The Flight

     It has been another week and nothing amazing to announce. We went to a different church today and it was closer to what we like and what we can imagine a church we might start looking like. The pastor went to Fuller Seminary for his Mdiv and New Orleans Theological Seminary for his Ph.D. The worship was also more our style. We may go back here next week or keep looking around. We are not sure yet.
     Sense there is nothing big going on now we want to catch up on the 3 weeks before the blog started. As many of you know we were trying to surprise Bum's mom and dad so we had to keep our moving back to Thailand a secret from them. This was a little more difficult than we thought it would be. Because most people are now on Facebook and a large majority of them are there more than they realize putting more info out there than they know. We had to be careful to ask everyone not to post anything about our moving, leaving, going, etc...
     We are happy to say that the effort payed off. Bum's parents had no idea that we were coming back to Thailand. Things got a little more difficult once we were here and the surprise did not go exactly as we had imagined. But more on that in a little bit.
     The flight over was smooth for the most part. We flew with Korean Air and we would highly recommend them to anyone especially if you are flying with young children. They took great care of Winter and even held him a time or two when the stewardesses had the time and if he was cranky. We tried the baby cold medicine trick to get him to sleep for the first flight (don't judge us) at the recommendations of several doctor friends and the pharmacist where we bought the medicine. This did't really do anything but make Winter act a little drunk. He was not drowsy from the medicine at all. He probably didn't need the help as he was great all through the first 14 hour leg of the trip. The second 6 hours were a little more difficult on us all.
     After we changed planes in Korea Winter was not as happy. We fed him while we were at the airport and he threw up everything he had eaten. Then once we were in the air he decided he was not going to sleep for this part of the trip. He was kind of fussy for a couple of hours and Glynn had to walk him around and stand in the little hallway where the bathrooms are when he would not stop crying as all the stewardesses were either busy or just made Winter angrier once he realized a stranger had him. But he eventually settled down and Glynn was able to get a little sleep as well.
     Our friends Karen and Ramon met us at the airport to pick us up with the van from the school where we all work. The 45 minute drive from the airport to the apartments where we live was really smooth. This was probably because we arrived in Bangkok at about 1:00 AM. We made it home and got to sleep pretty shortly after getting to the room.
     Tune in next time for how the surprise with Bum's parents went.

God bless,
Glynn, Bum, and Winter

P.S. From Winter's six month photo shoot with Ramon

Church

     As I am writing this there is a karaoke party going on next door in out somehow Winter is kind of sleeping through it. And this is no mere karaoke party, it sounds like a really depressed 80's lounge. All slow synthesizers, slightly echoed voices, and whiney male vocals. Evidently for someone this is what fun sounds like.
     We did make it to church today. We went to New Vision Church located in downtown Bangkok. We really liked the church. The message was sound, everyone was friendly, and there was a meal afterwards. It almost felt Kenwoody  for a little while. The size of the church and the worship would be the only things I would change, but it is not about me. Everyone that was there seemed to be worshiping so I will just have to adjust. And as for size, while I prefer a smaller church, growth is a good thing and I hope that we can be a part of the growing process.
     The nursery was in the back of the sanctuary. It was a nice sized room, with the wall separating it from the sanctuary being mostly windows so the moms or dads in there with the kids could still see the service. It was sound proof with a little speaker broadcasting the service into the room. Winter did great during the service.
     The trip to the church this morning took about an hour and a half. We took tricycle taxies from our apartment to the main road. We got on a van there, bound for downtown. The van stopped at three or four bus stops to try to get a few more passengers before it made it to the toll road. The express toll road was smooth sailing as it generally is. Once we got into town we had to hike a little ways to the BTS (sky train) station where we went down one stop to the next station. The church is on the corner outside the BTS station. So our morning, and maybe every Sunday morning for a while, will be like this. Leave the house at 9:00 to make it in time for church at 10:30 (or 8:00 if we want to go to 9:30 sunday school). A friend did tell us a taxi is much easier and quicker but it is a little more expensive. We will have to see how the next couple of weeks go and determine if it is worth the extra money to make up for the time.
     There were two guys after church that made decisions to follow Christ. In the small group that had been leading them they had the gospel explained to them again and what it was they were confessing. Both of the guys again professed Christ as their lord and savior before the group and then we prayed for them and they were presented with Bibles. Also at the end of the service there were probably six or seven people that said they wanted to join the church. It is good to see the church thriving.
     So this was our Sunday. Like I said in the first post I want to fill you in on the first three weeks of Thailand and I plan to do that in the next update. I should have some time this week if all of my classes go according to plan. Thanks for reading and God bless.

Glynn, Bum, and Winter

P.S. Winter with a teething cracker.

 

Our Story

     Welcome to our story. We are Glynn, Pornpimon (Bum), and Winter Reeves. Glynn and Bum will have been married for five years on December 29. Our first home was in Chiang Rai Thailand. This was where we lived for almost a year and a half when we moved back to Glynn's hometown of Hueytown, Alabama in the USA. Our stay in the states was for three years where we lived with Glynn's parents, his brother and sister-in-law, his grandparents, the Bessemer Baptist Association's missionary house, a little rental house in Birmingham, AL, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville Kentucky, and then back with his parents who had sense moved to Bessemer AL. That is a total of 7 houses in 3 years.
     While at the seminary we made some great friends, went to a wonderful church, and added a member to our family. Jessiraht Winter Reeves was born on January 9, 2012, at the University of Louisville Hospital. He was more than we ever knew we wanted as parents and is one of the happiest and cutest babies we have ever seen. God is so good to us.
     Once we finished seminary we moved back home with my parents while we prayed and waited to see when we thought God was telling us to return to Thailand. As it usually happens with our plans God had us return much sooner that we expected. The time at my patents was short but very sweet. We miss our family in the states every day but know that we are doing what God would have us do. We have been in Thailand for three weeks now and are almost totally adjusted. We will be back soon to fill you in on what has happened over these past three weeks and try to catch you up to the present as quickly as we can.

Grace and Peace,
Glynn, Bum, and Winter