We have made it to Chiang Mai, Thailand!  This is where ELIC hosts the Annual Thailand Conference for all its teachers and leaders in southeast Asia.  It’s a time of encouragement, training, worship, and relaxing before heading into the next semester.  I, for one, am incredibly honored and blessed to be here; and see and hear all the stories of these incredible people who live and teach in these countries.  We are helping with visuals and lyrics for the worship during the main sessions.

This is a beautiful place – lots of green and colored flowers, and lots of refreshing fruit smoothies.  The people are incredibly friendly, and always glad to talk.  I didn’t know this going in, but Chiang Mai has a pretty heavy tourism focus.  They have multiple McDonald’s, Starbucks, Pizza Hut, Dairy Queen, etc, and a lot of people speak enough English so you can find anything you want around the city.  There are about 50,000 ‘authentic’ Thai massage salons; and plenty of taxi drivers wanting to give you a lift around town.