About This Blog

 

What a privilege and honor it has been to serve Jesus as Baptist missionaries in Thailand. I recently read that only 1 or 2 percent of the US population gets to live in some other country for any length of time. Since it is not so common, we thought there might be some interest in seeing what our experience was like. We also wanted to leave some sort of record at least for our family to help them remember our time.

At the same time, what a dilemma! Ektachrome slides, prints and digital images numbering in the thousands are stored away. Hundreds of aerograms, some hand written and some written on floppy disks and printed on dot matrix printers have been saved for us by family. There are hundreds more newsletters, articles, sermons, talks, etc. Some things are carefully saved, some carelessly saved but all of it needs to be dealt with.

So our intentions are to sort, scan, write up, delete, save, record, throw away or destroy the collected photos and memorabilia. The plan is to do this by writing short stories and recording them in this blog. While it may turn out to be semi-chronological the overall idea is to record the stories as we come across them in the storage boxes or photo files. Our intention is also to relate the overall journey. Not all stories will be serious or spiritual though we hope some are.  Likewise, not all stories will be humorous, though we hope some bring a smile or even a chuckle. 

When we first went to Thailand, it seemed many of the veteran missionaries were avid story tellers so we’ll try to carry on that tradition in this blog. Not all of their stories made it as sermon illustrations but they were good stories all the same.  While some of their stories might have been “slightly” enhanced with the passage of time and the selective nature of memory we vow to keep our stories true to our memories and true to our experience.

We loved living the journey the Lord made for us and hope you enjoy re-living it with us.