We got to spend some great days with good friends in Vietnam.  There is so much happening there, and so many opportunities that we hope we can be a part of.  Our girls made some new friends in Saigon and it has been wonderful to see how much they have loved the culture of each country we have been too.  They just fit right in. We took a tour of the Mekong River with one of our ministry partners to see more of Vietnam and the history and culture of the area we work in.  It is a beautiful country with great potential.  Currently, we have an English Tutorial Center and 2 feeding centers in Saigon.  We are hoping to open another English Tutorial Center in Hanoi and a program to help children learn to read.

Paul and I got to spend some time with the boys at the youth service to do a special Bible study and pray with each one individually. It was an awesome time! They really opened up to us and we were able to pray fro them specifically.  Some were concerned about their family, others wanted help with struggles in their lives.  It was so nice to see teenagers share their heart and seek prayer and support.

Our girls are making some great friends here in Thailand.  I think the kids here would adopt our kids in a heart beat.  They love them!  It is so much fun to watch how the interact and how much the kids here light up when they see our girls show up. The come and grab their hands and run off and play.  They want to sit with them and eat with them.  It is such a beautiful thing. Here are some pictures from tonight as we had a special youth service.

The first day at our project is in the books.  Kim and the girls, and the team from First Baptist, Lexington had a great time and they were able to pour into the over 200 children there.  It is such a joy to be able to watch your children being used in ministry.  Our girls were able to connect with the children really well.  A group of students had signs for each person in the team.  They waved the signs as the team arrived in the bus.

We went across the river to Burma (Myanmar) today to visit a potential new ministry location.  It was a great experience for our girls.  It was a great opportunity to share with them a different culture and way of life.  There are so many opportunities for us to serve others.  We are truly blessed as a family.

We had a great trip with a wonderful church in Guatemala just before Thanksgiving.  It was a blessing to me, and I know it was a blessing to those in Guatemala.  We were able to visit multiple projects, and perform 8 home visits where we delivered food to a family in need and shared the Gospel with them. We were able to see around 10 people get saved during the week!  On one of the visits we went to a family that had 3 children with muscular dystrophy.  And, they had lost a son to MD recently.  The food was a great blessing to them, but the greater blessing was when 2 of the family members came to trust the Lord with their salvation.

We had a special Thanksgiving dinner with the orphans at our orphanage also.  They had never celebrated Thanksgiving since it is an American holiday, so we treated them to a great meal. They asked if we could all eat with them and pass the food like they had seen in the movies.  How touching!  The things we take for granted.

The final two days were spent in a Mayan village performing a Vacation Bible School and a lice and foot washing outreach.  We had a Christian clown as part of the event and it was a great way to reach the children and the parents that came. We are excited for the church to have their first ever service on Christmas Eve this year.

Here are some pictures of the trip.