Summer Camp Memories

TC Treestump 1997 - Star Wars Theme

TC Film Night 1998 - Men in Black

Year 9 Boys 1998

TC male leaders 1998

I spoke at Christchurch St Ives' youth group summer camp on Sunday morning and it brought back many memories from the past (see above). The camp had about 200 kids! Some of the leaders were kids who were in TC when I was a leader - it was a surreal but encouraging experience. May all these kids remain excited about God as they are now.

Are you missing a tyre?

The door bell rang this morning at 8am which I thought was a bit odd but it could have been my wife's parents. However, when I opened the door it wasn't anyone I recognised. She asked me whether the blue Honda parked outside our house was mine and when I confirmed that it was, she advised me that my car was missing a tyre and she thought it was in her front yard. When I went outside and looked at my car I couldn't believe it. Overnight someone had taken our tyre off and dumped it about 100 metres down the road. Don't know who or why someone would do this. There was another car which had it's wheel taken off too. Perhaps it was a prank by some unruly youths in the street, or the option is that they stole the tyre to fit on their own car but then found that it didn't fit so dumped it in the neighbour's front yard. It was fortunate that my wife's parents didn't live too far and my father-in-law could go to an auto shop to get 4 new bolts so that I could put the tyre back on. It was annoying but at least I didn't have to buy a new tyre and we were still about to get to church on time.

Bangkok Bombings

Bomb Site at Klong Toey Markets

CSI investigators combing another bomb site

On New Years Eve 8 bombs went off in Bangkok in various locations, killing 3 people and injuring 40 people including 9 foreigners. No one has claimed responsibility for these bombings though speculation shifts between disgruntled politicians who lost power in the recent coup and Muslim insurgents. Many mission agencies have based their regional offices in Thailand because it was considered one of the safer countries in the volatile South East Asian region. This perception may no longer hold.

• Please pray for peace in Thailand
• Please pray for our safety, the safety of other Christian workers and for the Thai people who may be at the wrong place at the wrong time