3 Years

This week we celebrated living and working in Thailand for three years.  (I use the term celebrated loosely as Tim was in Australia at the ACC National Conference and it was work as usual for me)

 
Over the 3 years that we have been living and working in Thailand, we have had the privilege of being involved in many areas.... We have been involved in work amongst hill tribe people and amongst the city's youth.  We have been training national Thail Christian workers and youth music bands, just to name a few. We have also hosted visiting ministry teams from Australia and been blessed by numbers of short term volunteers who have come to work with us. Everything we have done has been done as a part of The River Team, an amazing team of National Thais and some Aussies that are working together to see the transformation of Thailand.

 But by far the area of work we are most passionate about is working with kids!  Kids club, kids sports programs, teaching in schools, concerts in schools.  What ever method possible to demonstrate the love of God to these amazing young people and see all areas of their lives transformed.

 

We have had the privilege of establishing programs in 10 of our local government schools.  We currently have some fantastic Thai workers  planted in 8 of these schools.  These workers are developing great relationships in their schools and working toward creative ways of planting cell groups in each school.  They are being requested by their schools to begin home visitation programs to visit and assist the families from the school community who are in need.

 We have also conducted a number of morals based concerts in schools These concerts use song, games, drama and a high level of interactive excitement to teach children valuable lessons such as: "you are valuable", "you should say no to drugs".  These concerts have impacted thousands of kids and their teachers.  They are always very popular! 

 Not only do we work with the students but we also train the teachers in teaching techniques and English skills.  The local office of the Education department is regularly requesting that we work in schools in an increasing measure.  The only thing holding us back from this incredible opportunity is a lack of workers.  The fields are truly white unto harvest, but the labours are few. 

Please pray with us that the Lord of the harvest would send more labourers into the fields.

The Perry Family in Northern Thailand 2011