Caroling in Thailand

So what's Christmas like in Thailand? Well, we will be posting a couple of times about all we did and saw during Christmas this year. I wanted to take the first chance to tell you all about a really neat opportunity we had before Christmas. One of my classes had an assignment to do a number of things in celebration of Christmas, one of which was to go caroling. So they loaded up a sleigh (cart) with gifts and somebody dressed like "Santa", and we embarked on our quest. We walked all around the campus at Surin Rajabhat knocking on the doors of the faculty and singing them a couple of Christmas carols. Oh, and there were somewhere around 75-100 students doing this! Yikes, quite a group. Usually you go caroling with maybe 5-10 people... not here! It was a wonderful time though. I brought along my guitar and we sang song after song until our voices were petering out! We walked around and by barking dogs, packs of dogs, and dogs on patrol.



We went for quite awhile, until everybody was exhausted! But it was a great opportunity to see these kids singing the praise of Christ's coming to earth. Now, granted. Many of them sang without really understanding all of significance behind the virgin birth or the coming of the Messiah, but they certainly understood something. Jim and Kathi were able to be there as well, which was wonderful. So we all had a part in building yet more bridges to these college students. I thank the Lord that He has put us where we are, and look forward very much to what He will do in the future! Thank you all for praying so much, God is at work all over the world!