Black suit - Bamboo floor - India

I sat down on the bamboo floor on the outskirts of the group...

My computer was set up on a table and there was a video playing.

The video was of me playing my senior piano recital...

I wanted to show the video to the students at J.E.M.M.S. (Jason's English Medical Missionary School) because all they ever saw me playing was a keyboard, so I figured they should see the real thing!

I was curious to see the reactions of these students who had never seen a real piano.

And the most interesting reaction I got was this... One of the students said:

In America you were living in a much higher class, and you come here and live in the jungle and sleep on a bamboo floor. Why teacher?

I'd never really thought of it that way before. True, I was wearing a black suit playing on an expensive piano, in a really nice church...

But going from that to sleeping on a bamboo floor, didn't seem like a big difference...

At first...

But as I tried to think of it from their perspective, I could see the contrast...

Yet I didn't really question the decision to sleep on that bamboo floor... to live in the jungle... to help the people... to share Jesus with them...

I found way more joy serving God in the jungle, than I ever did from wearing a black suit, and playing a nice piano.

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That took place 3 months ago.

Shortly after that I returned to the US to be at my brother's wedding.  (It was a beautiful wedding, you can see some pictures on Beth's blog.)

And then I returned to work with Jesus for Asia...

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Shortly after I arrived in Thailand last June, I wrote a post entitled "Why?"

And now that I've returned to America, I want to share a few things that I learned...

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In the absence of technology, life takes on a much deeper meaning...

I love the jungle...

Riding on a motorbike for 400 miles in one day is a fool-proof way to get saddle sore...

God takes care of His children...

I should be dead right now... It's only a miracle of God that I am alive right now... (Look for that story in another post)

God is an ever present help in trouble...

Working for God is the only way to have true joy and peace...

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Now that I'm in America I wish I was in Thailand...

But I'll be going to that part of the world before too long!

March 18 is the day that we fly!

Myself and 3 other guys will be going to India to visit several Jesus for Asia projects and shoot documentary films of the work that is being done, and the work that needs to be done.

I'm excited about our trip! We'll be gone for about a month and I believe that God is going to do great things.

Please join me in praying for our trip, that God will provide everything that we need, and make it a very productive trip.