All Saints VBS Kids Making A Big Difference!
Greetings from Thailand, again! I am so happy to report that the VBS kids from All Saints Lutheran Church in Worthington, OH have already raised $957 in just the first three days of the two-week vacation bible school! It is just incredible to see what combined efforts can produce! Just think what a luxury it is back in the USA to think nothing of flushing the toilet, taking a long, long shower or just washing your hands is! Soon, the kids at the new orphanage will have access to water....just not the way we are used to consuming it! Next time you brush your teeth, try turning off the water until you need to rinse.......
Production drilling for the new permanent water well at the Asia's Hope orphanage in Chiangmai should begin on Friday. The gound is very rocky and most of the water is 100-200 meters deep, and they must use diamond bits to drill.
I am at a Thai post office using the internet, but the pc's do not have a cd-rom installed, so I cannot upload any photos. I will keep trying to find one (another luxury we enjoy back home!) but it might have to wait until I get back to Cambodia on Sunday.
RANDOM OBSERVATIONS: There are many Americans in Thailand....most headed south for the pure white beaches....but also a large mixture of other foreign travellers. The Bangkok airport is so totally not Port Columbus....even on a OSU-Michigan fotball game weekend!....... Thai food is very spicy hot, with smells that can turn your stomach, but not to fear, there are so many Western food outlets here, like Burger King, McDonald's, KFC, etc. Everything but Taco Bell, which is what I am currently craving...... Childrenjust love to play all over the world, and they don't know if they are poor or not. For Westerners visiting and trying to help them, we just want to help improve their lives so they don't ever feel poor.............. All the kids in both Thailand and Cambodia wear uniforms to school, which is a great equalizer and lessens the need to want so much in the way of fashion. I personally think it is a great thing, and wish the public schools in America could adopt some simple dress coded: you know, white or blue shirts shirts and dark pants. The kids here are really proud of their schol uniforms, as they usually are their best6 set of clothes they own. Even the university students all have uniforms..... imagine THAT at OSU??? EVERYONE wearing scarlet and gray?? Yikes! Maybe K-12 would be best.
The head and chest cold that Team 2 left for me has firmly established itself, trying to make me miserable, and doing a nice job of it! My ears will not pop from the flight, and itf it is like any other time I have flown with a cold, it will take three days for the pressure to equalize, just in time to fly back to Cambodia! I am looking forward to ending my trip with these four days in Thailand, on a little tiny fishing island SE of Bangkok in the Gulf of Thailand. The name of it is Ko Si Chang. I need the clean air to heal my lungs, which are full of the dirt and grime of Phnom Penh. The stuff I have been coughing up the past few days reminds me of what the coal miners must go through working in the mines for so many years. Since you don't need a prescription for anything in Cambodia, it was very easy to buy an inhaler, which is helping. Please pray for my health! Thanks!
I'll be back in Columbus on July 20, the 36th anniversary of Niel Armstrong's first walk on the moon (a Purdue graduate, I might add!). I think I'll just make one giant leap off the plane and into bed!
God Bless and be safe!
Production drilling for the new permanent water well at the Asia's Hope orphanage in Chiangmai should begin on Friday. The gound is very rocky and most of the water is 100-200 meters deep, and they must use diamond bits to drill.
I am at a Thai post office using the internet, but the pc's do not have a cd-rom installed, so I cannot upload any photos. I will keep trying to find one (another luxury we enjoy back home!) but it might have to wait until I get back to Cambodia on Sunday.
RANDOM OBSERVATIONS: There are many Americans in Thailand....most headed south for the pure white beaches....but also a large mixture of other foreign travellers. The Bangkok airport is so totally not Port Columbus....even on a OSU-Michigan fotball game weekend!....... Thai food is very spicy hot, with smells that can turn your stomach, but not to fear, there are so many Western food outlets here, like Burger King, McDonald's, KFC, etc. Everything but Taco Bell, which is what I am currently craving...... Childrenjust love to play all over the world, and they don't know if they are poor or not. For Westerners visiting and trying to help them, we just want to help improve their lives so they don't ever feel poor.............. All the kids in both Thailand and Cambodia wear uniforms to school, which is a great equalizer and lessens the need to want so much in the way of fashion. I personally think it is a great thing, and wish the public schools in America could adopt some simple dress coded: you know, white or blue shirts shirts and dark pants. The kids here are really proud of their schol uniforms, as they usually are their best6 set of clothes they own. Even the university students all have uniforms..... imagine THAT at OSU??? EVERYONE wearing scarlet and gray?? Yikes! Maybe K-12 would be best.
The head and chest cold that Team 2 left for me has firmly established itself, trying to make me miserable, and doing a nice job of it! My ears will not pop from the flight, and itf it is like any other time I have flown with a cold, it will take three days for the pressure to equalize, just in time to fly back to Cambodia! I am looking forward to ending my trip with these four days in Thailand, on a little tiny fishing island SE of Bangkok in the Gulf of Thailand. The name of it is Ko Si Chang. I need the clean air to heal my lungs, which are full of the dirt and grime of Phnom Penh. The stuff I have been coughing up the past few days reminds me of what the coal miners must go through working in the mines for so many years. Since you don't need a prescription for anything in Cambodia, it was very easy to buy an inhaler, which is helping. Please pray for my health! Thanks!
I'll be back in Columbus on July 20, the 36th anniversary of Niel Armstrong's first walk on the moon (a Purdue graduate, I might add!). I think I'll just make one giant leap off the plane and into bed!
God Bless and be safe!
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