Wednesday morning, back in Bangkok

Hello family and friends. We are back in Bangkok now and ready to begin the teaching phase of our trip and more observations about the present ministries here. We flew out of the Phuket area last night at 6:40 PM. What a beautiful part of God's creation. It was breathtaking. Our hotel was a more seculed spot right on the cliffs of the Andaman sea. I could look out of our room right on to some foliage and water. We were not near a beach or the town, so it was quiet. The one night and early morning when we had the main storm we had water in our room. We used all kinds of towels to soak it up. It so reminded me of home in Alabama during a tropical storm and/or minimal hurricane winds and rains. Thank goodness that we had all of our luggage up off of the ground (because of some of the little bugs/insects/critters in the room.) Since we live in the south and are used to dealing roaches, gnats, etc. that wasn't too bad for us here. Only difference was I don't know the names of these bugs.

You already know that we worshipped at two churches on Sunday and spent part of that day and Monday visiting with tsunami victims. I am writing in a journal as we go along so that I can capture the stories as accurately as possible.

The seminars for men and women begin tomorrow. There are people driving as far as 13 hours to attend the seminar. If I understand correctly, we only have room for 25 women in our seminar and that already filled up and there is a waiting list. Tomorrow's focus for the women is "A Life of Faith". Kathy, one of the wives, wrote the Bible studies and we are all assiting her and leading the small group activities. She is relating Life with God to geometric shapes. After our ice breaker, she will have me teach "brief mini lessons" on shapes and then relate them to God. For instance, the first shape tomorrow is an equilateral triange. I will show a large equilateral triangle and how it has three equal sides and angles. No side or angle is bigger or smaller than the other one. She will take it from there and relate it to the Trinity: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Please pray for us as leaders and the women who attend. We will have a translater, so I have to speak slowly and pause often. What a challenge that will be!!!!

Oh well, I would like to write more, but I need to go take a shower and get ready for the day. I am downstairs now in the room that has two computers. We have group devotions here in the lobby of the hotel in about 40 minutes, then two vans pick us up to transport us to all the different places we will be visiting today.

Thanks for the prayers.