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Missions Seminar and Bangkok

Tony and I ministered in the Missions Weekend at Hope of Glory Church. Pas Khor and his wife, Chin Nee has become good friends over the years since our return to Malaysia.  They are such encouraging and affirming friends and we were so blessed to speak in their missions conference.
I spoke twice on Saturday and Tony ministered in the evening service and both services on Sunday. It is so encouraging and inspiring to see the congregation response at the altar.




We had to leave immediately after the second service on Sunday to get to the airport to Bangkok. Tony had to be at meetings the next day. It was great that it was a Sunday and traffic was great. We made it in good time to airport and on the way to Bangkok. Tony had not been to Bangkok for more than 20 years! I was there 5 years ago but lots has changed since then.

Tony will be speaking in a pastors conference next year in June in Bangkok and he joined the planning committee in checking out the facitilies and figuring out the logistics. It was an awesome facility with the capacity to host 5000 participants. Looks like lots of work for the committee. They had free starbucks coffee :)


  Bangkok is such huge city...even much bigger than Kuala Lumpur. Our hotel, arranged by the organiser, was in the heart of the downtown Bangkok aka shopping paradise :) There was this huge mall right across the street from our hotel.


There was a car show and here is Tony pretending that the Mercedes was his .... we can dream, can't we?


 Sorry for the poor lighting but I wanted to show you the streetfood. We love streetfood...durian, pad thai, mango and sticky rice, grilled sausages, roast meat.....


Interesting grafiti


Food trucks!! How much fun is this??!


We managed to meet Dustin and Natalie for lunch on our last day in Bangkok. They are missionaries in Thailand. We knew them when their parents, Debbie and David were in Kenya. There were kids then and now they are parents to 4 kids incuding a teenager! How time flies! It was so good to reconnect with them in their neck of the woods.

 Tony and I parted ways at the airport as he was continuing trip to Chiangrai for ministry; while I fly home. The Don Muang airpot i.e. the budget airport is pretty boring, not like the main one. There wasn't much to see but I was estatic when I saw Black Canyon...they have awesome coffee. What a great end to my trip!  I apologise for the blurry picture...was too excited:)


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