The Vernon Journal

April is summer break here in Thailand, so this year Paul and I decided to do Vacation Bible School Camps for couple of the Akha villages in our area. While we played games, sang silly songs, ate snacks & did crafts, the highlight, for me, were the teaching times. The challenge of, as our old [...]

Oh, how I wish this picture wasn’t so blurry! But it is so cute, I’m posting it anyway! This is Abi and her best friend Mary (or Ma-li in Akha) who is 3 years old. Ma-li lives across the road from us in the village. Her and Abi have become great friends in the past [...]

This is A-Paw. She is hearing impaired. When we first arrived in the village three years ago, she was an outgoing, playful little four year old who had no idea that there was any difference between her and her friends. Unfortunately, without any exposure to sign language, in the past three years we’ve seen her [...]

This last month has been school break for many of the schools in Thailand. It’s always fun for us to have all the kids around. During this break all the teenagers went to a camp run by Akha Christian Youth (ACY). When most of the adults had left for the fields we found ourselves with [...]

We wish you all could be here to see the faces and lives that have been blessed by your support and encouragement. We took a day recently and set out to capture some of the sights we see. Since our language is basically the equivalent to that of a three-year old (only we don’t pronounce [...]