Well, last week we attended a retreat with our team in Chiang Rai. It was great to get to spend so much time with the people that we are going to . . .spend so much time with the next few years. The nationals here are very reserved and take a while to get to know, so I think the almost week that we spent at the retreat will go a long way towards furthering our relationships with them. It gave us all a chance to see each other in action, with our families, and in worship and prayer. . .etc. The Father is so good, and we are so excited to get to work with these nationals, and see what the Father is going to do through them, among His people.

It is interesting, the more I think about how we are supposed to be working ourselves out of a job here. I have begun feeling a little insufficient for the task. I feel as though I am not the most efficient tool that God could use here to reach these people of a different language and a different culture. That is why I am thinking we are so blessed to have a small base of people here who are already believers. This small group of nationals are the best tools the God can use to spread His word among the unreached peoples here.

Just for fun I thought I would include some note that I took at the retreat. You will have to forgive the sporadic nature of them. You see, the whole retreat was carried out in Thai. Us white folks are the minority on our team, and rightly so. So take a look at the notes if you have a second and you can get a glimpse of some nuggets I picked up during some of the translation. Here they are: