FINAL WEEK

FINAL WEEK
One of Gary’s readers, Chu, and her husband took the four of us to the original capitol of Thailand. She wanted us to see it and also the temples where the Buddha are housed. Chu read for 25 hours! Chu asked for and was given a Thai Bible so she could read for herself.


We had our FAREWELL PARTY Friday evening. Several of our readers were there. There were about 80 there. We started with a devotional, ate together, saw pictures of our project, handed out certificates to our readers and then visited with those present.

SUNDAY- Today was the last time we will meet with the Church in Bangkok. It was a sad time as we said our final "Good By's". We have seen many of the members here everyday for the last six weeks. We have made a lot of good friends and hope to keep in touch with e-mails. Pern continues to attend every Sunday for worship. Pern wrote Tom and Helen a card thanking us for the "Friend you have given me, The most valued of my life. " We met with the "Follow Up" team and gave them our reader reports. We know that they will do a good job following up on the work we started. Continue to pray for our readers and the team as they reach out to them.

Our assignment is over in Bangkok. Our team will fly to Phuket tomorrow and go to Krabi for a few days of relaxing on the beach. We heard it was 16 below and snow in Minnesota. We are not ready for that! Thursday we will go to Phuket and stay until Sunday afternoon. The Church in Phuket is meeting together and having a dinner for us. It will be good to see the Christians we met when we were there two years ago. Monday we will fly home.

We feel good about our project. It was a very good experience. A big "ThankYou" to our supporters. We shared the "Good News" with 67 readers.

God Bless- Gary, Joanne, Tom, and Helen