The Vernon Journal

Over at Akha Outreach Foundation’s children’s home “House of Joy” everyone is battling the flu, not Swine Flu or H1N1, but a pretty nasty bug by its own account. Over 80 of the 150 people on site have gotten a flu that keeps them in bed for four days. You can read all the info [...]

In January, I had the honor of participating in the annual AOF Women’s Retreat. While any women’s retreat is a blessing and allows for the women to “get away from it all,” this is especially true for Akha women who labor from morning til night, working in the fields, carrying water and firewood, cooking the [...]

Last Saturday AOF had a monumental celebration to dedicate the new classroom / future radio studio building as well as to recognize Aje for the completion of his Doctorate. Over a thousand Akha from around Northern Thailand, Christian and non-Christian alike, came to join in the festivities; and all the Satterfield girls were here [...]

We wanted to let you all in on a few moments of the graduation on March 12th. It was a great celebration of twelve young men and women who are moving into their internships. Please remember them in your prayers as they have a large task ahead.
The children sang worship songs in Akha waving banners [...]

How appropriate that the first Bible Institute has twelve graduates! Yesterday we celebrated the sending out of these 6 men and 6 women to various internships as pastors and leaders. It was an amazing time - you can see some of the moments here. Hours of Akha singing and celebration - it was a great [...]