Prayer Requests
Pray for deeper relationships with my
classmates.
Pray that board game version of Village is an
astounding success when we playtest it tomorrow.
Pray for right people to help me with
Village fundraising in March.
Pray for money to rain down from heaven. First for the $5000 I need for
this trip and then $3500 to help start businesses in Morroco in May
with Mosaic Church.
Support My Trip
To donate online: Donate via Paypal.
For tax-deductible donations: Mail a check made payable to "PIHOP" to:
PIHOP
1401 N. Lake Ave,
Pasadena 91104.
For accounting purposes, put 'Thailand' in the memo, not my name.
Thank you supporters!! So far you have donated $1200 of the
$5000 I am fundraising for this trip.
Pictures!!
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Meet
Vincent Nwana
 Vincent Nwana,from Cameroon, Northwest
Province is one of my classmates here in Thailand. Just to
get the visa he had to travel to a neighboring country that
had an embassy, push a car 2km when it broke down and deal
with corrupt border guards . As I've learned getting an
African citizen into Chiang Mai is nothing short of a miracle.
This past week I went on a field trip with Vincent and 4 other
classmates to remote regions of Thailand to
see how various Christian entrepreneurs are using business to bless the
people of Thailand. One group is operating tilapia fish
farms, greeting card production, and lychee orchards in order to fund a
boys and gilrls home and a vocational training center for children
rescued from prostitution and/or at-risk of enslavement.
Surprising to me, the greeting card business is the most
cashflow positive of all the projects.
One powerful and pragmatic lesson I've learned is that God doesn't
grant shortcuts to experience. Every newbie entrepreneur has
had to go through their own learning curve before they could really
bless people with their start-ups. That is definitely
matching my experience.
Going on this field trip with Vincent and my brothers from Cote
D'Ivoire, Mali, and Malaysia made the trip exceptionally
meaningful because they are gathering ideas they can actually use in
their communities. Btw, if you know how Vincent
can get get hooked up with a microloan to start his own tilapia fish
farm in Cameroon definitely let me know. There was
no obvious way from www.Kiva.org.
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