Project Report
| Sep 23, 2013
Stepping Ahead in Thailand Even as The Quinleys Step Back.
By John H Quinley Jr. | CEO
Sometimes You Have to Step Back to Step Ahead.
That's essentially what three pastors from our supporting churches told us last year. Yet, when they said it, we wondered, "How could such a thing possibly happen?"
Well, miraculously it has happened on this amazing sabbatical. We have followed the Trail of Patrick around Ireland and walked where Paul taught at Mars Hill in Greece, declaring the reality of "The Unknown God". We cannot express how grateful we are for this break and time of focus on what God will call us to do next through Step Ahead. So, for the first time in over 25 years, the Quinleys take a sabbatical to: rest, refresh, pray, read, talk, meditate, and perhaps prepare to write, and then step ahead again.
Meanwhile, it's important for you to know that the work of Step Ahead has continued forward.
Prior to heading on sabbatical Kim Taught on the Burmese Border.
Mae Sot and the area along the Burmese border is a place of untold struggle and pain for likely at least 150,000 Karen/Burmese displaced people, refugees, or asylum seekers. Kim went to teach in a staff training school about working with vulnerable functional orphans, and doing non-institutional orphan care. In recent years, Kim has become a regional expert in this field. She is passionate for these children and families at risk. During most of the week, Mae Sot flooded and they had to carry on mostly without electricity and running water.
John Heads to the South and Northeast.
Visiting the Keeping Families Together program, the child development centers, and the Bang Sak Training Center kept John and Kim moving forward through their jet lag in the first week back from their USA home leave trip.
After that, as Kim went to teach, John joined Step Ahead Thai staff on a visit to our Economic Development work in the Northeast of Thailand.
Training Northeast Thailand's women's groups in this poorest region builds new economic opportunities and strengthens families.
John joined Step Ahead Thai staff on a visit to our developing Economic Development work in the Northeast of Thailand where we conitnue to develop capacity im making purses of natural bulrush, and leather materials.
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