon,” and “I’ve got peace like a river.”
Tomorrow and Tuesday are our off days, so hopefully we will be able to regain our energy for this next week. We will teach our Wednesday classes, but then we are leaving Thursday to go set up at Cha-Am beach for English camp. English camp will be held Friday-Sunday.
I meant to post more picture slideshows, but I have not taken as many pictures this year, mainly because I have so many from the past years, but also because my camera isn’t real easy to carry around everywhere. When I get back from English Camp, I’ll have plenty of pictures to make another video.
Thank you for your prayers and support.
In Him,
Amos
