The Art of Meeting - Part 2
Some of the village elders gathering to meet. Note how the women are gathering in the back. Maw Ta Village - 2005 A cultural trait that came into play during meetings in Thailand was that in the villages, there are definite leaders and followers. As a visiting missionary, I was an outsider so it was not always readily apparent to me just who was who. An example of how this might play out would be village meetings we held to decide the financial contribution a village would make toward the completion of one of our waterline or irrigation ditch projects. Along with some of our project workers, I would come to a village, walk the site where a project was to be made, decide what kind of work was needed (building a dam, making a collecting basin/filter at a water source, building a pipeline, digging an irrigation ditch, or building water tanks, for example), take any measurements needed, etc. Back at the village, we’d then crunch some numbers and come up with a cost estimate for the...
