Lufkin woman serves 4 months in Bangkok working as missionary

Edwards taught at the Baptist Student Center in Bangkok, Thailand. The school is a partnership between the Thailand Baptist Association and the International Mission Board in the U.S. Although it is a Christian school, most of the students were Buddhist, Edwards said. Students are required to be at least 15 years old to attend, and most were “professional people” such as doctors, lawyers, college professors and so on, she said.

On Fridays, Edwards and the volunteers would work with children at the Bangkok Refugee Center, teaching them how to read and speak English. Edwards also met with a woman who was teaching skills to prostitutes to lift themselves out of poverty.
“Many are sold into prostitution by their families, even when they’re just children. The only way they can get out is to work their time out or buy their freedom,” Edwards said. “They’re in pretty much a hopeless situation, but we try to give them hope. We tell them about Jesus’ love, and they ask ‘Do you think he could love me?’”

Edwards said she found adjusting to life in Bangkok to be “quite easy.”

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