Greetings from Thailand in Jesus' most-powerful Name!  Did I ever tell you about the time when God literally protected another missionary and me from a powerful, nearly-direct lightning strike— employing the power of prayer?  This was real life-and-death spiritual warfare in the truest sense of the word, something most Christians never see or experience. 

Ian Bouley, a British missionary with Overseas Missionary Fellowship (OMF), and I, working jointly, began to show movies in a remote, primitive village.  (This was in the general vicinity where my wife Cheryl and I had begun our church-planting ministry.)  The afternoon skies were clear, and the weather was mild. Not a cloud or sign of rain in sight.  A vast crowd of peasant farmers from the surrounding villages had gathered to watch the films and hear the Gospel.

The first movie, a Moody science film, was well underway when the air cooled and a stiff breeze began to blow.  Soon, a few drops of rain began to fall.  This was followed by a strong wind and violent thunder and lightning storm, having appeared seemingly from out of nowhere.  The crowd immediately dispersed as we quickly set about to gather up the equipment, covering the old 16mm projector with a rubberized poncho before we hauled it out of the deluge.

Bringing the projector and sound equipment with us, we retreated into the nearest available dry spot, an animal corral located underneath a nearby primitive house (built upon raised house posts, as is the custom there).  There, out of the rain, we stood ankle-deep in the flowing waters (and who knows what else) as we waited out the storm  There we were, cold, shivering, soaked to the bone, and not a little discouraged at that juncture.  After about 20-30 minutes of balancing the heavy projector on a bamboo rail, it was evident that the storm had moved on.  The rain had long stopped, and we could hear the thunder rumbling softly in the distance.

We surveyed the area for any wind or water damage.  Our large white canvas screen once stretched between two vertical bamboo poles and staked down securely with guy wires, was now ripped and lying over against a nearby rice granary roof.  Due to the impact, one corner overhang of the thin galvanized granary roof was wrinkled slightly.  For this, we were culturally obliged to reimburse the owner a small stipend for the damage, which we gladly did — amounting to around $10 US.

As the skies cleared, we ventured out from the buffalo corral under the house and brought the old Toyota Pickup truck around to load our equipment and head home.  We carefully stored the projector and film reels inside, then fetched the generator sitting at the edge of the village, a few hundred feet away.  Hauling it back on a rickety old borrowed two-wheeled cart, we proceeded to load it unto the truck.

With the tailgate down, me on one side and the other missionary on the opposite of the heavy generator grasping the steel pipe "T" handle, we lifted it and swung it back and forth to get up momentum, then hoisted it up into the back of the pickup.  As we heaved hard to slide the generator forward, our bodies were resting flat against the wet truck bed. That's when it happened!

We were both startled by a blinding flash and an ear-splitting thunderous CRR-RACK!  A powerful lightning bolt had just struck a nearby tree, not 20 feet distance from where we stood.  We glowed briefly at the instant of the strike as the inducted electrical charge built up in the metal of the ungrounded truck body coursed up our arms and down through our bodies on its way to dispersing in the ground.  We had become human lightning rods. Oddly, however, we felt absolutely no jolts or shocks.  Nothing really.  I only recall an impression akin to the light touch of a mosquito brushing past the hair on my forearm! ...which may have been just that, a mosquito.

NOTE: Just before entering the ministry, I had been in professional sales, designing and selling UL-Approved lightning protection systems, which were installed by the company where I was employed in lightning-storm prone rural Upstate NY.   I had studied the characteristics and effects of lightning as part of my job, so I realized that something out of the ordinary had just taken place.   Supernatural. Miraculous. A God thing. Call it what you like; we should have been knocked to the ground unconscious, or worse yet, seriously injured or killed.   Which, weighing the facts, I believe was the Enemy's intent that night; to get rid of us since we were making a real difference in bringing the Gospel into that previously unreached, spiritually parched land.

Ian (a former Rolls Royce engineer) and I glanced at each other momentarily, then dismissed it as we finished loading the truck. Our spirits dampened, and our bodies soaked and chilled, we drove home in silent disappointment that night.  When I arrived at my home and walked in the door, a missionary friend who was staying with us— but didn't go with us that evening as he was feeling ill— asked me abruptly, "What happened tonight?"

I couldn't think of anything in particular except that it had rained hard and spoiled our evening, and that I was cold, rainsoaked, and wanted to shower and change my clothes.  "No," he said, "something else really happened tonight!"  He went on to explain that, during the previous hour, he was resting in a chair and reading when suddenly the Lord deeply impressed him that we were in grave danger, and to pray for our safety immediately, which he did.

I recapped the evening in my mind, and... Wow!  I recalled the lightning incident.  Could it be?  Had God directed His Angels to protect us from serious harm, even death?   That's why we felt nothing at the moment the lightning struck and the high-energy inducted electrical charge stored up in the metal truck body used us as a grounding rod.  Upon telling my friend what had happened, we rejoiced and praised the Lord for His watch care.  The lingering feelings of discouragement were immediately dispelled, replaced with elation and joy.  We had just experienced a bonafide life-saving miracle in His service and personally witnessed the power of Spirit-prompted prayer in action.

The following day, I took the visiting missionary into town, 36 kilometers away, since he had to catch the air-conditioned express bus to Bangkok, then up to Northern Thailand, where he ministered among the Karen Hill Tribe people.  Ian, the British missionary whom I had been in the lightning incident with, lived in town.  So, we decided to stop by to say hello and share how God had impressed the visiting missionary to pray for our safety at that very moment.

When we finished speaking, Ian asked his wife Wendy to tell us her account of the previous evening.  Amazingly, her account was quite similar to that of the visiting missionary... deep forebodings and a strong prompting to pray that God would spare our lives.  Again, we gave more heartfelt praise and thanks to the Lord.

That's the true account of the incident, as clearly as I recall.  It's still quite vividly impressed in my memory since one doesn't forget those types of things very easily.  It was certainly a confidence and insight builder realizing afresh that we were on a potentially dangerous mission, deep behind enemy lines, and that the Enemy wanted us out of there and gone.  However, our Commander in Chief, the Lord Jesus Christ, had other plans for us!

It was a real-life lesson as to the reality and power of God's guardian angels— on duty watching over us that evening— and the importance and power of supportive prayer for missionaries like us, serving in the foxholes as we fight the good fight of faith behind the front lines of battle— taking the life-giving Word of God and the Gospel message to those still trapped in Satanic darkness!

