I know it's probably been almost a whole year since I last updated anything.  Now hopefully having my own domain name and crazy amounts of web space (that wasn't cheap by the way) I can do more on my sight and keep it maintain regularly.  So much has happened in the past year.  The biggest thing that has happened that most everyone hopefully knows is that I am now married.  Somporn Manaskulpong and Sean Abbot were married on July 15th 2006.  We have posted many pictures on the sight in the photo journal have made a wedding tab on the main page.  There you can learn more about how the wedding was.  Basically we had a missions team from our home church in San Diego come with us up to Prangs village.  We were there for about three days.  We all went up Friday night and the wedding started on Saturday morning.  The traditional Karen wedding consists of the whole village and surrounding villages coming together all through out the day eating many different kinds of pig dishes and drinking freshly made whiskey.  Well being Christian and all we threw out the whiskey but still had all the pig you could eat.  The pigs were actually killed that morning.  Every one took part in the slaughtering which consisted of six pigs.  I have been involved with killing pigs once before here in Thailand with the Akah people group near Burma.  It was interesting to see the differences in how the killed and prepared the pig.  Personally the Karen style was a lot more fun and cleaner.  Also I have many pictures in the photo journal for those who would like to see how it was done.  For me the highlight of the wedding was being able to have two different people groups come together to bring two people from the two groups together.  We were able to have all kinds of prayer.  Like normal people from around the village were coming to us all day looking for prayer.  The ministry and the interaction with the Karen was amazing and defiantly the highlight of the wedding.  We even had numerous cases where people were coming back hungry for more prayer because there was a positive effect and they could see change and healing.  One man for example which Adam talked about in his blog came to us and wanted prayer for his hands.  He couldn't fully open them due to what I think was some severe arthritis Anyways he came back the next day with a big smile and stood up in front of the church praising God because he could now open his hands and eat rice on his own again.  It was amazing to see the power of God work through these peoples lives.  It was also amazing to see two completely different people groups come together in the name of Jesus.  Since then Prang and I have been praying and have come up with some service projects and some ways of ministering to her village.  For now we are going to begin just going up to the village once a month or more and continue on the relationships that have began.  Help support the current bible intern that is living up there serving at the church that doesn't have a leader.  Teach the children English and possible take them to the city once a month to see more of the world.  Encourage and pray for the local Christians and out reach to the non-believers.  Prang is is now studying her native Karen language a little deeper in hopes to help with translation for mission teams and I will begin learning the Karen language as well.  There are many things that Prang and I would like to to up in the village with the Karen people.  For now please be praying for us as we begin this new adventure in the mountains.  Pray that we can reach the gospel to the non-believers and help build up the existing believers.  Also pray that God will bring us a truck.  We can't really get started until we have a from of transportation to and from the mountains.  But in all that you pray please pray that that village will receive more of the holy spirit and will began to be moved by the power of God.

Thanks to all those who were apart of the Coast Vineyard missions team.  All of you played a big role during the wedding and we hope you had a great time.  Thank you Jamie for doing the wedding service and Cindy for the translation.  And thank you Coast Vineyard, friends and family for all of your support both financially as well as spiritually.

Sean and Prang