Dear Praying Friends and Faithful
Supporters,
A little different format for you all this time—I hope you
find it easier to read and more interesting.
It’s just about two weeks since we returned to
Thailand. Tan and I are both still a little
under the weather with nasty coughs we think we brought with us from the
US. Our time so far has been taken up
with catching up with friends in Thailand and Myanmar (by phone, internet, and
email), sorting out my Thai visa, and the building project of the Chiang Rai
International Christian School (CRICS).
Can you believe that after living in Thailand for 40 of my
last 52 years I am still having visa troubles?
I lost my ‘foreign spouse of a Thai wife Non-Immigrant’ visa since I was
in the US when it was up for extension.
So now, for the first time in my life, I am a ‘tourist’ in this
country. I have submitted the paperwork
to get a no-immigrant visa. In the
meantime, we are not allowed to travel abroad until the visa is approved toward
the end of the month. That means we
can’t get up to Eastern Shan State to see our friends or continue our work up
there.
But it is probably OK since the building project at CRICS needs some special attention now. One of two new buildings is very close to completion, and we are ready to start a 3rd. We are busily trying to help get everything ready so a contract can be signed with the builder. Of course, we continue to move forward on Faith. We are still over $200,000 short in raising the funds that are needed and yet we blindly, no… trustingly rather, continue to build because it has to get done! The highway is coming and we have to have a place for these wonderful kids to go to school. If anyone is interested in learning more about the school and this need please click here: http://crics.asia