Thailand Trip Update

Hi All,
I am once again on a hotel computer. This time it is free with helpful tech support.

Our guide, Pastor Jeff Ehlers has packed our days full.
Last Sunday we attended Bible class and witnessed the daughter of teacher Goi Fischer as she became God's child in holy Baptism. We had a potluck at the church and enjoyed Thai food.
We went shopping in a covered market where I got some souvenirs. Then we went to see an upscale mall and toured the areas of the buildings burned during the riots last month.
On Monday we met with Dang, the head of Concordia Welfare and Education foundation, Thailand and had a great discussion on missions in the LCMS and how it works best. Wish the Mission leaders from St. Louis LCMS would have been there!!!! Then we ate lunch and took a river tour down the river that flows though Bangkok.
They to the Airport to fly to Chaingrai, in northern Thailand. by bus it would have been 12 hours.
We spent the night at a YMCA international hotel and at breakfast met Tim and Michelle Miller, missioneries in Thailand for the last 20 years. LCMS used information about them in their world mission for kids pages. It was an honor to meet them.
Then we went north about an hour stopping to tour the temple of the giant scoripian. Then back in the vans to the training seminar near the golden triangle. This Lutheran training seminar was attended by over 20 men and woman interested in learning more about the Lutheran faith and to become better church leaders. We gave some toothbrushes and pencils and crosses colored by our school children to many there. They were greatly encouraged that we would come from the US to say that we are praying for them.
They we went on a boat tour down the Mekong River where we had a short shopping stop over in Laos. You could buy pickled cobras in a bottle and opium pipes. I handed out crosses colored by the childern to the village children and they kept coming back for more, inviting their friends to also come. I can't wait until I am home to post pictures.

We flew back to Bangkok and got to our hotel at midnight. Today we tour the Bangna Slum and the daycare we serve there then it is back on the plane to go to Cambodia. We will tour the Ankor Wat (another in country flight) and see several Christian churches. I have seen so many temples (hundreds of them) that it will be refreshing to tour Christian churches!!!

I'll write again when we have internet. Thank you for your prayers. We are all healthy, considering our hetic pace. Can't wait to get home next Wednesday.

Thanks for your prayers, they mean more than you know!
Much love,
Dawn Mueller, CCCS Board Member