Unexpected Blessing

Mama Noodles

Sunday night the Thai worship service was cancelled because their lights went out due to a typhoon the day before.  Richard decided we should explore a street close to the church that had several factories. He thought just maybe we’d run into some Thai workers. Looking around, we saw a Thai girl who had come out of a store selling Thai food. We tried to catch up to her but she entered a factory complex before we could reach her.  Thus, we went further up the street to an intersection and turned right. Down the street we saw Thai writing on a sign!  It turned out to be a karaoke bar. But 2 doors down was a small grocery store selling various ethnic foods. Out front were about 8 men from northeast Thailand who were factory workers. They were outside drinking beer. They were friendly, but not really interested in what we had to say about God.  So we went inside the small store to talk to the owner, a Chinese with a Thai wife.  The wife was a Christian, but because of her husband's business, she was not able to get out much.  We talked to her about an hour.  Before we left, she gave us about 14 different varieties of Thai Mama noodles (kind of like Ramen noodles).  It was very generous of her to give them to us & she invited us to come back.  We exchanged phone numbers. The Bible verse Romans 8:28 came to mind about the situation.   Even though we didn’t get to worship in Thai at the church Sunday night, God had something better in store for us.