Some End of Month Prayer Requests

Here are some recent prayer request that we ask for you to be lifting up:

1. Pamela's parents, Debbie and Rob came this past week to spend some time with us. They have been serving along with us in our village for the past few days. Pray that God will use their ministry to impact the Kui people in our village.

2. Pray for our village, Baan Pbuay. We were away in Bangkok for the past week. While we were gone, 2 people died in our village. One older man died of liver cancer. I had knelt with him many times and prayed for God to work in his life. I had hoped to be able to spend more time with him and his family, but when we were on vacation I received a call that he had passed away. Pray that we will be able to spend time comforting and praying with his family. When we got home, I also found out that another Kui man died of AIDS.

3. Pray for us as we continue to seek the Lord's direction in how to best reach out and evangelize the Kui people.

4. Pray for hearts to be changed and for interest in a relationship with God to increase our village and in the surrounding Kui villages.

5. Pray for our Christian friend Nuhy, who lives in our village, to grow in her walk with God. Pray that God will enable us to be able to effectively disciple her.

A couple of recent pics

These are a couple of pictures that we took this past week for those who want see what Katy and Hudson are looking like these days.

Fishing, Isaan Thailand Style

This past week, I had a fun opportunity to go fishing...not with poles, bait, and tackle...just with bare hands. In our area of Thailand, people will often make a small pond in their rice fields. When the rainy season comes, and the lakes and streams flood over, the fish spread all across the rice fields. After harvest season is over, some people will invite friends and family to come "fishing" at their place. They then proceed to pumping the water out of the little pond, which leaves some water and a lot of mud. You then crawl down into the mud and reach around, trying to find some fish. We probably ended up with a couple hundred fish, mostly small, but a few big ones. Then they cook the fish over a fire (no need to clean the fish). After peeling off the outside of the fish, the fish taste great with some sticky rice. I was also fortunate enough to eat some kind of an ant and ant egg concoction some of the older men made up...it wasn't too bad. Here are some pics.