The Vernon Journal

This image was created for an introduction/update printing we are about to do, but we thought that it would be a great thing to share with all of you here as well. [Image Text] Paul and Lori Vernon ministering to the Akha people of Southeast Asia We are Foursquare missionaries partnering with a ministry in [...]

My facebook and twitter updates have recently been dropping clues of an impending Akha media ministry, but now that we have an actual project in production I thought it would be nice make it official in our Ministry Updates here on the Vernon Journal as well. For years we at Akha Outreach Foundation have dreamed [...]

We’ve told many of you how great Abi’s language skills are in the 3+ languages that she is surrounded with. Her English and Akha are by far her strongest languages – and her Thai is not far behind. She also has about a dozen other words from other languages that she has picked up in [...]

The last few months I have been working with Aje on the publication of an Akha primer. Part of that work has meant that I have had the honor to listen in on the meetings of Akha leaders from Thailand, Myanmar, China and Laos as they discuss the newest Akha orthography. Orthography: a method of [...]

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 [...]