The Vernon Journal

A documentary created by a Media Light team in 2010 that gives a little bit of a glimpse into our lives with the Akha in Southeast Asia. A short 5-minute documentary style production by the 2010 Media Light team in Chiang Rai, Thailand. Paul and Lori Vernon are serving the Akha people in Northern Thailand [...]

Here’s a video that the Quinley’s recorded of Lori explaining a little bit about Akha food and culture to their team when they visited us in Maesalong.

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 [...]

For the past 6 years, Dr. Luce and his staff have been giving of their time and skills to come to Chiang Rai and care for the dental needs of Akha children and Bible Students at Akha Outreach Foundation, as well as the occasional village dental clinic. Last year Dr. Newman and his family joined [...]

We celebrated Abi’s second birthday last month with a great crowd of people. Aje and Nancy hosted the party, the Chanda family was in from Kazakhstan with their three girls, and our missions supervisor Kelly was in from Bangkok with fellow missionary, Chris. For Abi, new friends and people from all over the world is [...]