He is Risen! Happy Easter!

Easter morning I was part of a large celebration at the main Santisuk school including all of the branch schools.  One of the students committed his life to Jesus after the sermon.  Praise God!  It was a good time to see Cathy for the last time and I was surprised by an offer from Pat, the manager of our branch, who invited me to spend the afternoon and evening with her.  It was only my second time since being here that I've ridden in someone's car (not a taxi).  We visited a gigantic book fair where her company, Bridge Communications, had a booth.  Her husband is a worship leader at a large Full Gospel church, and we visited there and enjoyed a youth worship service where her son Bond sang.  Bond recently returned from finishing four years at IHOP University in Kansas City.  He said he's still having a bit of reverse culture shock, getting used to the crowds in Bangkok.

Train Ride and Market Day - March 25

Last Sunday, our cell group and other students enjoyed an outing to Amphawa floating market.  I didn't see the floating part of the market, where the sellers are in boats, but my friends said there were quite a few of them.  We had a 10 minute train ride right through the market.  The market is actually located on the train tracks, so when the train come through, the people move just far enough away from the slow-moving train so they're not hit by it, and the sellers take up their awnings.  As soon as the train goes by, they put them back over the tracks.  It looks like huge leaves falling onto the tracks.

       

I enjoyed the park where Boom and I saw the process to make coconut candy and syrup -  much like our maple sugar process. 

     

We stopped and prayed at these beautiful flowers.  The others had fun browsing through the market.  Everyone was thrilled when one of the guys said he had brought his drone to take pictures.  They all enjoyed the long photo shoot when each person got into the boat and the drone took their pictures.