The Vernon Journal

Well, Abi has been home from the hospital for about a week and a half and she is certainly back to full health! If it’s possible, it feels like she is healthier and has even more energy than before! The final diagnosis was “food poisoning,” though we’re not sure where she was infected. By the [...]

Hi everyone, just a quick note. Abi has been sick for the last three days with vomiting and diarrhea and a slight fever. This morning she got even worse and was admitted to the hospital here in Chiang Rai. Her blood work has shown no infections, but a severely low potassium level. Please join us [...]

I’ve been feeling weird all week! Not really sick enough to call myself sick… you know, just kinda head-achy, stomach-achy and all around tired! In fact, I was feeling so odd and “not myeslf” that I actually went out and bought a pregnancy test today! (…which, thankfully, came back negative… we’d like more kids, just [...]

Please join us in prayer for Lori as she was admitted to the hospital in Chiang Rai this morning for dehydration from vomiting. She has a stomach infection of some sort and the doctors are working on getting her an antibiotic which will be pregnancy-safe. Please pray that she recovers her strength quickly, that her [...]

For the past week a dental team from America has been visiting Akha Outreach Foundation doing the annual check-ups and cleanings for all the orphans. While this is quite a large task in itself, they still made time to haul all thier equipment up to a village for a day to pull some teeth. Preventative [...]