The Mays’ Weblog

Hi everyone.

Thankyou to every one who sends us emails. We love to hear from you. I know sometimes we are slow to reply - that is because Andy often has a lot of work in the evening and my typing is very slow - just two fingers at a time. I can only do one or two emails an evening so we will try and keep the blog up to date with news and keep emails short, but dont give up sending them will you .

We are still doing the rounds of churches. Yesterday we went to two …one in the morning, 9 till 10.30 then another in the afternoon, 4.30 till 6. The morning one we went to (and last week too) is the most charismatic one in Chiang Mai. They have an international meeting first then a Thai meeting afterwards which is aparently a bit of a hoe down (the pastor is a very lively Australian). Because the church runs two
orphanages, the Thai meeting is full of children. Next week we might stay in for a bit of it and see. This week there was a visiting speaker from England (Ross Paterson) who has been working in china for about 40 years. He was extremely challenging. We have met more people that work in neighbouring countries than work here and talk about being prepared to give up all seems much more widely accepted and talked about in a matter of fact sort of way. Everyone has given up something to be here but there is much joy and freedom around and everyone we have met seems genuinely fullfilled. It is very exciting tohear about everything that is happening. We can’t give any details but the work and progress in SE Asia is still escalating.

Thankyou for keep praying for us. Mollie is much happier at school and all the children are gradually making friends. Please keep praying for them. The school day is an hour and a half longer than at home and the amount of homework they get in one night is as much as they get in a week at home. It takes all evening and they are tired from school at the start. It is a rather draining system.

We are making some friends too. A norwegian family who go to the same church and live three doors away are very nice they come from a big church in norway. Their paster is a speaker at kingdom faith most
years (Adrian; yes, it IS the hurdygurdy man!) as they have strong connections with the Horsham church. They are working here for 2 years and then their church wants them to set up some childrens work /church in Bangkok. Interesting. Thought the Wongs might like to meet them.

Please pray also for Andy. He is having tooth ache he needs a root canal filling but hasn’t really got time to go to the dentist.

We will try and up-date more regularly so it isn’t such a marathon to read. Still missing you all masses and wish popping home every so often was possible.

Loads of love, Andy and Esther

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