The Vernon Journal

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 body [...]

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. [...]

A problem that has been a bother to me for four or five years is becoming chronic. Migraines. It has gotten to the point where I have to have medicine near me all the time just in case. Fortunately, medicine in Thailand is cheap and we’ve been able to work out a [...]

It’s the rainy season again and we’re seeing all the signs of the season - especially in our little Akha clinic. Mostly we are seeing the aches and pains of joints and ‘old mountain injuries’ which generally tell that it is going to rain. These are easily treated with an ear [...]