Drop in Center

The morning of our second day in Mae Sai, Chris and I started our day by going out and getting coffee from a nearby restaurant and had no other plans for our day. We had left our students for a few days to go ahead of them and had no other plans but to pray into the rest of our outreach. On our way back to our room we stopped at the front desk to ask about doing some laundry and were met by a tour guide named Saemoon. He had been waiting in the hotel lobby for us because he had heard that there were three foreigners were staying in the hotel and he wanted to offer his tour to us. I decided to talk to him since we were planning on going into Burma and I wanted to have a guide take us in. I told him that we were Christian missionaries and what we had been doing the past two months and he was very excited. He began to tell me his testimony and and how he had been an alcoholic and in the streets until a English man named Frank came and took him in and gave him cloths and a shower. Saemoon was so excited at this point and had no desire to sell us his service as a tour guide but instead now he wanted to take Chris and I to meet frank!

We were walking down the streets following Seamoon into the red light area near the border to meet some man named Frank and had no idea what to expect. We arrived at a large building and walked in to a see people of all ages hanging out watching "Mr. Bean" and eating lunch. We met Frank who was an older English man. He sat down on the floor with us and began to tell us all about the Drop in Center and how God gave him a heart for the people in the area of the border and especially the children that hang out on the bridge. The kids are sent out by their parents to beg for money that is usually to support their own drug habits rather than pay for food. Often times if the kids don't bring back enough money they will be physically abused. Many kids also have problems with sniffing glue.

Frank wants to give the kids a safe place to come and stay whenever they want that is safe. He feeds the kids as well as teaches them the bible. The building is four stories with allot of space and Frank wants to use the top two floors for discipleship training and to be sending them back into Burma. This was such an amazing day of seeing a glimpse of what God is doing in this area and how there is a light shining in the midst darkness.

If you would like more information about the drop in center or if you would like to help support you can email Frank at frank@supportingheart.com