Ruthie and I just put 5 wonderful people on the plane back to Bangkok last night—an advance team of planners and videographers for the CHIC conference to be held this summer (this is a nation-wide gathering of high-schoolers from Covenant churches held every 3 years). We flew down to Bangkok, met them, and accompanied them to many sites around the city, then Chiang Rai, and Laos. Why CHIC? Because two of our Covenant ministries here in Thailand will be the subject of the CHIC project offering this year—our Mekong Valley Project and the Abundant Life Center in Bangkok (Karen and Carl Groot)—and these creative people are concerned that this offering be more than just another “missions moment” in the life of the CHIC week. Like us, they are concerned that young people catch a vision for the needs in the world around us and a conviction that God has “good works that he has prepared in advance for them to do” (Eph. 2:10)—a way that they can become involved in showing Christ’s love. Though we are tired, it was a great time of discussion, travel, visiting—the whole of which was very encouraging to us. Praise God. And please pray that this project will come together in the minds of planners and video-editors over the next months.
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