Category: Missions
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Trip to the mountains
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In a few hours I will get up for another trip to the mountains. I need to see if the Hui Ba Rai water project is finished. It rained so much lately that it was not an easy task for the villagers to do it. I will also visit Hui…
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Giving my Testimony
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Today I will talk to a larger Christian group of Thai people at a cell group gathering. It is the first time I speak in front of a bigger group in Thai without a translator. Strange, because I used to lead worship in Thai for two years at a Thai…
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Christmas outreach
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Yesterday evening I came back from our last Christmas village outreach this year. Hui Ma Jom was our last place we went. Four villages in a row. Meeting people, singing Christmas songs, sharing the great story of the birth of our Savior. We were in Hui Kau Laam, Hui Ma…
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Christmas outreach preperations
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I have been in Fang on Wednesday to do the planing and shopping for the Christmas outreach in the villages. It became a tradition to use the Christmas time to go to the villages we share the good News during the year to have a special time. We will be…
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Monkey business
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Today I went up to Prao. This is a town about an hour and a half North of Chiang Mai. Actually it is a whole Ampoe, or district hidden behind mountains. Driving from Chiang Mai I pass Mae Jo and then later drive over some hills that leads to Prao.…
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Churchplanting the odd way
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I always thought the church has to do something with people. I mean people come to faith in Christ and have then fellowship together growing into a community, learning, sharing and suffering together on their journey. Over the years I have seen and been in different churches and communities. I…
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Teaching on worship
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I just came back last night from a village 20 km. north of Mae Sot. I left last Sunday from Chiang Mai to teach in a discipleship school for Karen people. It is has been a while since I taught for a whole week. I think it went quite well…
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Thanksgiving in a Lahu village
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Yesterday I joined Mongkun and his family for thanksgiving at his older sisters village in the Prao area. We met at the boarding home we support and from there went all the way off-road into the mountains. The road would have been very difficult in the rainy season. But now…
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Team from Australia
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I will be gone for some days. We have a team from Australia I’m taking up to the mountains. At the same time Lillian is up at the women’s retreat playing in the worship band. We have quite a busy time. So I won’t be blogging till next Wednesday. According…
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The end of poverty
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Is it an unreachable dream? To end poverty? Or better say extreme poverty as Jeffrey D. Sachs writes in his book “The end of poverty”. I started reading it some weeks ago and try to fight my way through pages of economic change and explanations about the world with its…