Our Time In Mae Sot Thailand

This is our third week in Mae Sot since the team left in July. We spent a week teaching some Pastors from the Hill Tribes a program called Community Health Evangelism. After that we spent four days in Chang Rai where we were able to cross the border into Burma for a day. We visited the church and orphanage of the pastor whom we have known for years and able to see the new progress he is making. We were also able to see Ron and Debbie Grosser, our friends, who came over years ago after taking one of our trips, they now have a home for nineteen at risk children from a Lahu tribe. This was the area where we were going to make our home.
Last week Laura Bush, the First Lady arrived in this small town to visit the Burmese refugee camp and a medical clinic for the Burmese. We were able to go to the same clinic the next day. We were given a short tour of the place and if you think our county hospitals are bad. They had at least 75-100 people listed who were all waiting to have cataract surgery. The place sure could use some cleanup. It is better than nothing but sanitary it was not. The young girl in the picture is 29 yrs old and had her legs blown off in a land mine accident. She has prosthetics but they don’t fit well and she has no one there to help her. The families are expected to take care of their loved ones and bring them food. We were able to pray with her. We also had an opportunity to pray for a young man who was there because of stomach problems. He takes care of his mother and younger brother but they were back in the refugee camp about an hour away. After we prayed for him he told the interpreter that he felt heat all over his body. God’s anointing is awesome. We are believing God for his total healing.
Saturday night I was able to speak at the English Church that they have started here. I shared about our getting here and our future plans. There was a group of young people there from Colorado and they had just arrived from Cambodia. They saw some powerful times of ministry as they shared the gospel and God did some great miracles.
We will be here until the end of the month and then we will leave for Vietnam on Sept 2nd.