Answered Prayers

Hi everyone out there...I have a few things to share today that I hope will encourage your hearts as they have mine.
Many of you have been praying for our neighbor friends (three little kids that PJ often plays with). Since we've moved into this house I've been asking these kids to come to Joy Kids with us on Saturday mornings. They always have some excuse and never seem interested. The Lord led me to ask Tang (one of our BBCS interns) to come here the other day for the sole purpose of getting these kids to Joy Kids...and she did it! We walked around on our soi (street) for two hours, talking to parents and four of our neighbor kids will be leaving with me in about two hours to attend Joy Kids for for the first time! This will likely be the first time they will hear the Gospel story. The Joy Kids teaching this term is on the miracles of Jesus. Please continue to pray for this important ministry and for our neighbor friends...for God to be at work in their hearts.

The other answer to prayer is the way in which God has sustained PJ this first week of school. Thank you to all of you who have been praying for him. The first two days went really well and then there was yesterday. He was fine in the morning and then just as we were to darken the door of his classroom, he clung to me and didn't want to go in. I told him, "It will be fun." He replied with, "I don't want to have fun at school." (that response made me chuckle to myself a little!) When we were about to enter the classroom, his teacher came out and said there was a mix-up and he was actually to be in another class, not hers. I was a bit annoyed, I will admit. But, I met the other teacher who is younger and FULL of energy. The first teacher took PJ into her class for a little while until he calmed down and then they moved him to the class he is really to be in. When I picked him up after lunch, he was smiling and happy. The other blessing is that the new teacher offered much more information to me in regards to how PJ did and was obviously very encouraging to PJ (and to me). So, keep praying! Thanks so much. He gets a weekend break (but we do have Joy Kids today) and then we start a full week on Monday. Fortunately, he does swimming on Monday and is really looking forward to it!