To my Colorado followers, hey guys! To my Texas followers, hi y'all! To my Thai followers, สวัสดิ์ ค่ะ เพื่อน ๆ (sawatdi ka pheuan!) To anyone else, hello friends!
If you're viewing this blog, you've likely heard about my plans for the upcoming summer. I'll be serving as one of five interns through Abilene Christian University's World Wide Witness program; we will be working in the city with missionary families whose primary focus is outreach to university students and growth in the two churches they've planted in the city. As interns, our hope is to form strong friendships with new students and existing members in the congregations. It's an exciting opportunity for all of us!
In the meantime, though, we'll be focusing on all the really neat things to do with travel...visas, plane tickets, bank accounts, and the like. Not to mention: assuring our mothers we're competent to travel overseas alone; learning basic phrases in a language whose phoenetics are entirely foreign; and eating as much TexMex and burgers as possible before ten weeks of different--but equally, if not more delicious--cuisine. And going to school, of course.
For those of you who have supported my efforts in any way, be it financially or prayerfully, I thank you very much and ask simply for your continued encouragement. This blog is specifically for you to see exactly (or at least as far as technology and internet connections will allow) what your support is helping us accomplish this summer.
Hopefully, future posts to this blog will be much more exciting and have significantly more to do with Thailand. Don't hold your breath just yet, though--I still have four months in Texas. Until then, sawatdi ka.
Namaste,
Juliana
"However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on them?" - Buddha
