"Children's Village"

Monday I had a really cool opportunity to go spend the day at a children's village in western Thailand. It is a massive compound including a school, residences, auditorium, soccer field, gardens, and swimming area. The village serves as a home for children who are orphaned, abused, and abandoned by their parents.


We went there to serve lunch for the kids. In the above picture the kids are starting to line up for food.


Serving a gigantic heaping of noodles are left to right myself, Poo, Lin, and Walai. We dished out noodle soup to all 155 kids. Poo has been coming here to serve the kids once a month for 15 years! Now I can understand why.

After lunch we got to tour the grounds and discuss with the director of the facility. The children study in a classroom in the mornings, and then they learn practical skills in the afternoon. The compound includes animals, fish ponds, vegetable gardens, a bakery, pottery studio, weaving looms and much more. The kids who graduate go into regular life with job skills and a great education.


Whenever you get hungry you can just go out and pick some food. The whole place is self-sufficient. They even pump and filter their own water supply from the river.


And the riverside is beautiful. They have a huge dock and cool, crystal clear water to swim in.


It was nice to get some fresh country air and see some pretty scenery.


No one told me to bring a swimsuit! Oh well, it was nice to see the kids having so much fun.

Pray for this place and the children. In Thai it is called "Moo-baan-dek." It is not a Christian organization, but they are open to having Christians come and teach and want the kids to have exposure to different beliefs and choose for themselves what to believe. That kind of openness is rare among secular organizations like this. Perhaps the church can come and do a camp here sometime.

Also, pray for me. I will be gone all next week (28th-5th). We are going to Northern Thailand to participate in a seminar at a seminary and visit some friends and ministries up north. I'll have some pictures from that trip when we get back.