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NOTE: The adjoining miracle was, a few months later, a new church was born in a home not too many yards from where we began showing movies (in that very same primitive rural village). The homeowners, Grandma and Grandpa Samer, an elderly couple who were well-known, powerful spirit mediums, were the first two believers.  Trapped as Satan's pawns in the dark arts of witchcraft for many years, I later learned that they had given up on Buddhism as a means of deliverance from the spirits, and were searching for the truth. 

They came to my home one morning (situated in a nearby village) to purchase vitamins and stomach-ailment medicine, which I kept a small supply of to dispense as needed.  When done, I said, "I have some more medicine, the type that will purify your hearts so you can go to Heaven..."  "Bring it out so we can look at it!" the man responded.  I went into our house and returned with some colorful posters that I used as visual aids when preaching the Gospel, as well as a tape recorder and Thai Bible materials.

They listened intently as I taught, starting with God, Creation, Adam and Eve, Satan and his lies, the Temptation, Fall, Curse, and the promised Messiah, naming the Name above all names—The Lord Jesus Christ—as the only One who could save them from sin and God's judgment.  I went on to say that He was the one that their legends spoke of as the Deliverer who was to come.  When I ran out of things I needed to say, I told them it was now up to them to respond to the message and receive Christ for themselves. 

Their hands went up simultaneously, clasped in a prayer position as they cried out verbally to God for mercy and help.  God delivered them immediately upon their repentance and profession of faith, as they sat there on the front porch of my home.  The year was mid-1977.  Later, they told me that when they left my place to return to their home in the neighboring village, they felt as if a heavy chain had been unwound from around their chests.  Whenever I visited their home to teach, I would often hear them exclaim, "Praise the Lord," and you could tell it wasn't just an empty phrase to them.  They're now both sitting at the feet of the Lord Jesus, enjoying His presence face to face.  Soon after Grandma and Grandpa Samer came to Christ, all of their children, and many of their grandchildren and great-grandchildren became believers... some are even now in the ministry, down to the fourth and fifth generation. 

So, you can see how and why God protected us from lightning that evening, prompting believers to plea for our safety, although they were personally unaware of why.  Satan may be a very powerful enemy, but his power is meager and limited compared to God's--in whom we trust and serve till Christ returns--as we take God's Word and the Gospel message to those still blinded and groping around in spiritual darkness at the uttermost ends of the earth.

By God's Enabling Grace, and For His Eternal Glory;

Ron Myers
Church Planting Missionary and Bible Translator
Isan People and Region of Northeast Thailand

Baptist World Missionary Outreach Ministries
PO Box 3303, Chattanooga, TN 37404

Foreword (How It All Began):

I met Cheryl during the Spring of 1969.  She was a pastor's daughter and very attractive, pure-hearted young lady.  The answer to my prayers and epitome of my dreams, she become my wife and life companion a few months later.   Cheryl grew up about 12 miles distance from where I did, in New York's Finger Lakes Region.  I was told about her by a mutual acquaintance a couple years before we met.  I pursued getting a date, but it didn't work out since at that juncture she was earning her Bachelor's Degree in Education at The King's College, Briarcliff Manor, NY.  She then returned home to teach school where she had attended.  We met a few years later, dated and fell in love.  Realizing the Lord had brought us together to serve Him, we were married the fall of that same year at my home church, Venice Baptist—her dad and my pastor officiating—and entered missionary training one week after our honeymoon.

Photo: King's College Home-Coming Queen contestant (taken two years before we met).

Even before we met, the Lord had been working in both of our hearts concerning His Will for our lives.  During the time we were dating, the Lord reminded both of us concerning earlier commitments we had each made to serve Him, but had subsequently put on hold to pursue personal plans.  We both yielded to His leading the same Sunday morning while sitting together in church, albeit unbeknown to each other.  Discussing it later, and seeking counsel from our pastors, we decided to get married and enter the ministry afterwards.  Thus, one week after our Honeymoon we entered missionary training under New Tribes Mission.  In short, we chose to leave the work-a-day rat-race behind, with all its tinsel and trappings, and go make a difference among needy people in remote Southeast Asia as pioneer church-planting missionaries.  Thailand became the obvious choice, as we saw the Lord open that particular door, and give us peace to pursue that direction.

First, we completed four years of intensive, specialized training (1969-73) in preparation for the rigors of pioneer missionary life, replete with its challenges and extreme living conditions.  Studies included: socio-linguistics; cultural-anthropology; unwritten language acquisition techniques; cross-cultural communication principles; literacy; jungle survival; field medicine; and obviously Bible training.

Upon successful completion of all requirements, and my ordination, we raised our support and moved to Thailand during the Fall of 1973 (during the final months of the Vietnam War).  There, we raised our family while serving among the village-dwelling minorities of Thailand's vast northeastern region, bordering Laos.  It was richly rewarding, rigorous, and challenging, as well as dangerous at times.  Even so, we both desired to spend our lives doing something lasting and worthwhile.  Not particularly satisfied with settling down to a comfortable, yet mundane lifestyle.

Some Interesting Highlights:

Welcome To Thailand:

We (Cheryl and I, and 18-month old David) landed in Thailand in mid-September, 1973.  That was after a grueling and exhausting trip on a series of jam-packed flights from New York City, flying over Europe, where many passengers near us smoked constantly.  Upon arrival in Thailand, our initial exposure to this exotic foreign land was softened a little because we were immediately driven to our mission's annual field conference, held some 150 kilometers southeast of Bangkok at the Southern Baptist Conference Center, situated on the then-remote "Jom-tian" beachfront, five kilometers south of the tourist town of Pattaya City.  We spent over a week there at the beach-front conference grounds, recovering from jet-lag, relaxing and enjoying the pleasant surroundings, and gradually adjusting to the sights, sounds, food and culture of a strange new land... a land which was to become our new home for many years. 

Back then, that whole stretch of beach south of Pattaya was undeveloped, save for a few local dwellings and wood-framed guest houses, scattered here and there amongst the wild palm trees and abandoned rice fields.  The road back then, such as it was, was a pothole-filled, grass-lined dirt laneway.  Nowadays, that same area is jam-packed with tall five-star hotels and condos, as thick as the teeth on a comb, and of course with a paved thoroughfare.

