As I write this, there are a flood of emotions that are coursing through me. It’s my mom’s birthday. She would have been 87 years old today. I miss her. God has been so good as He continues to minister to me in my grief. I have so much to be thankful for. This year...Read More

Sawadee! Here are the highlights of what has been going on with us in the last couple of months: AUGUST We were busy with preparations for various short term missionary teams visiting ZOE from August through November. Short term missionary teams are a great way for us to meet people from other walks of life...Read More

Twenty years ago today I said, “I do,” to the love of my life! What did we do for our 20th Anniversary? Well, the day started out at 4am when we woke up to get ready to be at Immigration by 5:30 to get our new visa. Molly (our fur baby) was confused by the...Read More

It’s been just about 10 months serving here in Chiang Mai, Thailand, and I find myself a different person. But I am just coming to realize this. Simpson, as part of his role here at ZOE will need to be gone overnight for maybe 2-3 days at a time. In the last two months he’s...Read More

We have officially passed our six-month mark here in Chiang Mai! The months seem to have flown by. They have been full of God refining and growing us, and deepening our faith. At the end of January ZOE welcomed an amazing short term missionary team from the States. These brothers and sisters are so full...Read More

This was our first Christmas and New Year’s living abroad. It’s not like we haven’t vacationed outside of the U.S. during the holidays but it sure feels different when one celebrates from one’s newly appointed digs. As we mentioned last post, Thanksgiving is virtually non-existent in Thailand (with the exception of the U.S. expats) while...Read More

Lately, I have been thinking about the concept of family. Simpson and I grew up in very different families. We are both of Chinese ethnicity but our families did many things differently. I grew up in a loud, in your face, shout-across-the-house type of home. Simpson did not, his family members are much more reserved....Read More

As we approach Thanksgiving, what is obviously absent here in Thailand is the Thanksgiving themed decor, and the American ingredients to make many of the typical Thanksgiving dishes. If I were in Hawaii, I’d probably be planning that day’s meal and coordinating with friends and family. It does make us homesick a bit but we...Read More

Now that we’ve been missionaries here in Chiang Mai for a few months, we are gaining confidence living in a foreign country, and have had some of the highest highs of our lives. I (Simpson) have had some breakthroughs in my spiritual growth, I’m enjoying working closely with Lori-Ann (she literally sits behind me at...Read More

This month we’ve had the wonderful opportunity to begin our Thai language studies. After our first few sessions, we felt so physically tired and couldn’t figure out why. Only after some reflection we realized that it was our minds trying to remember, comprehend and learn this new language. We are using parts of our brains...Read More