Things seem to be calming down with the protests in Bangkok. The day after I last posted, the government went in to break up the protests, and the reds had one more heyday, burning more than two dozen important buildings in Bangkok. One was Central World, Southeast Asia’s second largest shopping plaza. Check out this Wikipedia article to read about it. Curfew was imposed throughout […]
Thailand in the News
By now you may have seen Bangkok making headlines. I wanted to post a simple description of what is going on here. For slightly sensational and up-to-the-minute news, check out Bangkok Post or The Nation. I wrote a few blog entries last time there was political upheaval here, and you can read them here: 1) Nov 26, 2008; 2) Dec 1, 2008; and 3) Dec […]
I love my brother, and I love the body of Christ!
On Saturday, April 4th, my brother Evan had a bad bmx bicycle accident. He was at a college group retreat north of Bakersfield, and he was going off a wooden ramp, but something happened to the bike or ramp or both, we’re not sure. He faceplanted into the ramp, and was unconscious for several minutes. A helicopter flew him to the trauma center in Bakersfield, […]
By the Numbers
Short and simple: 8 months of itineration over 100 meetings with pastors 58 services so far and 15 scheduled for the month of March phone calls… I don’t even want to know 40,000 university students in Chiang Mai who have yet to say yes to Jesus and I have reached 52% of my monthly budget. Please pray with me that I will raise 100% of my […]