Okay, so it’s about time that I should have a blog, but I really needed some help. Luckily for me Ajja came over and she is teaching me how to do it. In case you didn’t know, I just had a great opportunity to go to Burma and help with the relief effort. I went with a team of 9 and it was amazing. All of us have tons of stories and I’m going to tell you some of mine. I’m also going to try to figure out how to put pictures on here too - it can’t be too hard can it?   So here goes…

Within the first 24 hours of being in Burma, I was already throwing up. Fortunately lots of people were praying for me and I got better right away. I only ended up missing one day of the trip. We worked with local pastors who are totally into church planting. I got to preach not once but twice! God is so good to me. I also got to do art therapy with a lot of the orphans. I know during school I didn’t have a very high opinion of play or art therapy but man, it is so powerful! One of the girls I went with, Jenni, is also a counselor and she taught me a lot about it. I know that it really ministered to the kids and our interpreter was really touched too. She just started crying and sharing about memories of her own childhood, and gave me an opportunity to minister to her.  We also distributed tons of clothes to many of the different orphan homes.  It was so exciting to see their faces and then they came and modeled their new clothes for us.  What a wonderful experience and I can’t beleive that I got to be a part of it. 

One of my favorite stories is how we wanted to rent a house for one of the pastors. He and his wife have four of their own children and have recently taken in 11 orphans. They live in a two room house which is also their home church. They had no room to breath. We found a second house for them very close by, unfortunately the landlord was a Buddhist and refused to rent to him because he was a Christian. The landlord said, “I know your God is more powerful than my god and if you move in my god will run away, so you can’t have the house.” It’s amazing how this man knew the truth about the power of the Lord and yet still had no desire to follow Him. A few days later the pastors wife went back to the landlord and he agreed to rent the house, but said they could not worship there. Since they are home church pastors that put a damper on things. So the pastors wife said to the landlord, “You worship your god in your house we should be allowed to worship our God in our house.” And so he let them, isn’t that cool?

Here is my attempt to try to add pictures and I will try to write more about Burma soon, but I am leaving for Nepal in a week and a half so I will see how it goes.

isn’t he the cutest thing!