What an amazing trip!

First let me ask for prayer for my son Travis. He was stricken with Bell's Palsy yesterday morning. I know that often there is a complete recovery from this, sometimes not; please pray for his complete and immiediate recovery.

I have been hit with a doozey of a head/chest cold (see below>thanks Lindsey :-). I have my own personal staff of medical people to look afterme though, and started the antibiotics today. I'm already feeling a little better.

Today was another incredible day. I prayed with dozens and dozens of people and eiher praised God for their faith or prayed for spiritual eyes to be opened to the truth of Jesus Christ. We serve about 150 to 175 people at full day clinics.

This is a land of beautiful landscape and more beautiful people. The same sun that shines at home but very different culture. There is spiritual warfare going on that is very evident. It has manifest in many ways; dog fights that break out in the middle of a group prayer for a church with out a pastor, attacks of diahrea when I've been asked to pray for a man belived to either be possesed by deamons or at least harrassed by them in the night.

The woman in the post below was able to sew for the first time in many years.

Last night we were invited to go to the home of a family that had just had a wedding for their son and his bride. There are now four couples and their children that live in a house about the size of my living room. Custom requires you to go eat at every home you are invited to. Iwas told this after eating dinner...

I was also able to pray for a couple to day that have been infertile for 5 years. We laid hands on her as a group.

I will try to upload more pictures later, the connection in our very nice hotel is a bit sketchy. Plus the battery on the camera died after waiting about 20 minutes for several pictures to upload. Yep they were 99% uploaded - grrrr.

We stay here for 2 more nights and then out to stay in villages in the mountains. That will be pretty rough.

The team is doing real well, and we have been helped by some very sharp young ladies that are traveling missionaries/pastors that go around to help with church planting. Lee, Sye Tip, Jgya, Bpell, Nit, Poey, and Huey. They are not all with us now though because they could only take so much time off work.

I am learning to speak Hmong and Thai enough to help people pick glasses that work the best:

Sherzie Poepooh: Try these, can you see?

More later, Keep praying - what a great adventure!!!

In "His" grip here in Thailand!

Dale

p.s. I laugh a little when I see the jacket I packed. Temps are about 95to 100 and humidity that would stop a truck.

p.p.s. I am in a city called "Tak" about halfway from Bangkok and the northern border on highway 1 - see if you can find it on Google Earth!