Sunday, June 19, 2016
April 2016
I just wanted to send this update that Gavin wrote for our board. It is pretty informative. The only thing I would add is that Rani got all A's except for and 89 in English on her last report card. I had to help her not to be disappointed! She made some nice friends and was enjoying the last bit of school much better. Thank you all for your prayers for her.
Below is Gavin's update from the trip he took to Thailand in May to take Rani home for summer break and to check on the ministry there.
This week Candace is completing the final week of a three-week summer class for an alternative program that helps her get licensed to teach in Arkansas. She has already been offered AND accepted a position to teach 7th and 8th grade English in Maynard, AR. It is a small farming community with a high poverty rate, similar to the one where she grew up. Candace really believes that God has led her to this, and she's reaI just wanted to send this update that Gavin wrote for our board. It is pretty informative. The only thing I would add is that Rani got all A's except for and 89 in English on her last report card. I had to help her not to be disappointed! She made some nice friends and was enjoying the last bit of school much better. Thank you all for your prayers for her.
Below is Gaivin's update from the trip he took to Thailand in May to take Rani home for summer break and to check on the ministry there.
This week Candace is completing the final week of a three-week summer class for an alternative program that helps her get licensed to teach in Arkansas. She has already been offered AND accepted a position to teach 7th and 8th grade English in Maynard, AR. It is a small farming community with a high poverty rate, similar to the one where she grew up. Candace really believes that God has led her to this, and she's really looking forward to it.
I got a real estate salesperson's license in Arkansas a little while ago, and I've been doing a lot of informal training on-line - there is tons of free stuff available. I began my efforts to get listings in earnest after getting back from Thailand, after taking Rani back.
After reducing our support to the children's homes in Mae Chaem and Nohbo, we committed to supporting Rani (here in the U.S.) and the two college girls (Saa and Beebee) in Chiang Mai. We also committed to supporting another girl who lived in our house in Mae Chaem (Noke, who is now a high school senior). While I was in Thailand last month, I ran into one of my former students (and then met her with one of her friends, also a former student of mine). After meeting with them, I cannot explain meeting them as being accidental.
So, we (me and Candace - we believe in obedience to God's leading) decided to support these girls (Fah and Sea) at university, also. This falls in line with our belief that it is at the level between graduating high school and getting to university that there seems to be a great need for help. We have told ALL of these students that we have made these commitments to them without knowing where the funds are coming from. We have asked them all to pray for success in gaining or earning ourselves the support we need. They are aware and seem happy to be a part of the same leap of faith.
We plan to give as much as we possibly can from our own earnings to support these girls and trust God that it will be enough or that He will bring alongside others who feel called to help them as well.
I was thinking of having our annual meeting in the beginning of September. I'll send out date/time requests as that draws nearer.
Thank you so much for your continued support and prayers.
Gavin and Candace
After reducing our support to the children's homes in Mae Chaem and Nohbo, we committed to supporting Rani (here in the U.S.) and the two college girls (Saa and Beebee) in Chiang Mai. We also committed to supporting another girl who lived in our house in Mae Chaem (Noke, who is now a high school senior). While I was in Thailand last month, I ran into one of my former students (and then met her with one of her friends, also a former student of mine). After meeting with them, I cannot explain meeting them as being accidental.
So, we (me and Candace - we believe in obedience to God's leading) decided to support these girls (Fah and Sea) at university, also. This falls in line with our belief that it is at the level between graduating high school and getting to university that there seems to be a great need for help. We have told ALL of these students that we have made these commitments to them without knowing where the funds are coming from. We have asked them all to pray for success in gaining or earning ourselves the support we need. They are aware and seem happy to be a part of the same leap of faith.
We plan to give as much as we possibly can from our own earnings to support these girls and trust God that it will be enough or that He will bring alongside others who feel called to help them as well.
I was thinking of having our annual meeting in the beginning of September. I'll send out date/time requests as that draws nearer.
Thank you so much for your continued support and prayers.
Gavin and Candace
January 2016
Dear Friends,
This will most likely
be my last update from Thailand. We
leave for America next week! Today we
are having freakish weather. It is like
a wonderful rainy fall day. Rani and I
went to a coffee shop this morning and she had her first hot cocoa ever. We sat outside even though it was cold and
misty just soaking in the loveliness of it all.
Here is a picture. Rani has
already gotten her first coat and is getting ready for her first plane
ride. I am excited about all the firsts.
