Important moments in our work and personal lives.
Back and better than before – this has been our experience of our church reopening in-person gatherings after Thailand’s exapnsive COVID lockdown. Volunteer engagement is up. This isn’t just numbers, but also a renewed sense of excitement and buy-in that pulses through our teams now. A deep enthusiasm, that comes from knowing we’re part of… Read More Back Better
On April 26 we welcomed our third child into this wondrous world of ours. She’s healthy and tenacious and generally stupendous! We love her dearly. Naming her was a journey, and though some may contend that a rose by any other name is still a rose, it took us the entire 9 months to name… Read More Our Daughter, the King of the Birds
There’s a joke about the evolution of parenting: new parents see their first child eat dirt and so they rush the child to the doctor only to be assured the child will in fact be fine. Time passes and they have a second child who, as so many children do, also eats dirt. The parents… Read More The Basketball
It was 11 years ago today that I (Amber) signed my first contract with the Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada (PAOC) to be a Global Worker. Writing that out… makes me feel old. In working with PAOC, I’ve served as a Global Worker overseas and with Summit Pacific College’s OMEGA Program. When I truly reflect on… Read More A DECADE +
As we write the title of this post we can hardly believe that today marks our one year “Thai-iversary” as we’re calling it. We’ve lived here 365 days and we’ve survived – and in some areas, even thrived! How do you quantify all that we’ve experienced and learned in a year? All of the people… Read More THAI-IVERSARY
Milestone moments have never been a major thing for me (Amber). It doesn’t cross my mind to commemorate special events, to pause and remember a moment, let alone celebrate one. For whatever reason though, a few mornings ago as I was getting Daxon ready for school, it clicked in my head: “we’ve been here for… Read More 6 Month-iversary
There was so much to reflect on for our first Thanksgiving in Thailand. We have a lot to be grateful for and Thanksgiving gave us good reason to pause and look back on just how much life has changed over the past few months. To celebrate, we crammed a bunch of random Canadians in the… Read More Come and See
HistoryMaker (youth convention) has been a formative part of our journey. This is true for the Prices and the Wylies. While Amber and Zach were in Thailand, Megan and I (Matthew) were honoured to be a part of the Saturday evening session. With nearly 2,000 students in the room from the Yukon, BC, and Alberta,… Read More Megan and Matthew Shared at HistoryMaker 2016
We spent our Leap Day exploring Thailand. We like the idea that on the next Leap Day we expect to be very much at home in Thailand. That’s a pretty great use of a bonus day! As we put these thoughts together we are making our way from Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi Airport (we had to practice… Read More Seventh Impressions | Rejoining the Past Peasants
On our last full day here in Thailand, our thoughts are reaching back through our whirlwind time. We’re positive that we will be processing this experience for weeks and months to come. In conversation with others, be they Thai, foreign, fellow workers, businesspeople, or tourists, all the different sides to Thailand have amazed us. If… Read More Sixth Impressions | This Thailand or That Thailand
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