Chapter 2: Samut Songkhram

After a night of traveling, we made it from Phuket to Samut Songkhram. I stepped out of the van after my team, and while taking a look around, I accidentally swung my backpack and knocked a flower pot over, shattering it. Me, thinking about first impressions, started to think about how this would affect the relationship we had with our contact. But, we instead saw the hospitality and grace of God in the pastor and his family. 

A warm, older man came out, and dismissed the problem, insisting on showing us where we would be staying. All of the beds had bug-nets, the girls had air-conditioning, there were western toilets (hey, the small blessings count too), free coffee, were just a few of the ways the contact there blessed us.

Chapter 1: Phuket

After a few days in Bangkok, getting oriented to living in Thailand, we got onto a bus, and rode off to Phuket. It was exciting, riding through the night, finally about to get started with ministry. There we got connected to Pastor Joe and his church. We got the opportunity to serve the church through a number of different ways. One of the big ministry opportunities was to minister to a Burmese labor camp. Many people from Burma come to Thailand, being promised good pay, labor conditions, and other benefits. Often times, however, the pay is not as good as they were promised, and the conditions are terrible, in some cases the workers are not even allowed to leave the camp other than for work.

So, our team partnered with the church to worship, perform a skit about the