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Prayer requests – health concerns
Children’s handprints decorating the orphanage wall Our end-of-month post for April is mostly a request for prayer for Ruth and Alex. The good news is that we’re in our new house! Unfortunately, about three weeks ago (the night we were scheduled to spend our first night in the new house), Ruth had a bicycle crash…
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New House
Dry season forest fire just outside of town! A lot of people have needed medical treatment due to the terrible air quality. Happy spring to you all! We’d like to update you about an exciting change in our housing situation. After a little over three years in our current house in Chiang Mai, we’ve started…
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Visitors!
So, we’ve successfully hosted our first visitors in Thailand! Back to back no less. First to arrive were the Gregorys, a couple from Barnabas International who serve as our missionary mentors/sounding board/accountability came to visit for a week. They wanted to see and experience our life here. We were able to show them some of…
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Neighborhood Gatherings
This month I’d like to share about our outreach to our immediate community which is a group of about 200 homes. Normally, we have large gatherings of single missionaries and/or families at our home during the holidays, but this year we had just gotten back to our house in Thailand in November, and the majority…
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Year in Review 2022
We volunteered as a family to help a local orphanage put on a Christmas party with/for the surrounding village. Happy New Year! Our December post each year is a summary of what transpired that year. If you are new to our blog, you can get a fairly quick overview by just reading through previous December…
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God’s Connections For Us – Part 2
These are our neighbors on a platform leading to the water about to float candles & incense to celebrate the Loi Kratong holiday. Happy American Thanksgiving Month! We are still settling into being here. Getting our visas in order after reentry, our vehicle registration/insurance valid again, and taking paperwork to various offices that need them…
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God’s Connections For Us
The god-guardians in the Bangkok airport are still wearing masks as are most of the Thai population out of choice. Hello from Thailand! We are back and getting acclimated to Thai culture again. We are so glad to be back – our family fits well here in this country. We had the privilege of speaking…
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Three Sundays Left
Lance and I celebrated our 20th anniversary this month! We were able to get away and spend a beautiful day at Letchworth State Park in NY. This update will be brief as we are down to the last two weeks in the States and incredibly busy getting ready to leave. We’ll be speaking at two…
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Quick Speaking Overview
We were so blessed in NC to have a great time of catching up with one of my cousins and to tour the USS North Carolina battleship. We’re over halfway through our trip here and have every Sunday scheduled until we leave! For the month of August we’ve been at a church in a different…
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Travel Overview
There are so many things to adjust to culturally, our heads are spinning trying to reorient ourselves. From being able to see everyone’s face (masks were still mandatory everywhere when we left Thailand), to understanding what everyone’s saying around us, to the small things like knowing you can ask anyone for information and they’ll understand…