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!
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We had the privilege to stay at Hoay Maw for a 24 hour period where we were able to document a day in the life of the children of Hoay Maw.
Their schedule was as follows
The children have a very long hard day compared to that which most children are used to. It was
however a joy to capture fun moments as the children are developing relational and recreational skills
in their “family groups”.
You can download the video below:
