We are pleased to report to you that we now have a definite destination and team that we will be joining at the end of our national language study.
Through a variety of ways, the Lord made clear the way for us to join the team working among the Thai Lue in the Northern province of Nan.
We currently in Chiang Mai province and will be moving to Nan. It is a distance of about 6 hours.
We will be working with a single lady and another family and are very excited to be welcomed into their team.
Say hello to our new teammates!
The Thai Lue are part of a larger group known as the Dai, originating from China. This people group is found in China, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam and Myanmar.
Our new co-workers have a couple of websites with pictures of their current village and descriptions of life among the Lue if you are interested in checking them out.
Lue Blog and Life in the Lue.
The team will be moving into a new village where there is no gospel witness in July/Aug, and we hope to be able to move in at that time as well. We have not yet been to see the village, but plan on making a trip sometime after the end of this month.
The kids are excited to see where their new home will be and we are too!
Ema in particular is jazzed about moving out of the city. She is definitely a country girl at heart and is looking forward to moving into a smaller city than Chiang Mai and is hoping that whatever houses are available for rent, we will be able to carve out a small portion of the yard (hope there is one!) for a garden for her.
We do not anticipate moving until July/August, as we still have some progress to attain in our Central Thai study.
After all the years of training, moving, waiting and uncertainty, it is a welcome feeling to have a definite destination, good teammates, and a timeline with the end in sight for a more permanent home.
Thanks for praying for this decision with us, we could certainly see God’s hand at work in the process!
Good for you, Tina! I’ve been through about 1/2 of the provinces listed; can’t say I’ve been to Nan yet! Maybe someday…
How exciting! I’ll be checking out the other websites to get a better feel for your new ministry. I call that loooooong period of uncertainty “limbo land” and we lived there a few years before God showed us where to go. Not that we were just sitting on our hands during that time, but it’s just easier to work when you have a specific goal in mind — a trait that goes along with being a very task-oriented American
July/August will be here before you know it!
Life in the Lue doesn’t have the correct link info. I’m coming up with an error reading when I click on it.
Fixed the link problem. How exciting to have a destination!