OK, please don't miss my previous post, but in all the excitement I forgot to tell you about something else that is happening today. While the princess is visiting, us commoners have to be off the ship, right? So at the same time many of the STEPpers will be at the center of Bangkok singing in a choir and performing skits and such. I forget if I mentioned it, but we had a STEP choir when we led prayer night a few weeks ago. Prayer night was such a success that we wanted to take our show on the road. The princess visit was an obvious time when we could all do it and Center Point, Bangkok is an excellent, if bold, location. There is a large mall with a huge plaza.
In one corner of the plaza there are two big shrines, one with an elephant man and one with a female figure. In the West we scoff at the people in the Bible and say who would literally bow down to idols in this day and age. But here in the middle of modern, technologically sophisticated Bangkok, they take it quite seriously. Yesterday I was walking through the plaza and there was a gigantic tent set up and a huge sound system. What was the crowd watching? Transvestite hip-hop dancing. I know that Bangkok has many transvestites but I'm not sure of the reason.
So we are bringing a very different sort of message and performance to that plaza. If you read this in the next 8 hours please pray for us. Thanks.
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