Most of you know by now that I am headed to India soon. I leave a week from next Saturday. I will be spending a lot of time away from Bangkok between now and the first of the year. I'll be in our office in Hyderabad, India October 2 - 25. In November, I will make a return trip to Kansas City for a couple of weeks, from November 12-29. A week after my return, I will be off to India again until December 23. On the 24th, I will speak at church at our Christmas Eve service, and Christmas Day, I will join a team going to Khao Lak in southern Thailand for a week, doing Christmas parties for children in that area.
Because I will be gone so much, this was my last day in the slums... possibly until the first of the year, so I wanted to get some more photos and update the blog for everyone one last time.
The day started great, with church. My Young Leaders Group put together an amazing version of the song, Who Am I. Please take a moment to check them out at
There are big changes taking place in JaRurat. The government has given a subsidy to allow the community to enclose the area where we have been working with the kids, to use it as a kindergarten/preschool. This is wonderful, but we are being displaced. Fortunately, they also have funds included to build a smaller area nearby that we will be able to use. Today, we had to go to the rear of the community, where there is a small dirt play area used by the children.
Little girls did not know what to make of the big farang. We has several new kids, because we were in a different area of the community, closer to their homes.
We go to two communities... JaRurat and Wisiwa. Usually we drive from one to the other, which can take twenty minutes with traffic, when the reality is the two communities are barely a hundred meters apart. The rear of the JaRurat community backs up to a big overpass and some railroad tracks. Cross both and you enter the rear of Wisiwa. Because we were already at the rear of JaRurat today, we just walked over to Wisiwa.
This is what the walkways between houses look like in most places.
Both communities are like mazes and until you get used to the place, you don't want to go in alone or you may be lost for hours.
Coming out into the area where we always meet with the Wisiwa kids.
The kids have come to adore Ting. He is our rock star.
And role model.
A good photo to close my 2010 slum adventures with. I appreciate your prayers for my time traveling around for work in the upcoming months. c
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