Gayle's Ministry in Thailand

I zoomed in to a group of the ladies and then this group of men.

It was May 12, 2013 at 9:00a.m.  Words cannot do justice to the love I felt in my heart for the people of BYT, WaSueTah, GeGhah, MooDooKee, MeDaLaGwee, NeLaGwee, LaGlah, BlahGlow, KwiCo and others, as they streamed into the meeting hall.  All the preparations, and all the contortions, we had gone through leading up to this date was more than worth it! Here are the dear people that we had treated for so many different illnesses and injuries! Here are some whose lives have been saved.  Here are the ones who have fed us so many meals and given us so much rice.  Here come the dear ones from LaGlah, with smiling, radiant faces and nice clean clothes, so anxious to hear more about Jesus. Here are the little children that we had stitched up, cleaned up, given breathing treatments, taken to the hospital and given balloons!  Each one so precious with the sweetest smiles!

PERSONAL THOUGHTS:

I thought about all the answers to prayer and miracles leading up to this dedication day.  I thought about the day they let us drive over wet concrete to get our supplies home.  It was providential that an army truck full of important soldiers had just “happened” to be coming from the opposite direction at the very same time.  I thought about the day that God did not let the rain spoil our truckload of concrete, and later how God kept our truck full of concrete blocks from falling over the cliff when it slid in the rain. I thought about the day I had taken the truck in for repairs, thinking the four wheel drive had a problem, which it did not, but instead they found the steering mechanism underneath broken, and told me that at any minute it would go, and there would suddenly be no more steering!  I thought about the road we had just driven – sharp turns on steep, rutted descents.  I thought about how God had linked the hearts of the builders with ours.

From left to right: SawDaBee, OhNyo, BeJaw. Other builders came and went, but none of them were able to work as hard or for as long as these three!

One of them was particularly interested in our God, and even now they are coming! We were so happy to be together again!

I thought about the people in America that were praying for this occasion, my Mother, my Sister, Breck and you!!!The thought of this lifts my heart and gives me calm assurance. I thought of my agonizing prayers in the jungle as I poured my heart out to the Saviour asking God to prepare hearts ahead of time, for His words to be put in my mouth, and for His Spirit to be poured out.  I thought about the immense importance of this worship.  Never again would I be able to talk to all these people together at one time.  All our work so far had pointed to this specific day and I knew God wanted to do something big!   Oh these dear dear people, “May all see and know Your power and Your love today dear Lord.” I whispered, “This is the great longing that You have placed in my heart.  Oh please bring streams of brightness from heaven to dispel the darkness inside the hearts of these people.  I know it is Your will. I know You will do it!”  Gratefulness to God floods my heart that He had sent me here to this very place at this very time!!  What a privilege to work for God!  What a joy to see the different situations He puts you in so that you can glorify His name!!

THE STUDENT CHOIR:

Singing from the heart! That is the only way these dear students know how to do it! What a blessing!

Another miracle was in getting permission from the soldiers to transport the students from Sunshine Orchard all the way up to BYT. You can only understand this if you live on the Thailand border! If we couldn’t get permission in TAK province, we would not be able to take them.  Once again I felt the power from heaven as permission was granted.  The soldiers took photos, and the next day, Friday, three trucks transported the students in the choir along with the cook and many teachers.  Praise the Lord!  Because not only did they sing many beautiful songs with all their hearts, but they helped cook, serve the food, clean up and do anything and everything that needed to be done!  We would have been a disaster without them!

THE FOOD:

Meet MooDah, who is the Sunshine Orchard cook. She is an exceptional blessing to us this weekend!

Talking about the cook? Truly the cook was a prized possession!  She had ordered all the food, and we had taken it up to BYT ahead of time.  As soon as she arrived she got the students to lay the rocks down for the pots, find the firewood and start the fires.   She fed us every meal, and then on Sunday, May 12 she cooked a huge meal enough for 400 people.

