Cupcakes

The ZOE kids love their sweets. At ZOE's Children's Camp last month, I had the privilege of leading a couple of elective classes. I did a class on shrinky dinks, puppets, baking and decorating cookies and frosting cupcakes. Here's a picture of the cupcake class. I'm not sure if you can tell, but the cupcakes are supposed to look like frogs. The ZOE kids LOVE frosting and goodies on top!!

Water Festival

We love the Songkran festival. This 4 day (?) water festival welcomes in the new year and I believe, the hot season! Everyone just gets everyone wet!! We love to load the back of our truck with buckets and huge containers of ice water and drive around and get other car passengers or people along the street wet. Our girls had a great time just hanging by our home and throwing water at cars passing by.

Hanging out at Sticky Falls

Nothing like hanging out at Sticky Falls during the hot season. The cool water is soooo refreshing! Imagine climbing up and down the falls! Pretty amazing and absolutely beautiful! In one of the pictures you can see Kelly climbing up the falls. You just stick to the rocks...like Spiderman!!

Worship

This past year Lauren's been a part of a worship team that is on the rotation to lead worship at her school's high school chapel time. This past Sunday, her worship team had the privilege of leading worship at the first Christian church established in Chiang Mai. This church was just recently remodeled and is absolutely beautiful! However, the church has no air conditioning :( We loved watching Lauren's team lead worship, but I personally was just about ready to pass out due to the heat. Imagine all your clothes sticking to you, perspiration dripping down your face and portable fans blowing hot air on you. Praise the Lord!!

ZOE Bible School and Interns Graduation

Last month, ZOE held a beautiful graduation ceremony for our ZOE Bible School and Intern Graduates. The two hour ceremony was filled with worship, special music, speakers, a video presentation and the presentation of their graduation certificates. After the ceremony, we all celebrated with a delicious buffet lunch enjoying the company of graduates, 1st year Bible Students, ZOE staff, friends, family and missionaries. We will miss the graduates at ZOE, but we know that God is going to use them to impact their nation.

Cooling Off

The climate during the month of April is HOT, so hanging out at a pool is the thing to do. The whole ZOE gang spent the day at the pool having a great time! Notice Kelly with all the floaters. Either he's afraid he'll drown or he doesn't want to share! This is truly our 14 year old! The funny thing is when he tried to take them off, one got stuck. He couldn't get it off and had to get his sisters to help him!!

Staff Teambuilding Day

A few weeks back, ZOE had an all day staff teambuilding day. The day was filled with worship, sharing, food, and a ton of teambuilding games. We all had such a fun time being together!!