1) Oct-Nov 2011: Survived as a flood volunteer and unfortunately a victim
2) Dec 2011: Finishing up my service at the GrapeVine (Mostly cleaning, renovating)
3) Jan 2012: Taking a long vacation & Prayerfully finding a new job (hopefully UN which will have a meeting with me soon) that fits my passion as well as to help me pay off my student loan: 120,000 baht (3,811.92 U.S. dollars)

((( Prayers & Support during Job-search season are Still Needed )))

Here below is the vdo i made for my GV family where i came closer to Christ and where i’ve just finished serving… with all my heart…

During the months of the big flood (Oct-Nov), i was a ‘volunteer’ along with the GrapeVine(GV – the campus ministry i was serving) & Thammasat University friends… I was involved with a rescue team going in the slums nearby convincing people to evacuate… and finally i gradually became one of those evacuated victims.

Struggles

Heart-breaking suffering of others and self

Needs are everywhere!

Hopelessness

Spiritual Lessons

Getting back up

Well, I wish i could come back and write more about this… but i pray that the following vdo would give you a glimpse of what i’ve been going through.

First, i’ve MADE IT!!!

No! Actually, God’s power made it through me!!!

Though it was the crazy week, i’m super thankful for the presence of all brothers&sisters, believers/nonbelievers from The GrapeVine Family, TU/SIIT, and my beachey Hometown, Rayong… who dedicatedly came to congratulate me. Even I got stressfully sick afterwards but still blessed and super grateful. 

Also, thanks to those who know my green heart enough to forgive me that i didnt make a public invitation and decided not to come because of the traffic and pollution that day that we could help reduce.

( I lovingly appreciate U ALL )

To tell you the truth, i’m fully graduated in IT/Management major at the international college called SIIT, Thammasat University for my Heavenly DADDY and my cute-tiful Mom. See more graduation photos ((( HERE )))

Second, ALL GrapeVine staffs are back from the US!!! Even God’s blessed me so much while i was left behind, I feel more complete with them: Mic, Beth, &  Kimmey. (Yes, i’m the only Thai-MAN here, lol!)

Though we do miss our 2-month intern Joseph who was my rickshaw buddy but we gratefully just welcomed Grace the very night Joseph left. She’s been a wonderful blessing to the team and the family. And of course, His Grace has always been with us;) 

Lastly…

((( Prayer Request )))

1. My radical relationship to God & Daddy Jesus
2. Team’s Love, Trust, and Understanding
   
3. God’s Relationships with students through me
4. My health and everyone’s around me
5. Support raise! (i’m in critical “NEED” around 3,000 USD before December, i might be selling my precious possessions if no one helps me in time;) 
6. The poor and the students who’d be drawn to DADDY via Love Your Neighbor Project im entrusted to lead…
7. My Family (esp my little brother who started to follow my vegan path) that one day they will follow JESUS’ path to the fullest.
8. I’m giving the talk next Tuesday Night; so, if possible, pray for wisdom and serenity.

has turned out to be…

…the most successfully beautiful night ever!

( to most of us :’)

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To be radically honest,

i can’t lie to myself that i was fully trusting in Banky Poo and God’s power through him to lead the GrapeVine (LIKE & Stay tuned for more Pics&VDOs) during the week(s). Because my leader, P’Mic Ruth and my colleague, Beth เบญจมาศ, who are the full-time staffs are away for a conference in the US of A. 

As a result, this past week, it was what i called the week i fear the most!

First reason, apart from more cleaning workload i and Joseph our intern had to carry, i had to contact and convince many friends in my networks to come help us at the worship. But gradually, they all ended up giving me the NO’s.

Next, i never simultaneously sing and perform my novice guitar skill in public before. I tried my best to trust God by many Scriptures about “Trusting God with all my heart”. Yet, i had silently feared and spent many nights before that week on my knees praying that God would send someone to help me/us and that He would never let me use my Plan B which means that i have to do the guitar and the singing (and other IT tasks  simultaneously).

Lastly, i had to translate all the Games, BibleStudy, and myself during worship.

Again, i didnt fully trust myself that i could have (successfully) done all of these challenging tasks!

However, to make a long story short, my “Cheeks of TRUST” were slapped by the loving Hands of my Creator and DADDY JESUS

It was almost as if HE said,

“Even though you don’t really trust in yourself, please trust in ME & My Power to be flowing through your humble Spirit and the team’s. And I just want you to breath deeply and simply know that

‘I, the LORD your  GOD & CREATOR, trust deeply & dearly in you.’

