Hkun Myat (pronounced "Khun-yah") passionately shared the Gospel with the village. His wife, Nu Nu, helped with logistics, translation, and leading activities with kids.
Louise shared her testimony and the Lord's prayer with the translation help from Pastor Stephen
Pastor Stephen, Hkun Myat, and Louise all preached the Gospel and seven people stood up to say they wanted to receive Jesus!
Dave picked us up at 9am and took us to grab some Myanmar breakfast to-go before heading to Lighthouse to load up the truck with supplies. Once we got to the church we grabbed some canned fish and noodles, picked up pastors Stephen and Michael, and met Louise and headed about 10 minutes away to meet up with Hkun Myat and Nu Nu, a Myanmar couple who has decided to leave their jobs, start a pig farm to provide for their needs, and dedicate their lives to sharing the Gospel and giving hope to other Myanmar refugees!
The first camp we got to we met outside on tarps again. Louise and Nu Nu led some kids activities with a parachute and a ball, Pastor Michael led some music, Hkun Myat preached, and Louise told her testimony and shared how in the Lord's prayer we are asking God's Kingdom to come to Earth...and what an amazing Kingdom it is, filled with hope, peace, love, healing, and belonging...for all peoples! We ended our time together by praying for all the elders/adults there and then giving some canned fish and noodles to them to thank them for coming. Someone in the village was also selling coconut water so we bought enough for all the kids in that village and the next one to hand out.
We then drove to another village and met in a one-room hut/home. Pastor Michael did some music, Pastor Stephen preached, and Louise told a bit of her testimony and had our family come up and help act out the parable of the Unforgiving Servant (Matthew 18:21-35). She shared that because she has been forgiving of soooo much she has the ability to forgive others, including those who have deeply wronged her. She shared that one of the ways we can start to follow Jesus is by forgiving other people too. After this, Pastor Stephen spoke for a bit and asked if anyone would be interested in receiving Jesus and making him the leader of their life, and seven people stood up and said "YES!" Praise God! After this we gave out more canned fish, noodles, and coconut water and then headed to get some lunch and take our kids to a waterfall.
Louise took us to a waterfall nearby and to grab some lunch. The lunch wasn't great, unfortunately, and Louise actually got sick later that day and the next. We were fine, thanks be to God! The waterfall wasn't big, but instead had multiple tiers that you could go up to and stand in and have water pour on you. The biggest pool, however, was at the bottom of the falls. We stayed there for an hour or so and the kids rented inner tubes and played at the bottom. After that we left and came back to the hotel.
We got ourselves showered and cleaned up, walked over the mall to grab some dinner, stopped in at a little kids fair across the street to let the kids ride some electric scooters, had a quick dip in the pool, and watched half of a movie with them before calling it a night.
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