HIGHVIEW'S NEXT VISIT TO HOT SPRINGSMay 2 to 19, 2010
Ruth Anne:
I can hardly believe it. But with the itinerary right in front of me, it has to be true. I'm going back to Thailand!
Megan's coming this time. I LOVE it when our young adults get excited about Regions Beyond. And I think Megan will be perfect for this happy assignment - spending time with our Thai family, bringing packets from their individuals sponsors, games and crafts to do while we're there, speaking English to improve their language skills, learning Thai to improve ours.
Except, I already know that's just what we're saying is the reason we're going. Those are our reasons. God very likely, almost guaranteed, has different reasons entirely. I know this, because this is my fourth time, and every time He's faithfully, sometime painfully, always beautifully let His reasons happen in me.
We can talk about a shopping trip with the kids, and how we're raising funds to take them out to the "big store" to buy something to wear, something to play with and something to eat.
We can talk about the new truck, already purchased, but still needing our help to pay off, and the way those funds are coming in too, steadily.
We can talk about our encouragement to them, our half-way-around-the-world adopted family, and how when we visit them it's like Grammas or Uncles or Big Sisters coming for 'summer' holidays, to go on trips, and just hang out, and to share all the loving our small Southwestern Ontario church can send with us all the way to Southeast Asia.
We can talk about all that. And they are fine, fine reasons to book tickets to the other side of the planet.
But the truth is, God is already making ready His lavish gifts to Megan and I, and by proxy to Highview, because we'll be there.
This never seems right to me. Except when I take out the arrogance and insert the humble understanding of all Suradet and Yupa and 15 beautiful orphans have to offer us. They are over the top rich in resources of faith and love and inspiration and prayer and encouragement and energy, and they generously share this with us, all the time.
And they can't wait for us to visit. They send pictures and emails (in ever increasingly understandable English!) to tell us so. To bless us. To let us know they are praying for us.
And I can't wait to get there.
Megan, we are in for an adventure!!!!!
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Want to contribute?
You can help support the funds of the trip.
You can donate to the truck fund.
You can donate to the shopping trip.
Please contact our church office at highview@buildingbiggerhearts.ca. Donations over $10 are tax receipted.
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Hot Springs Orphan home is a ministry of Asia's Hope.