May you simply allow yourself to be trusted… and start trusting in ME, beloved BankyPoo.”

I broke in to tears through this re-taught spiritual lessons.

The night (from Food, Game, BibleStudy, to Worship) went unprecedentedly successful. I was blown away by the voices that sang along with me… as well as the encouraging smiles!

In fact, i honestly almost cried during some of the songs!

It was what i called acoustically beautiful and fun…

We're lovin' it

We broke the record again!!!

(Maybe we need to thank Facebook somehow)

by one of the biggest numbers we’ve ever had on normal SouperTuesdays: over 33 students showed up even it seemed to rain.

not just that… what blows me away was that many of the students were NEW FACES to whom i believe with all my heart that God was at work in their lives somehow that night :’)

The Funnest Night led by Nong Arm, GFORCE member

At the end of the night, students and GFORCE student leaders helped us cleanup and Nong Arm had a crazily new movement of singing crazy songs. We laughed a lot!!! No one wanted to go home. We all had a blast!!! And some of us laughed until tears filled our eyes! 555! ><  

Around 11:50i came back, reflecting with DADDY under candle light and again… 

I went on my knees & broke into… tears with the invincible arms of my CREATOR DADDY JESUS.

i prayed for almost everyone by names that night…

Would U join me?

~With all my heart

It’s about a random revelation that God has blessed me with.

It rarely happened in the past… yet lately, it seem to happen more often as i serve here as a “missionary”

As i was sitting and making my instant noodle(Ma-ma) for lunch today while listening to my favorite worship songs, i was awakened by the sense of  warm awareness of  how fortunate i am to have food on my plate/cup… then… the warm water overflown from my eyes.

I went on my knees, prayed, and wholeheartedly gave thanks my DADDY JESUS and all my supporters both financial and prayerful ones. Lastly, i prayed for the unfortunate around the world with teary eyes of HOPE and JOY!

Prayer Request:

• Leadership+Wisdom: Since Mic & Beth, the 2 fulltime staffs have been away, i’m entrusted to take care the ministry along with interns & exchange students…. Also, tonight, Thai time, i’m leading the worship band for the first time simultaneously both Vocal&Guitar and other technical things i need to take care of… Please pray for me to focus on the end (JESUS) not the means(tasks)
• All students that God’s at work for:
  Check out this post :’) http://www.facebook.com/bank.light/posts/10150242068406567
• Support Raising

P.S. FYI: This is how DADDY got me

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((( Morning Silence )))

The past month, there seem to be tons of challenging-yet-blessing highlights to mention here but first, i want to give you , as a special PRESENT, a piece of prayerful song that i radiated the peace to you ALL who support me either financially and/or prayerfully this morning.

The First Souper Tuesday 

June, it was the first month of the school semester here in Thammasat University! I’d been overwhelmed with challenging stuffs to do and pray for… it was rough at first; we all worked very hard… Yet, after “It is finished”, my heart was filled with Joy! Why? …

We…

broke…

the record!!!  

Blessingly Exciting Facts:

• According to the GV statistics, it was the most crowded opening party/Bible study ever!

• Over 55 students came!!!

• Over 70% of those were new faces!!!

• 16 students volunteered to be in G-FORCE leadership team to help us this year

OK, so, here is the opening VDO for the party

The First Love Your Neighbor Project

In short, it went amazingly successful…

I’d been truly honored by being in charge of this project as a project manager since the beginning. Please see more or/and LIKE the Facebook pages i’d made for the GrapeVine Family & the project with all my heart & soul…

“Love that asks no holidays is Love Your Neighbor.”
~My realization from LYNB project 

“What we need is to Love without getting tired.”
~Mother Teresa

I. An Unprecedented Mission: Saving A Suicidal Life

With Great LOVE Comes Great Responsibility‏.

I rushed to the room and found out a sleeping body of a seemingly 20-year-old girl lying down on a bed inside the room. After calling her if she’s there for a while, i got someone to help getting me in the room. There, i saw that she’s still breathing, however, i also saw a newly emptied box of sleeping pills and other blank bottle of medicine.

To make a long, exciting story short, she’s later safe in her family’s arms. But it was the first time that i felt like i was a superhero who had the adrenaline pumped and carried a girl to the campus hospital. Honestly, she was kinda heavy and I was critically pumped and didn’t really know how to deal with that kind of unprecedented situation where i as a “Thai-cultured” person should never touch a female… She’s a complete stranger to me, she’s female, i was a super-shy boy, yet how can i leave her to fall into Evil’s plan like that!

