Recently we have had a team of young people come and spend two days with us. They are were doing a program called True North out of Three Springs Camp in Pennsylvania. There were 10 people all of them around 18 to 19 years old. We thoroughly enjoyed them. It was great to learn from some of these young people. One of them is from inter-city Chicago and grew in gangs and much trouble. He and I had the chance to do a prayer walk in the old city of Thakua Paa. He told me, "Ken I want to be able to pray for someone today, what do you think?" So we prayed for a person to pray for, and right after we prayed a man walked up to us and wanted to talk to us. So we asked can we pray for you? He was very happy to have us pray for him and he had many needs. This made a big impact on my new young friend. After that we went into the Chinese temple and prayed for the city to be released from the bondage of Satan and asked God to open the eyes of the people there. As we prayed a woman was in worshipping one of the 10 Chinese spirit gods. So we prayed for her. Later he said that he wants to go back to inner city of Chicago and see people set free and know Christ. He said they would possibly listen to him because he was like them.
Another young man is very interested in coming as a short term missionary in a couple of years and spend time with us. He spent a good amount of time playing legos with Jasper. I was really impressed with him in this. After this he came to me and said that he was feeling home sick and it really helped him to play with Jasper. He mentioned Jasper is just like his little brother who he missed.
The leader of this team is a good friend and he shared many things about his life and how God had been working in his family. He had great words of encouragement for us and great testimonies of how God is working in his family. He had spent some 14 years in Thailand as a missionary and now is leading Vision Teams for his mission.
We are excited in how God used this time to change and influence there lives and our lives.