Thursday 7 Jan- Half way- still half to go!!!

Wow, so much has happened since Sunday!
Sunday: Caught up with Melissa Crouch and had a great time with her encouraging each other and meeting her neighbours too. We spend a couple of hours with each other
Monday: Travelled from Mae Sot to Chiang Mai and said farewell to all our friends from there. In Chiang Mai we went to the Bible Society and had a relaxing evening
Tuesday: Travelled from Chiang Mai to Chiang Rai, as soon as we got in we went off to a shopping centre Big C then as soon as we got back Paul Wilcox was there at our motel waiting for us so Peter and Chris caught up with him while the girls went shopping. It was an amazing time catching up with the Wilcox's, God's hand was definatly in it as so much was discussed in so much detail in the 4 hours we had with them, it was great. (Meanwhile the girls picked up Mimee's first pair of shoes since highschool and she may have just worn them to bed that night!) We had a great devotion and most of us got some more direction as to what God would want us to be doing over the coming days.
Wednesday: The verse of the day was about offering a sacrifice of praise and the the prayer was that we can be an encouragement to all we meet.
Well We offered a sacrifice of praise on the site of the new church that Pastor Joe is looking to build as well as spending most of the day with him. At night we went to have our customary once a trip ice-cream splurge at Swensens, and on the way we met a translator named Peter from our trips in 2003/4, following the ice-cream we took one step outside and met the pastor we'd stayed at on the 2003 & 2004 trips as well. He was on a prayer walk for the city and just happended to think he should be walking past the ice-cream shop tonight. So after a few words and a bible exchanging hands, we left for home with happy hearts!

The versese of the day have really been spot on along with the prayers. Once again thanks for all your prayers. Its been increasingly obvious, especially over the last fwe days when we've all beeen pretty tired (getting up round 640ish each day).

Today we leave for the hill tribes and we'll wait to see what God's got in store up there. Maybe including the locals in the drama presentations to make it more meaningful, maybe doing something different. We've got no idea yet, but we'll see what we've got when we get there!!! (Sorry for no photos)- bit of a rush this time and haven't even had a chance to download them!