After our initial time at the conference center, it was back to Bangkok where we rented a wood-framed Thai house, and became immersed in the then-strange new language and culture.  Our cute little two-story, wood-framed, rented Thai-styled dwelling. It was not a mansion on ritzy Sukkhumwit Road as some foreigners did, which helped endear us to the locals.  As I remember, we paid a whopping 800 Baht a month, which equaled $40 US.  Our "mini-mansion" was located at the edge of an old fruit orchard, out behind the Suan Pluu marketplace.  This location was not too far from the present-day Thai Immigration Headquarters, further down Suan Pluu Road.  We immediately began attending Union Language School during the morning hours, located a few blocks away on Silom Road, not too far from the Hotel Dusitani.  We usually walked to and from school, enjoying the smells of all the strange but usually tasty foods, hawked by friendly vendors, perched on the sidewalks along the way.  They often took up most of the sidewalk, which made all passers-by divert around them into the adjacent streets, with its backward-flowing traffic (mirror-image from American traffic).

Our First Thai Coup d'état:

The Suan Pluu fresh market near our home was really handy, as it was situated only a couple minutes walk from our front gate.  Just beyond that was Suan Pluu Road, where Cheryl often shopped for canned and packaged foods.  One day, as she left our favorite Thai-Chinese grocery store where we did business, she no sooner stepped back onto the sidewalk than every open-fronted store on the street slammed their folding doors shut, including the one she had just exited.  She noted that there were no pedestrians or traffic on the normally crowded and bustling street.

It was then that she heard the loud roar of huge diesel engines, and the noisy clatter of rubber-cleated track vehicles.  As she turned, she noticed a garrison of Army tanks, rounding the corner a few hundred meters down the then-abandoned street, rolling quickly up the empty street in her direction.  Armed troops perched on big Army transport trucks and in personnel carriers accompanied the tanks.  Before she could think what to do, or where to go, the owner of the store she had just exited slid the folding door open just enough to pull her back in to safety, and WHAM, he quickly slammed it back shut again before the approaching tanks and armed troops went by.

What was the occasion?  The infamous Field Marshal Thanom Kittikachorn, one of the "Terrible Threesome" dictator types of that era, as the Thai liked to call them, was being ousted from power by a popular uprising (October 14, 1973), accompanied by the ensuing posturing and confrontations during a coup d'état.

That was the first Thai coup we experienced, but certainly not the last.  Most were relatively bloodless, so we quickly learned to do as the Thai, just stay inside for a few days, with the radio on, till everything blew over.  It became a normal event after a while—no big deal, which the foreign media liked to make of it—as the Thai Military and somewhat fledgling Thai Democracy movement occasionally went head-to-head for control of the country.

As told by Ron Myers
(Coup d'état incident details as related to me a few minutes afterward by my excited and breathless wife, Cheryl.)

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Continuing On—More Highlights:

1) We lived in steamy, bustling Bangkok for one year (1973-74), getting accustomed to the complex Thai language and writing system.  Now, years later, we are proficient three Thai-related Asian tonal languages where we work and are semi-proficient in another local-area tonal language.

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2a) Upon completion of Thai language school in Bangkok, during the Fall of 1974, we moved our young family 675 kilometers (420 miles) to Sakon Nakon Province, Northeastern Thailand.  I rode in the open cab of the dilapidated old truck hauling our meager earthly belongings (sitting all night on a wooden plank seat).  Meanwhile, Cheryl rode the packed overnight Bangkok-to-Sakon Nakon orange bus with our two young children—aptly nick-named "orange crush" by missionaries—which wasn't in much better condition than the truck. Nowadays, transportation in Thailand has advanced to the point where there are a variety of high-class airconditioned tour busses that make the same trip, as well as daily flights to and from Bangkok. Not only to that one location, but throughout Thailand's 70-plus provinces.

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  b) Arriving "sleepless in Sakon" the next morning, we unloaded the truck, unpacking our things in the nice, Thai-style, wood-framed house we had rented, located in a quiet part of town.  We loved that place, so nice, so handy, so quiet, so livable compared to Bangkok.  Weekdays, Cheryl stayed at home with the children, while I ranged out doing survey work on rutted back-country roads and ox-cart trails, riding a small, 100cc Kawasaki trail bike.  I was looking for a good place to locate among an unreached "Nyaw" people group, of which there were numerous unreached tribal minority-groups and villages throughout the general Isan area: Bruu, Dtrii, Kalerng, Nyaw, PhuThai, Saek, So, Yooi, et al. The major trade language of that Northeastern Thai Region is Isan, which is closely related to Laotian, Laos being located just across the Mekong River to the east.

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  c) I finally located an ethnic Nyaw peasant-farmer village with a friendly village headman** who invited us to move in.  This was in a remote rural area of Nakon Panom Province, about 100 kilometers (62 miles) from Sakon Nakon Province and 36 kilometers (22 miles) from Nakon Panom's capital city.  I made land rental arrangements with one of the villagers, Mr. Gert (first in the village to accept Christ).  I built a nice, sturdy peasant-styled house on Mr Gert's property, employing local help.  It was a typical-looking structure on the outside, So as not to look out-of-place or draw unnecessary attention, but the interior had many conveniences like gravity-fed running water, kitchen and bathroom (with sinks), shower, drains, flush toilet, livingroom, three bedrooms, office space, and even a children's schoolroom underneath. 

Note: **Village Headman.  A village headman in Thailand is appointed by the people as their representative and liaison to the Thai government and visa versa. However, the headman has little or no authority in the village's internal socio-cultural or spiritual affairs.  (A council of respected Village Elders holds that place authority.) 

As it turned out, this village headman, Mr. Nut, was quite corrupt; sort of a small-time gangster type—which everyone knew but us, we later learned.  He had gladly invited us to come live in his village, thinking he was going to receive gain off of the "rich" foreigners.  However, when he realized we were not going to fit into his wishes, he then tried his best to get us ousted—which might have succeded except for the fact that the villagers liked us more than they like him.  At times he reminded me of a little Banny Rooster.  He would strut back and forth in front of our house, like on guard duty, dressed in his government-issue village headman uniform, replete with white gloves and shouldering an old fake-looking rifle he had picked up somewhere. 

He also began going around warning the villagers to be careful of us, and to not believe anything we said, telling them we were CIA and KGB, all at the same time.  He even tried to tell the district officials the same thing, but they knowingly disbelieved him and sent him home.  Most of the villagers disliked Headman Nut, and accepted us, to the point where they finally appointed a four-man ad hoc committee around to gather enough signatures to have him officially removed from office.

