A New Year is coming!

We are hoping that everyone had a wonderful Christmas day, that you worshiped the Lord on His Day and enjoyed family and good food.   Christmas is another day to reflect on health and blessings from above.  For many of you, the cold weather made it a challenge to enjoy the day as you usually do on this holiday.  We hope everyone survived by staying warm enough and not having frozen pipes.    From my friends' pages on Facebook, it looks as everyone had a great time.    With no traditions for this holiday in Thailand, we only saw decorations at the mall.   

We took TG with us to a grille restaurant in the mall for all of our holiday treat.   She took pictures that I will post later but here are some that I took with my camera.   

We had a delicious meal with TG.   We enjoyed spending time with TG that was not working time.   She has worked tirelessly for two months to help renovate the safe house and see to our every need.  She deserved the lunch treat and much more.

This is the picture of the small church here. 

It was taken on Sunday, the last day of the gospel meeting.   They estimated that there were about 100 present but many had left to return home to remote areas of Thailand and Laos to be home for worship on that day.    

We did not attend this day as the service was entirely in Thai.    We worship at the condo on-line with our sponsoring congregation.

We plan to move to the new safe house this week and avoid paying for another month's condo rent.  It has been cheap at about $250 U.S. per month (and that includes utilities) but for the next several months while we are here, we can save about $1,000 in rent by living at the safe house.   They are placing furniture in the house now, setting up the bunk beds and the house mother's room.   Since all of the girls' rooms are upstairs, we will have to occupy the house mother's room the rest of our time here.  The stairs are straight up and we can't risk a fall.    

I will post pictures once we move in so you can really see the change in the house.   It is going to be very nice.

Wishing all of my readers a very blessed NEW YEAR!