I should be sleeping...

Well, it's about midnight here, and I'm just finishing up some prep work for a church camp our team leaves for tomorrow morning. Our team has had one week to plan a complete children's program for the kids of 4 churches in our area, who do not speak our language...and as I pull together the last details before I join my team in sleep, I was suddenly inspired to write here.

I've come to this point in my TREK experience, that I thought I would never reach, and yet has come far too quickly...the end. In two weeks I will board a plane and leave life as I have known it for the last seven months. I will re-enter my own culture, reacquaint myself with friends and family, and "get back to real life." That prospect both scares and thrills me. I'm not sure how I'll say goodbye to this incredible place, full of people I have come to know and love and look up to, how I'll take everything God has taught me and started to shape in me, and learn to apply it at home, how I'll even process this whole experience.

I would like to ask as our team ends our time here, that you will intercede for us, that we will end well.

The next two weeks will be busy. As I already said church camp begins tomorrow morning, and runs for the weekend. We will be doing the children's program, and our theme is the persecuted church, because we realized believers in all the countries surrounding Thailand experience persecution (not to mention some in Thailand). One lesson I am teaching is about praying for believer's around the world. I feel especially passionate about this lesson. Please pray that the kids will know the impact of their prayers around the world. Pray that as these children begin to intercede for the nations around them, that God will move powerfully, and that their faith will grow. Pray that as many, non Christians (including a few friends of mine, and our one student from English class and her family) come to church camp they will meet Jesus, and know the freedom that comes from relationship with him. Pray that this camp will have an eternal impact, and that it will be fun!

After we get back from church camp we will begin to plan a children's program for the MBMSI Thailand missionary retreat. All the MBMSI missionaries will be meeting for a four day retreat, and we are up for childcare. Pray that this will be a time of refreshment for the adults, and a time of fun for the kids. Pray that our team will have time to say our good byes to friends admist the planning.

And that brings us to our last week here- packing, wrapping up ministries, and final good byes (and probably a lot of tears). I appreciate so much your prayers for our team, as we go through this final stage of TREK.