As a replacement for Headman Nut, they chose one of the men on the committee, who just happened to be my trusted friend, Mr. Kiam.  Kiam was also my Nyaw language tutor, who became a much-loved and respected village headman.  Concerning the Gospel, Kiam once told me quite earnestly during one of our language sessions that he realized we had brought an important message to share, but that he didn't fully understand.  One evening soon afterwards, he called a village meeting together, where all the heads of households were gathered.  There, Kiam asked me to preach the Gospel to them.  Not much happened at that time, but some believed later on.  Among them was the former Headman Nut's eldest son. 

Sadly, on one of my recent trips to Thailand, I stopped by the village to visit old friends, especially Headman Kiam.  In usual fashion, I approached Kiam's house and called out his name, expecting to hear his voice in return, inviting me up onto their porch.  However, insteadd of hearing Kiam's voice answering back, a neighbor responded with: "You're too late Ron, your friend Kiam died about a month ago."  To say that I was deeply saddened would be an understatement, since, to the best of my knowledge, I was never sure that Kiam understood well-enough to accept Christ; but God is gracious and saw the intent of his heart.  That's why I take language learning so very seriously.  It's one of the most crutial things a missionary can do... master the language of the people they are seeking to reach, along with their culture, belief system, and the best way to effectively present the Gospel!

May our God have mercy on Kiam's soul on That Day.  My good friend Kiam was truly interested in the Gospel.  He realized that it was important, but lacked foundationnal understanding.  I lay a good share of the blame on myself, because I didn't come to the full realization until later that the shortcut Westernized method of sharing the Good News (that most missionaries still try to use) falls dreadfully short in a land where the people know nothing of a Creator God. Nor do they have a Judeo-Christian world view, which, when understood, helps them to "connect-the-dots," and more-readily comprehend the Gospel message, especially that Jesus Christ is really their Creator, and why it is important to receive Him as their Savior. For that reason, when speaking with a Thai person — all of whom love Nature — I always start by discussing Intelligent Design, leading to the truth that there must be an Intelligent Designer or Creator God.

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  d) While I was busy costructing our village home, Cheryl was staying in our rental home in Sakon Nakon Province, some 100 kilometers (62 miles) away.  We moved into our new home in the Nyaw village (and spent the first night there as a family) on Christmas Eve, 1974.  There, we lived and worked among primitive rice farmers for eight years.  Village life was very archaic, with an absence of any utilities such as electricity, city water, sewage, phone, or medical facilities, including a road akin to an improved oxcart trail.  It was not hard to adapt – quite pleasant actually.  In a few weeks, we had pretty-much made all needed adjustments.  It was nearing the end of the Vietnam War, and many Communist insurgents hid out in the surrounding forests and mountains.  Nevertheless, having laid our lives on the line for the Gospel, God watched over us and kept us safe.

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3) Our two daughters, Angela and Michelle, were born in Bangkok Christian Hospital. (Angela in February 1974 about seven months after we arrived in Thailand, and Michelle in May 1976, while we were living in the remote, upcountry Nyaw village of Ban NaNai.)

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4) While entering Free Laos in the Spring of 1975 to renew our Thai visas (as we were accustomed to doing), this time we were surprised and detained by battle-hardened Communist soldiers, with loaded AK-47s drawn down on us.  Unbeknown to the outside world, they had taken the little border town earlier that morning.  Convinced that I was with the CIA, things soon got very serious.  However, by God's Providential watch-care, we were later released unexpectedly.

Note: As to the seriousness of the event, we knew missionaries who were captured by Communist soldiers, marched barefoot for hundreds of miles over rough mountain terrain to North Vietnam, and imprisoned in the "Hanoi Hilton."  We knew of other missionaries who were killed within their homes, which were then burned down with their bodies inside.

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5) During those years, Communist insurgents, as well as gangs of armed robbers, and bandits roamed the huge forests out behind our village.  The bandits made it a practice of kidnapping government officials, traveling merchants, and wealthy businessmen for ransom money, often killing their victims.  I got word that we (as "rich" foreigners) were in their plans, whereupon I specifically asked God to protect us.  A few days later, we learned that an undercover provincial police battalion ambushed them in a sting raid, and ended up killing the whole gang in an ensuing gun battle.

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6) In 1981, after a one-year Sabbatical in the States, we relocated from the primitive village setting to the provincial capital of Nakon Panom, near the Mekong River.  There, our nice home became headquarters where we expanded our outreach and initiated a Bible translation project for the 21-million Bible-less Isan people, now 80% complete.

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7a) In 1983, our youngest daughter Michelle, at age 7yrs, slipped and fell from a fruit tree behind our house, landing on the hard ground 16-18 feet below.  Smashing her side against a big clump of hard dirt, she badly ruptured her left kidney and tore the adjoining artery.  Bleeding profusely internally, she survived emergency surgery in a somewhat-primitive provincial hospital, the only semi-decent facility within hundreds of miles.

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  b) The hospital's blood-bank did not have her blood type (AB+ is rare for Asians), whereupon I was called upon to go "hunt up" three pints of AB+ from among friends and acquaintances, which I did, with difficulty.  The time by then was early evening.  Meanwhile, her life was being saved by Dr. Wichit, a skilled Thai surgeon who just "happened" to be in town.  Michelle healed rapidly, and is now a successful administrative district school nurse here in Southern California, with her Master's Degree in nursing (and a sizable scar by which to remember her inspiration for becoming a nurse).

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8) Alltold, during all our time spent in Thailand, we made life-long friends from among a wide socio-economic and ethnic spectrum of people, ranging from dirt-poor peasant farmers, to successful businessmen, to multi-millionaires.

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9) During our time ministering in Northeast Thailand, we were involved in planting (starting) at least three rural churches, along with various smaller local-area meeting centers.  We were also involved in reviving an older established church in Nakon Panom city that was floundering.  All told, we saw many families (men and their wives) become full-time leaders in their own right, including: pastors; teachers; evangelists; missionaries; church-planters; song writers; Sunday-school workers; elders; deacons; etc.  At last count, there were at least five generations of believers in some families.

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10) Most significantly, by God's Grace, we saw Hope and New Life arise in many hearts and lives as they turned from their ancient folk-superstitions and works-based religious traditions to receive Christ as their Creator, Savior, and Lord.

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Note: There are many more things that could be added, but these will suffice for now.