But mixed up in all the “firsts” are a lot of” lasts” too as
I say goodbye to this beautiful and horrible country that has been my home, my
love, my hate, my despair and my frustration and, in a lot of ways, the place
of my redemption. So much of who I am
now was formed here and God used it to make me what He needs me to be. It was here I became a mom and a teacher and
these things I hope I will continue to be for the rest of my life.
The
hardest “lasts” are saying goodbye not to a place but to so many people who I
have loved and who have loved me back.
Especially, the children I have watched grow up. There are at least 7 of them coming to see us
off at the airport. We will especially
miss our dear girl Saa who is going off to university to become a fabulous
English teacher. It is good that in all
these “lasts” with her she is having some “firsts” of her own.
We took her and her cousin BeeBee to their
university. We chose a dorm for them
that is more expensive but where they will be housed with international
students so they can continue to use their English. We went this weekend to buy her first pair of
high heels because the universities in this country require freshmen girls to
wear black high heeled pumps. I thought
nothing in Thailand could surprise me anymore but that one did. She had never been in a shoe shop before
where you had to ask for your size so she kept trying on the one shoe that was
out and saying oh it doesn’t fit and putting it back till I was ready to
strangle her! It was a very difficult
concept for her to grasp. So she got
some “comfortable” high heels that she can’t really walk in but she has
them.
The two
university girls also got computers. Saa
is so excited about hers that even after having it for a week, she still replaces
the dust cover over the keyboard every time she is finished typing. It is very silly but also cute how much she
loves it.
We have also had some wonderful
news from the children’s home in Mae Chaem.
They had 14 children become Christians and were baptized. Some of them we had had for a few years. One child had their whole family come to
Christ. The focus of the home has
changed, as the Thai staff have made it their own. It has gone from being a home that trains up Christian
children to be leaders to becoming focused on evangelism through the children
first, then their families and eventually entire villages. This is the vision of the pastor that we work
with and the home is now under his leadership as we have stepped back more and
more from the home. It is the way it
should be, with Thai pastors and workers ministering to their own people. I think it is a good goal for every
missionary to become absolutely and totally irrelevant to the work except for
prayer and friendship. That is where we
are now with our homes.
Sometimes, when it has been hard
for me to let go, God reminds me that the children’s home was never mine to
begin with. It was always His. The way we started was so miraculous and
while we were building the children’s homes it seemed like miracles happened
almost daily. God was so faithful and He
always will be.
So
we leave next week, Wednesday, February 3rd. Rani is coming with us
to attend school as I mentioned before.
She is very excited and has been studying very hard to get ready for
high school in America. She has become a
book worm of the highest order. She
plowed through the Hunger Games but it took her months but I gave her a more
realistic fiction book and she fell in love.
She read it in a week, and the next one I gave her she read in a few
days and now it is getting difficult to keep her in books. I took her to the book store and she put her
arms around an entire shelf of books and said I want to read all of these. She has turned into….well….. ME! I totally relate to the obsession. It is good
to get her to America where English books are cheaper! But nothing could be better for her English.
We just ask prayer
for us as we transition. Pray for her
that she will have no trouble getting into the country. Even though she has a visa, I believe letting
her in the US is at the discretion of the passport control officer. Please pray for her too as she adjusts to
American life and starts school. I know
it will be a challenge for her but she is one of the hardest working, most
determined people I know. Pray for Gavin
and I as we look for jobs. My teaching
certificate is from Minnesota and not worth much in Arkansas. They don’t recognize ESL as a valid, stand-alone
license. It is disappointing since I
studied in graduate school for 3 years to get it and I love teaching so much,
it hardly seems like work to me though, of course, it is ridiculously hard
work.
Thank
you to all those who have supported us over all these years. We will continue to support the three girls
through college and the Nohbo (refugee) children’s home for one more year. You
are all very loved and appreciated.
Love,
October 2015
Dear Friends,
I haven’t written in a while so please excuse the very long
email!
Gavin and I have been enjoying a break from school. In Thailand, the schools take a 3 week break
after the first term. It was nice to
rest and focus on other things after a very busy, sometimes stressful first
term. We start back on Monday.
Rani has been brilliant at school. She finished the term in the top 5 in my
English class. She won the best actress
award, voted in by the other students, for her role as Helena in Shakespeare’s
Midsummer Night’s Dream. The duplication
of information frustrates her because she is so desperate to learn, and
desperate to be able to go to a good school in the future. For this reason, we have decided that next
year she will study at Ridgefield Christian School in Jonesboro, Arkansas. She interviewed and was accepted by the
school and we picked up her student visa on Monday. She
will go end of February and we will go with her. Lisa, will go to a local Christian college
here in Chaing Ma to study to be a teacher.
