Lopburi

Yesterday (Sunday 14th Dec) was our monthly trip to Lopburi, where we lead and preach in church, teach a Bible class, and Lookkaid now leads the children's group too.
(The pic shows some of the children's group giving us a Christmas song in church.)
We feel it's worth the 2 hour drive each way - there are usually 5 or 6 or 7 of us in the car, so that's fun too.
They made a bit of a fuss over us this time, because it is now 2 years since I first preached there. And it is also feeling good just now because the congregation has been growing over the past 2 or 3 months. Usually I'm the only non-Thai person present, but yesterday another (very new) missionary turned up - she's based in Lopburi.
I spoke about the Magi, Matthew 2. The chief priests and scribes knew their scriptures enough to answer the question, but it seems they were not provoked to go to Bethlehem themselves. Didn't believe the foreigners? Scared of Herod? Knew the scriptures but didn't really believe them?

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Hmmm ... this blog thing is STILL a new and strange experience!
I've been doing some "gardening" on this blog page ... got rid of a few weeds, put in a couple of new shrubs ... need to water it a bit more.

And some kind people have been asking how all the trouble in Bangkok has affected us. Really 99% of the people in Bangkok are just getting on with life as usual.
Amy had to spend 8 hours on the road each way, instead of one hour in the plane, to get to her work project in Chiang Mai this week. I had one taxi driver say he would not take me to a particular destination in Bangkok - he said it was because of "the mob", but it might have been because he wanted to go the opposite direction to get home for lunch - and the next taxi took me there quite happily.

Of course we are all talking about it a lot. Today is the day when, apparently, the protesters are vacating the airport(s ?).

Meanwhile I'd better get some work done on the Bible study (Exodus) for tonight.