Split ways...Mae Sot, Bangkok, Melbourne

Well, its with sadness that Chris and Peter arrived back in Melbourne 1 hour ago, as they've left many friends back in Thailand.

Thanks so much for your support over the last few days as well. A brief rundown:
Wednesday:
After leaving the Thai girls with each other, the Melbournites regrouped themselves and spent some time seeking out God's will for the next few days, and it was an encouraging time of seeing God working in even the small ways (subtle answers to prayer- always great). That afternoon Peter and Chris spent a good chunk of time speaking to LanChing and Vincent, and it was obvious that people were praying as the Spirit led that discussion into the depths of their hearts where we were able to encourage and help them in their questions.
Thursday:
We left KL to head back to Bangkok, and despite an early morning, the time in KL was looked upon fondly! It was encouraging to hear how the Thai girls found it going into a culture where they didn't understand the language, so they could get a glimpse of what it's like for all the farangs (foreigners) who come and do mission work in their home towns! Thursday arvo Chris caught up with Chris MacCartney while the rest of the team thought about some of the debrief questions. It was a really great time with Chris, and able to speak heart to heart even if only for an hour or two while supervising Chris's kids at a birthday party!
Friday:
Debrief day. No one knew what this day would hold. It had the potential to be great or simply ordinary, but once again it was great to see the way that God constructed it, even in the organising of the day. A highlight would have to be that fact that the 2 Thai girls while with us, both realised that they didn't need us around to do what we do. As in, they don't need foreign missionaries to come over to Thaliand and do kids ministry stuff in villages or boarding places or churches. They have the skills and can do it themselves. What was really encouraging was that they were the ones that said that to us, and we didn't have to say 'have you thought about this'. Other highlights were simply understanding how God had used each one of us in his own individual unique ways. On paper, it wouldn't look like any one person did an aweful lot, but in reality it was obvious that in the team of only 5 people God used each of us, in our areas of strength to achieve his purposes while away. Thanks heaps God!!!! It was also great to hear the future visions of each of the team members and where they thought God was leading.
Saturday:
Peter and Chris left at 530 in the morning to get to the airport, waved off by Mimee and Chuilian (as Leonie slept-and rightly so after such a big day the day before!). They arrived home at 9 and cleared customs by 1030. Meanwhile back in Bangkok, Mimee, Leonie and potentially Chuilian (not sure) spent the day touring the city and even doing ice-skating. At last contact Mimee and Leonie were heard to be at Bangkok bus station ready for the windy overnight 9 hour bus ride back to Mae Sot for Mimee's church service tomorrow morning.

Once again thanks for all your prayers and blessings, and if you want to find out any more of the goings on, please come and speak to me, as i'll be more than happy to talk. If you want a short report of the trip as well let me know as I may be putting something together this week too (if I get a chance). and if I get a chance I may put some photos up here too!

Thanks once again, and most importantly thanks God for being willing to use us, your humble servants to achieve the unachievable in your strength.

Chris