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Well, so far it’s been a pretty smooth ride till yesterday at least.  We have a truck, but it isn’t registered due to a missing document.  Our shipment of clothes and furniture has been held up by unscrupulous people in the system.  Pray we can get it released please!  The rice fields are being planted around us.  Really a joy to be surrounded  by that kind of thing. The evenings are cold and we sleep deeply without even a fan.  Still on mats on the floor, and keeping our food in a cooler needing fresh ice every day. Kids are excited about their new school friends. Really excited in fact.  Although they are not included in school for this week (exams from last semester) they still go to school and hang out.  We feel great about that.Having a good connection with the students at the University already so that feels good too.  Just pray this shipment through for us, ok?

A week ago I was living in Manila with two Starbucks and a Fridays within a mile of my door.  I had a network of staff and resource people we had taken 18 years to build. Today, we celebrated Julia’s 13th birthday in our new home of Thailand and planned to take her elephant riding as entertainment.  I just bought a used pickup truck as our new family vehicle in place of the SUV we had in Manila. Honestly, it’s a bit scary.  About every four hours I find myself saying out loud, “We really did it!  We moved away from everything we have  known for the past 20 years!  I can’t believe it.”  I’ll get over the shock in a week.  This is a really fascinating place and…for the first time in twenty years…it’s so cold at night we have to wear sweaters, and that’s an amazing treat after two decades of 90 degree heat. This is where we are supposed to be and we are fast getting organized here.  Got a rented house, the truck, a school, a shipment (in two weeks), and bought a Thai cell phone, a TV and a washing machine.  We’ll get internet in a week probably then we will be connected to the world outside again.  Tonight we are in the cafe with a dozen students from the University interacting.  That’s why we are here.  Watching their eager faces is rewarding already.

Well, my last official act from our home of 18 years is to sit at the counter top in our empty house and type out this blog entry.  In thirty minutes we leave for the airport to board our flight to Thailand.   I find myself thinking about death all day, like this is a rehearsal for the time when I am leaving this world entirely.  I have met with many to say goodbye.  I had to make sure all bills were paid and those who had worked so faithfully for us were properly rewarded for their loyalty.  I don’t think we can really reward them adequately at all.  More like a generous thank you gesture because how do you reward faithful love that has been given on a daily basis?  The Filipinos we know are the most amazing of people.  So forgiving and kind.  I hope we have taken that into our spirits and carry it for life. Now to fly and start another entirely different chapter of our story. 

I just wanted to write a general email to everyone who has been commenting on things you see on the site.  I have been moving around too much to answer everyone directly, but I wanted you to know that your comments are important to me.  I read them and appreciate that you have taken the time to post them.  Keep ‘em coming!

Well, it’s finally upon us.  We are 48 hours from leaving the Philippines, our home of 18 years.  The last month has been filled with farewells and “lasts” (Sunday I preached my last sermon here).  The house is a mountain of boxes and the container will arrive tomorrow.  We leave Saturday on our new adventure in Northern Thailand.   We are certain this will be a place of growth for us and that the work we do there will be important (99% of Thais do not know Christ), but we are sad to be leaving this amazing Filipino community we are so deeply grafted into. Thanks for giving us some extra prayer for the next month as everyone transitions and makes friends and learns to function in a land where we don’t even know how to say, “Can I have a glass of water?”  Filipinos speak English, but most Thais really don’t so the pressure will be on us.  We did get our visa released–and in only 36 hours, faster than anyone we know so we are taking that as a good sign.