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Seed-sowing on the road
Posted on November 4, 2011 by HarveyS in Uncategorized.Last week, I needed to go to a town about an hour from here–the closest place to find an ATM. Since we didn’t have a vehicle here at the school at the present time, I took a songtheaw (pronounced SONG-tau). I took my Karen bag with my water bottle and four copies of the Karen […]
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Pastor Lamazani
Posted on October 26, 2011 by HarveyS in Uncategorized.Okay, Pastor Lamazani isn’t here at Sunshine Orchard. In fact, he was a pastor in Africa 40+ years ago. However, when I was a boy, my dad recorded (on one of those reel-to-reel recorders!) missionary Leonard Robinson who told some amazing stories about how God worked through angels to protect him and others–including Pastor Lamazani–in […]
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Urgent Property Need
Posted on October 21, 2011 by HarveyS in Uncategorized.We are quickly approaching a critical deadline for Sunshine Orchard. The owner of the property that we are purchasing across the road is insisting that we finish paying it off by the end of October. Although the deadline is much sooner than we had previously understood, and it seems more than a bit daunting, we […]
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A Stamp Is Worth Ninety Days
Posted on October 14, 2011 by HannahS in Uncategorized.Just so you aren’t all worried that we are stuck on the other side of the border. . . This morning, we made it through the fairly simple process of exiting and re-entering Thailand with no problems at all. We were very blessed to obtain one-year visas before leaving the US which means that we […]
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To the Border We Go
Posted on October 13, 2011 by HannahS in Uncategorized.“Guess what? It looks like we won’t be having school this week. Oh, and what would you all think of making our visa run this week instead of next?” We had just ended a very full, yet refreshing Sabbath. I was rather exhausted and hoping to get to bed as soon as I finished things […]
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Banana Trek
Posted on October 4, 2011 by BrendaS in Uncategorized.Just before school started, one of the big boy’s relatives decided to give the school a bunch of bananas if we would go get them. So 15 of us, students and staff, climbed into a truck and drove 20 minutes down the road. After parking along the side of the road, we all jumped out […]
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Into the Highways and Byways. . .
Posted on October 3, 2011 by BrendaS in Uncategorized.Life certainly doesn’t lack variety around here. Not only has the Lord opened up opportunities for us to treat the sick in our nearby villages but to hold branch sabbath schools, preach in a nearby church on Sabbath, and hold Wednesday evening worships in different homes. The Karen people are so warm and hospitable and […]
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Firewood
Posted on October 2, 2011 by BrendaS in Uncategorized.The boys here really have a fun time hunting dead bamboo for firewood. They take off into the jungle along the river, make piles of dead bamboo, make rope from jungle vines, tie the bundles in two places, carry them down the slopes to the river, jump on them (like a raft) and float and […]
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Answers and Surprises
Posted on September 25, 2011 by HarveyS in Uncategorized.A hearty Thank You to those who have been praying for our “Multiplying Opportunities” to share the gospel. If the responses are any indication, the Lord blessed on Sabbath as we presented studies on Daniel 2, 7, and Revelation 13 and 14 at a church a half hour from here. Today, we had a surprise […]
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They Call Me “Teacher”
Posted on September 25, 2011 by HannahS in Uncategorized.It was the first day of classes. My assignment was to teach English to grades 5-8. I had never been a teacher before – especially a teacher of English as a foreign language. I hadn’t even been a student at a grade school, and now I was walking into a whole new chapter of my […]
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