Dear family & friends,
We are so very happy to have returned home to Chiang Rai just 5 days ago! It is more than a good thing to be home at last, after 8 months of living out of suitcases and being in ‘no-mans-land’. However the result has been good and we are so grateful that the chemotherapy treatment Penny endured has had the desired effect and shrunk that cancer down to be almost nothing. The oncologist has said that if Penny continues one the drugs she was having all along with her chemo, every three months for the next 2 years that there is a much less chance that the cancer will re-occur. So although it is not our preference, we decided to heed the specialists advice and Penny will return to Australia for just one week, each 3 months for the next two years. This IV drug is not available in Thailand and we cannot take it to Thailand from Oz. We have asked these questions and tried to think of every way possible that we could avoid this travel. However we are at peace now about it and believe it would be best to complete this course of treatment.

Our Need:
This does pose a need for us that we didn’t expect and therefore have not budgeted for…… so if there are some of you who’d be willing to sponsor a trip (or part of) to Oz for Penny, we’d be most grateful. Of course we are believing that this will work out and have a good long-term result, so please pray with us to that end.

We arrived in Thailand just over two weeks ago and met the Baan Nam Jai children, along with a couple of staff, at the beach. It was a terrific time and we both loved the opportunity in a more relaxed setting to catch up on lost time, we missed the kids so much. Then once two groups of kids had come separately to join us at the beach, we returned to Chiang Rai with the younger children just this past Sunday, their school break is nearly over. Our staff did such a wonderful job of caring for everything in our absence, we applaud them for their efforts and achievements.

Our own children are all keeping busy in Adelaide and Melbourne with their various work and university studies. We valued the precious times we were able to be together and be a part of their lives while we are in Oz. They did such a good job of caring of their sick mummy while we were with them and did all they could to ‘nurse’ her back to health.

Thanks for partnering with us, for those who pray and support us…. we are so grateful!
we appreciate your love,
Paul & Penny