So our time in Thailand is ending and I can’t help but look
back at the last time we left Thailand.
I was so sick and depressed that I literally wanted to die. I left in a mess of failure and broken
dreams. I had no idea even who I was if
I wasn’t a professional missionary. Now
I know that being a missionary is not who I am but what I do. I know that my work goes on, wherever I live,
to live out my faith for others to see, to die to myself and follow Him every
day. Caring for the poor, widows and
orphans is not the job only of missionaries but of the church. It is not bound to geography or profession
but the mandate of every one of us who will stand before Christ someday and hope
to hear Him say “Well done”.
We are going home and while so many things did not work out
the way we thought they would, I think they worked out the way He wanted them
to. Gavin and I think we came here for
two girls and we wonder, would we have come if we would have known it was for
just two? We are thankful for all God
has done in these last two years. The
children’s home in Mae Chaem is growing closer and closer to being
self-supporting. We mentored 5 other
children who have lived with us at various times and we hope we have had an impact
on their lives. We saw three of our
girls baptized and one saved.
I got an update from our director of our children’s home in
Mae Chaem and she gave me list of our graduates from the last ten years and
what they are doing now. Six of our children,
who grew up with us, are teachers now.
One young woman runs her own children’s home, serving over a hundred
children. We have eight young men and
women who have graduated Bible school and all but one is actively working in
ministry. There will be more. Two of our graduates last year went to study
to be teachers and our Lisa who is with us now, just realized her calling to
teach. I could see it on her for a while
and I kept trying to steer her that way and this break gave her a chance to
help her aunt in the village school and she fell in love with teaching. She is the most loving, nurturing, gentle
girl you could ever meet. Her English is
so good and she is what her Karen people desperately need. All of you wonderful sponsors who have
helped us for so many years, thank you!
This is your work, and your sacrifice that helped these young people to
be able to achieve their dreams.
Attached are some pictures.
Love you all!
Candace
“They also will answer, ‘Lord, when did we see
you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison,
and did not help you?’ “He will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did not
do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.’ Matthew 25:45-46
May 2015
Dear Friends,
Hello from Thailand!
The season has just changed from hot to rainy and it has been a welcome
change. When we landed here on May 3rd
at 11 PM the pilot cheerfully announced that it was 95 degrees outside. All I could think was, yep, that sounds
right!
I don’t remember when I have been so busy. I must have been crazy to take an online
course over my summer break. I thought
that having two weeks of overlapping end of course and first week of school
wouldn’t be a big deal. It was a big
deal. I had jet lag, final projects to
do, and found out I am teaching an extra grade and three health classes on top
of the full schedule I already had. I
teach 7th through 9th grade, English and Health. In so many ways, what I am doing now is like
being a first year teacher, I am writing lesson plans for every class, nothing
I did last year is transferrable to this new teaching situation. Last year I taught “Where are you going? I am
going to the market”. This year I am
teaching Romeo and Juliet. The only thing last year has been helpful for
was learning to manage a class which of course is the same everywhere.
We ended up with 4 students coming with us. We lost one because her father decided he
didn’t want her to go so far away from him.
Another girl just decided she wanted to stay in Mae Chaem a few more
years and maybe come to the city when she was in 10th grade. So we have two girls and two boys. They are the brave ones. The boys looked a little shocked the first
week and I was a bit worried about them.
They seem to be doing better. Our
12th grader, who I was worried about the most (she has NO classes in
Thai, only English) seems to be doing the best.
She seems happy and enjoys the challenge. Our 9th grader, who was always
first in her class is struggling with not being the best. She is so competitive, she cannot bear not
being the best. But there are kids in
her class who have a mom or dad who are from a Western country and are
basically native speakers. One girl in
her class speaks 4 languages, plays the piano and is good at everything. I tell her, just ignore her because people
like that are annoying. Do your best and
you will be fine.
I see her struggle with perfectionism and I see myself. Being a perfectionist and trying to be a
teacher do not go together. I find I can
lose a nights sleep over losing my temper in class, or teaching a boring lesson
or a million other things I do wrong.
What we are doing here is so difficult that it is teaching me to rely on
God more and more. I finally just told
God this week, I am never going to be any good at this unless You make me
good. It gives me peace to think of it
that way. All I can do is my best and
trust God for creative ideas, for wisdom, for grace, for strength, for energy
and for love for my students.
