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| Rachel and Rachel and the Worship Team |
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| Chiang Mai Forecast |
1. Being so far from family and friends :(
2. 100+ inside with no AC
3. Living beneath the CNX airport flight path, loud three legged street dogs, squawky lizards and other frequent noise intrusions
4. Babbling Thai with the vocabulary of a two year old
5. Being bare foot indoors almost all the time
6. Driving motorbikes on the wrong, ahem, left-side of the road
7. Eating rice or noodles with nearly every meal
8. The high cost of cheese
9. Getting our fresh water from a vending machine on the street corner
10. Locking ourselves in with padlocks every night.
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| A Chiang Mai Park |
10 Things We Love About Being in Thailand:
1. Thai food every day, baby!
2. Motor-biking on the wrong, ahem, left-side of the road
3. Thai Lessons with Pii Watt our Thai tutor
4. Monday morning worship with Rachel & Rachel (And sometimes Peter and Kyla!)
5. Our International Church community at the House of Praise
6. Ten baht ice creams (about $.32)
7. Waterfalls, mountain views and tropical flowers
8. The King of Thailand and his good reputation for his many achievements
9. Friendly Thai people (The Land of Smiles!)
10. Working with our cool Create Colleagues from around the world.
10 Fun Facts About our Family right now:
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| Michelle & Steve |
2. Steve is about to welcome the School of Frontier Media students to Chiang Mai
3. Samuel just had a straight A semester at UMASS Amherst
4. Rachel has joined three different worship bands
5. Abigail has been accepted at Grace International School and starts her sophomore year in August
6. Allyson just celebrated her 43rd birthday and still doesn’t look a day over 31
7. Steve’s doctor in Thailand reports “Your diabetes is under control. Good job!”
8. Steve’s sister Michelle just completed her Discipleship Training School here with us at Create International! We are really going to miss her. (That’s Michelle in the photo)
9. Our girls will be bringing back a friend from Falmouth for a visit to Thailand in August.
10. You can view a short evangelistic film that Steve directed with Create India media students earlier this year here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOV0ooR5DxM&
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| Abby in the Hospital |
1. Praise our Lord God for Abby’s full recovery from Typhus last month (not Typhoid Fever)
2. Please ask the Lord to wipe out our medical debt for Abby’s hospital stay ($1250)
3. Thanks be to God that the girls are able to fly home for their mandatory visa run and for the friends, family and churches that contributed to this substantial financial need
4. Please pray for the girl’s safety in travel and for additional funds to come in to pay for the Thai visas and the other extra expenses in the States
5. Praise the Lord for Abby’s acceptance into Grace International School
6. Please ask the Lord to provide more regular support to cover increased monthly and quarterly expenses here in Thailand including the tuition costs for our children
7. Praise God for the six students coming from four different continents for the School of Frontier Media (officially starting June 29th)
8. Pray for Steve to have great wisdom, patience and sensitivity for leading this media missions program and for the students to make the most of their experience
9. Pray also that Steve will feel better soon and to have the strength to endure very long work hours for the next six months (often 60+ hours/week)
10. Pray that many Indians in Rajasthan will come to the Lord after hearing the Gospel for the first time as they watch this new short film (link above).
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