Thailand

Hi, my name is Jennie, I'm a member of Redditch Baptist Church and I'm blessed enough to have links with Thailand and have seen first hand how God is moving out there.

In 2006 I travelled out to Thailand with 'Go Teams'. We went to stay and work at a place called Kid's Life Children's Home just outside of Fang which is in the North of the country. I was on a 3 week trip to work with the children at Kid's Life and the people in the surrounding villages.
On our first evening there they had a time of worship and thanked God for our safe arrival; it was breathtaking! I have never in all my time as a Christian seen children praising God like this, genuinely worshiping Him and thanking Him for his provision. These children knew what it was to have nothing but in God they have everything and it was the most beautiful thing I have ever seen.
While I was there Pastor Jay (manages Kid's Life) took us to visit the school in the Orange Groves. This was going to be the first school in Thailand that I was going to see and although I knew it wouldn't be all singing, all dancing; nothing would have prepared me for what I was going to see. I was presented with a straw hut with blankets for sides and holes in the roof. The children were sat in the mud floor and we were given the honour of sitting at their 'desks'; planks of splintered wood propped up on sticks. There were just two posters on the wall, one of a monk and one was a torn times table. The children themselves were dirty, barefoot and in tattered clothing.
Later in the visit Pastor Jay took us to a Palong Hill Tribe to see an orphanage up there. When we got there the building was shut and the children were wandering around the village. There just aren't words to tell you how disturbing it is to first hand see dirty, hungry children looking up at you with a mixture of hope that just maybe you would help in some way but mostly fear that you might make things worse. It was too much for me and I turned my back to them all looking out across the valley, tears rolling down my face and I prayed desperately to God for a better life for these poor children.
God's amazing provision
On the very day that I was leaving Redditch to travel down to London Heathrow a good friend popped round to say goodbye. This friend had felt the last minute need to give me some money (£70) for the trip and knowing that everything was already paid for simple said that I would know what it was for when the time came.
Now in Thailand, I'm crying on a hillside, asking God to do something for these children and to my amazement a local spoke to Pastor Jay offering me the land I was stood on. Basically, a long story short, the land cost the exact amount of money that I had been given on the day I left home. To think that God had not only foreseen this very moment but had brought me all the way from England to this very place because He loved these children so much blew my mind. I still get goose bumps just thinking about it!