Outside cooking is the only way to feed a big crowd and MooDah is a genious at it!

We had no idea how many would actually come. It turned out there were about 200 people not counting the students and teachers from Sunshine Orchard. After the worship service those students did something wonderful.  I had no idea how they would go about feeding all these people, it seemed impossible to me, however, they placed all the plates of rice in 2 long lines on the mats, then they put the different bowels of curry down the center.  People came and sat opposite each other in long lines.

Some of them were disappointed that there was no meat, but when they ate of the cook’s delicious vegetarian dishes they were delighted and couldn’t believe a meal without meat could taste so good!  There was lots of food left over, so we bagged up large quantities of curry and sent them home to every village.  The people were so delighted to take it.

HERE IT IS – FULLY DEDICATED TO THE LIVING GOD!

This building occupies the highest spot of the village.  A light on the hill to all who come for help!  We join our prayers with King Solomon,  “Lord God of Israel, there is no God like Thee in heaven above, or on earth beneath, who keepest covenant and mercy with Thy servants that walk before Thee with all their heart. …Moreover, concerning a stranger, that …cometh out of a far country for Thy name sake.  For they shall hear of thy great name, and of Thy strong hand and shall come and pray toward this house, hear Thou in heaven Thy dwelling place, and do according to all that the stranger calleth to Thee for, that all the people of the earth may know Thy name to fear Thee as do Thy people Isreal.”  1Kings 8:23, 41-43

Preston Meyers has videoed this entire dedication service and we will post it here on my web page as well as on their web page as soon as he has edited it!

PahCoo, a young monk, 16 years old, came to see us several days ago with a deep, jagged laceration on his left cheek.  It was certainly a mess. He said something about killing fish with his home made spear.  However he said the laceration was caused from glass.  The story did not fit together very well in my brain, but praise the Lord the jigsaw puzzle type laceration on his face did fit together really well!  I really enjoy doing “plastic surgery,” and getting the pieces together perfectly. Using many fine sutures close together is the key to little or no scarring.

(This paragraph does not explain the title of my story). . .so. . .here it comes!

After his wound was sutured and dressed, I told the young man that I wanted to pray for him.  He did not understand my Karen, so Anna, who was working with me that day, told him again that we wanted to pray for him.  I was kneeling reverently with my hands folded, so he could see how we position ourselves for prayer.  But PahCoo evidently had misunderstood our words, because, the next thing I knew, that young man had quickly gotten up off the floor.  His hands were raised in some sort of blessing and he was repeating a monks prayer in the monks special language!! (Which nobody else can understand)!  With horror I realized I was kneeling with my hands folded right at this monks feet!!!  If someone had taken a picture at that moment, no telling what people would think of me!  I left no time for pictures, however, because I instantly leaped up on my feet, saying “de may ba, de may ba!  Ya ga ba toe ga pa ler na gau na.”  Meaning, “No, No, I will pray for you!” This dear monk boy then copied us respectfully by knelling down and folding his hands while I prayed for him.

Our last day together

BletJaw and I were driving back from MeDooGlow with a load of concrete one day.  The early morning sun was beautiful as it lit up the different color leaves in the jungle, and in passing, you could even hear the beautiful songs of many birds.  I always try to see the birds that are behind those lovely solos.  They are beautiful!

BletJaw’s next words jolted me out of my serenity, and though they were spoken softly and gently, I felt them with reverberating loudness in my brain.  – “What are we going to do when Breck leaves?”

Oh no!  That was something I did not want to think about!   “I don’t know, I answered.  But God always knows how to take care of us.”  I thought about all the help Breck was with patient care, the restocking of medicine and supplies for our backpack trips, the worships, the hand stands and back flips, the miles and miles of driving and heavy work he had done for the building project.  I thought about the quiet consistent Christian that he is.  I could always depend on his positive, cheerful, 100% support in all that I was involved in.  I thought about his ability to counsel and advise others, his overwhelming love for the people and the work here.  I thought about how we laughed together over many funny things that happened, for example, when I bit into a bar of soap someone gave me, thinking it was a sweet orange treat!

