BridgeWorks Centre, Editorial: land rights, Pupe: Profile, Pon Jak Faa: Children’s Home, Team Visit
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Clearing-the-area!
The annual team from New Heights Church (Canada) have been visiting and enjoying playing and working with the childrens homes.
In the ground
Baan Berk Faa has been blessed with the team’s help in getting the construction of a simple pig pen started.
As well as this, the team have enthusiastically thrown themselves into everything – including playing in the muddy soccer tournament, cooking one of the meals for the Mother’s Day gathering, helping in the rice fields, and organising fun activities for the kids. Thanks for all your help, guys!
Digging holes for posts
12th August is the Queen’s Birthday, and also Mother’s Day in Thailand. The Childrens’ Homes love to celebrate this, of course; and this year was double the fun, with an extra public holiday declared by the Thai government, making 4 days in a row off school!. Thursday was a busy day, with youth and adults helping to prepare the BridgeWorks Centre for all the visitors. Some of the children cooked special cakes for the event – a mammoth effort which took all day! Some of the New Heights team (Canada) helped out with this – we ended up with very colourful and luscious cupcakes – enough for 200 people!
Muddy Soccer
On Friday morning, several Homes gathered at the Centre – the ones from out of town stayed overnight. Five Homes, the BridgeWorks Youth, a few more ring-ins, and the Canadian team all vied for the “BridgeWorks Cup” – a 2 day soccer tournament. Those who didn’t want to play soccer played in water, cooked food, took photos, played games, and generally had lots of good social time and fellowship together. Torrential rain in the days before the gathering had reduced the field to a muddy quagmire, but no-one seemed to care, even when it was getting hard to recognise who was who with all the mud everywhere!
Watching and waiting their turn
In the evening, a time of worship was followed by honouring all the Mums that were present, and then a fireworks display. The soccer continued the next morning, with New Life Home from ChiangDao taking home the Cup (and letting every-one know about it!) So much fun (and so much mud!). The Canada team had bought goodie bags for all the children and youth (how did they know they would need so many?), which finished off the day on a fun note.
Apart from all the mud, one of the memorable things at this gathering is the wonderful relationships growing between the children from the various homes, and the community spirit that is evident between the homes and leaders. (Oh, and did I mention the mud?)
BridgeWorks youth helping a Children’s Home (Baan Im Jai) during the process of building a new well recently.
They worked hard all day, learned a lot, blessed Baan Im Jai, and enjoyed themselves thoroughly!
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