Home Again

Last week saw a flurry of activity for us.

Greg headed off to the South of Thailand for a survey trip with one of our co-workers. The kids and I took part of that time away to go up to Chiang Kham to visit his wife and kids while our husbands were gallivanting around Phuket.

Ok, so they weren’t exactly gallivanting, but they were down in the beautiful Andaman Sea area, with clean air and lovely beaches.

These are the kinds of boats they were island hopping in.

I will try hard not to mention that Greg in not wearing his lifejacket. Those who know me know that sort of stresses me out. Good thing he is an adult already.

Greg joined Rob for a week as he looked into a southern people group to see what sort of Gospel witness and access exists among that people group. It involved quite a bit of driving and island hopping, visiting multiple villages and meeting with village headmen and other local churches.

One of the villages with the tide in. It is easy to see why this people group was hit so hard by the tsunami a few years back.

A similar village at low(er) tide

The Lord clearly was paving the way for them though with contacts and timing, and the time was very profitable.

This time of survey, was not for us to see if we would be working with this people group, but for the leadership of Thailand to be able to think about future works with NTM Thailand.

We are still eagerly anticipating moving up to the north and joining the Thai Lue team.

For my part, the drive up to our co-workers’village was smooth and uneventful. Just what I want in a road trip. ha.
We enjoyed several days with our friends, and Zach and Calvin played and played and played, only stopping to crash for the nights. We girls brought up a special project, fabric for making aprons. This was Leah and Ema’s first time using a sewing machine, and they thought it was great and are ready for their next project.
(I know, shame on me for not teaching my girls to sew earlier. I am shaking my finger at myself.)

sorry, no pictures, Greg had the camera with him. But I would much rather have the pictures he took anyway!

Greg arrived back last Thursday around 2:00pm, and by 6:00 the next morning, he was off again!
His men’s group at church had an overnight outing at a local dam for a time of fellowship and fishing. There are a couple of kinds of fishing here, the kind with poles, the kind with nets, and with guns. Nail guns. Greg has his own fishing nail gun, courtesy of a friend, and he shot his first fish with it last weekend!

We are sort of getting back into a schedule around our house, but of course there are some ‘extra’events. What would a week be without those?
The group we attended the Thai Bible school with last year are graduating this week, and there is a wedding out the same direction of one of the young men who attends our church. Greg would really like to see the group of guys from Bible school one more time before they all scatter to go back home to their own villages and churches and is planning on heading up to the village where the wedding will be.

So, he left again this morning, but this will be a quick trip with him only gone for two days.

I mean really, he HAS to be back for our anniversary on Friday!
We are sending to kids a friend’s house, and we are off for a date!
Whoo-hoo! It has been waaaaay too long since we had a night out. Come on Friday!