Here's a video we made from today. It's for my job. We're trying to get people to sponsor these children in Thailand. The video has the traditional elements, including a rousing game of keep-away that nearly ends tragically. For me.
These children are the sweetest things. None have sponsors. They just opened these projects. Already, LOVE is changing people, bringing them to Jesus. Parents who are animist are seeing Jesus-folk give their kids hope, get them to school (first time ever, even for ten year olds here!) and the whole community is changing.
Of course, if you ask the government here, some of these children don't exist. And neither do their families. They have nothing, own nothing, and effectively, are nothing. They're too poor, too removed. They have no birth certificates, no citizenship, no meager government benefits. They are off the map, off the radar, uncool, unknown, and without meaning.
...and then there's God's economy, where they are kings and queens, princes and princesses. And this, friends, is why I love God.
