Not forgotten
Usually when I don't get a post up in a while it's not because there's nothing to tell, rather too much. Besides that, when there's too much to tell it also means I've been busy. When you deal with the poor, there's always a crisis somewhere. Here are a few of the issues that have come our way in the last couple of weeks.
1. Pear ran away again. I am so bummed. She was to go on a 3-day excursion with her mom. We sent her to her mom's home Friday night, but on Saturday found out they didn't go because her mom couldn't get off work, and that Pear had gone.
2. A young couple we married a month ago had a major fight right at one of our centers, that included her chasing him with a scissors. Afterwards she said she really wanted to kill him. We're still working through that one.
3. A 19 year-old single mom has a loan shark debt that her ex-boyfriend got into, that requires her to pay about $5 a day for 120 days on a loan of a bit over $200. It works out to nearly 500% annual interest. We are talking directly with the gang leaders and asked if we refinanced it for her would they reduce the amount, but were denied. We're not sure what to do next besides pray for lightning to strike.
4. It's getting to be Songkran time, Thailand's biggest holiday that could be called "National Water Fight". The water fighting is fun, the drinking, craziness and what it has done to some of our students in past years is not. We're trying to prepare our students and ourselves, but it seems that already Songkran-related problems are stirring.
I did make it through my Thai sermon last week with nobody laughing at the wrong time.
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