Now, regardless of transitional struggles i’ve been through, i came to realize that there’re many crucial reasons God has called me here…

“‎Remember, GOD has called you there [the GrapeVine] and He will provide your every need. Love you bro, standing with you as you’re there…”
~My Roommate & Brother, Caleb Gippert

II. The Surprising Miracle From my Earthly Dad

It was on Saturday, last weekend, the day i moved my apartment. When all my friends couldn’t make it to help, my family always do. My cute-tiful mom and dad drove all the way from my 3-hour-away hometown to help me move. That was one of the most beautiful day of my life.

As some of you may know, i started to show GOD’s LOVE to my family via the “Love Language”, one of them i always offer my family when i saw them was Hugging. It’s been more than a year since i overcame my fear and have been trying very hard especially my dad. Since i ever remember, he never says he loves me and of course, he barely ever touch me and my little brother Bas (but we happily got used to it somehow). So, that’s why i said it takes HUGE courage in order to hug my dad and each time i tried, it was really awkward and he didn’t really hug back:)

Until Saturday, the moving day i mentioned came, at the end of the (tiring) day, as we were saying goodbye, my very dad (with his sweat) gently leaned towards me and embraced me with his arms… It was loooong and natural… It was one of those moments i will never forget… and it was… well, as my Brother Jeremy puts, a (unprecedented) MIRACLE!!!

III. Spiritual Sanctuaries

Lastly, here is a short clip i simply made as a memory and a way to thank the Creator of all these resting places for me us. It’s my prayerful hope that the vdo will give you some restful feelings even just by seeing. 

Thank YOU for your time:)

P.S. I know this might sound awkward to you (and me) but if you feel led to join my journey and you have faith in what i do here, please visit THIS PAGE. Your prayers and/or financial support would for sure keep me going.

With all my heart…
May God richly bless you, my wonderful readers :’)

The LEASET of  THESE: “LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR as YOURSELF” :’)

My Desire… My Return…

Here is the group on facebook for people who may join me in this journey

With LOVE & WORLD PEACE,

~little light

P.S. Please also visit: Support What i Do

Be still and know that I AM ____.

~The Creator of the Universe ((( Psalm 46:10 )))

Waking up with “Super Moon” at dawn / heading to the beach in my hometown / reunion with The Creator / reconnecting to the Source, the Spirit, and the Father / sound of the waves… / silence of the heart / the sunrise meditation / at my very HOME …

Practice…

Ups… (Soaring “Hi”)

Downs… (working+thinking+transitionings)

Practice…

More Practice…

and never give up…

Imagine yourself sitting on the edge of a cliff looking out across an ocean. It is just before the dawn on a warm summer’s morning. All around you is still and soundless. Just slivers of starlight sparkling off the waves below saves a pitch-blackness. A warm breeze drifts across the ocean and wafts up the face of the cliff and into your heart, and this breeze is not so much a movement of air but a feeling; a feeling of peace. As you focus out towards the horizon you notice the first purples and crimsons of the morning dawn spilling out across the sky. And you begin to get a feeling of the sunrise… of  Newness… Beauty… Warmth… Innocence…
All the time the sunrise is changing – purples turning to crimsons, crimsons to oranges and yellows – the feeling of the sunrise intensifying, soaring across the vastness into your heart-breath. And now the sky above and behind you is being overwhelmed by the colour and feeling of the sunrise until the very air around you is tinged by the wondrous purple hue of the morning dawn. It fills the air like a fragrance; you breathe, and the sunrise enters.

The crescendo builds. Finally, the first ray of sun explodes into the sky straight to your heart. Filling you like an electric charge with peace and light. You feel as though if you were to just stretch your arms they might become like wings and you would be able to soar down over the ocean. And so you do..

You stand and stretch your arms and lean ever so gently against that breeze drifting up the face of the cliff. You find yourself becoming lighter and lighter until just your big toe on your right foot is the last thing touch the earth – and then a moment later – a gentle puff lifts you off.

Letting go you glide down over the face of that cliff and soar inches above the surface of the ocean, one wingtip every so often just dipping into the water making splashes that sparkle rainbows across the sky.

The gentle breeze that had wafted up into your heart at the top of the cliff, has now become a great gush, rolling over your wingtips, splashing against your face inundating your heart with peace. And in the distance, or perhaps deep inside your own heart you hear two words whispered, ever so gently over and over again.