Now, tonight, the first night in BYT without Breck, I sit under my mosquito net wondering with amazement how our human brains work.  Why is it that everything was fine before Breck ever got here, but now, after working with Breck these last 7 1/2 months, it is NOT fine anymore here without him?  My eyes are filled with tears right now, and my heart hurts.  I hurt for him as well because it seems so much harder to be the one leaving.

Anybody looking on when the three of us said our final good-byes would not understand the weeping that took place.  We miss Breck more than we can explain.  There is a big empty hole everywhere we look.  We are not the only ones who feel this way.  There are many young little boys and older bigger boys all over the place that feel so very sad also.

One thing is absolutely clear to me, whenever I feel a loss and my heart aches, God ALWAYS gives me more love for others.  “Nothing is too hard for the Lord.”  He alone can fill the empty holes in my heart with His own lovely presence, and with the loss, He gives me a deep yearning for the time we will never part again and bright hope for the future life with Jesus.  May all those boys that Breck has witnessed to and who are missing him now, find the love of Jesus and the same joyful hope for the future is my prayer.

Standing on your head class. Though they were not too good at this, they sure were good at laughing!

None of us know what God has in store for Breck’s future, but one thing we do know for sure, wherever he is sent, he will give his whole heart, and bring untold blessings to those he works with.  —but— BletJaw and I can’t help but pray, “If it is Your will, dear Lord, send Breck back here to work with us.” still again we add, “We only want Thy perfect will alone to be done in all things dear Lord.”

Breck, you are still a part of the team here.  We value your ideas and need you to share our experiences.  We miss you so much and we will always love you!

BletJaw and Gayle

The building has now been completed, with the exception of many touch up jobs to the paint and floors.  Our next step is a dedication service!  The date is May 12, Sunday morning at 9:00 a.m.  It is a busy time because the area around the building is more than a mess!  We spent most of our time today, cleaning it up.  Truck loads of paper, cardboard, scrap wood, cement, roofing tile and ceiling pieces were hauled out of here. Tomorrow BletJaw and I will take the motorbike out to all the villages to invite the people personally.

The reason we are going ahead with this service right away is, number one:  Time is short!  Jesus is coming!  If we wait until after the rainy season that is 4 1/2 months away.  Some may die before than.  Also we want to dedicate everything to God before any patients walk through the door. We know this is the day that the Lord prepared for us to do it because He has sped up the builders and made the way smooth for us in many ways.

We need your prayers just now in a huge way!  Just 6 more days until May 12!  To us it seems that God is telling us that all of our work here the last 3 years has been preparatory for this day!!  We have invited all the villages that we have worked in, approximately 10-12.  Many of these people do not know God.  On this day I will tell them about God, simply yet I know God will make it profound for them.  I will interest them in the precious Bible and offer all who can read and want a Bible to come and we will write their name and village so we can bring it too them as soon as we can get them.  Also if they cannot read, but would like an audio Bible we will try to get one for them as soon as possible!!  Oh how my heart yearns for the power of God to speak to these people on this special day.  They must know that there is Someone who loves them more than I do!  Someone who worked miracles to bring this building to completion, just for them.  Someone who wants to take them all home with Him forever.

Pastor Phamor, our pastor and other pastors will be here.  Two choirs from Sunshine Orchard will be here, (God willing), and there will be food for everyone!!  Also the entire program will be videoed by Preston Meyer.  There is much to do, we are quite busy.

Oh please please pray earnestly for God’s Holy Spirit to be poured out upon these people, drawing their hearts out after the living God!           May 12!

