Mae Fah Luang's here to teach, play n have fun!

On the 15th and 16th January, 20 students from the Mae Fah Luang University came to our Shan Development centre to run 2-days workshop for our kids. The Year 1 students found out about the Green Mountain Foundation and our work through the internet and wanted to work with the children here. The students came from the InfoTechnology faculty and during the 2-days workshop, they taught the kids IT, English and simple stuff.

Self Introduction time to break ice with the kids, followed by games and songs.

English Lesson

Crossword puzzles make our eyes crossed!

Nitty nimble fingers at work.

The MFL students playing games in small groups.

IT lesson. Using Webcam.

Pose for the picture!

What's the joke? Why the laughs??

Now we all know Nom looks best in Afro!!!

Last hour before saying goodbye, til we meet again.
The MFL singing a song of blessing to the kids.

Paa Chalor thanking the team on behalf of the Green Mountain Foundation.

Children's Day

January 8th is Children's Day in Thailand. On the 7th January, the Thai government school, NJ, invited us to help prepare 2 items for the Grade 1 and Grade 2 class during Children's Day celebration.
We put up 2 performaces and one of them we use a Christian song that we put up during the Christmas celebration. It's about our Lord Jesus Christ, coming to the world in a manger and dying for us. The children sang and danced to the songs. Many parents were there at the clebration too. We were very excited to be able to share the good news of Jesus through the performance. Praise the Lord for such an opportunity to sow His seeds in a public place.

Children queuing up before the start of the celebration.

This is a Grade 2 performance. Most of them are kids from our after-school programme in NJ village.

The children singing to the song and Thai teachers helping us to encourage the children to sing Louder! Ken is playing the song.

This is the Jesus' song performed by Grade 1.

On the 9th January, we also had a small celebration at our new centre in NJ. I am teaching the song "Jesus Loves All Little Children". Then we have games and gifts exchanges.

The children were supposed to burst the balloon and retrieved a number to collect their presents. They loved it!

We witnessed a miracle. Let me share this with u. At the end of the session, we had a small children's day gift for each of the children. We didn't expect a big turn up and had abt 40 odd gifts left over. We thought we had abt 40+ gifts. We gave out some in the morning to the Sunday School children.

We had the kids lined up to give out the gift. Then we saw the long line of children. Some of the children came in halfway. Some of them heard the laughter n the songs n came in to join us for the 1st time. Ken commented that we might not have enough for every kid. What should we do? My 1st immediate response was "give to those who came early for the programme". Then immediately after that, I heard a voice that say, "Jesus can use 2 fish and 5 loaves of bread to feed 5000. He can do that now too." I told Ken about it and by faith, we just gave each child a pack. And not surprising, every child got a pack and we have 2 left over which I walked out to the street and gave them away to 2 children. Jesus taught us an important lesson that day. He is our Jehovah Jireh and we need to trust in Him. Praise the Lord!

Jesus said "Let the littlechildren come to me, and do not hinder them, for the Kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these." matthew 19: 14.

Jesus loves all little children

All the children of the World.

Red and Yellow, Black and White.

They are precious in His Sight.

Jesus loves all little children of the World.

We Wish You a Merry Christmas!

Hohoho! Merry Christmas!
Greetings to All faithful prayer warriors from the Maesai Shan Team!

Updates Updates!
This year, we held all our Christmas outreaches in the Shan Development Centre! Our Kids Christmas programme, youth party and Adults outreach all in the Centre. A total of more than 200 Shan people, young and old came and celebrated Christmas with us! With dances and songs put up by our students, youths and a team from Elphia's church in Singapore, we shared the message of Christ, being born into this world to save us from our sins and eternal death and to fulfil the promises in the Bible.

Paa Chalor addressing the parents and the children.

SuanLuang girls putting up 3 dances for the programme.

Maesai Shan team with Team BPGC Singapore (in Reds)

Youths presenting a song about the birth of Jesus during the youth party.

Shan dance put up by the NamJam village girls.

Christmas dance and "Joy to the World" by NamJam kids.

Youth Party on the evening of 18th Dec. A team from Chalor's central Thailand church came to celebrate and share the message.

Christmas dance by NamJam kids on Sunday Adults outreach service. We tried to allow as many children to dance and perform in one item as possible. Because many parents came to watch their children perform.

Bible Verse for the Outreach

Luke 2:11 "Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; He is Christ the Lord"

Team BPGC Singapore putting up a dance and a skit.

Maesai Shan Team putting up a magic show that explains though man has fallen, Jesus Christ was born, has borne our sins and paid for them and that we are all free in Him.

More Shan Kids Camp Photos

Pass the string across! String themthru our shirts... Next comes cheerios and ice!
Playing Blocker! You can't touch me!

Joey imitating a boy who's frozen for the "play Dead" game. He's so good! He was one of the last few kids who didn't move at all.

We have workshops in the afternoon to teach English.

This is the younger group. From age 10 and below.

Find "K"!!!!

Arunee and Tyson teaching the older group. 10 and above.

Shan Kids' Camp 2010 "The Right Way"

Praise the Lord and shout joys of thanksgiving to Him always.

We have just wrapped up yearly anxiously-anticipated-by-all Shan Kids' Camp. As usual, I am having the post-camp blues. "Sigh.... we wish the camp was longer..." overheard by some of us. That echoed my feelings too.

This year's camp was held at the Shan Development Centre on the 23rd to 25th October.

Many of the Shan youths came down to help out the camp as camp facilitators and helpers this year. We had at least 3 youth helpers in each team. Ken made the youth do many silly dances and punishments and the youth sportingly played up their roles and brought laughs to the faces of many.

About 80 kids turned up for the camp this year.

The theme for this year's Kids Camp is "The Right Way"

Camp Picture on the last day of Camp.NamJam Girls doing a traditional Shan Dance to commerce the start of the Shan Kids' Camp

More dances presented after Lunch by NamJam Children.

We are not taking an afternoon nap. We are playing a game called Pretending to be "Dead". The helpers will go ard making them laugh but they r supposed to stay frozen. It is one of their fav games in this camp.

Rocks Paper Scissors! Splash your leader if u win!

Art and Craft Activities during the Camp. Thanks to The Fongs Family for preaparing the craft.

Posing with their crafts!

As the Months Rolled By

The primary cause for global warming is probably due to the fact that the earth is getting closer to the sun, and that would explain why days and weeks and months fly by at such a rapid pace. Maybe I am wrong but it would help to explain why this blog has not been updated in ages.

Here at a glance is what has happened since April.A new school year began in May, with a few new students in the vocational school program.

The number of kids in Namjam increased as well.
May helped teach English to the Vocational school students during her Summer break.

Meanwhile a new generation of artistic scholars are emerging in the Linchi Orchard.


In July we were saddened by the death of Loong La. He was the Shan community leader who welcomed us to begin our work in the Suan Luang neighborhood. Many hundreds attended his funeral.Several of the youth in our program helped with the funeral wearing their traditional Shan costumes.
In late July we had an excellent team come from Elphia's church in Singapore. They spent time with both the children and youth and even organized a mini one day camp in Mae Sai.



They also organized an Special English Program at Nam Jam school. It is evident that the kids in that school are really making progress in their English studies. The regular Thai teaching staff make our teams welcome and everyone benefits.

Then came August and our first Mother's Day celebration in the new meeting hall at the Shan Family Center.