Date: July 26th 2010

Dear Family & Friends,

The following is a story from Rodney and Phimpha in Thailand. The mentality of the parents of this little girl is a much more common occurrence than we can imagine. Friends, there is sooo much suffering in the world that deeply hurts the heart of God....

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This is the true story of one of my beautiful children. We talked as a family and all the children agreed to let me write their stories. We teach them that they can not use their past for pity. Also, that there is no shame in their past suffering. Their past suffering has brought them to us and then to Christ. When they meet Jesus Christ they find out he is the one who guided their life by a miracle and protected them. In their hearts Jesus Christ is really good because they were saved by him. Like the book of Isaiah 42:1-4. HIS life is hope for all life who have no hope. We are sending this out to encourage others by letting them know that no matter what your situation is, God can protect you.

Amy’s mother is Thai and her Father is British. They met at a bar in Pattaya. Amy’s mother was sold to a bar owner by her father, (Amy’s grandfather) when she was thirteen years old. Her life never changed after that. She was sold from bar to bar. Never went to school, and never had any other job. After Amy was born her mother left her with her grandfather and never turned back.

Amy grew up with her grandfather in a house that was under a bush. The roof was a tarp. No walls and no bathroom at all. Wet when the rains came and cold in the winter. Amy stayed close to that small area and never got out much. But on some weekends the grandfather took Amy to use her for begging from the tourists down on the prostitution street with all the bars and night life. Amy had a small purse and she carried and would open it in front of Tourists and point into the purse. Which meant, put money here please! If someone dropped twenty baht in there she would run with a big smile and take it to the waiting grandfather. He was down on the beach drinking while she was out begging for more. She would give it all to him and he would drink it up. She kept doing this until late at night. She would stop when he fell asleep. Then Amy would stop begging, lie down beside him and sleep there on the beach. This was her life, day after day, month after month, for six years. (A my dose not know).

When I first met Amy she was wild and acted like she was part animal. No cloths on, her hair matted together. She smelled really bad. She had boils all over her body. She did not speak; she just made noises and motions if she wanted something. When I brought her to Timothy house the first order of business was naturally a good cleaning. Three girls worked to give her a shower while she kicked and screamed. She started to swear at us like she heard the drunks do and it was then I first knew she could speak. When I worked to clean her sores she screamed and hit me because it hurt. The neighbors thought I was abusing a child.

Amy's life changed drastically when she came to Timothy’s House. She had to go to school, she had to speak politely, and take a shower twice a day. She really hated the showers. But the two things she did like at our house were going to Church, because she got to dress up pretty and the birthday parties for the kids. She also liked to go to Church because she got to sing and dance. But when she would dance it was a problem for us, because if there was any resemblance of a pole near by she would dance around the pole like she had seen the girls on the prostitution street do. She did not think it was a problem and thought she was being cute.

Because she liked to dress up and have fun I would use that to train her, telling her that if she does not take a shower, then she can not put pretty clothes on. After a couple of months with us Amy changed a lot and everyone thought she was a sweet little girl. Amy said she likes God because he has a good heart. I never tell the kids they must turn to God when they come here. We just accept them into the family and the love of God works in their hearts.

After one year with us at Timothy House Amy was in grade one. Then one day her biological mother showed up with her boyfriend. He was a good man and encouraged Amy’s mom to get her back and raise her. He had a good job and wanted to care for Amy as a family. In my opinion the human life needs a family. Amy was also excited to be with her family. We let her go with them. Nine months passed with no word. Then one day I was enjoying lunch and Amy’s stepfather called with bad news. He had taken a job away for a few weeks and Amy’s mother had returned to drugs. She did not send Amy to school while he was gone and he suspected she was beating Amy. I left immediately to get her and brought her back to Timothy House. Later Amy told me how when her mother used drugs she had evil in her eyes and used to beat her. Her mother told her to not say anything to anyone or she would kill her and throw her body into the sea. No one would ever know. Amy feared her mother but one tiny thing deep in her heart she remembered. I had told her God would help her if she ever felt scared. She talked to God and asked Him to help her get back to Timothy House and mom Phimpha. Shortly after that her mother was arrested for drug procession.

When I got her back she was in bad shape again because she had not gone to school and was mostly living on the street. Her acting was like a person on drugs. Her brain was not working right and she could not remember simple things or learn. The teacher tried to work with her but finally had to send her to kindergarten as she could no longer handle first grade. We worked with her many months to get her back to normal.

Amy is now a happy little girl who likes to have fun and is soft with the younger children in our house. She is a good sister, but still does not like to take a shower. I do not know how God can work such miracles in a young broken heart. One thing I can see is that Gods love and gentleness has touched her heart. I am sure Amy knows too because she told me,” I love GOD because HE has a gentle heart”

Phimpha

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...Few give thought to the suffering that sin has caused our Creator. All heaven suffered in Christ's agony; but that suffering did not begin or end with His manifestation in humanity. The cross is a revelation to our dull senses of the pain that, from its very inception, sin has brought to the heart of God. Every departure from the right, every deed of cruelty, every failure of humanity to reach His ideal, brings grief to Him. When there came upon Israel the calamities that were the sure result of separation from God,--subjugation by their enemies, cruelty, and death,--it is said that "His soul was grieved for the misery of Israel." "In all their affliction He was afflicted: . . . and He bare them, and carried them all the days of old." Judges 10:16; Isaiah 63:9. {Ed 263.1}

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