Angkor Wat, and India!

We're in India! I wish I could update more often but have been very busy with not much internet access.

After leaving the JFA (Jesus For Asia) Studio in Chiang Mai Thailand, we returned to Bangkok on the night bus and one day later left Bangkok bound for Cambodia! After about 11 hours we arrived in Siem Riep at the orphanage that Tim Maddocks started. We spent 2 days there and then returned to Bangkok. But while we were there we went to Angkor Wat! We were only there for about 2-3 hours so we couldn't explore it all, but it was fun to get some pictures.

We got to Bangkok sunday night and the next evening we boarded a flight from Bangkok to Chennai, India. It has been an incredible experience to be here in India. We have 5 revival meetings going on every evening and the people are being touched. One family left us this morning to go to north India so we lost 5 people and several people on our team are getting sick, so please pray for us.

We will be here in Dharmapuri (where the meetings are being held) until next monday and then we go to visit the JFA orphanage. Then to another place to hold some more meetings and then we fly back to Bangkok on March 10. I think we'll have some sort of a retreat after that for a few days and then I start the long journey home. From when I fly out of Bangkok to when I land in Portland, is 52 hours! I fly from Bangkok, to Addis Ababa, then I have a 16 hour layover and then fly to Washington D.C. and then 1-1/2 hours to get through customs and get my bag checked in again and get to the gate. Then a flight to Chicago, and then home! I will arrive in Portland at 2:33PM on March 19.

After being in Africa working for 3-1/2 months and then traveling like we have I'm exhausted and ready to be home. But I'm doing my best to stay positive and make the most of the remainder of the trip.

Travels in Thailand

We're in Chiang Mai!

After spending Sabbath in Bangkok we were going to go to visit a place on sunday where they help victims of child trafficking. Sunday morning the vans we'd hired didn't come! So we put it off until Monday. Then Monday we went on the 3 hour trip to visit the children's home. We didn't get to see the kids very much because they were in school, but it was amazing to see how God has been working there.

Then Tuesday morning we took a bus from Bangkok to Mae Sot. We stayed the night in a guest house and then the next day we took a Songthaew out to Sunshine Orchard. A Songthaew is like a pickup truck with a rack over the top and seats on the sides of the truck bed. We got on one that was half full already. We got all our luggage and a total of 21 people on it! (I'll post pictures later.)

The time at Sunshine Orchard was good. The time flew by and we couldn't be with the kids much because it was during exams. But it was great to see friends and the place that my parents were in Nov. (click Here to learn more about Sunshine Orchard)

We left Sunshine orchard at about 5AM sunday morning bound for Mae Sot. (about 2 hours) We got there in plenty of time to get the 8AM bus that brought us to Chiang Mai. We arrived at about 4PM and  have been here since then visiting the TV studio here.

We're headed back to Bangkok tonight on the night bus and hopefully I'll update more there with some pictures.