Today I would like to share with you the story of Auntie Chompoo or Pa Chompoo as we call her in Thai. Pa Chompoo has a daughter, her only child. Sadly this daughter has been using drugs since [...]
Lots of people have heard about culture shock. Its that feeling of disorientation, confusion, or frustration when you are suddenly surrounded by a foreign culture and a foreign language, and are [...]
Mrs Yung (in green shirt) was very glad when we visited her at Nong Soi Thong village in Nakhon Sawan province. Her brother had recently come to know Christ in Bangkok, and informed an OMF [...]
Back in the United States, the sight of leaves changing colors signal that it’s the beginning of Autumn. In Phrom Khiri, the sights of multiple large crates signal that it’s the season of [...]
Our plane hit the tarmac on the first over-90-degree day that Thailand had seen for weeks. What a welcome back, I couldn’t help but think. Good-bye, lovely fall weather of Illinois. Hello, [...]
“You’re about to leave for Thailand again. Are you excited?” asked more than one person as the day for our departure drew near. At first I found myself tongue-tied, stammering out a vague answer, [...]
One aspect of the miraculous cave rescue in Thailand that the press failed to emphasize sufficiently was when the British diver popped up and asked how many were on that ledge. This was the first [...]
I’m new at this I’m not a ‘career’ missionary. I didn’t pack a coffin to get here (an old practice carried out under the assumption that it would be shipped [...]
There is a church planting movement in Central Thailand spreading so rapidly that it is almost beyond belief. In a country where church growth has been so slow for over 200 years – [...]
While in the states, I routinely shell out up to $15USD for a simple haircut. The other day I kidded my barber in Chiang Mai about his raising the price of my haircut from $1.30 to $1.60USD. What [...]
