The Lord really moved! The church retreat for LIFT, the 20s and 30s community at Evangelical Church of Bangkok was a great experience. I won't forget it. I was priviledged to play a part in it. There were about 36 young people who attended. We learned about how to grow deeper in faith by following the Christian disciplines. We talked about more than prayer, fasting and Bible study. We talked about the cost of discipleship: dying to ourselves. We have to give Christ everything: heart, soul, mind and strength. I feel energized. I want to do more and be a better witness of the love of Jesus Christ and the hope that lives in me.
The highlight of the retreat for me was that a friend accepted the Lord. Ice and I talked about what it means to be a Christian, and then she made the decision. Tan and I have been praying for her for a long time. We are so happy that she has decided to claim Jesus as her Lord and Savior. This is not easy to say in a country where about 98 percent of the people claim to be Buddhist. Please keep Ice in your prayers. It will not be easy, but it will certainly be better. Please keep all Thai Christians in your prayers. In a sense, they are foreigners even in their own country.
“I want to beg you, as much as I can, dear sir to be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.” ― Rainer Maria Rilke
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Hey Steve,
this is awesome! Please say hello to Ice and Tan!
Blessings,
Miri
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