Hello all. So it's been quite a while since the last post and we apologize. Glynn has been working, Bum has been a full time mom, and Winter has been full time Winter. As you may remember we moved to Bangkok to try to earn money to move elsewhere and start out own school. Well, the saving has not gone according to plan and cost of living and other constant unexpected expenses keep coming up that have made it near imposable to save anything. That coupled with Bum's allergies and lack of places and people for Winter to play with we have decided to go ahead and leave Bangkok. We are moving to a place where we will be able to both live long term, minister, find work, and be in a more suitable environment for Winter and future children the Lord willing.
We thought and prayed a lot about the move. There were several places that we considered. Nakhon Sawan, where Bum went to school and did a lot of her growing up was one of the top considerations and the place we originally planned on living. However, being here with Winter and thinking about him on top of all the other concerns we have (his education, work for Glynn, Relationships and Christian partnerships in country, etc) we decided not to move here for the time being. Kampheang Phet, where Bum's family lives was another consideration but we decided not to for many of the same reasons we did not move to Nakhon Sawan. We could not have moved to either of these locations in faith or with any kind of comfort or peace.
The one place we have felt positively about is Chiang Rai. This was not our first choice as there are already many ministries there, many missionaries and several churches functioning and working towards their own goals. We will try to give a brief overview of what we hope to do here and ask that you will pray as you feel led.
Glynn will still be working as a teacher. He has already got a job lined up with a half government half private school in the area. This will mean less pay but we will also have a lower cost of living in Chiang Rai than in Bangkok. He went and interviewed the other day and met with the director of the English program. She seemed very nice and has been helpful and cooperative over the last 2 months that Glynn has been job searching.
We still hope to start our own school in the near future. We think that Glynn can use some of his contacts at the school and the meetings he has with parents to start building a student/client base for us to begin the school with. It will primarily be in the evening and on Saturdays at first. We want to have a class of between 5 and 10 kids for an hour a day Monday to Friday. We may also offer some sort of class on Saturday mornings. We will work with this arrangement until we feel like we have enough contacts and a large enough group of parents looking for extra lessons that we can start renting (maybe buying) a building to have the school in. At that point we will offer open classes for adults or businesses during the day and evening classes for children or students.
We will try to partner with and help as many ministries as time allows at first until we can find where and what exactly we think that God wants us to do right now. Glynn's goal is still to one day start a small church with the aim of training up and partnering with a Thai leader to take over and lead the church. We will then try to plant other small churches and do the same with them. This is still a ways off as Glynn still needs a lot of language training.
We are sure that there is more that needs to be said but we will try to save that for the next post. We will be better at posting now that more things are about to happen. Hope to write again in a week or two to let you know how things are developing. Until then, God bless.
The Reeves
