Category: Missions
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Immanuel in Piang Luong
Our accommodation for the weekend was at the church building where Ms. Chen worked, Immanuel. When we weren’t there, Ms. Chen invited us to her home where we ate fresh fruit from her garden. Not only were the dragonfruit/ pitaya/ papaya enormous, they were also beautiful and delicious! We enjoyed a relatively peaceful stay,…
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Dai Minority of Thailand
The Windy Road Up A few weekends back, my brother and I had the opportunity to spend a weekend in the mountains in the town of Piang Luong, which lies just before the Thailand Myanmar border. We took a van from Chiangmai (nicknamed “bread-car”) that took about 4 hours, two of which were spent driving up the…
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ZION ORPHANAGE
On Sunday July 10, Jia Sheng drove David, Stella, Scarlet, and I to Maejo, a suburb across town to visit an orphanage called, Home of Zion. Director Ni oversees this place, which houses about 50 to 60 children ranging from ages 5 up to 11. Slowly the younger kids walked towards us as they awakened…
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Grace Student Center
Breaking the Ice Since no one went by their English names here, we did introductions twice. The first time on the night we met, when no one knew what to say or made eye contact with us, and the second when we were all sitting around the wooden rectangular table. They are: Scarlett (17), Yuan (16),…
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House of Grace
Grace Student Center The Center began running in 2014, and while they expected to have 4 students, they currently host 8, (2 will leave this week). It is the hope and mission of the organization to inspire the students to study hard, enter a good university, and get a good job in order to change their current…
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Hello, Chiang Mai
Packing for our 1 month and 2 month journeys (my brother and I, respectively) David was able to borrow a hiking backpack from our friend, while I used my Minaal Carry-on for the first time (thanks to my sister). Though we were coming right at the end of the hottest month of the year, it was…
MELODY TIENYUN 