The Olivers In Thailand

This weekend Powerpack Thailand (aka us) had the privilege of taking an international Powerpack Team to Hoay Maw to run two days of children's leaders training, children's workshops, celebration, and finally, Sunday church service.

A more complete report will follow later once we have recovered!

A brief video below shows the children enjoying the new Powerpack "More & More!" Thai audio CD we released in January. The Thai songs are based on the English Powerpack "More!" album (plus songs from other Powerpack albums).

The video starts with the team performing a number of the songs on the church's balcony.

The international Powerpack team included Thais, Americans, Canadians, Norwegians and British - (sorry - no Irish involvement...).

Although the British contingent were experienced "Powerpackers", this was only the 1st or 2nd time the others had been involved in a Powerpack event - this did not hinder them entering fully.

We were especially proud of the three young Thai team members from COC House Of Praise who were a wonderful role model to the children - it was a privilege for all of us to work along side them!

Well done and thank you everybody!

We look forward to planning the next Powerpack Thailand outing!

This weekend saw our first official Powerpack Thailand event involving a team of some 60 people (shown above) of all ages leading seminars, workshops, dramas, music, worship over two days for some 110 adults and some 130 children from the region.

Jenny was the event organiser, while Heather Thompson from Powerpack UK was the main speaker of the event.

More event details later...as we are currently preparing to repeat the conference in Hoay Maw this coming weekend...kind of busy...

Last night we had an unseasonal thunderstorm that turned out to be more violet than usual - very windy, heavy rain...and lots of lightening...which unusually also took out the electricity for nearly an hour...

The lack of electricity did not stop us from continuing to work by candlelight (to see the keyboard) - although even though our UPS kept our networking working throughout the during of the power cut, it seems our internet provider's UPS failed.

I did have a go at taking some photographs from the balcony - however by the time it was "safe" to go outside (i.e. horizontal rain had changed enough so that I would not get soaked), I had missed all the good strikes...

...well, not all of them. Although I did miss it with the camera...one strike was very close - less than 1/2 second between the strike and the bang! Needless to say I ran inside before the full second was up!

Fortunately apart from tree branches and leaves scattered across the roads, there was no damaged. Well, with the exception of the motorbike which apparently drove into a parked car from shock following on the the close strikes!

Lunch

Party at BaanSaanFan