Process to find girls underway!

Today, Ron and TG visited the elementary school (very near) and the high school (about 1 mile away).  They also visited some government offices to establish contact and let them know about the safe house. They said they got a very warm reception at all offices they visited today. 

TG prepared a booklet to give to each of these offices about the work of Save Asian Souls.   She had a cover letter of introduction and pictures of our safe houses in other locations with group pictures of girls in each home.   

TG had a sign made for the front wall to identify the house as a safe house for girls under SAS.   She spent one afternoon sawing wood and built the frame for the sign herself.   She also installed it on the wall by herself.   She is a very talented girl.    Some days I call her our engineer; other days she is the carpenter or master gardener.  She is excellent with electronics and her English has improved considerably since she has to talk to us every day. She can teach the girls computers and English!

She wears many hats and does each job super well.  We are so blessed to find her and persuade her to work with us.   She is even natured, friendly and very tender-hearted in addition to being so talented in many ways.   We don't even know of any limitations she has yet.  

TG has also prepared a PowerPoint presentation to use when they visit potential girls to explain our program and what benefit it will be to girls who want to come live here.    

Front of house and side along the carport to the back.   Yard is clean.  Along the right side, TG plans to add more trees, perhaps some of the beautiful flowering trees we see with yellow, pink and red flowers.  On the left side of the house, she plans to have grass. 

Carport entrance to house mother's room.

Beds are ready for 24 girls upstairs.   

A small air conditioner was installed in the housemother's room downstairs and a large unit was installed in the foyer upstairs.    There are plenty of fans which they prefer unless the temperature reaches 100 degrees.   They can cool the rooms down and then turn the air conditioners off to suit their comfort.   

The house is certainly a comfortable and lovely place for the girls to live.   If we can bring in girls who are too poor to go to school, we can give them an education so they will be able to find jobs when they are older and have a good life.   We hope many will take advantage of learning the computer and develop great English skills.    The most important thing of all is to teach them the Bible and hope they will become Christians and spend eternity with us in heaven,    

Pray for the success of this work in Udon Thani, Thailand.

Ron and I will go to our safe houses in Laos the last week of March and return to the U.S. April 30, the Lord willing.