So we are long overdue for an update. Thank you all for your continued prayers and support. We are keeping busy currently hosting another Servant Team (4 people) and have 2 interns working with us until June 1st.
Outreach
We continue to hit the streets twice a week building relationships with the families and children begging on [...]
MINISTRY
During the time we spent volunteering with another organization, it became obvious a very real unreached need are the children and families who beg on the street. It has sadly become known to us that these little girls and boys begging or selling trinkets in the red-light districts are at risk and being propositioned for [...]
I get woken up with “Yaay, MaMMa awake, Ella awake … Dadda wake…Sissy awake..Yaay” as Elijah declares, while jumping on the bed, that we are all awake and how happy she is about it! Then it is off to phone calls discussing Visa issue and planning to go to Laos. In the afternoon i am [...]
Dear Family & Friends,
“ the world of the poor…that is the real world…” Jon Sobrino goes onto say that until in 1974 he lived in the “real world” the world of the Poor did not exist for him.
Today in 2009 this is still very much true. A fellow Word Made Flesh worker shared with us [...]
Life if Bangkok often feels like months are really hours, and days only minutes. There is so much life around us that time seems to melt away.
As I sat down to do a quick update I looked and realized our last blog was in May and I though how is it already June working on [...]
“i will take my stand at my watchpost and station myself on the tower, and look out to see what he will say to me …”
This passage from Habakkuk has a beautiful imagery. I see him standing in the watch tower, of the destroyed or desolate city of Jerusalem in the middle of a desert [...]
Amy Hupe writing for the fam, Jan. 15, 2009.
Preparing to live and serve here in Bangkok we knew that at least our first Christmas would be spent here away from family. We had prepared to miss our family, feel homesick and in no way feel the Christmasy living in a relatively hot climate, is just [...]
From Amy Hupe, October 2008.
Language study is almost a right of passage for missionaries world wide. Some take a period of time to study in a country before departing for their field. Some attempt to study “en vivo,” living and learning from the people surrounding them without any formal education. And others study in a [...]