By God's Enabling Grace, and For His Eternal Glory;

Ron (and Cheryl) Myers
Church Planting Missionary and Bible Translator
Isan People and Region of Northeast Thailand

Baptist World Missionary Outreach Ministries
PO Box 3303, Chattanooga, TN 37404

During the early 1980s, as we had done before, Cheryl and I traveled east-to-west, across Thailand's upper or northern region to visit our two older children, David (11) and Angela (8), who were attending missionary school in the modern city of Chiang Mai, Northern Thailand.  Our two younger children, Michelle (6) and Danny (approaching 4), were with us.  Upon returning home, traversing the myriad of roads along the 1,200-kilometer (745-mile) route to our place of ministry in Nakon Panom Province, Northeast Thailand, Cheryl and I innocently decided to take a short side-detour to visit fellow missionary friends.

The missionary family, Gene and Mary Long and children, lived and ministered among the highly-nomadic Yellow Leaf people, who slept under the stars and roamed the high-jungles, foraging for meager sustenance, w-a-y up in the remote mountaintop jungle wilderness of Thailand's Naan Province, as well as adjoining provinces, and even into neighboring Laos.

Somehow, we were made to believe--or got the distinct impression--that the road up the mountain was easily passable.  In fact, the villagers in a Northern Thai village at the base of the mountain assured us the road was fine, but sent a couple young fellows along with us to assist, just in case.  That should have been a tip-off.  Had we known, we would have never attempted the assent in the first place because that's when the "fun" began.

On the way up, although the '75 VW Van we were driving was amazingly light-footed and agile, there were some pretty tricky spots I had to navigate.  At these points, Cheryl got out and walked a while with our then three-year-old son, Danny, who had become uncontrollably frightened, having been petrified by the long stretch of steep, potentially-dangerous mountain...  'er...  do I dare call it a road(?), that we had to ascend.

Actually, the incident that frightened Danny most occurred at the very crest of the long ascent... which made me a bit squeamish as well.  Near the top of that long, narrow ascent, there was a brief level section, with a towering dirt bank straight ahead, proceeded by a sharp 90-degree left-had corner at its base.  Beyond the sharp left-hand turn was another immediate steep stretch of road that resembled a narrow trough in one spot.  Near the crest, the road passed between tall, narrow banks that had been notched out just wide enough for a vehicle to navigate through.  I sized it up in my mind as I climbed towards it, the engine chugging along in first gear at about half-throttle...  certainly nothing an experienced driver (such as I) couldn't thread the van through with relative ease, I thought to myself.

We climbed smoothly up the steep, dusty incline as I threaded the van between the steep banks.  I relaxed a little towards the top, getting ready for the sharp right-hand turn at the crest, a few yards away. Then... W H A M !   The steering wheel was suddenly jerked from my hands as the van lifted a few inches and rotated counterclockwise, wedging tightly up against the hard dirt banks on opposite corners.  Upon settling back down, the left corner of the front bumper was lodged tightly against the left bank, and the corresponding opposite right corner of the rear bumper was lodged tightly against the right bank, preventing any movement whatsoever!  There we sat, pinned in.  I had seen nothing in the path to cause this.  However, upon crawling up and out of the driver's side window (the door being too close to the bank to open), I squatted down and pawed through the deep powdery dust, where I discovered a large buried tree root.  The hidden root had halted our progress with an abrupt jerk as the left-front tire slammed up against it!

Fortunately, the steep bank that the rear bumper's right corner was wedged against was relatively soft dirt, making it fairly easy to scoop out a deep groove using a flat stone and the van's tire iron.  This provided ample room to rock the van back and forth with the engine while straightening it up enough for a fresh attempt.  Even at that, proceeding uphill was impossible from a standing start, due to the lack of "umph" produced by the VW's 1600 engine.  The only viable solution was to back downhill about 25 yards to the square corner, then re-attempt the run. 

This time, we easily made it to the top of that short, steep section, as we should have done initially, apart from the hidden root.  What awaited us at the crest of that section is what threw the final fright into poor little Danny's heart.  Having been able to ascend between the banks with plenty of remaining speed, as I approached the sharp right turn on the level crest, it became evident that if I had over-shot the turn, we would have started back down again... ALMOST STRAIGHT DOWN!  A great expanse of air and space was all that was to be seen - with the tops of trees a long way below - and there we were, sitting in the van, perched on a postage-stamp-sized outcropping of land.  Danny lost it, then and there (and I can't blame him, really), whereupon Cheryl decided to walk with him alongside the road.

Beyond that point, the deeply-rutted unimproved path of a "road" had a few more scary surprises as it continued on. At times it was an ultra-steep, bumpy dirt trail, widened just enough for small trucks...  or in our case, an atypical VW Van, the tires of which dropped nicely into the deep wheel ruts, which had been cut in during muddy times, making it impossible to maneuver out of them, or turn around.

There were a few sections without these deep ruts. Turning around there might have been possible had it not been for other challenges.  Apart from the deeply rutted sections, the narrow road was typically lined with a variety of other little niceties: like big rocks; trees or stumps; heavy brush; flowing streams; banks or ravines; swampy spots; as well as patches of high grassy reeds, potentially containing hidden, immovable objects.  None of these options was worth the attempt, so I continued on.  Besides that, the "crew" of two young village men with me kept responding with: "just around the next bend," every time I inquired as to the remaining distance, making me think they really weren't sure.

There was one very surreal section of road I distinctly remember.  There, the road not only had a steep incline, but it was also very long and straight as an arrow.  This was compounded by very deep, narrow wheel tracks (ruts), as previously described.  We started out with pretty decent speed; about half-throttle in first gear.  We should have been able to make it over the crest if all had gone well; however, it didn't.  Even though I tried to keep it centered, our speed was impeded due to the van rattling and bouncing around in the narrow ruts.  We managed to get what seemed like a hair's breadth from the crest and ran out of steam.

The long uphill grade was much steeper than it appeared, seeing that the surrounding open landscape had that same incline.  What to do?  Since there was not enough power to relaunch from where we sat, the only viable alternative was to back all the way back down, a few hundred yards (or meters), to the level approach-way of that very surreal section.  We finally made it over the top on the third try as I recall—getting teasingly close during each previous attempt.  Fortunately, the extra-high clearance of the mid-70s VW Van made the going possible, else we would have gotten helplessly and hopelessly hung-up long before reaching the missionary's mountain-high residence.

