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Grassroots
Rainy season in Thailand has officially started. If you haven’t experienced the thunderstorms and showers at night, you would notice God’s creation changing around you. Yellow paddy fields are turning fluorescent green, trees that seemed to be dead are blossoming. The nice scenery and low temperatures are very welcome after months of heat and drought. It...
A new creation
I have been involved with the process of building the new Lopburi Learning Center for the Thai field over the past two and a half years. In April, three months into the contract it was disappointing to encounter a mistake in the construction of some of the cantilever beams. In order to strengthen the beams,...
Khun’s story
Still bowing to spirit houses
Why do we eat out so often in Thailand
What do I do?
Pastor Brasit at the end of his Sunday sermon asked the music group to play a song and invited the church leaders and missionaries to come up to the front. Having only been at the church for a month, we step out hesitantly and Pastor Brasit then urges members of the congregation who have specific...
Angels rejoicing in heaven
We came to a noodle shop and general store, and there we found Uanbu sitting at a table. We sat down to talk with him, as Theerachai shared the prodigal son story, using an OMF poster-preaching flipbook with big illustrations of key points in the parable. After twenty minutes or so, Uanbu was still hungry...
Desserting party
After 8 months in Lopburi, I wanted to find a nice way to say goodbye to Thai friends in my neighbourhood and surrounding community. I figured I’d make it the opposite of a house-warming party, maybe house-freezing, with ice cream. But chose to call it a Desserting Party, though the pun didn’t translate so well...
At what cost?
