The Olivers In Thailand

Rather than repeat information on this site, the following links will take you to further details on the Hoay Maw website

Since the Spring Harvest offering:

There's A Hole in my Roof ...

A family's Response to Hoay Maw Offering Focus ...

Norwegian Connection ...

More Norwegians" ...

On June 7th-8th, Matt and Bronwen Coe ran a 2-day sports camp at the school. Adrian and Jessica helped run the swimming activity, Jenny and Tom were group leaders, Tom helped with the sound.

Matt and Bronwen are fellow Brits from Cirencester. Matt is the sports teacher at the school and together with Bronwen, they have done a great job enabling the school to reach out to Thai children in the local community as well as training student leaders and taking teams to lead camps in the Mae Sot refugee camps south-west of Chiang Mai together with Partners Relief and Development.

You can read more in this Sports Ministry Newsletter

We decided that there was a need for a cultural orientation event to help the international community better understand the ways and humour of the Brits.

About 40 people gathered to share food and watch the final of "Britain's Got Talent" on the big screen (wall).

At Grace school, sport is taken pretty seriously and is therefore the "real games" are mostly out of our league, however, a refreshing alternative is the after-school recreation league for up to 7th Graders. David and Jessica have been able to enjoy participating in Basketball and Football (with coach Oliver!), and finally tag rugby.

In early May we enjoyed a day trip to the Doi Inthanon Park. There is a fun place near the entrance to the park where you can rent a rubber tube and enjoy a picnic.

David under the falls

Jessica and friend Sarah