Students Return to School for Year 2!

The Barefoot Doctor students have now returned to The Grove for their second year of classes.  The past year seems to have gone very quickly.  They have been using the medical and teaching skills they learned in 2018, and they are now ready to add to their knowledge and skills.

These students come from many parts of Burma/Myanmar, and it takes a while for some of them even to get to Timothy's house in Tachileik.  Many of them traveled by bus and airplane, as you can see from the pictures.

Over a couple of days last week they gathered at Timothy's house. It must be a lot of work to feed and accommodate so many people in their 2-bedroom house. Timothy and his wife, Nin Sar, are happy, however, to do this (along with help from some of their church people and the students themselves).

On Saturday the 12th the group drove for 5-6 hours from Tachileik to Doi Saket, Thailand which is about 20 minutes northeast of Chiang Mai. They arrived safely about 3 p.m. and immediately got settled into their dormitory rooms in the Jones Building.  Jung Dangshing welcomed them and gave their orientation, then they had their first meal together.

Bible classes will begin Monday morning with teachers Simon Percy, Paul Bergquam, and Dan Radke doing most of the teaching. They are the first of many volunteers who will come to teach our students over the next 8 weeks.  Doctors and nurses will begin arriving early next week.  Abraham and Timothy will be doing the bulk of the translating, and that's a big responsibility.

Please pray for our students and their teachers, as well as the FLC staff who is translating and taking care of everyone.  Please continue to come back to the blog as often as you can, so you can receive updates.