Date: November 24th 2009

Genesis Chronicles 26/11/2009/74 0000 hrs

To our Friends and Family,

A Happy Thanksgiving! Cold Weather has arrived! Water is finding its way to our home’s water tank. We had run out since morning. It happened also last Tuesday. What an inconvenience, but when I think of those currently facing the current cold snap, we are still blessed.

No showers but the good ol’ bucket method from our drinking water.

Thank God for the safe arrival of the Singapore Life church team consisting of English service pastor, future Missions elder & wife, one new deacon, one future asst. pastor, one missionary and one youth leader. We picked them up from the airport Sunday. We stopped at a traffic light and our van refused to go into gear. Pushed the van to the side of the road. Hailed a songtaew [red car] and sent the team to the Karen Baptist Youth hostel. Had a quick family dinner to celebrate Pat’s birthday and rushed to greet the end of Gade and Apple’s graduation ceremony. What a Sunday.

Thank God for the loan of another van from the mechanic. Felt that a pick-up would have been more fitting. Since when do “foreign labourers” arrive at a worksite in an air-conditioned van. On Monday, the combined Thai-Singaporean team split into 3 groups after a morning’s hard labour. One group continued at the church worksite, another group went to harvest rice and a third group did campus ministry.

Our General Contractor commented that never in the local context would we ever see a pastor or elder toiling under the hot sun tying steel rods together before pouring concrete for the floor of the men and women’s toilet. I smiled and said, “we’ll talk later…” Needless to say, we must have been a source of amusement and bewilderment to the local labourers. After 20 days of construction, the foundation has been laid. Work is going smoothly. Check out the progress and updated pictures from the link below.

Pat is stiff from carrying water and selling pies at school to raise funds for the Philippine Relief fund for John’s 2nd grade class. Aof and Parn will be graduating this weekend.

Just a quick one

God’s Richest Blessings,

Nathaniel & Patricia

Church Building Progress and updates: www.lighthousebpchurch.com
Lighthouse Building Project Pictures: http://gallery.me.com/charissaheng#100191
Lighthouse and ERC events: www.erc.gen12.com
Helping Today’s Tentmaker: www.gen12.com
Evangelism Resources: www.greatcontentment.com