The Mays’ Weblog

Before I retire for the night I want to say a few words to mark this busy weekend. We were delighted to host Rich Hubbard, Arun’s ‘Director of Missions’ for a few days from Thursday to Sunday, today. We have enjoyed his company immensely. It was great to share something of what we do here with him. He has seen the school, getting a flavour of how the school blesses so many families out here, and home of course, and we went up on a whirlwind tour of the MaiSai border area. We crossed over to encourage friends at the orphanage on the other side and then it was back to Thailand to see Pastor Joseph at the large orphanage in the mountains. We were accompanied by Thomas, our Norwegian friend and neighbour here. I will spare the details other than to say that it was good to see the children and we were very encouraged to hear about some intensive final proof-reading by tribal leaders in an effort to get the entire Wah bible available by Feb 2008. This will be the first Wah translation of the entire bible ever. The first Wah believer was baptised 100 years ago come Feb 28th 2008. Pastor Joseph is overseeing the team that hope to have this done by Nov this year in preparation for printing to begin to serve 1.8 million Wah speakers. This is a very significant project.

After Church today we took Rich to the wonderful Empress Hotel, with the Hyttedalen family also, and feasted well before an afternoon in the pool back at the school.

Rich was a huge encouragement and we are so grateful for the time he took to visit us here.

This evening we took Jacob out to the Jewish ‘Jerusalem Falafel’ restaurant to celebrate his 13th birthday - a teenager in our midst! We were accompanied by our good friends Mehrban and Carol and their Son, Daniel, who is also 13 this week. It was good to honour this milestone together.

And now at last I am heading for bed. We will no doubt be up early tomorrow for Jacob’s birthday so need to be bright and cheerful…pretty unlikely at 6.30am but I must try…

With much love,

Andrew and Esther XXX

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