May 2024 Newsletter
Dear Brethren, April was an amazing month!! I am writing this a little early because I can’t wait to share all the great things that have happened this month. I also know that many of you want to know about our youth camp. We had 207 young people attend the camp this year. With adults, we had 236 people. We had six people from the Jurong congregation in Singapore. Brother Amos led the people from Singapore. The brethren from [...]
April 2024 Newsletter
Dear Brethren, This month was very busy. There was a lot of work that had to be done to prepare for the youth camp. It is only a week away as I write this report. I am writing this report from my bed. I have strep throat. I have been on heavy medication and bed rest for the last four days. The medicine gave me abdominal pain and I had to go back to the hospital to get my [...]
March 2024 Newsletter
Dear Brethren, February starts the burning season here in Thailand. They burn off the fields to prepare them for planting before the next rainy season. As a result, the air pollution in Chiang Mai sores into the dangerous range. The mountains around us cannot be seen because of the smoke. My family always has breathing problems during this time of the year because of the air pollution. Bekah has asthma. Lu has had bronchitis and is still struggling with [...]
February 2024 Newsletter
Dear Brethren, January was a busy start to this year. On the first Sunday in January, I received a call at 4:30 a.m. that the grandmother of two of our students, Jarun and Gotchakorn, had passed away. She was well over 100 years old. They said she was 118 years old. Jarun was already in the mountains with Passakorn. I went to Gotchakorn’s dorm room and she had received a call already. I told her after worship I would [...]
January 2024 Newsletter
Dear Brethren, Let me start by saying Happy New Year!! It has been 2024 for 8 hours here, so, only a few more hours and those of you in America will catch up with us. Just let me say… so far it has been a great year!! December was a fantastic month for us here in Thailand. The first week we got everything ready for the brethren from Singapore to come. There were 13 people who came from Singapore. [...]
December 2023 Newsletter
Dear Brethren, This is my first report since returning to Thailand from America. I was in the US for just over 10 weeks. It was great to see old friends and meet new ones. I want to thank everyone for the love and generosity that was shown to me in each and every place I visited. I am thankful for the association that we have in Christ and for your help in spreading the gospel here in Thailand. I [...]
August 2023 Newsletter
Dear Brethren, I hope and pray that all of you are doing well. I am looking forward to seeing as many of you as possible while I am in America. It will not be long now. I will be leaving Thailand in just over three weeks. It seems like there is so much to do and only a very short time to get it all done. It is the monsoon season here. The word monsoon means wind. What actually [...]
July 2023 Newsletter
Dear Brethren, I am looking forward to coming to America to give reports about our work here. My trip is growing near. I have been working on my report, the presentation table, and other lessons that will be given while I am in America. I will be leaving here in less than two months. I am excited to come and give reports in person so that you can know more about the work that we are doing together for [...]
June 2023 Newsletter
Dear Brethren, Thank you all for the love and prayers that you offer up for our work here. I want to start this report with a prayer request. We have three young ladies that are very ill. The first one is the young lady who I mentioned in last month’s report who passed out on the last night of camp. She has started passing out frequently. She is training to be a nurse’s assistant. We discussed the problem with [...]
May 2023 Newsletter
Dear Brethren, April was a fantastic month. Exhausting… but fantastic. God truly blessed us throughout the month. It was a month of fellowship, blessings, growth, and fun. Our youth camp was amazing. We had over 180 young people who attended the camp. The only negative… was the extreme heat. It was over 100 degrees F every day. One day it was 112 degrees. Most of our congregation here in Chiang Mai left for camp early Friday morning. I stayed [...]
April 2023 Newsletter
Dear Brethren, March sort of flew by as we prepared for the camp, taking the students that live in our dormitory in Chiang Mai back to visit their families during the school break, interviewing students who asked for help this coming year in school, and taught Bible to many people. It was a great month, but as usual it was too busy. There were four trips made into the mountains this month. Passakorn is still there. He will be [...]
March 2023 Newsletter
Dear Brethren, February was a short and very busy month. It seems like the month just started and here we are at the beginning of March. February is always a very busy month for us because we have to turn a yearly report in to the government from the foundation. In addition to that report, we had to turn in an extra two reports and had many visits from the government. It seems that some people from China set [...]
February 2023 Newsletter
Dear Brethren, I hope everyone is doing well as we head into this new year. I have always heard… whatever you do on the 1st of January will be a reflection of how the rest of the year will go. January 1st was very busy… and the rest of January was also busy… and it looks like this entire year will be very busy. If you remember from my last report, the Parks family came to visit us at [...]
January 2023 Newsletter
Dear Brethren, First of all, let me apologize for this report coming later than usual. I am in the mountains and my right eye got infected somehow. My eye is swollen and painful. It is nearly swollen shut. Focusing on things close up, like my computer, is very difficult and a little blurry. I got some medicine from a drug store, but I am waiting to go to the doctor back in Chiang Mai. So once again, I apologize [...]