Paul
I love the jungle, I love to hike, I love having family times and having holidays by the beach. Being with people who want to grow and learn new things excites me and gives me great joy. My motto in life has always been “Live life to the full!” If life doesn’t have challenges and risks then I curl up in boredom – so I do not choose the way of boredom and look for challenges and risks that keep me on life’s edge! My favourite verse is Phil 2:12-13 – Work out your salvation with fear and trembling for it is God who works in you to will and to do according to His good pleasure. I’m on a quest to discover what His good pleasure is and I would have it no other way. I love life and I love Jesus being the Centre of my life.
Penny
There are so many things about life that I love. I love family and friends. I love taking risks and relish a challenge. I love hot climates! I don’t like being cold! I love beaches and sunsets! I love kids! I love reading, walking, swimming, sewing, gardening. I love managing things, and caring for people. I love fishing and being in a boat or canoe! Most of all I love Jesus. My life motto is to live without regrets!
Luke & Pennie
We have been married for over four and a half years now and have recently returned to Adelaide after spending 15 months in Chiang Rai with the rest of the Wilcox family, helping out with random tasks at Baan Nam Jai and enjoying time together as a family. We are living with friends just outside of Adelaide city and are both working part-time while we face the challenges of living simply in our western consumer culture, which is not easy. We both love art in its varying forms and love to support artists that we know in their creativity. We think life is for living and we don’t want to wait until age 55 for retirement to do the things we love, so we concentrate on doing them now. We are also passionate about supporting local small business, issues of social justice and education about fair trade food and clothes, and other things that make a big difference to other people’s lives in developing countries. Luke likes music, literature, singing, naps in the afternoon, sunshine, and a good breakfast cookup with friends. Pennie likes enjoying good food with friends, nature, making jewelry, painting, photography, and cups of tea in the afternoon.
Jaci
I love working with kids…..they are my passion. I am in the middle of studying health science, and I totally love uni. I love all the new things that I learn and the people that I meet. One of my favourite ways to pass the time is with a big cup of tea, a good friend and some good conversation….. plunk me down in a cafe pretty much anywhere in the world with a good book and I’d be happy. Having spent my formative years in Thailand, it’s hard to know where to call home. I’ve been living in Australia since I graduated from high school, but every time I go back to Thailand I feel like I’m finally home, and yet I don’t completely fit in there either. But even with all the confusion of where I belong, I wouldn’t ever give up the way I was raised. I am pretty blessed. One of my favourite quotes: “our afflictions are the price we pay for our ability to sympathize”
Zac & Michelle
Well, life flies by pretty quickly. My wife and I (I LOVE saying that) are now living in Adelaide, Australia. We moved here at the beginning of January 2009 and have finally begun to settle in. We’ve got a house of our own and a car to drive around. Thankfully we also have some furniture for our house as well. It’s been an adventure settling in to the new life over here but I love it. It’s awful nice to be close to my family again, although it has been hard at time for Michelle being so far away from her family. All prayers would be amazingly appreciated. At the moment we’re both working. I was thinking about going to study at university, but decided to put it off a year. If you were wondering about my darling wife. Well. She is the most amazing person in the world, she’s generous, self-sacrificial, beautiful, tender. Well, the list could go on, but I’ll stop being soppy there. Thanks to everyone for all of the prayers and support that you have given to my family, especially my parents.
Caleb
I am Caleb, the youngest of the Wilcox bunch! I was born in 1990 in Bacchus Marsh, Victoria. When I was a baby my parents joined a mission organisation called YWAM & I have pretty much grown up moving about with my parents, going to this country and that. It was interesting seeing the world. I was home-schooled until my third year of school when we moved interstate to South Australia and there I went to a public school in Adelaide called “The Heights”. I was only there one year when at 8 years of age, our family re-located to Chiang Rai, Thailand. I learnt heaps more about the world living there than I would have had I stayed living in Australia. So I am glad about that. I finished year 12 in Chiang Rai in June 2008 and in August I moved back to Adelaide, after living in Asia for 10 years, I notice a pretty big difference in cultures but I am adjusting and it’s all good. I am currently studying (Pastry Chef/Baking) in Adelaide and enjoying it. When I’m finished I am hoping for a ‘good break” and to get an apprenticeship in a similar field. I also work part-time at a bottle re-cycling yard to help pay my rent/bills. I miss Thailand and am looking forward to being back for a visit.