“ I am.”

“ I am.”

“ I am…”

I am the sky. I am the ocean. I am the sunrise… I am the bird. I am freedom. And as you look down across the waves you feel the whole ocean vast, horizon to horizon. You feel it. You have become the sky, as far as you can see. It feels as though you could stretch your wings from horizon to horizon and engulf every little part of this magnificence.

And it’s shown to you in the next moment that it is the love deep inside your heart that is allowing you to connect with all that is around you. Your love is so full, so all encompassing that you understand and feel what every part of the creation is feeling. You glide in this love, you float in this love, you soar in this love – all the time it expanding within you, welling up inside your heart.

Then with just a whim you decide to dive deep to the very depths of the ocean. And as you splash through the surface you feel that this ocean is so deep it is almost unfathomable. Deeper and deeper you dive; past the turbulent waves crashing about on the surface, deeper and deeper to the silent, still depths of the ocean. And you feel that you are diving in some parallel way deep into your own soul. Plummeting to the centre of your self. Past the worries and fears and doubts and limitations crashing about on the surface of your life.

Until finally at the bottom of the ocean, at the still centre of your soul, you sit cross legged in perfect silence, in perfect stillness and there at the core of your existence – you explore your self in perfect meditation.

Light beams stream through the water and as you glance upward you see the noon day sun, powerful and bright. Drawn like a magnet your heart pulls you upward, and focusing on the light you accelerate through the surface of the ocean into the sky. The more you concentrate the faster you accelerate and the intensity of the light satiates you, your every atom. Your heart like a beacon propels you higher and higher. And you realise that this light is not just a physical light it is also a spiritual light.

The light of wisdom, of truth. It is as though, all of the millions and billions of people that have ever been here on the earth, and all of their experiences, their wisdom, their revelations are flooding the very core of your being with light, truth, wisdom. All the time the light welling up inside you until finally it seems as if you were to look out to observe your form all you would see is light. You have become the light and all that it touches and it fulfils you.

Finally relaxing and drifting across the sky you allow yourself to return to where you started your journey and observe this time the setting of the sun.

Seeing the air on the edge of the cliff you watch Yellows turn to oranges and crimsons and purples and for a time the whole sky gasps in wonder as the colours permeate the twilight. The last moments brightening into a dazzling showcase with reflections off the ocean. All around you feel at peace that only the twilight can bring. As the last ray of sun steps off the horizon your struck by the eternity of it all. The sunset of one day here – but somewhere else the sunrise of another.

Tranquil, and at peace… You feel calm, contented… and fulfilled.

 

I mean fighting against the evil feeling of giving up on doing good, the will of DADDY… especially with my ThaiSongFairtrade family. We’ve been through a lot lately and for some reason at the prayer meeting, we, Tukta, Brittany, & Jeremy, unexpectedly had the first team huddle today, the very day that is surprisingly cold during Thailand’s summer and we all prayerfully hugged!!!

It was one of the most precious moments i will never forget for the rest of my life!

At the end of the huddle, Tukta shared this with us and i couldnt help but to broke into tears as i read this:

Do you ever reflect upon the fact that Jesus feels proud of you? Proud that you accepted the faith

which he offered you? Proud that after he chose you, you chose him for a friend and Lord? Proud that you haven’t given up? Proud that you trust that he can help you? Do you ever think that Jesus appreciates you for wanting to him, for wanting to say no to so many things that would separate you from him?

Do you ever think that Jesus is grateful to you for pausing to smile and comfort one of his children who has a great need to see a smile, to feel a touch? Do you ever think of Jesus being grateful to you for learning more about him so that you can speak to others more deeply and truly about him? Do you ever think that Jesus can be angry or disappointed in you for not believing that he has forgiven you totally?

Jesus said, “I do not call you servants, but friends…”. Therefore, there is the possibility of every feeling and emotion which can exist between friends to exist here and now between Jesus and you.”

Do u think that Jesus is proud of what you say and do in his name? If not, can you talk it through with him? That’s what true friends do. –talk and support one another in tough times. And when we disappoint each other, we ask for forgiveness.

(taken from “Be still and know that I am God: devotions for every day of the year” By Gus Keiser)

Prayer Request:

• My mom, she’s gettin cold now
• Relationship with My DADDY
• Japan, the country that close to my tearful heart
• Wisdom to take a big step to the next transition of service at the GrapeVine peacefully (support raising)

Good Night ALL

With LOVE,

bankey poo