Learning Thai

Introducing our new and improved team! (also including our "India branch"- Lowell, Amy and kids). For those interested in who's who (r is for reach)......Back row: Anita, Amy, Reina, Nixson, Candice, Beth (r), Aida, Dan, Raul, Eder. Front Row: Colleen (r), Ashley (r), Nora Grace, Lowell, Sam, Miriam, Deanna (r), Claire, Eliza, Tom, Sharon, Joelle (r), Brittany (r), and Efrain.

Just for the purpose of comparison...this was our entire team 8 months ago in September at our last team retreat! Wow, look what God has done!

Our team won't stay this big for long as Lowell and Amy head back to India after the birth of their baby and the Reacher's leave us in August. Plus Sharon and Raul's terms as interns also end this summer. So, we're enjoying our numbers while it lasts. The time in Chiang Mai was really good for us in spending more time together and learning more about each other since we are spread out in our living locations and doing a wide variety of work.

The time was really refreshing. Dan lead us in studying examples in the Bible of incarnational ministry. It is such a challenge to think of all the new areas that God could be leading us into...but really exciting too!! You can pray for Tom this week as he begins meeting with two friends for Bible study here in Thippawan.

It was a big blessing for the girls too. They had the chance to have a "bible study"/craft time with a Reacher during our sessions and really enjoyed that. One night we had an evening Bible study and Eliza cried and cried that she had to go to bed because she wanted another Bible study. :) They also enjoyed running in the grass and playing with the Stoltzfus kids as well as daily times in the pool. Claire learned to swim underwater so that was a big deal for her!

Now we're happy to be back home settling into our normal routine. Claire is back to school today. She will be going to Thai school Tues-Thurs and having home school Mon and Fri. Tom is teaching English at her school on Thursdays.

-Candice