Slums 08-23

This Sunday started out in memorable fashion. At lunch after church, I visited with a guest from England. Her name is Joy and she had her adopted daughter Anna with her. Joy is vision impaired and has come for a month each year for fifteen years to volunteer at the school for the blind in Pattya. There she met little Anna.

Anna was in a group of children the school deemed 'unteachable,' and as such she was pretty much just warehoused. When Joy met her, she was not even potty trained. She could not speak and could not read Braille. Today, Anna speaks English AND Thai and is engaged and just a wonderful little girl. Joy brings her back to visit annually, so she maintains a sense of her Thai background. It was a treat to meet them!


Thirty nine kids at Ja Rurat this weekend. Down a bit, but it is a good thing when a down week is almost forty. Lord, send laborers!

Greg Brown and Pai with photographic proof that they helped do dishes!

Two of my very favorite people in all of Thailand, Ting and Sanit. Brother and sis. Ting is going to America in March to spend a couple of weeks with J.

Sontaya is going to America with Ting. In fact, he just got his passport last week!

Greg Brown shares a devotional after dinner in the slums at Bearing.

Lovely ladies. it is nice to have Izumi back from her home in Japan to visit.

Bamboo Pai!