Thank you so much

Do we really appreciate the privilege of prayer?!   More and more lately, the whole beautiful plan of Jesus meeting us with open arms right out of the most Holy place in heaven yearning to separate us from our many burdens of sin, hits me with unsurpassed joy.  Just to think about the door always being open and my Saviour always longing for my time and companionship is too good to be true!  Yet it is more than true!  We come to Him day by day with our burdens and He goes with us through that day without those burdens!  My total life is just hanging upon prayers.

I look around me here in the jungles of Thailand I see hundreds of people who do not even know the name of Jesus.  They are without a burden bearer.  They are hopeless and overcome by their problems.  I have an enormous responsibility to help them all!

Many times here when we pray with patients, they do not know what that is all about.  They search our faces and our posture to find out how to do it.  We see them study our folded hands and then with difficulty form their own hands in the same position.  Each time this happens my heart is filled with a deep sense of responsibility to these dear people to tell them about the One and only true God that we love so much and serve each day.  Perhaps our short time together can leave a lasting impression upon their dear hearts as they go home and receive healing from the Great Physician that they just heard about for the very first time.

Today we saw a man and wife and their small girl.  They are from PaThaMooTah village some distance away.  After their treatment we told them that we would like to pray to the great God in heaven, and ask Him to heal and help them.  Once again I got that aching feeling in my chest because I knew they had no idea what we were talking about.  The man looked up at the sky from our porch, wondering how someone could live up there.  We explained that this is the only true God, He made the trees, grass and flowers and everything around us.  He made us, therefore He loves us more than we can love our families even.  He is the only One who brings health and healing.  With this we bowed our heads and folded our hands.  The father looked real worried and quickly folded his fingers together like we were doing.  Then he noticed his little girl did not fold her fingers and he quickly pushed each of her fingers in the right position, then he concentrated on how to do his again.   This was a magical moment for me as I prayed for these dear people asking that God would reveal himself to them that day and every day.

Please help me pray earnestly for these people.   Pray also that God will help you be willing to go anywhere He sends you, so more people like this can be told the saving gospel story!   Because. . .

“How shall they believe in Him of whom they have not heard?”   Romans 10:14

We visited MoPo and his wife, JaHe twice. We had rushed her to the hospital 2 months ago for emergency surgery. She has just returned home so fortunate to be alive. Her husband is so thankful that we had saved her life and so happy to have her back. Anna enjoyed talking with them.

Anna is 15 years old.  This week she volunteered to come and interpret for me while Blet Jaw was off!  She has a most incredible talent from God to understand and speak the Karen language .  She was willing to interpret my prayers, worships and sermons, even though she had never done that before!  Breck and I were ecstatic.  Without her we would not be able to come to BYT this week at all because our Karen language skills are not good.

The following incidents are solid proof that the Lord sent her to us this week, so that we could meet the emergencies.

1. Jah Cher, an eleven year old female from WahSueTah had a severe allergic reaction to some type insect bite on her foot.  Her face was swollen, she had a rash, her breathing was labored –chest heavy and she was not able to talk. Without immediate intervention, she could have turned anaphylactic.
2. Jah Dah, a 38 year old male came from a distant village with a badly infected foot.  He had punctured it with a rusty nail 2 days ago!  He had a high fever and was heading for real trouble! He was able to get an incision and drainage with irrigation and wick, Antibiotics, and a Tetanus Toxoid injection.
3. Three villages were visited and scores of patients treated.  One of those was LaGlah, where eager people sat and listened about God!  (See story: “The Presence of Jesus”).
4. The FIRE coming to DJ’s house, changed directions because of prayer and the village saw the power of God!  (See story: FIRE! FIRE!)
5. She interpreted our prayers with every single patient.  She interpreted a worship for Breck this Sabbath morning.  She interpreted my sermon today, and of course all the communications with the patients and the builders.

In addition to this, Anna cooked every meal!  What a good Karen cook she is!  She puts ‘love’ into every meal!  She also made quick friends with all the young girls of BYT.  Everywhere we went people kept saying, “She speaks better Karen than I do!”

