Flying Febuary

Small eyes VS Big eyes
from a Thai movie
climbing the waterfall

Women's Retreat
Alvin and the Chipmunks!!!
Thai movie: King Naresuan
Julie and I in the amazing natural shower
At the waterfall

wow...it's again almost the end of the month. I've been home for about 3 months now since December. At the end of January, Eddie went back to NZ and the interns (Mit, Adelina and Han) from Malaysia and Singapore also went back to their countries. The first weekend of Feb. we had Women's Retreat up in the mountain. The third (Feb.16) weekend we had our Valentine's Party with the theme 'Cupid goes see the movies'. Last week of Feb., we went to Buatong Waterfall. As I always ask you to do "see more pictures and details" on

www.payapchristianzone.com.

Basically, my life here is all about spending time with my family in Christ. I only spend a few nights with my biological family in my hometown and I come to Cell Group on Thursday and stay here till Sunday after church or even Monday. So, some people may think like I don't have a really good balance here. I do feel that way sometimes. Thinking about i still financially depend on my biological family, and of course they love me...I should spend the most of my time with them. hmm...i don't know how to describe my feelings now. I want them to accept Jesus as their Savior, so they might be able to understand reasons I choose to do or not to do things.

My spiritual life has been a lot better than when I was in NZ by myself. I'm a part of this family. However, I've learned so many things about relationships between brothers and sisters in Christ and also relationship between me and God our Father. "Relationship" helps us know that we are not alone...we have supports and that means we are loved. It is meaningful, powerful...yet fragile. What do we do when you get hurt? I've experienced the answer from my personal conversation between me and God. Forgiving is the key to heal the deep cut. The Lord knows the pain we have inside of our hearts and He will pour out His amazing love to fill in the hole. Not only I've learned things through my own experiences, but through others' as well.

hmm...nothing to say much here. I really like hanging out with this girl, Julie, an apprentice from Texas A&M. She laughs a lot...i mean seriously a lot. She's sincere, fun, energetic and outgoing. I can temporarily leave things that I don't wanna think about while i'm around her. So, all I wanna say here is that it's a blessing for me to get to be friends with Julie. When I look at her, i think of the verse from Philippians4: 4 "Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice!"

Events in Januaray

Breakfast @Bake&Bite

Our group for English on Tours


on the boat
House Boat
House Boat
with the judges and lawyers from Lampang


Cheung Doi Church moved to P'David's old house
The Birthday Suite band
Fellowship Night @ the Reagans'
Fellowship Night

After we had a count down party at the Reagans' house. We have had a lot of fun activities. As you can see from the pictures. We have 2 interns from Malaysia, 1 from Singpore and 3 from Texas A&M and also Mitch, one of our former interns came to visit us. So, we had a fellowship night at the Reagans' again.

Let me introduce "The Birthday Suite"!! June 2007, we had a chance to get to know a few of them and invited them to come learn English at the church. Right now, they also brought their friends to hang out with us. They all are musically talented and it's a blessing for us to have them around when we have parties. One of the members is studying the Bible. This group of guys is very funny...I have hope for all of them to come and know God.

Cheung Doi Church of Christ is now relocated to P'David's old house. We helped them move all the stuff.

Well, the pix are kinda mess up a bit. We went to play BB guns and then house boat. At the house boat, the interns had their own equipping time. So, the rest of us, P'Pui, P'Ying, P'Gift, Jenny and I just brainstormed for the English Camp in Mae Hong Son. (Please, go to http://www.payapchristianzon.com/ for more pictures.)

English on Tours!! It's a program organized for the judges, lawyers and court officers in Lampang. It is because a couple years ago, a few of our interns had a chance to serve the judges in Chiang Mai by teaching them English. So, they were impressed with our group. This year they invited us again. The purpose is to help them get rid of the fear of speaking English to foreigners. We played games and spent the whole day with them. They took us to a really fancy restaurant for dinner and gave us souvenirs. We had a blast! and we feel so honored.