Tuesday, 11 March 2014
2nd March

Attended the church’s Sunday service which starts the same time as WAC’s service on Sunday! They had a bible study session before that though at 9am. It was in Thai and I could roughly figure out what it was about with the little Thai vocal that I know. Something about prayer and worship.

Played guitar for worship as they had a lack of musicians for the church. Jeraldine played the bass.
We sang ‘Come, Now Is The Time to Worship’, ‘Our God’, 'There Is None Like You', 'Here I Am to Worship' and 'Still'.

On that day itself, another dude came to look at the songs that we are playing and joined in playing the drums just like that without practising with us the day before. Quite grateful for the percussion although he is not really good at knowing when not to play. Didn’t know how to correct him =\ . It was really interesting to play the worship songs in Thai. As the whole Thai congregation was singing the songs, I was singing them in English and it’s amazing how though we have different tongues, we are still praising and worshipping the same God at the same time. It’s just like what the Bible describes in Revelations 7:9 and I’m experiencing this in real life and this is just one of many other tongues that Earth has.

The sermon comes after that and it’s quite different in the sense that we had to rely on the translator to interpret what the sermon is about. We also shared with the congregation the video that Bynes made over the night on what we did in the school. Aunty Janette shared her testimony again and we sang Still in Thai for the congregation. Afterwards, we were given farewells gifts by the Pastor. Rice crackers with pork! The packaging was really nice heh.

Had lunch after the service after the chairs were removed. After being in Thailand for seven days, I really like and appreciate how we tend to sit in the long table style and have lots of food spread before us. Realised this is our last home cooked Thai meal and I really enjoyed the meal. There was this really good egg omelette, watermelon and non spicy tom yam soup.

After eating we had to rush to the airport and we got all our luggage ready. All of the Thai helpers wanted to come and see us off heh. Had our final goodbyes after checking in and the helpers presented us with farewell gifts as we entered the gate! Got a nice notepad and pen :D.

On the flight back, I was already missing Thailand and everything in it. From the serene countryside to the school, students, helpers, the people that we have met and the culture. Had quite a heavy heart as the plane took off. Funny how initially I was wishing the mission trip could be shorter as I was afraid but at that time I wished we could have stayed longer. Definitely did not regret choosing to come to Thailand. Hope I do get another opportunity to come back and by then hopefully I would have learnt Thai enough to converse!

#36: Again witnessing a glimpse of how 'every nation, tongue and tribe would bow down to Him’ would look like as the sermon and worship was conducted in a different tongue but is about the same God.
#37: For the farewell gifts that we got
#38: For the safe flight back to Singapore