Thank you Anna for a tremendous job!  God is with you! He has given you talent.  Please continue in His work!

I was on my way up the mountain to make a phone call when I came to DJ’s house.  I stopped dead in my tracks, because fire was just the other side of his house and he was trying to wet the thatch part of his roof with a tiny trickle of water from a plastic tube.  (This time of year we run out of gravity fed water).  DJ told me he was very frightened because someone had cleared the jungle trees for their new rice field too close to his house.  March is the month each year when they burn.  The wind was blowing in the wrong direction and the flames were leaping up into the air with a dreadful noise and coming closer by the second.  Bamboo is very loud when it burns because the air filled sections in the bamboo explodes loudly.  Quickly I ran back to our house to call Anna and Breck so we could pray together. Already the flames were making a mad dash straight for the house, driven on by an unusual heavy breeze.  As we fell on our knees in the grass by his house I pleaded with God to change the wind and save DJ’s house.  DJ loves the Lord, keeps His commandments and often does the worships and prayers in church and other homes – surely God would save his house.

Then the miracle happened!  It was just moments after our prayer the wind changed!  The fire switched directions and went roaring up the mountain side, leaving a tiny line of flames just behind DJ’s banana trees.

He was able to beat those flames out with leaf covered tree branches.  The devil was not happy, so he caused the flames to circle and come in on the other side 30 minutes later.  However, as it came close to DJ’s banana trees it stopped.  Consequently DJ’s house, his banana orchard and his pineapple plants were preserved.  Now we can see a burnt area forming a semi circle around his property, proof of God’s protecting power!  DJ expressed gratitude to God and for our prayers that were answered so incredibly that day!

“TharaMu,” (Karen word for teacher), DJ said to me, “Thank you!  God made sure you were here today, so you could pray for me, and save my house!  God answered you right away!”

Praise the Lord!!  He works these miracles to prove to the people here that He alone is God!!  He is in charge of the wind and the flames.

“Often there will come to us a sweet, joyful sense of the presence of Jesus.” (Heart Communion with God, Chapter 8).

You notice the quote says, “Often!”  It surely happened again today!  We had just come back to BYT from MaeSalit, and planned to visit 2 villages by truck the next day.  We had packed the medicine already because we had met some sick people in these villages on our way in. However DJ, our neighbor told us that LaGlah village needed us.  They had come to BYT twice already looking for us.  They greatly desired that we do a worship with them because their children would go off to school the next day.  Could we come and pray for them.  Of course we would!  Early the next morning before the sun was up we began walking.

I wish you could have joined us in the worship at DeHtu’s house!  They fed us lots of food – their best, and then called in the neighbors.  My favorite thing in the whole world is to sit in the midst of those who do not know Jesus but are hungering and thirsting for a knowledge of Him – eager to hear the truths of the Bible!  This time I told about Jesus blessing the children, and Jesus tender love and care for every detail of our lives.  A picture roll had the perfect picture to show.  Bible verses were read, songs were sung and prayers were said.  They long for our presence with them in their village to teach them and show them the way to live for Jesus.  They want to learn so they can be baptized and worship God the way we do!  A deep sense of the presence of Jesus thrills my soul today!

 ”For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.  How than shall they call on Him in whom they have not believed?  And how shall they believe in Him of whom they have not heard?  And how shall they hear without a preacher?  And how shall they preach accept they be sent?”  Romans 10:13-15

