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Welcoming 2025 (Year in Review 2024)
Ruth lighting candles at the Christmas pageant. This is our “Year in Review” post giving a summary of 2024. If you’d like to do some back-reading, at the bottom-right of this page you can find our previous year in review posts (though 2015-2018 are password protected due to our previous location). Contact us directly if…
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Flood update
Street in Wiang Tong after we cleared a path for a vehicle. Well, Chiang Mai has been battling mud and repairing flood damage for the past month. The worst flood wave hit on Oct. 3rd when the Ping River reached all time highs, and the various flood zones were all breached. No one knew quite…
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Inspire, Floods & Thanks
The main shrine in front of the Police Station – flooded. Greetings! We’ve got good news to share – Faith (Inspire homeschool helper) arrived from California in early September! She is transitioning really well, helped in part, I suspect, by the fact that she grew up in a neighboring southeast Asian country. She has begun…
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Many Blessings
The hymn Blessed Assurance in Thai from one of the hymnals at our church. Hi all, I’d like to follow up on our last blog post, as well as give you some new updates. A number of people gave an extra contribution last month – and it covered a majority of the costs we’ve had…
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Perfect storm
We wanted to give you a quick update on our current situation and needs. We’ve had sort of a perfect storm of expenses come up quite unexpectedly. Three weeks ago we had to take that emergency trip to Cambodia for 10 days, which wasn’t in our budget. And we’ve now been told to expect to…
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Visa Update
We got visas! Not the ones we requested, unfortunately, but better than being tourists. We received a combination of “employment” and “volunteer dependent” visas, which is a strange combination and might cause us some trouble in the future, so probably not a tenable long term solution. However, it gives us 90 days to think and…
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So Much News
Hello! This is Ruth! We’ve devised a system of projecting the computer onto the wall (which is a continuous light source), so I can use a computer again despite my brain injury. It’s awkward, but we desperately needed to get this update out, so it’s good enough! We have so much news to tell you…
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Health update & travel plans
Hi! It’s been quite a while since we’ve posted an update, so we have a number of things to fill you in on. First, I wanted to follow up on our health concerns that I had mentioned previously. Alex is doing much better, and has been able to return to his normal activities like school…
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July 4th Celebration
Some of the activities we did with the kids were water balloons and sparklers! We hosted our July 4th celebration with some missionaries from the States that we’ve invested in here in Chiang Mai. We had a group of singles, and one larger family, 18 people in total. (I won’t post photos for their privacy).…
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Recovery
Josiah’s certificate for passing his driver’s tests! I’d like to follow up on our request for prayers for health and recovery. We really appreciate your prayers in this area. Ruth is improving incrementally each day, though definitely not yet 100%. She still has trouble with sequential thinking which gives her a headache, and with car…