Well there have been a few rains in the last week and people are saying that the rainy season is here in which I'm pretty pumped because that means it should cools down. Also we can start quoting Forrest Gump now, "One day it started raining, and it didn't quit for four months. We been through every kind of rain there is. Little bitty stingin' rain... and big ol' fat rain. Rain that flew in sideways. And sometimes rain even seemed to come straight up from underneath. Shoot, it even rained at night...". But it does have it's downfalls, as in sometimes the ministries shut down because it is raining too much. Also it can turn into Typhoons which can bring major flooding and do a lot of property damaging. So it will be a lot different for me because I come from Ontario where natural disasters happen next to never.
The youth has been going really well. I have really stepped back and let the older youth of the Church take charge and they are doing a great job. The first Saturday I was back from my trip there was 20 youth that showed up to the event and some that I had not seen before. The event was held at our Church and it was organized really well. Very encouraging. This past Saturday we had a movie viewing at our Church and there was a good turn out again. We watched Blindside, which is a great movie.
Our children's feeding (ministry) is going really awesome as well. We had 75 kids come out on Saturday which is a all time high. It gets a little crazy but it's really sweet to see so many kids come. Then on Sunday we had almost 30 kids in our Sunday School class. Also with this I want to give a shout out to Stratford, Ontario for their one and only Justin Bieber because all of the kids here love singing his songs. Justin's songs are downloaded on everyone's cell phones and every is jamming to him right now. Pretty ridiculous if you ask me.
Back on the 17th we took a group of 15 kids to Tagaytay which is a beautiful area about an hour outside the city. Its great to get the kids outside the city for a break from the streets. It was a park like area with a beautiful view of a volcano. It also had horses in which we rented and let the kids ride them. They had a great time.
On Sunday we held a dinner for a cause at our Church that was a great success. There were about 50 people who came out to support. The fundraiser was for Youth Mobalization in which are planning 2 different missions trips. One is to help out a Church that is about 3 hours away in which we have a partnership with. I am planning on going with this one. It is happening at the end of July. The other one is at the end of October and they are planning on going to Cambodia.
Thanks for all your prayers. May God Bless you all.
Jared
Monday, May 31, 2010
Friday, May 14, 2010
A little Travel
A couple (Josh and Randi Dookhie) that I went to CMU with just finished teaching English in Bangkok, Thailand and wanted to travel before they go home to Winnipeg. So I joined them from April 27-May 13 and also my roommate (Chris Vines) from CMU and Josh's cousin Caleb flew in from Canada for this adventure.
So we stayed in Bangkok for a few days for Caleb and Chris to beat their Jet lag and for the Dookhie's to show us around a little. Bangkok is a lot like Manila where it is a clash of new and old culture. The new being mega malls and everything western and the old being the street markets and street vendors selling traditional dishes. After our Bangkok experience we took the over night train to Chang Mai. In Chang Mai we went to an Elephant sanctuary where you could pet, feed, and ride the elephants which was real awesome. Elephants are such an amazing creator. After that we went to a snake show which was ridiculous. They had, rat snakes, pythons, jumping snakes, cobras and king cobras. The king cobra was one of the scariest things I have ever seen. I love snakes but the things guys were doing with them was insane. Cobras are very poisonous and the trainers (I use that term loosely) would put their finger on the cobra's nose and then they upped the ante and kissed them on the face. We were sitting so close to them that I would say we were in some sort of danger. There are no safety regulations over here but I think I like it Better that way. Also for all those Rambo fans this snake place is where Rambo 4 was filmed. I feel that much closer to Stallone now and it feels pretty good.
After Chang Mai we trained back to Bangkok and took a bus to Siem Reap, Cambodia. From there we went to see Angkor Wat, at sunrise non-the-less. Angkor Wat are ruins/temples of a lost empire. They were built in the 12th century if I remember correctly. They are the most spectacular thing I have ever seen. I just can't understand how they built them with such little technology. After that we bussed down to Sounooke Ville, which is a small beach town down in the south. We stayed there 2 night there and then crossed the boarder again back into Thailand and went to the island of Koh Chang where we stayed for 3 nights. Then we bussed back to Bangkok where I flew back to Manila and the other 4 made there way down to Malaysia.
All in all it was an awesome trip. One of great refreshment and re-connection with old friends. Thanks for the prayers while I was gone. May God Bless you all.
Jared
So we stayed in Bangkok for a few days for Caleb and Chris to beat their Jet lag and for the Dookhie's to show us around a little. Bangkok is a lot like Manila where it is a clash of new and old culture. The new being mega malls and everything western and the old being the street markets and street vendors selling traditional dishes. After our Bangkok experience we took the over night train to Chang Mai. In Chang Mai we went to an Elephant sanctuary where you could pet, feed, and ride the elephants which was real awesome. Elephants are such an amazing creator. After that we went to a snake show which was ridiculous. They had, rat snakes, pythons, jumping snakes, cobras and king cobras. The king cobra was one of the scariest things I have ever seen. I love snakes but the things guys were doing with them was insane. Cobras are very poisonous and the trainers (I use that term loosely) would put their finger on the cobra's nose and then they upped the ante and kissed them on the face. We were sitting so close to them that I would say we were in some sort of danger. There are no safety regulations over here but I think I like it Better that way. Also for all those Rambo fans this snake place is where Rambo 4 was filmed. I feel that much closer to Stallone now and it feels pretty good.
After Chang Mai we trained back to Bangkok and took a bus to Siem Reap, Cambodia. From there we went to see Angkor Wat, at sunrise non-the-less. Angkor Wat are ruins/temples of a lost empire. They were built in the 12th century if I remember correctly. They are the most spectacular thing I have ever seen. I just can't understand how they built them with such little technology. After that we bussed down to Sounooke Ville, which is a small beach town down in the south. We stayed there 2 night there and then crossed the boarder again back into Thailand and went to the island of Koh Chang where we stayed for 3 nights. Then we bussed back to Bangkok where I flew back to Manila and the other 4 made there way down to Malaysia.
All in all it was an awesome trip. One of great refreshment and re-connection with old friends. Thanks for the prayers while I was gone. May God Bless you all.
Jared
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