Originally Posted by Cybrarian

Will be lurking this month leaving for Thailand, Laos and China on the 16th. If you are inclined pray for our team. I am one of 4 leaders and 17 high school students going. We will be working with (and hopefully encouraging) the staff of Mercy Christian School. These are Thai and Laotian people working with all economic levels of children, but mostly very poor. The students in their school often go to school all day, have a long bus ride home then teach the other children in the family. An extended family will pool their resources to send who they feel will be the most successful child in school and that child knows they must pass on what they learn. It will be an amazing and exhausting 2 weeks. Stay strong! I'll be eating my share of ant eggs, frogs roasted on a stick and other things I don't ask to have identified along with more common and amazing Thai food that is WAY hotter than it is here. Sahwatdee-ka everyone.