Week in Review
Stuff sometimes happens here faster than we can think. Some highlights this week:
Spent time with 6 aimless teenagers, age 17-19; jobless, penniless. One finished only 3rd grade; none has a sense of direction for the future. We see this commonly here.
Welcomed "Noi", a 13 year-old girl into our home, with Kay as her mentor. Noi quit school halfway through 7th grade because she said teachers were giving her too much homework. For the last several months she has been hanging out with friends, including a boyfriend in his 20's. Thursday Kay took her to the doctor to be treated for an STD.
Had lunch with "Beau", a 22 year-old who has been in the sex industry for several years. Ae had just come from getting a passport picture taken, and said she was hoping to leave for England in just a few days. According to our students who brought her, the passport Ae is getting is fake, and as I suspected, she is not in fact going as a tourist but will be working as a prostitute. We're working on seeing if we can find out enough details about her, especially her fake passport name, to alert the British embassy before she goes there for her visa next week.
Called Prang, our former student now in her home village in Buriram, 6 hours northeast. She's pretty much on her own, and I apologized for still not getting up there to visit. Prang told me that since she has become a Christian, 35 adults in her village have as well. She told me she could lead more to the Lord, but wouldn't know what to do with them all.
Spent several hours with Sandy Wisdom Martin and Gail Hallman, state leaders of the Southern Baptist Women's Missionary Union in Illinois and Pennsylvania, brainstorming and discussing possibilities for the WMU to bring their Christian Women's Job Corp initiative to Thailand.
Met with a couple of Thai women working on starting a school.
Made 2 pickup/dropoff trips to the airport.
Met with the Christian owner of a sewing factory here, explaining The Well and some of our thoughts for business development to provide economic alternatives to prostitution.
Explained Jesus to the cousin of one of our newer members at The Well. I'm not overly quick to invite Thai people to receive Jesus, but Ae, a 30 year-old college student, seemed to be ready. I sent him home with a Bible and a VCD, and he agreed to visit our home for "church" on Sunday.
Did a quick outreach at Soi Cowboy. Talked with Ann and Nok, 2 street freelancers in front of the Robinson's department store, about going out to dinner for Ann's birthday on Monday.
Worked with Jason Bowman on a logo for Narimon, the brand we're developing to market jewelry and clothing accessories in the West.
Got further behind on a whole bunch of other stuff.
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