Dave & Rebecca Parkin For the first year or so in Thailand, we served wherever we were needed in the church. Dave helping out at the Children’s Home a lot, with volunteers and helping Mercy Pattaya in the slums, or “chumchon”, which is the Thai word for community. I offered my admin skills for use in the church office … Read more
Well, after Christmas, we often say, that the baby Jesus, born in the manger, grows up to become the Lion of Judah, so this may be an appropriate follow-up to Christmas, as we look into a new year…still waiting for His return… Genesis 49.8-12 “Judah, you are he whom your brothers shall praise; Your hand shall be on the neck … Read more
Hi all, hope you are ready for our final installment of how we came to be in Thailand and how God brought us here… Between coming back from Thailand and Dave talking to me, I had been getting fed up of things at work. I was a manager and the stress was starting to outweigh … Read more
Our Thailand journey began many years ago in England, when we rented our house out to students, we met a young man called Joe. We met Joe through a friend, a Chinese girl called Yan Jing (Sophia). We had some Jordanian helicopter pilots staying with us at the time and Dave got invited to a … Read more
Well, this week we are back visiting Thailand and it seems like a good place to start telling the story of how we came to be here in the first place in a foreign land, many miles from the UK. The story started about 30 years ago and it would be about another 15 years … Read more
El Emet – The God of Truth Proverbs 23.23 tells us, “Buy the truth and do not sell it, also wisdom and instruction and understanding.” In these days where truth is oftentimes interpreted subjectively on a personal level, it is ever more important to hold fast to God’s word of truth! Truth is Eternal God’s … Read more
JM Rowland 5, Tichborne Street, Leicester. To all at School on 21/1/41 All of us have, I imagine, seen someone fall down at some time or another! Now, although people fall down in all sorts of different ways and through all sorts of different causes, in nearly all cases there is one thing in common; … Read more
The God of Israel who exceeds your greatest dreams and expectations. He is a firm foundation. In Ezekiel 16 In this chapter God takes hold of Israel and she goes from being a child to bride, later in the chapter God records her descent into unfaithfulness. In verse 60-63 He reiterates His deep covenant relationship … Read more
God is the Shepherd of Israel. Psalm 80.1 1 Give ear, O Roeh (Shepherd) of Israel, you that leads the descendants of Joseph like a flock, you who is dwells between the cherubim, shine forth. The Shepherd’s Staff Becomes a Sceptre In Psalm 23.4 The staff was used by shepherds to poke around in crevices to flush out … Read more
One day Dave was praying and asked God if he is really the only way to be saved and maybe there was an easier way? Then God told Dave to go to an Indian restaurant, which he told me, but I said that I fancied Chinese. When we went to the Indian restaurant, a Hindu … Read more