HERE IS AN UPDATE FROM KAREN ON HER THAILAND MISSION TRIP:
Hello all,
I just wanted to send a quick update to let you know how it is going here in Thailand. We are very busy. It's amazing all we pack into one day. It's about 9:15pm on Sunday and we just finished making 100 peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. We will be taking them to a couple of jails tomorrow morning. We served the jails last Friday and it was crazy. There were CHILDREN in the jail with their mothers. The men and women are given watered down rice twice a day and nothing else. We give them a sandwich, piece of fruit, water and some toiletries. They are very thankful. Seeing the children really broke my heart. We also spent some time at and HIV hospice today - what an experience.
We were able to spend some time yesterday at the Orphanage. We held and prayed over the babies. This was good for me since I really miss my boys.
We have spent the majority of our time working with the Tamar Center. This is an incredible ministry that works with women. The majority of the women previously worked as bar girls (prostitutes). The Tamar Center offers free English classes - this gets the girls to come to the center. The Tamar Center has a card shop, bakery, and salon. Training programs are available to the girls that want to get out of the bars. They are trained in the various areas so they can either work at the Tamar Center or take their newly learned skills and return to their villages and open their own business. They are also introduced to the love of Jesus. Hearing the testimonies of the women has changed me forever!
Thank you all for your prayers. Please continue to pray for us. There is a lot of wonderful things happening here but there is still a lot of darkness and evil and many many deeply hurt people that have no hope.
We leave tomorrow (Monday) and head for (location witheld). Please pray for our safe travel.
In HIS grip,
Karen
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