The Mays’ Weblog

Hello everyone and Happy Christmas to all of you!

We want to share with all of you some of what God is doing here over this season for you to be part of it with us.

Jacob has a fantastic teacher this year who is very creative but more importantly has really encouraged the class in reaching out to the community this Christmas. She has taken a group of 8 volunteers (Jacob being one of them) and put together a dramatised version of the Christmas story, right round to Easter.

They have been around several small Thai churches and it has been a privilege to share in their Christmas celebrations. One church was just 17 people mainly youth and young people, run by Korean missionaries. It was in a cosy school hut where some of the teachers actually slept there in beds at the back of the hall. The leaders gave out gifts to every one who participated. The gifts were Tupperware boxes (empty) but the joy with which even children received them was quite amazing. Jacob’s group did an excellent job and were a great blessing to them.

Later this week they performed the drama and dance a couple of times at a Thai Buddhist school. It was the first time they had heard the real story of Christmas and about Jesus. This was such a wonderful opportunity and they wanted to hear it again so they did it twice! We gave out gospels and sweets afterwards.

Please pray that the seeds sown will not be snatched away but will produce a harvest in those children’s lives. This drama group are going to go away for a weekend at the beginning of January to tell the Christmas story at some remote villages north of here (you can only get to them in a 4-wheel drive vehicle).

The group of children doing this are all from different countries: USA, UK, Cambodia, Korea, Thailand, and France. All their parents are doing missionary work around SE Asia. It is so great to have people from all round the world working together to bring the gospel to this continent.

At this time of year many people become Christians in Thailand and in many locations around the country government officials are asking for Christians to put on Christmas events.

There is a 35-day prayer focus all round the country amongst the Christian community running up to Christmas. If you would like to be part of this click here ( or use the link on the right.)

Jenny and Adrian have been busy working with Ban San Faan children’s home putting on Hosanna Rock. See their blog for more details but we are just so grateful to God for opening up the opportunity for them to perform the show at the big shopping Mall on the 23th and 24rd of December to 2000 children. The door is wide open here, like I said before, and many people are interested in Christianity this time of the year so please pray for this event too.

We had 4 of the orphans stay at our house this weekend, as they are moving, and needed to be out the way. We had a lovely time with them. They are such wonderful children and our children loved having them round. They wanted sandwiches for tea as this is a rare thing for them. There were some strange combinations, pancake with tuna and jam, peanut butter and Marmite (yuk) and even a bread-free sandwich made of two slices of ham with strawberry jam in the middle.

We took one of them to the dentist and 2 of them to the opticians and got them glasses to their delight!

We are planning to take some Christmas gifts and food up to the orphanage on the border just before Christmas with the Olivers and then we will spend Christmas with the Wongs in Bangkok.

We want to take this opportunity to just thank you all so much at Arun for praying for us, keeping in touch with us, encouraging us, supporting us and loving us. We always still miss you, but especially this time of year. You are our wonderful family and friends.

We hope you all have a fantastic Christmas (and that the Christmas special is just as “special” as it normally is) and that the community will be drawn in and drawn to God by your love and passion and everything you do and are to the people of Littlehampton.

Loads of love from us Andrew, Esther, Jacob, Luke, Mollie and Isaac