What Did You Expect?

After the brutal winter we've had so far, you might expect to find most of us LONGING for scenes like this on a picturesque beach in southern Thailand. (The thought HAS crossed our minds.) You might even expect to find some of us LOUNGING on a beach like this in southern Thailand! While the thought has a certain appeal to it, we all have a much better idea in mind! Come February 1st, we would rather be in northern Thailand helping with the Barefoot Doctors School! We would rather be several hundred miles from the beaches so we can help our Burmese brothers and sisters in Christ prepare to serve Jesus in more effective and more dramatic ways than they ever have before. While hundreds are enjoying the vacation of a lifetime, we will be equipping men and women from Burma to go home at the end of March to bring hundreds of people to Christ during their lifetime. What could be better than that? All of us who are going to teach at the school are quite willing to do whatever it takes to get to Chiang Mai for the portion of the training we have been assigned. We are grateful to our families and our friends and our churches who have given their money and encouragement so we can make this trip. We are also grateful to God for a small opportunity to help Him have a large impact in a country like Myanmar. Forget the beach. Let's go to Chiang Mai (still a very beautiful place) to share both our skills and our hearts with brothers and sisters in Christ we haven't met yet! God has an amazing thing in store for all of us, teachers and students alike! Stay tuned ...