Today is Our Last Day at Agape

Today is our last day with the beautiful kids at the orphanage, but you can bet the stories and pictures of them will keep coming, because there is so much we haven't had a chance to share yet. The girls have been working on a dance we made up to a Psalters song, which they will hopefully get to perform for the nannies and other children. They love it! They love to perform, and are so proud when it all comes together.
The kids have also enjoyed designing and drawing their own superheroes with Luke!

We've had a wonderful experience at Agape and will be sad to leave these very important children and the reality that they let us experience with them for 2 weeks. But we are really looking forward to moving 3 hrs. North to Chiang Rai where we will be spending time in Akha and Lahu hill tribe villages, and helping out at Mirror Foundation, which works on the prevention side of the human=trafficking issue among hill tribe women and girls.

The most important part of what I have to say is that (I'm sure most all of you have heard)last weekend Thailand's neighboring Burma (Myanmar)was hit with a category 4 cyclone which had destroyed entire villages and killed AT LEAST 22,000 people, with 60,000 reported still missing.
This is a horrifying tragedy for any country to experience, but what makes this case particularly desperate is that the Burmese military junta (government) is one of the most horribly corrupt and human rights- abusing in the world right now, and they're denying aid into the country, and dragging their feet in meeting the emergency needs of their people. Among the areas that were hit were the Kareni and Mon states. Karen and Mon are minority hill tribes, and I imagine that this disaster will make an already vulnerable group of people, more vulnerable to the lure of human-trafficking in their state of desperation.
I urge our friends and family to pay attention to this issue, though it is hard to know how to help right now.

Blessings and love to all of you!