Again I know many people have been waiting for some kind of update.  So here it is.  We just sent out our newsletter so I might be repeating myself to some people.  If you don’t get a newsletter and would like one please e-mail me and we will put you on our list.

As usual I have been busy with various projects at Im Jai.  The government has come in and has made Im Jai change many things.  Many of which I hope will help the children.  Im Jai has even changed directors.  The original director Ladda is now married and living in the States but will still oversee fundraising for the children.  With many of these new changes also come many new construction projects.  We got a new eighty meter well dug for irrigation.  With the five houses and all the water of plants going on, we just weren’t having enough water.  I was in charge of the electrical which was actually a big job.  Lots of pipe had to be run.  The older boys dug me a fifty meter trench to lay the electrical pipes in to power the pump system.  We are also in the process of taking the old laundry building and converting it into some rooms for the older boys.  I came up with the design and we hired the work out to a contractor.  I spent yesterday morning disconnecting the drinking water system and electrical from the building so they could begin work.  We’ve also built a new laundry facility behind one of the houses.  Coming this next week or so we, meaning the other maintenance guy Woot and I, plus the older boys will be building a laundry facility behind each house.  There is also a new door bell system and a shaded car parking structure planned as well. 

Prang is a good seven months pregnant now and doing very well.  The baby is due on April 27^th.  We don’t know if it is going to be a boy or a girl.  We will just wait until the day the baby is born to know.  I think we have finally pick names too.  If it’s a boy we will give him the name Jonas.  Jonas is a form of the name Jonah from the bible.  But I didn’t pick the name from the bible.  One day Adam and I were looking on the internet for what Jonas means.  Almost every definition said Jonas meant “dove” but there was one that said it meant “the oppressor.”  Which I thought was cool.  If the baby is a girl we give her the name Abigail.  Prang picked this one and it means “Fathers joy.”  Which I also think is cool.  I didn’t find out until later that Abigail is in the bible.  She was David’s wife and was super smart.

Prangs two brothers (Ton and Koi) are also living with us.  Ton is 21 years old and is in college studying Civil Engineering.  Koi is 18 and is in a mechanical tech school.  I’ve been taking him out teaching him how to drive to prepare him to get his drivers license.  I’ve also been teaching Prang how to drive too.  Man it’s so freaking stress-full.  I don’t know how many times I thought we were going to get in some horrible accident.  Plus the whole clutch on the hill thing is hard to teach too.  But there both coming along. 

Prang and I have also been spending more time in the village.  We try to go at least once a month but more if we can.  Were just spending more time with the local Christians and getting to know them.  Our goal is to help them have a better understanding of Gods word and to have a deeper relationship with Jesus.  Then encourage and teach them how to go out and evangelize in their own village.  Most of them can’t read or write so they have never read the bible.  So we’ll just be teaching them the stories out of the bible.  They are also planning on building a new church.  They have already graded some new land and we are in the process of trying to build some kind of re-enforced wall to keep the dirt from falling down the mountain. 

On top of everything else God has really blessed us.  Cindy’s mom bought us all a very nice big piece of land about 20 minutes from the city.  Our goal and vision is to build two houses on the land that will serve to take in children.  One house will be Adam and Cindy’s and one house for Prang and I.  Adam and I have been having fun designing the houses on the computer.  So after the land gets all graded and cleaned up and we get a contractor and figure out the cost, then we will start the building process.  That of course all depends on money.  All of which I don’t have any.  But I know God has all the money in the world and He does with it as He pleases.  I can’t think of how the money will come.  It just will.  Look at how the land came.  I never could think of how we could get land with out any money.  Then it just came.  God is awesome.  I will try and keep everyone up todate on how everything goes. 

Take care

Sean