I thought when we came to Chiang Mai, that it was for our 4
students and that was our ministry here.
I love working with poor children,
that is all I have ever done. I
had no interest in working with kids who can afford a private school like the
one we work at. However, I am seeing how
starved many of these students are for love and attention and I wonder what
further purpose God has for me with them. I know God will show me more about His plan
and how I can help these kids.
I feel so blessed in so many ways. We have a lovely home now and so many
comforts that we didn’t have before. I
do like my job though it is totally consuming and I work all the time. I know that I never feel God’s presence as
much as I do when I am in Thailand. It
is not what I would have chosen for myself, but it is pretty clear that this is
my place in the world. I trust the One
who knows me better than I know myself and loves me unconditionally and
lavishly. Our neighborhood is filled
with plumeria blossoms. These are the
flowers that you often see on a Hawaiian lei.
The ones we have are pure white and very fragrant. The trees are absolutely full of these
gorgeous, fragrant flowers and they shower the ground with blossoms. I often look for a perfect one to pick it up
and bring home to put in a bowl of water.
There are so many and they speak to me of God’s grace, so lavish, so
extravagant and so absolutely lovely that it seems almost wasteful. His Grace is like that, filling our lives
with its beauty and fragrance, if we dare to walk, every day, with Him.
We love you all,
Candace
January 2015
Dear Friends,
This morning we celebrated the baptism of three of our girls
who live with us. I am attaching photos
from this morning. Two of them grew up
in Christian families but had never been baptized. One of them is from a family of new
believers. As I was talking to one of
them about being baptized she said that sometimes she is afraid that after she
is baptized she will make a mistake. I
had to laugh and tell her that I promise her she will make many mistakes after
she is baptized, probably every day and that is okay. That is why Jesus died, because we can’t be
perfect, we just have to accept His perfection as our own. It was a happy day. It was also a hard day for our youngest girl,
Joonie, whose family is Buddhist. She
has become a Christian here at our home but her family will not let her be
baptized and do not even realize she is a Christian. They don’t want her to be a Christian but of
course they can’t do anything about the fact that she loves God. I talked with her and cried with her and let
her know that God loves her and has a special plan for her life. When we were praying about the children to
take into our family, God made it clear that this girl, even though she is
supposedly Buddhist, is very special to Him and we were to take her with
us. We just pray for her family and
someday I know I will watch her be baptized as well.
As I was watching our girls standing there waiting for the
baptismal service to start, I looked around at the jungle mountains around us and
I was struck by how different it is from the place I was baptized in. They were singing in their lovely Karen
language and it was beautiful to me. I thought
about when I was baptized as a young girl and how I had no idea, that someday I
would be a missionary in Thailand and all this strangeness would be normal for
me. But God knew. God saw this day way back then as I knelt and
gave my heart to Him. And He sees what
these girls will become as well. He, no
doubt, will do in their lives, way more than they ever dreamed, just like He
has for me.
God has been working in a great way in our lives as we are
preparing to move to Chiang Mai. The
idea of looking for a house was very stressful to me because Chiang Mai is a
two and a half hour trip through the mountains.
It is very hard driving and going there and back on a Saturday. After teaching all week, it is very
tiring. We were preparing to have to start
traveling there on weekends to look for a house when I got an email from some
dear friends who were closing up their house in Chiang Mai to move back to the
States. We met them and got their house,
much of their furniture and house things (at second hand prices) and their
truck! The house is in a very quiet,
safe neighborhood, 15 minutes from our school.
It is nicer than anything I have had in Thailand (screens on the
windows!) and big enough for us and our
6 children for a very reasonable price.
Our truck is 17 years old and we cannot fit all our children inside out
of the rain so a new truck (similar to an SUV) was definitely an answer to
prayer. We just were stunned at how
God provided for us so splendidly.
Thank you so much for all of you who pray for us and support
us so faithfully. God is definitely
working in our lives and in our new family.
Having 5 girls in our house is definitely stretching sometimes but for
all its challenges, we get so much more joy.
They are wonderful girls - driven, studious, funny, silly and sometimes
very wise. We love them and are excited
to see what God has planned for them. We
are still looking for sponsors for their school tuition next year. Please consider sponsoring one of them next
year in the bilingual school they will be attending. All of their school fees for 6 children
together come to about $500 a month.
God Bless you!
