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Technical Difficulties and Updates »

I need to apologize to all of you, especially our new readers from the recent issue of Foursquare’s Missions Advance magazine (see article here), for the current state of the Vernon Journal. We recently had some server changes which have required some coding updates on all of our pages, and a complete overhaul of our [...]

A Day With My Sister »

Last week I took my sister Esther to Myanmar without my parents. She did very good and walked exactly where I told her to. She didn’t cry and neither did I. After we gave money to the policeman for a special stamp we went back to see my parents in Thailand. They were very excited [...]

Affordable Airfare »

Please join us in praying that my parents would be able to find affordable airfare to Thailand so they can visit for the birth of our first baby in July and August. A few days ago they found a pretty good online fare, but unfortunately it sold out right away and they were not able [...]

Praise Update :: Grandpa and Visas »

We are happy to share that my Grandpa is doing much better, and though his body is still retaining water, everything else seems to be coming under control and we are hoping he will be released from the hospital in the next week. Thank you for all of your prayers. In other family news, we [...]

A Souvenir of Extravagance… »

An amazing thing happened to me while we were in Bangkok last week. It all started on the final night of the conference at the banquet dubbed “Cultural Night”. Everyone wore the traditional dress of their country; and with over 600 people representing countries from all over Asia it was certainly an amazing sight. We [...]