In November 2015 my family moved to Chiang Mai, Thailand, to work with the NGOĀ Partners Relief & Development, to help bring free, full lives to children affected by conflict and oppression, particularly people in and from Myanmar/Burma.Ā Two months in, here’s the secondĀ of a short series of updates on what life is like here.Ā You can […]
Before Would you sponsor me to cut off my hair? Even better, let’s cut out the causality and put it like this: would you donate to our Partners fund to help us get to South East Asia to bring free, full lives to children affected by conflict and oppression? And in unrelated news, I’m going […]
On New Yearās Eve, 2014, our daughter Hazel was born at Wellington Hospital, by emergency caesarean section. Gosh, we were lucky. āYou must be disappointed,ā a healthcare assistant commiserated with me the next day, assuming I would be sad that what started as a straightforward, natural labour had ended in the most dramatic of all […]
The last fortnight has been a mix of hope and horror as I’ve been learning more about the work of the friends we’re visiting in Thailand. They are part of Partners Relief & Development, a small international charity that does strategic work in health, education, poverty uplift and human rights advocacy for the (very many) […]
A guest post by Sam Kilpatrick. My wife is awesome. Of course I have to say that because Iām married to her, and she is sitting across from me in the lounge! Weāve been talking about some of the ways in which Iāve made a difference in ministry or teaching or work and then it […]