A side street in Bangkok... its about 100 degrees here and Rains Daily. NICE.

Thanks everyone for praying for Ange, she is feeling much better! Unfortunately, myself and another guy, Mike, on the team are having some cold or possibly allergy symptoms, so please keep us in prayer... we need our health so we can keep doing what we're doing!!!

Our team is settling in great, and everyone LOVES baby Emily. She's like a piece of food thrown into a fish pond... the Thai people swarm around her!!! The Thai girls are also very fond of Jeremy, our Korean heartthrob... hehe... so are the ladyboys. (If you don't know what a ladyboy is... well... google it. It's a sad, but true reality here steeped in the striving for merit found in

Buddhism.)

The Reclining Buddha

We are staying in boarding houses that probably host 100 children from ages 5-18ish... These kids are from the Hill Tribes mostly, though some are Thai. Very few speak any English, but they are a lot of fun and once we get past the shyness, they are very friendly and outgoing! They live here at the dorms during the school year so they can attend school in Chiang Rai, as their villages don't have schools.

Our team has a translator named Mon, she is staying in our girls' room and is like one of the team. She did her DTS (Discipleship Training School) in Montana and has been translating for YWAM teams for a few years now (she does this through YWAM Bangkok, which is where we met her and picked her up.) Our outreach coordinator is Bobby Bo, an guy from Chicago who came to Thailand on his DTS outreach 3 years ago and loved it so much he moved here. He's a great go-between for us with our host, Pastor Suphot, and you can tell he really loves the people and cares for them... Thai is a hard language and he's got it pretty much down, so I've gotta give him props!

Emily, Mon, & I in Bangkok

This week we are teaching English at Chiang Rai Vocational College (yes, we're using the Bible as our lesson material!) And in the evenings we are having chapel-type services for the children in the dorms. Our host, Pastor Suphot has asked us to focus on a theme of "Obedience."

Next week we will be hosting an English Camp for students from the college (Three 2-day camps in a row).

Our third week, we will be teaching pastors in the Akha Tribe in Northern Thailand on the Burmese border. We will also be teaching the staff of the Dorms where we are staying.

Then we have 3 Days in Chiang Mai before heading back to Bangkok to fly to LA. So... its going to go fast, I have a feeling!

Before, I had mentioned we would be going to Mae Sot, but I guess that didn't work out logistically, so we're going to spend the whole outreach here, focusing on teaching here in Chiang Rai. I'm okay with that. We traveled 17 hours on planes to get to Bangkok and another 12 hours overnight on the bus up to Chiang Rai. I'm okay with staying here for a while!!!

Well... that's all for now... I have to get cracking on some prep work for my lesson plans!