1. Breck and I went to MeDooGlow to buy cement.  We returned with a very heavy load.  Halfway home a shocking thunderstorm hit us with heavy rain!  I say shocking because it never rains here during this portion of the dry season.  We were so thankful that we were not carrying bags of cement or other destructible things.  But alas the roads became instantly muddy, and when even a slight downhill portion of the road was entered, the heavy load was in charge!  The back of the truck swung wildly to the left when turning right and to the right when turning left.  Breck was driving and doing a great job of controlling these out of control slides!  Finally we came across the dreaded downhill switchback!  I know Breck could describe it better than I can.  Suffice it to say he calls it the corner of terror and the tire tracks tell the wild tale!  They zigzag all over the place including just 6 inches from the precipice!  We praise the Lord that he sent His angel to have charge over us to keep us in all our ways.
2. The builder cut his left thumb deeply while pushing a chisel again some wood.  After I sewed it up he went immediately back to work!  In spite of all his manual labor, it healed up nicely.  This experience also helped the builder be more friendly to me.  We talk easily now.
3. We have saved a huge amount of money by hauling in all the supplies ourselves.  God has blessed our truck and travels. It is not a heavy duty truck with a big engine, but we have driven for hours and hours day after day!  BletJaw has done most of the driving.  He prays constantly, and God is with him!  Sometimes the loads are so heavy that the springs, (All 6 of them on each side) are flat and turning downward, but up the 20% rocky, thick dust covered grades it goes. Our cargo is sometimes fragile, but always tied down as well as possible.  The load always arrives in good condition.  Only a few cement blocks have broken.
4. The truck has broken down several times.  Each time it is incredible how the Lord delivers us.  Always we are near a place where we can get it fixed.  If it happened in BYT there would be no way to bring in tools and a mechanic!
5. One day 20 bags of cement were needed stat.   BletJaw and I drove to MeDooGlow, loaded up and came about one third of the way home when a dreadful unusual downpour of rain came!   It beat down upon the cement bags for quite a long time.  Our hearts were heavy. We had no plastic to cover the load.  We prayed that God would somehow save the cement, but I knew that it was of utmost importance that the bags stay dry.  The other bags we had purchased were stored under the house with a tarp over top to guard against the dampness of the night air.  How then could this load possibly be saved?  It was even more catastrophic because it was Friday and no one was going to work on the Sabbath day.  The cement would have to wait until Sunday morning!  We prayed about it during that Sabbath.  Praise the Lord, Sunday morning found only one bag that could not be used!

DEDICATION

The builder tells us that he may be completed in just 2 weeks!

If it is God’s will, I plan to have a large dedication service!!  I will invite all the surrounding villages, the builders, the Sunshine Orchard school choir along with teachers and other students, and anyone else who wishes to come!

1. I want to dedicate this building to God and ask Him to direct all the people who ever enter its doors, that they may receive a blessing and the physical, mental and spiritual help that they need.
2. I want to talk and not keep silent about God and His love for them in giving this building to meet their needs.  I want to introduce them to Jesus the One and Only Living God, and the truth of His Word.  I want to Interest them in the Bible, and offer them Bibles in their own language.  If they cannot read and still desire God’s word I will order them an audio Bible.
3. I want the students to sing their finest songs.
4. I want to invite the people to classes here so they can learn how to be well and stay well!  Also how to treat various sicknesses in their homes.
5. I want all the people living in BYT to cook food so everyone can be fed.
6. I want to show them through the building and make them feel at home so they know it is for them and they can come even when they are not sick. I want to give the children balloons.
7. I want them to know that we are here to help them quit the habits of smoking, drinking, opium, or betel nut if they so desire – please come!
8.  I want to show slides of all the people we have taken pictures of in all the villages and of the builders.

I want to praise the Lord as long as He lendeth me breath!

Once again I am lost for words to describe the incredible working of an awesome God!

