The Middle of May

                             Progress on the first duplex house.        

•               The rain has slowed us down a bit, but it is coming along nicely!

•                    The floor is done, getting ready to put on the roofing

•                                     Looking out over the pond

• From the road looking in.... our orchard and banana grove is doing great!                   The rain has been great for the plants!

                                                 The uninvited guest

 

•                    Ohm teaching Eurn how to play some of our songs.

•  Doe-Doe, one of the orphans who comes every Sunday. He is being raised by his grandmother.

•  Nat is being raised by her aunt, and is now very active in the youth group.

• Ning and Noi are active members in the youth program, and are daughters of our Thai co-workers.

building progress and Merredith's visit

•  Meredith and I had a good time checking out other modes of transportation.

•  During summer when school is out, we have had a number of village children coming by and hanging out with the saa paper group. This is Lek. He is earning a bit of pocket money by helping out.

•  Our temporary structure that we call our ministry center.  We really are enjoying going natural!

•  Eating phat Thai at a near by restaurant.

• The saa paper group working on an order.

• The building pictures are not in chronological order... just some random pictures we took this week

• The duplex house.. putting in the floor

The men watching  a boxing match after the service

• making a shelter for the Sunday school class, and a place to park the vehicles out of the sun during the week.

Easter Morning Service

• Ready to walk the journey together to meet around the Lord's table to celebrate the risen Lord

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We gathered together at the end of our lane to walk the journey together 

• We met around the table  for our worship service

•  Reading scripture together

•  Prayer for out time around the Lord's table

•  The early risers

 

• Breaking the bread on Easter morning

•  preparing rice soup for breakfast after the service

•  Fellowshipping around the bowls of rice

• The young girl, Muay, is from the near by village, this is her first Easter Service

 

• After breakfast the "kids" were excited to have the egg hunt

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•  Hunting for Easter eggs, if you found an egg with a cross on it, you got a small prize. Muay is happy to choose the bottle of oyster sauce !

• We hid eggs in the circle around our tree. In the future the tree will be encircled by a large bench.

• Taa also found a special egg

• We ended our morning worship time setting off rockets to celebrate our Lord's rising

•  Prawit's rocket went the highest

• Jerry decides to have a try