As it happened, we had actually bottomed out while cresting that surreal uphill section...  the van rocking like a teeter-totter, balanced in the center of its long frame members.  This impossible predicament was "quickly" and "easily" resolved by an hour's worth of grunting, sweating, and digging away at the offending hard-pan dirt crown while enduring sweltering heat.  I used the pointed end of the van's tire wrench to chip away at the high spots.  Coming under the general classification of road improvement, I relocated the bump, packing the dirt into a makeshift ramp under the left rear tire, which had been suspensed a few inches off the ground.  It worked, and we were able to gain traction enough to crest the hill.

By then, I was covered with sweat and caked-on dirt, not to mention tired.  I'm sure my face wasn't a pretty sight since I kept rubbing my eyes and moping them with my shirt sleeves to free them from the stinging sweat that clouded my vision.  With the sun drawing ever-closer to its evening destination, we were finally on our way again.  Cheryl had climbed back aboard the van with Danny by then since the road had smoothed out a bit.  Little Danny (bless his heart) had been able to regain a little composure by that time.  When we arrived at Long's residence, we were informed that there was a rogue male elephant roaming that same dense jungle area which we had just come through, parts of which Cheryl and Danny were afoot.  The enraged male elephant had turned on its owner, killing him, and was feared to be out looking for more blood-letting opportunities.  Nice!  Praise the Lord we didn't meet up.  Who can tell the harm we might have unleashed on that giant beast with that little tire iron?  ... NOT!

As mentioned, had we known these things, we would have never attempted the assent in the first place, except that we had been assured by villagers in the Northern Thai village at the base of the mountains that the road was in great shape...  no problem.  Well, they must have meant great shape for Army tanks, Motocross bikes, off-road vehicles, or high-clearance trucks with plenty of passengers along to help push when required - the high-clearance trucks being the normal type of traffic that traversed this particular stretch of real estate, we later learned.

As it turned out, this was clearly not suitable for an under-powered VW passenger van.  I would have turned back many times had I found a good spot.  Apart, that is, from the encouragement the two village teenagers kept giving us--that our destination was just around the next bend.  On the way in, one of the young men did a bang-up job (no pun intended) of thoroughly smashing his thumb in the VW Van's heavy sliding side door--of which we weren't made aware until after we'd arrived, and were watching Mary Long clean and dress the injured thumb.  Speaking of arriving, it would have been worth a million bucks to have a picture of Mary's surprised look as she watched us drive past her kitchen window.  Her mouth agape with wonder, her expression was akin to watching a submarine roll past one's house in a quiet suburban neighborhood on a sunny afternoon... just not possible.

Fortunately for the injured young man, the Longs had plenty of first-aid supplies for just such occasions.  So, Mary was able to cleanse, sterilize, and dress the poor fellow's thumb, pulling the parted flesh together with a butterfly patch.  Finalizing the job by applying a clean white dressing.  I'm sure he's fine now, but at that time, the young man's thumb looked like it had just been traversed by an angry weed chopper.  Even though he sloughed it off as inconsequential, in a sense it was actually our fault by going up there in the first place.  Talk about having a high pain threshold (which these people have), we didn't even heard a yelp from him when it occurred!

Thankfully, I was able to make it in and back out...  or should I say up and back down, without putting a single scratch or blemish on that VW Van.  That being said, it took nearly all the driving skill and experience I had accumulated over the years - both on and off road - to traverse some of the spots, as well as get out of predicaments, all the while keeping from blemishing that pristine van in any way.

During our short stay with the Longs, while everyone else was enjoying themselves, I remember being silently pensive, preoccupied with concerns (even nightmares) about sliding off the very narrow part of the trail that scaled the first mountainside.  In fact, it was a mere notch of a path, all of the way along that steep section, having literally been hoed out by hand with primitive tools by Hmong tribesmen.  This made it possible for them to access their own village with their narrow, high-wheeled, short-cab diesel trucks.

On our way up, I distinctly recall glancing at the bottom edge of the windshield on the passenger's side.  As I refocused to get a fix on the edge of the road, to my amazement there was no roadside to be seen beyond the windshield wiper, only the tops of trees a few hundred feet below - the obvious reason for my concerns for our return trip.  I faced my fears and we made it back down in great shape, much easier than the ascending trip.

On a sidenote, a few months later, a fellow missionary-friend who owned a similar mid-'70s VW Van, heard about my excursion, so decided to meet the challenge to see how he would fare trying the same stunt.  The result?  His wise (and somewhat upset) wife, as his hapless passenger, insisted that he turn back...  which he did in deference to her wishes.  They later moved there to assist in the ministry, and scaled the section numerous times after having gotten the hang of it.  (Note: Today, this whole unimproved trail has been replaced by a decent dirt and gravel road with some sections being poured concrete.)

So, what was the difference between our trips?  Mine was first-time, done in naive innocence (OK, call it ignorance.) Yet it wasn't a first for me when it comes to driving antics.  Whereas, my friend's attempt was a personal challenge since he already knew the road--having been there before, riding in the Long's old Toyota four-wheel drive pickup.  I'm not preening as having bettered him, since he is a good driver as well, and was most of the way there when he turned around.  It could easily have been the other way around - me trying to match or better his record.  This is a an example of how some missionaries get their "kicks" on the mission field--yours truly not withstanding. 

(Thankfully, no one got hurt, except for maybe a slightly bruised ego.)  As mentioned, few years later my German missionary friend and his wife and family moved up there to help with the ministry to the Yellow Leaf people--at the top end of that same mountaintop trail.  He (being German) later traded his beloved VW Van in for a high-clearance, four-wheel drive pickup, a type of conveyance he still uses today, having begun a new work with the nomadic Yellow Leaf people in an adjoining province.

I had opportunity to visit the Longs again recently--traversing that same trail.  This time, however, it wasn't a mere trail and I was a passenger in Gene Long's ultra-comfy new donated vehicle...  a brand-new Toyota, all-wheel-drive with all the "bells and whistles."  The Lord had graciously supplied it for them through a very substantial gift, as a replacement for their much-older dilapidated Toyota four-wheel-drive pickup that had spent its whole life traversing back and forth along that same route, bringing supplies from the town below to their mountaintop home.

That same infamous trail is much wider and safer now.  It's even paved part of the way.  It also has bridges over the streams along the way instead of the high-banked, flowing fjords I had bounced and sloshed across years earlier, making the route nearly unrecognizable when compared to the nightmarish apparitions stored in my memory.  There were only a few heavily-rutted pothole sections remaining--hardy noticeable riding in Long's new vehicle.  It's almost too comfy for remote missionary work like the Longs pioneered among the nomadic Yellow Leaf jungle tribe.

The previously-scary (and dangerous) portion is now lined with overgrown brush and small trees.  These block the downward view and would probably have stopped us, if by chance we had slipped off the road at that section.  We were safe, though, since Gene knows the route like the back of his hand, having traversed that glorified Motocross trail for many years during their ministry among the Yellow Leaf people--who are beginning to prosper and become self-sufficient through the Longs initiating a small cottage industry there for them.

So, what happened to the rogue man-killing bull elephant?  The villagers were finally able to capture it and sadly yet necessarily had to "put it down."  Work animals--such as this elephant--are typically used to drag huge logs out of the surrounding forests.  And, they represent a sizable investment for owners.  Equally so, water buffalo and oxen that lowland peasant farmers raise and keep (in the Isan region where we minister), are both work animals and a means of investment--like money in the bank to them.  To steal one, which often happens, is like robbing their bank in the rural peasant farmer economy in which they live.  It's a serious offence punishable by demanding remuneration, jail time, or even vigilante justice if it comes to that.

Note: I realize this might sound like a fairy tale to some, but I can assure you, it's not. (RM)

By God's Enabling Grace, and For His Eternal Glory;

Ron (and Cheryl) Myers
Church Planting Missionary and Bible Translator
Isan People and Region of Northeast Thailand

Baptist World Missionary Outreach Ministries
PO Box 3303, Chattanooga, TN 37404

An Anthology of True-life Missionary Accounts from Northeast Thailand
Testimonies of God's Amazing Grace

Early Life

1. Up Bringing
2. On the Farm
3. Jingle Bells

   I grew up on a farm in the scenic Finger Lakes Region of Upstate New York.  Our homestead farm, which overlooked Cayuga Lake, had been in my mom's family for 2-3 generations before her, back in the early 1800s.  I came along in the early 1940s (actually born on Pearl Harbor day).  We still had a couple horses remaining during my days as a toddler.  Later on, until we sold the farm, there were two beautiful horse harnesses hanging undisturbed in a back room of our farmhouse home; all decked out with rows of high-quality brass bells. The finely crafted patina-covered bells ranged in size from around three inches down to about one inch in diameter.  I don't recall what they sold for at the auction when we sold the farm after dad and mom were gone, but these two antique harnesses would likely be worth a mint to the right buyer today.  These types of bell-clad harnesses were probably the incentive for that old standby chorus we associate with Christmastime: Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells... Dashing through the snow... Oh what fun it is to ride in a one-horse open sleigh. 

   Now, for the rest of the story, as Paul Harvey used to say; I have Actually ridden in a one horse open sleigh through the open fields to a neighbor's place when all the roads were plugged with snow.  This was when I was a toddler.  I was about 3-4 years old and before my siblings were born.  Dad had gotten one of the remaining horses out of the barn, harnessed it up with one of the two fancy bell-laden harnesses and hooked up the sleigh.  I was oblivious of this part at my young age, but I recall how mom, after having dressed me up in my snowsuit, scarf, knitted hat that covered my ears, mittens and boots, then took me out and hoisted me up onto the sleigh's wooden board seat.  Soon, we were off.  Dad held the reins and I sat nestled in between him and mom.  I'm sure I was rosy-cheeked but I don't recall being cold as we glided along, because I was covered with a thick horsehair blanket.  All was quiet, except for the sound of the sleigh's runners gliding over the snow and the sound of the horse's hooves as it trotted along.  All of which took second place to the ching ching ching of the bells.  How's that for pleasant memories?  It reminds me of some of the old Currier and Ives sleigh ride lithographs.

4. Harvest Time
5. Maple Syrup
6. My Tree House
7. Guinea
8. Scary Things: Coming Home at Night: Coffins, Owls, Full Moon, Abandoned House, Feet Grabbed
9. Religious Background Influence for both social and moral good, but no Gospel message
10. Rev Albert J Anthony - kind man with the typical smiling Santa Claus face
11. Camp Gregory no Gospel songs, just "Row Row Row Your Boat" and "I've Been Working on the Railroad"
12. Boy Scouts (One Merit Badge Away From Attaining Eagle Scout Status)
13. JD Franklin's Lakeside Property And A Rustic Old Cottage
14. Wanderlust - JD Franklin - seek out where trails go on Adirondacks hike
15. Bad School Student
16. Things Involved In

17. Ministry

    1. Accepting the Creator - Origins Matter
    2. Grandpa and Grandma Samer - Spirit Mediums Who Became the Seeds of Pone Boke Churcg
    3. Idols Burning in the Roadway
    4. "Gui" - Our Vietnamese Friend
    5. Jarat - His Flight from Works to Grace - Translation Assistant and Church Planter
    6. Mr. Born - Landlord and First Believer, Evangelist and Church Elder
    7. Mr. Forty-five - Flies in the Rice Basket, We're Doomed
    8. Mr. Samer - His Name Means Level or Steady
    9. Ms. Orapin - Christian Pharmacy Owner, Nurse and Humanitarian
    10. Pitak - My Timnothy and Humble Servant of God
    11. Prakop - A Hoodlum Who Became A Church Planter
    12. Prechaa - Friend and Faithful Man
    13. Sanoh - A Rough Looking Army Sergeant Who Retired a Colonel
    14. Ms. Som Sri - Sanoh's Wife
    15. Aunty Jume (A.K.A. "Witchy")
    16. Uncle Sutchaa and His Homespun Gospel
18. Officer Det - Immigration Official Who Sought Jesus's Forgivness

Ministry Delivered From Danger

1. Nano Seconds From Sudden Death
2. Forty Tons of Flying Sette Bars
3. Saved from a Bolt of Lightning
4. Deliverd From Being Kidnapped

