Rain and Floods

While we are hoping for more rain here. It seems that the Philippines is having too much of rain. Almost all of the our friends’ status update on Facebook are all about the flood.  This kind of news makes us worry too much knowing that our family is very near the major river in east [...]

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Nasty Bug

It had been more than a week since I post anything here. I intend to post more regularly but events in the past had kept me away from thinking clearly. Ten of the twelve children caught a virus one after another. Perhaps it was Reuven who hosted the bug and brought it into [...]

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Some drivers have no brain

In our part of town, a pick-up truck with a load as high as 20 feet is not an uncommon sight. The load varies from plastic products, mattresses, textiles and in these photos the load is fruits. So when the road is uneven or the truck ran over on something this what happens.

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God does not forget

We had a wonderful worship service this morning. Church members prepared a very delicious lunch which we enjoyed immensely.  After lunch, we stayed for a while and really had a good fellowship. A lot of talking and encouragement among us who attended the worship went on for a while that it was almost two o’clock [...]

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The Miracle Key

The rain was pouring heavily when we drove to Chiang Rai International Airport to pick up our friends. We easily found a place to park and hurriedly went out of the car. Mindlessly, I slammed the door locked and was about to run and escape out of the pouring rain when I horribly realized that [...]

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Terrifying Quick Rainstorm

We went to Chiang Mai yesterday with a family friend to avail of the services that the Philippine Embassy were extending to the Filipinos living in Northern Thailand. We drove from five hours to be there. Because we arrived early we decided to check the hotel were the event will be held so that we [...]

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More on graduation

After six months of intensive training our eight students finally graduate. Eight students, four males and four females, were able to complete the six-month discipleship-training course. The students believed that the training had fully prepared them for the ministry that God called them to do in their own respective villages and other unevangelized places in [...]

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I miss the van so bad

For the first time in almost four months, I missed my 25-year-old-hands-down Nissan Urvan. The van broke down last year in October and is still in the shop. Holding on for its dear life. The mechanic advised us to change it with a new second-hand engine but Narlin and I are having second thought. We [...]

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The Learning Place

After long months of thorough preparation, the classes finally start on August 11, 2008. The Bible School is a ministry we started in partnership with a fellow missionary from Australia named Cherry Scatchard. The three of us (Cherry, Narlin and Joey) had spent a lot of time working on the curriculum, budgets and schedules. We [...]

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Journey of faith

We’re having plenty of rain here in Mae Sai right now and it has been falling relentlessly every day. And though it causes inconveniences like sickness (viruses prosper too), it could not swathe the many blessings that the shower bring. Psalms 65:8-10 says:
You make the going out of the morning and the evening to shout [...]

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