Love,
Candace
Christmas 2014
Dear Friends,
Merry Christmas everyone!
I am attaching our latest newsletter.
This was a very weird Christmas for us because we had to
work Christmas day. It is not a holiday
here in this Buddhist country but it was still good. The day before Christmas the school asked one
of us to tell the meaning of Christmas at the morning assembly at school. So I was able to talk about Jesus in front of
about 1500 students and 40 teachers and a big Buddha statue. It was a golden opportunity and I made the
most of it. I brought my friend and
interpreter Debra and she interpreted for me as we preached the gospel in under
5 minutes. I think it was well
received. I think it helped that the
students know me and know that I love them and maybe they know the reason why. It was a lovely day.
Christmas Eve we hosted a cookie decorating party. We made about 140 cookies and all 35 children
came over to decorate them. They got to
eat one and make one to give away. Then
I took the give-away cookies to school for the other teachers and the students
I was teaching that day. It was very
fun.
At the end of the year, like many people, I like to reflect
on what God has done in the last year.
It has been amazing. I would like
to say I came to Thailand excited and ready to go work for God, but that would
not be true. I was not exactly kicking
and screaming but pretty close. I came
just out of sheer obedience to God and to my husband but not with any real
desire and not seeing the purpose of what I could do here that I could not do
in the US. I had no idea God would have
such a new and different ministry for me with our girls who live with us
now. It is the most rewarding thing I
have ever done. God has made me a mother
- of all things! It is startling and
wonderful.
Many of you know the circumstances of my leaving my ministry
here in Thailand back in 2010. I was
severely depressed, suffering from anxiety and totally burned out. I almost lost my faith, along with my mind
and went from being furious to disappointed and eventually indifferent to
God. That I am back here in Thailand,
joyfully working for God is nothing short of a miracle. What is amazing to me is how God is using
all the pain I suffered now as I have the opportunity to minister to
others. A few weeks ago we had a team
from a bible school in the refugee camp come to our church. I was asked to teach them for a few
hours. I taught a two-hour lesson on the
Holy Spirit and then spent time praying for each one. Afterwards, a young woman came up to me with
a bandage on her eye. She asked me to
pray for her. She had lost her eye when
she had cancer as child. She knelt down
and I knelt down with her, holding her hand.
She told me that sometimes she is disappointed with God about her eye. And because of all that happened to me in the
past, I could look at her and say I understand because I have been disappointed
with God too but I could also honestly tell her, that God will redeem
everything that is broken if we give it to Him. If God was to stamp only one word across my
life I think it would be “REDEEMED”.
There are no words to express how thankful I am that He did not let me
go.
God has been doing amazing things as we make plans for our
girls. We were offered positions at a
bilingual school in Chiang Mai. The
owners of the school are Christians. It
is a very expensive school but without even asking, the owners offered to let
our 3 girls and 1 boy come to the school for less than half the tuition. It is an amazing opportunity for them to
study in a wonderful school. Every room
has a “foreign” teacher so the teaching methods are more up-to-date as well as
the incredible exposure to English. It
is a hundred times better education for our students than they could ever get
here in Mae Chaem. So because of it we
are making plans to move to Chiang Mai.
It was a hard decision because I love the mountain kids so much. It is not my preference to go teach students
who are wealthy Thai kids and missionary kids.
But if our long-term goal is to start our own private Christian school,
this is a good way to learn about how to do it and how to run a successful
private bilingual school here in Thailand. Gavin is brushing up on his calculus
because he is going to be teaching high school math. I will be teaching high school language arts
in a situation that is more similar to what I was trained to do in the States
as an ESL teacher.
Please continue to pray for us. Also, please consider sponsoring a portion
(or all) of one of our student’s tuition next year. The cost per child is $1200 for a year in a
private bilingual school. This includes
everything from books to lunches and uniforms. Please pray for our students as well. This is a big step for them. They are very brave to be even attempting
what they are about to do. They are from
a culture that does not celebrate people who do anything different, yet these
brave young people are leaving their language and culture behind and entering
an almost all-English world. They will
go from being tops in their class to being very far behind and needing
intensive tutoring and ESL support. It will be a ridiculous amount of work for
them. I tell them that God rarely asks
us to do what WE can do ourselves, but rather He asks us to do what only HE can
do through us. They are trusting in
God’s good plan for their lives and in the Holy Spirit who will go with them
and help them.
Thank you to all those who support us so faithfully. We appreciate you and pray for you often.
