Here’s the first report from Daniel, our Communications Person with AX, our band touring in Thailand now…

Hey all!
 
Here we are at the Twin Inn in Phuket! Very nice place. Clean. Well furnished. With a small pool (15m) hahhaa…
 
Anyway, time for the real update.
 
Thanksgiving :
 
1. The overweight charge was reduced from a 200kg fine to a 50kg fine. We ended up paying only SGD350.
 
2. We were stopped at the Thai customs due to our large number of pieces of equipment however after presenting our letter from Mitch and checkin Joy’s passport, and also checking ONE of our cases, they decided that we were harmless enough and let us go without any tax charges.
 
3. Just minutes before our OUTDOOR concert set up it started to rain. We had a short prayer and praise in our host church and, thank God, the rain stopped and we were able to set up under a cool and cloudy sky. You’ll see the pics soon! Hahaha…
 
4. Even though we had a LOT of program changes for the 1st concert, the band did extremely well to accomodate the changes. They were very professional and were able to roll with the punches, especially Noel.
 
What the concert was like :
 
The venue was the exact same one that override performed at last year. Smack in the middle of a night market (which incidentally did not distract us at ALL). The stage was HUGE. The hugest we’ve been on so far. The audience was pretty transient and ever-changing but there were pockets of people who stopped to listen.
 
The band managed to use the HUGE stage really well. This concert, we didn’t present the full gospel but we served more as a publicity tool for our host church which is attended by all the crusade staff serving in Phuket.
 
We could not use the projector too! The sky was too bright and even though we tried, nothing could be seen on the screen. This resulted in a BIG change in the program. But still, again the band did very well to cover up.
 
Prayer requests :
 
1. Pray for the students that they will not be demoralised because they had a rather tough 1st audience.
 
2. Pray for our journey to HatYai. Pray for journey mercies and that all will go well. Some are looking to use that long ride for rest so pray they will be able to do so on the vans.
 
3. From Wednesday to Saturday we will have concert everyday in the campuses so pray for good working relationships with the Thai staff. Pray for favour with the campus authorities. One of our confirmed concerts was cancelled at the last minute. Pray also tha the students will have renewed strength everyday.
 
Alritez! I guess that’s enough updates i can squeeze into 30mins. Will continue to find ways to send updates back home. Till the next oppotunity! See ya! Love ya’ll…
 
-dan- (and the rest of the gang)