5. Other Stories of Interest from Northeast Thailand

   1. A Drop of Cool Water on My Parched Lips Is God's Word to Me
   2. A Mother's Tears and her Dead Child's Mark
   3. A Parable That Explains It All - The Poor Man Who Needed To Speak To the Governor
   4. A Shortcut to MK School, Bad Roads and My VW Van
   5. All Religions Are the Same - That's Right, You Don't Need Another
   6. Ants, Snails, Rats, Snakes, Bugs, Intestines, and Other Delicacies
   7. Why Are You Here? - Apprehended and Questioned by Laotian Communist Soldiers
   8. Being "At the Fire" (Mandatory for All Mothers)
   9. I Had Six Children - Somehow, All But Two Died (Why? Am I A Bad Mother?)
   10. Electrical Conveniences vs. Candles, Flashlights, and Kerosene Lamps
   11. Common Ailments, Strange Cures
   12. Creation Evangelism, Starting at the Beginning - Do You Like Nature?
   13. Strange Cultures, Different Strokes for Different Folks
   14. Small Stareway For Spirts to Descend, Gun Shot, and the Funeral in the Field
   15. Father Lung (Paw-Loong) and Mr. Gampanat -- Phu-Thai Villagers Gathered To Hear Me Teach
   16. Phu-Thai Villagers That Asked Me to Come Teach - See that Water w/Fish? See those Fields w/Rice? God is Wonderful!
   17. Greetings and Dog Flowers
   18. Where'S The Sick Cat"
   19. Grocery Runs into Town
   20. Have You Ever Eaten Dog Meat?
   21. Market People: Miss Piggy "You didn't read the book!"
   22. Mirror Image Highways, Driving on the Wrong Side
   23. Mit Sin Motorcycle, Gui's family
   24. Motorcycles, Dogs, and Scraped Knees -- Getting Ice From Town (Angie Didn't Go. David Rode me Down)
   25. Mr. AmKha, the Folk Healer Who Accepted Christ
   26. Mr. Boon's Dog, the Squirrel and the Giant King Cobra
   27. Mr. Deet, My Friend and The Chosen Village Mediator
   28. Mr. Deet and My Invitation by The Elders to the Feast in the Forest with the Village Owner Spirit
   29. Mr. Gee and his Team of Prize Oxen
   30. Mr. Kiam: My Close Friend, Language Assistant, and Village Headman Who Tried to Understand
   31. Mr. Niam's Cows and Bloodied Noses
   32. Mr. Niam's Variety Store
   33. Mr. Nut, Village Head Man or Toy Soldier
   34. Mr. Pea, the New Porch, and a Visit From Mother
   35. Mr. Peck's Confusing Ordeal
   36. Mrs. Pahn: Cheryl's Language Helper Who Believed But Was Saddened That People Talked
   37. Our Dog, King
   38. Our Family
   39. Our Home Sweet Home in the Village of the Inner Fields
   40. Our Home Sweet Home on the "Lane of Peace and Happiness"
   41. Our Well in the Village: Stones, Pails, and 5:00 AM Priorities
   42. Our Well in the Village: Bland, Untasty Bathwater? Or Pure and Drinkable
   43. Getting stung By And Angry Swarm Of "Giant Killer Wasps" As Villagers Laughed (And I Lived To Tell About It)
   44. Progress Comes to the Villages … Really? Did Improved Roads, Electricity and TV Really Do Them Good?
   45. Sitting Around the Bonfire - Opportunities to Speak Now Gone
   46. Rainy Season, Hot Season, Dry Season
   47. Rainy Season - Flooded Road Into Town and a Makeshift Ferry Boat
   48. Road Hazards, Tour Buses and Mouthwash
   49. Rubber Bands, Stones, and Contented Children ??
   50. Ruben the Pineapple Man, My Filippino Friend
   51. Sak's Garage - wife Chern's ambitions and Sak's repossessed life's work
   52. Sawang Pharmacy - "My wife is a Christian"
   53. Showing Movies and Bolts of Lightning
   54. Skamper, Our Headstrong Little Dog with a Great Big Ego
   55. Slab Bacon, Land-O-Lakes Butter, Canned Tuna and Velveeta Cheese (USAF Employee Black Market)
   56. Snakes, Bugs, Spiders, and Other Little Pets
   57. Spilled Pearls - Danny's Baby Teeth
   58. Spirit Shrines: Doll/Bird Houses on Pedestals (A way to present the Gospel)
   59. Stick ladders and black-powder shotguns (Removing a corpse from a home)
   60. Streams, Ponds, and the Mighty Mekong (Baptisms)
   61. Survey Trips to Remote Villages
   62. Tailors, Markets, and Noodle Shops (Ay Sri - Gospel resistant)
   63. Taxis, Trucks, Buses, Bicycles, Pedicabs, BMWs and Benzes
   64. Temples, Idols, and Shrines, Woman trainig her young son ad infinitum Woman trainig her young son to pray at City Spirit Post
   65. Territorial Owner-Spirits or Tormented Demons (Demon Posession & Evangelizing a Maw Yaw in a New Village)
   66. The Ball of Light that Lung Kaew Saw
   67. The District of Renu Nakon
   68. The District of Taa-U-Tane
   69. The District of Tat Phanom
   70. The Districts of Naa Kae and Dong Luang
   71. The Fruit Tree Fall: Michelle's Ruptured Kidney and Two Blood Donors
   72. The Funerals of the First Believers in Na Waa (Grave's by Jarat and Ron)
   73. The Helicopter Ride w/ David Over Communist-Infested Areas
   74. The Ho Chi Minh Religion
   75. The Little Girl Who Didn't Die (Samer's Daughter Wandee and A Miraculous Healing)
   76. The Log Truck Accident (A Convertible Pickup and Severed Heads)
   77. The Long Road Home ??
   78. The Lost Wallet and the Radio Station
   79. The Magic Plant That Eats Frogs and Babies' Livers
   80. The Mighty Mekong and the Laotian Mountains
   81. The Seven-headed Sugar Palm Tree
   82. The Ultimate Dessert: Sticky Rice w/Mangoes or Turian
   83. The Wedding Truck Accident
   84. This Is How Mom and Dad Did It - Resistant to Change
   85. Tiger Face, Niam's Dear Old Dad
   86. Trip Into the Kalasin Mountains With Jarat to Visit Sanoh (Newly Opended Area)
   87. Uncle Supee, My Friend and Neighbor
   88. Vietnamese Nationals in Isan
   89. Villages, Villages, Villages, But No Gospel Witness
   90. Water, Cool-cool Water, The Fountain of Youth is Found (French Farm, Jesus and the Samaratin Woman
   91. Where Is the Sick Cat?
   92. When and Where the Egg Wants to Break, It Will - the Chosen Spot
   93. White Devil, Screaming Woman
   94. Motorcycle, Dumptruck, Ditch and Aerial Lift-off (A Near-Death Experience for Me by Nano-Seconds)
   95. Evading an Airborn Tractor Trailer Load of Steel Bars (A Near-Death Experience for My Whole Family by Seconds)
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