Sa Kaeo Province, Pt. 1
Yesterday I went with my friend Rin and a group from her church (Immanuel Baptist Church) to her husband's home province, where we visited a couple small village churches and then handed out shoebox gifts from Samaritan's Purse to over 120 children. It was a really good time, though tiring (we left at 6:30 am and returned about 10:30 pm).
Sa Kaeo is about a 2-3 hour drive outside of Bangkok. It was refreshing to breathe in unpolluted air (some of it was even what we call "fresh country air":). Rin pointed out a road sign in Thai somewhere along the journey that I don't expect we will ever find in the US. Loosely translated, it was an "elephant crossing" sign.:)
Here Rin and I are at the first little country church we visited. I believe each of the places we visited were church plants from Rin's home church in Bangkok.
I loved the view out the window of the little church building.
The pastor's family
The next church we visited. I was told this church had grown too big for the building, so it divided 3 ways, thus also acting as church plants.
Here is most of the group with whom I travelled.
The pastor from the above church took us to the next destination, where we were to hand out the shoeboxes we brought along. First we were served a meal; most of it was much too spicy for my taste buds, but in small, almost microscopic portions, I managed to fill my stomach. :)
These two men are both leaders in the church back in Bangkok. They were a riot, trying to get me to eat spicy food but also telling me what wasn't quite as spicy.
