Fruit

In closing, I have to share two comments I received from students in their final essays last week.

 Qiang, a young Chinese/Thai tour guide who's studying English as his third language wrote:

"For the past four years, I've been living alone in Bangkok and have struggled with loneliness.  Sometimes it was very bad.  But now that I'm at Santisuk, I've made new friends and feel like I belong."

Tanoy wrote that she once had a very mean English teacher in grade school and since that time, she didn't try to learn English anymore.  Two months ago, she decided she wants to work as an au pair in America, so she enrolled at Santisuk.  Since then, she says she's been so encouraged and has found that learning English is such fun.  She has much more confidence to speak.

Pray for Tanoy and Qiang, who are continuing their studies this month, along with three of my other students.  (Total enrollment in July is 22).  Pray that their teachers and new friends will draw them to Jesus.

MORE GOOD RETURNS on your investment:
Thank you to all of you who supported us through prayer and financially in this work in Thailand. Because of your generosity, we had more money than we needed. On the Tuesday before we left, I followed up with Pat about the cost of 30 Bibles in the language of our prisoner friends in IDC. Guess what? The amount she told me was exactly the amount of extra US dollars I still had. I was pleased to tell her when I gave her the money that our friends at home were purchasing the Bibles. Please pray that they would arrive soon and get into the hands of the 84+ believers in the immigration prison. They will have to be brought in one or two at a time.

We praise God for all of the fruit of this trip in our lives and the lives of our new Thai friends. Please keep them in your prayers - and keep an open heart before the Lord about going with us to Thailand on our next trip.  Stay tuned for more information! Right now, it's possible that I (Mary) will organize a group to go in January of 2017.