Love,
Candace
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June 2014
Dear Friends,
I arrived in Thailand three
weeks ago and had to hit the ground running.
I started teaching almost immediately and it has been very busy since
then. I teach 18 classes per week, each
class has at least 30 students. I teach
7th and 8th grade.
One of the frustrations of the job is only seeing the students for 50
minutes per week. It is hard to feel
like you can really teach them a language in that amount of time but all we can
do is try our best. The students seem
very pleased that we are here and some are so eager to learn. I was
told about the behavior problems and the laziness of the students but I have
not seen it yet. They really enjoy a
different style of teaching that has them active and involved in the lessons. What
is rewarding is that some of the Thai teachers who I teach with have started
using some of my methods in their own classes which is really great. The main problem in my classroom has been my
co-teacher who is a Thai English teacher.
She is supposed to interpret for me but does not speak English very
well. She really doesn’t understand 70
percent of what I say so it makes it difficult. She rarely interprets my instructions
correctly.
There are many cultural and
religious activities at the school so often my classes are cancelled which
means I don’t see some students for weeks.
This Thursday they had a particularly disturbing ceremony. It was one of the two teacher appreciation
days that they have per year. There was
no class on Wednesday afternoon so the students could prepare these elaborate
flower arrangements. Then on Thursday I
had to endure and hour of the students bowing with their faces to the ground
before us. They gave me the flower
arrangement and then promptly took it away. I didn’t get even a flower out of
the whole horrible ordeal. It was
symbolic of so much of the Thai Buddhist culture that emphasizes this elaborate
ceremony but with nothing of substance underneath. My skin was really crawling through the whole
ceremony and I was asking myself why am I here?
It is very likely that no one will learn English from me the way things
are set up but then seeing all the truly pagan rituals that the students are
forced to engage in made me realize that that is why I am here. Gavin says that we are truly behind enemy
lines. I don’t remember feeling it so
keenly as I did that day. Every morning
there is a whole school assembly that involves an elaborate flag raising ceremony
and praying to the Buddha statue at school.
Gavin and I both use that time, as we stand with the kids, to pray for
the students and teachers and ask the Holy Spirit to fill that place. I know that God walks with me into each class
I teach and knowing that the students are encountering His great Love in that
50 minutes is no small thing. I have to believe that He can make a
difference. I always wear my gold cross
and I always pray. I really do love
these young men and women and I thank God for that love. I know He gave it to me.
We teach the kids now on
Saturday mornings here at the children’s home.
I know we have several Buddhist children with us know. I just found out that their parents sent them
here so they could learn English. I am
glad they are here so they can hear the gospel preached every day through the
lives of our Christian staff and children.
We are also scheduled to start teaching the hospital staff at our local
hospital. They approached us because
they need English skills as more and more Westerners come to Mae Chaem.
Gavin is teaching Sunday
school every week and doing a great job.
He always has such creative ideas.
He is planning on teaching is lesson on Noah tomorrow while standing in
a bucket of water. I think they will
remember that.
Our house is great. We just got internet and it works sometimes. I think if I take online classes in the fall
then we will have to try to get something better. We have all the comforts of home except we
don’t have hot water. However, it is so
hot here that a cold shower is pretty refreshing. We appreciate all the prayers and support
that you give to us. We definitely need
both. It is still kind of an adjustment
for me to be here. I miss things like
walking my dog and going to Walmart. I
miss our church and small group friends.
And of course I miss my family and watching my sister be pregnant. But God understands all that and I have
learned the great benefit of whining as much as I want to a precious Friend who
loves me and has a great purpose for my life.
My parents have moved to
Arkansas and as a result our US address has changed. Correspondence and donations can now be sent
to: The Know Team 3120 Prestwick Circle Jonesboro, AR 72401
Love,
Candace
November Update 2014
Dear Friends
Things are going well for us here in Thailand. It is cold here now in the mornings but up
into the 80’s in the afternoon. That is
the cold season here in Thailand, sweaters in the mornings and shorts in the
afternoon.
Having the girls here has opened up a lot of new things. We
have the other children from the children’s home coming over a lot more than
they ever have before. They are here to
study English because they know we teach it almost every night. It is what I always wanted but they have
never been comfortable enough to just come over. Gavin teaches math twice a
week to the boy who will come live with us next year. He is our boy genius. It is ridiculous how fast he learns.
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Man, Bai, Orn
and Nok with
Gavin in the
back
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Love,
Candace
Theknowteam.org for donations.
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