Did you know that the first few days of rainy season bring about a strange phenomenon? At dusk, millions of winged insects come out of nowhere and invade any place that has light… like the living room, bedrooms, or anyplace any unsuspecting person has a light source. After a while, the bugs loose their wings,…read more.

“I said, EXODUS 20: 8-11!” screamed Roy at the kids. His two interpreters looked at him blankly. “EDODUS 20: 8-11” he roared once again. This time both interpreters started shouting at the children tightly packed around them. Each head bent forward to try to catch their words. What in the world was going on? A…read more.

  Last night, I sat on the edge of the outside kitchen porch and looked up at the stars. The village below me was humming with quiet activity in the darkness, and I could hear the happy hum of conversation in the house. I felt so small…so insignificant. Last week was a long nightmare of…read more.

Rats being roasted over campfires; children sneaking through the fence; trash all over the ground; a drunk 8 year old; mismatched, unfinished buildings; teachers at odds with each other; not enough money to run a school…these are some of the things that greeted us upon our introduction to our new school. To say that it…read more.

What a blessing to be finally settled at our new home close to the Myanmar border, 60 kilometers north of Mae Sot. Our home is actually in the village right next to the school. It is a nice walk to and from the campus. I thought that I would take this opportunity to share our…read more.

I hardly know where to start. I think that I last wrote about waiting, and waiting and waiting to move. Well, after waiting for so long, we found ourselves with a compelling reason to take quick action…my visa was just about expired. We were getting ready to call the mission again to see what could…read more.

  You may be asking yourselves why in the world I seem to have plenty of time to write about unimportant things like snakes in my room and the brilliancy of cribs. Well, that is because we are sitting here waiting. Waiting for what? Well, we found out that we have to wait on new…read more.

I can just imagine that many, many years ago…maybe as long ago as Adam and Eve, mothers have discovered the same perplexing problem that I have. It starts out this way. (That is if you live in primitive conditions like we do)  You have a little newborn baby, so you make it a cute little…read more.

The other night, I was looking through a box, trying to find my computer when I noticed something moving about 3 inches from my face. I really don’t like anything to be that close to my face in the twilight, so I jumped back to examine the cause of the disturbance from a more reasonable…read more.

Sometimes things that should be easy are rather hard when your stuff is half way around the world…unless you have a team! This week we have been working to get all the documents together for our missionary visas and work permits. But, what do you do when the needed documents are in your snowed-in house…read more.