Side view

It is so true that you can never out-give the Lord.  You give all your time, you give all your money, you give all your talent, you give all your energy, you give all your thoughts, you give all your love, and oh joy of all joys – more comes back to you!!!  True, these things that you are giving are your all, but they are so small and puny compared to what the dear Saviour gives back!  “Oh taste and see that the Lord is good!”  Psalm 34:8

This building project began in my mind almost 3 years ago.  I had no money, but I thought I could someday have a very small and simple room to treat the sick in, because it is not good to treat the patients in the center of your house.  Later I thought this room could be a separate building with perhaps 2 rooms.   Now we have a blueprint for a house and clinic built together to save space on the mountainside, but with 2 bedrooms in the house and 3 rooms in the clinic.  Still it really seemed impossible to do, because of the tremendous cost involved to build in such a remote area.  Builders don’t want to go that far out and materials are so hard to bring in.  I knew it would have to be plain and done as cheaply as possible.  However, I gave it all to God and said, “Oh dear Lord, make this building however You want to, because it must glorify Your name!”

Today I stand and gaze at the building as it develops into something most beautiful!  I ponder the events leading into the purchase of all the materials. In my mind I have not a shadow of a doubt that God is glorifying His name here!

1. At first we had an architect draw up plans for 2 separate buildings.  This blueprint stated that the labor cost was 659,000 baht for the house and 450,000 baht for the clinic.  That is 10,059,000 total, not counting the materials!  This was definitely too much money.  Two other builders would not come because it is too far away and there was no cell phone service or electricity here.  We changed the plans many times and kept looking for a builder.  We cried out to God because we did not know what to do.   It seemed that at such times a hand just guided us through the difficulties and found a builder for us.  He only charged us 80,000 baht to do this large building!  We have fallen in love with him and his 3 helpers.  They work very hard, and take pride in their work.  Praise the Lord with us!!

1. MeDooGlow is the town closest to us on the east side.  The building supplies are a little more expensive, but it is worth it not to travel so far and so steep on the other side.  Consequently we ordered our roofing tiles there.  The tile that came in was a horrible green color, the worst I ever saw!  We told them that we had asked for the turquoise/teal color.  They ordered again and found out Chiang Mai did not have it.  They got it from Bangkok, and when it arrived we discovered that it is the very best quality and most striking color!  Praise the Lord!
2. The builder told us that if we did the roof the way we drew it, – plain and straight, it would look like a warehouse and wouldn’t look good.  He had his own ideas and built us an incredible roof!  I have not seen another roof like it.  It is beautiful.  More praises to God!
3. The builder asked us if we wanted a ceiling and we told him “no” because we thought it was too expensive to buy and for him to put in.  He told us that the fiber kind is simple, and just has to be hung with metal brackets and he could do it quite easily.  OK, we went to Meta on the west side for other things and ordered the ceiling that the builder recommended.  When it came in, wonder of wonders it was very good quality, fancy, and so beautiful!  Praise the Lord  with a loud voice!
4. We went to MaeSot for floor tile.  Secretly this was what excited me the most – picking out floor tile!   We found the prettiest one.  Shiny, with a little bit of turquoise in it to match the roof.  Our hearts were set on it.  Come to find out that ended up being the only one that this store could not order!  We went to another tile shop and there found a tile even more lovely than that one and it was cheaper, but higher quality!  Our hearts sing praises to God!
5. We planned a very small bathroom, but ended up with 2 bathrooms.  One for patients and one for us.  The tile for these bathrooms is too beautiful to explain to you.  You just must come and see for yourself.  Praise the Lord a note higher!!
6. There are dangers in this area that I am not allowed to even mention.  God has protected!  Thank you dear Lord, so much!

I could go on about everything else, like the windows, doors and counters, but it is all too good for words.  I feel a sense of God’s presence during this building phase. Thankfulness, peace and joy fill my soul. Truly God’s name will be glorified.  His gospel story will be told.  His healing works performed as His perfect will directs. What thrills me the most about how God has taken control of this whole thing, is that it proves He has great plans to reach these people and show them His love!  I can feel the love He has for them!  His work is always a success!

With Solomon, on our knees we cry out:  “Oh Lord God of Israel, there is no God like Thee in the heaven, nor in the earth, which keepest covenant, and showest mercy unto thy servants, that walk before Thee with all their hearts.” 2Chronicles 6:14