Gifts for the Schools

We are often asked by the schools for help in various projects. Obviously we are not able to respond with money to all of the requests, but we feel it's important to help out when we can. We had several requests to help out with donations for the school libraries at schools where we teach. This seemed like a worthy project as we could donate books that taught about Jesus, taught good moral lessons, and would help the kids with their English as well.

The fun began as I checked out bookstores all over town for the right books. It was really a lot of fun. We bought a huge selection of Thai, English, and English-Thai books.We had books that taught several Bible stories, a Thai set of the Chronicles of Narnia, videos of Max Lucado's You Are Special, and several timeless literature classics such as The Gift of the Magi.
We presented the books to two local schools and adopted two schools in the Isaan region as well.We were also able to purchase individual copies of Jesus Is Born for the 181 students at this school. We were able to be with them for their Christmas party and had a good time being with the kids.
We presented the donation to the teacher and then began handing out the books to the students.

We saw many kids reading the books after they were dismissed. They enjoyed hearing us read in Thai as well. They were good patient teachers for us. :)