At the beginning of the month I had the privilege of visiting Northeast Thailand and attended my first Thailand Covenant Church Meeting. It was about a 13 hour drive through some mountains and dry plains until we reached the Isaan region. The Thai people in Isaan speak a different dialect of Thai, so only a few things could I understand. It’s also the land of sticky rice and peculiar instruments that have become popular throughout Thailand
In the picture to the right I’m standing in the middle of a rubber tree farm out that Ba’Anan (my host mother who is standing next to me) owns in partnership with her friend (behind her in the blue). I had never seen rubber trees, much less have the opportunity to see what a whole field of them look like, but it was quite fascinating. Rubber has been a long-standing commodity in Thailand, once dominated by Western investors, but now 1000’s of acres of rubber tree farms are in the hands of local Thai investors. Let’s hope they’ll turn a profit someday!
Thailand Covenant Church (TCC) Meeting: This large group photo below includes most of the TCC leaders and some of their family members. We spent about two days together in meetings,
Icey’s 3rd Birthday: I’m learning more and more what it’s like to feel like part of the family and when I’m the one who has the camera and video recorder, then it becomes my job to make sure these special events get recorded. Little Icey is Art and Ying’s oldest child and I have to say that we have a special relationship.
When I first came to Thailand, it seemed that Icey, in the midst of his terrible 2’s, was the most genuine person around. I imagine that children (across all cultures) are very similar and when they like something or don’t like something they know how to show it. Icey i
This photo was taken at the 2nd Missionary Retreat among Covenant Missionaries to Asia. We spent almost a week at a remote resort at an Oceanside resort, where I was able to go snorkeling for the first time in my life.
It was a great time to have some close communion with God and experience His presents in my life in ve

Making a Traditional Thai Snack:
The day following our Retreat in Asia I was thrown right back into the wonder of Thai culture. In the picture to the right I’m putting a shredded coconut mixture into sticky-rice flower and forming it into a little ball. This is then put into a very sweat coconut cream that is then