Another new house

This weekend marked a big transition for me. The rest of the ServLife team flew off on airplanes to the US or Nepal; and I moved into a new [temporary] house. With the Vestal's back in America, I've moved into their house for the next month while I finish out my tenure here in Thailand. I lived here for my first week in Thailand before they arrived, but it is a wholly new experience with no one else around!

Over the course of the next month I'll be training five Thai's to manage & oversee the continuation of the ServLife Hope Fund I started here after my departure. As a revolving fund, our hope is that the fund will continue on for years and years to come; impacting hundreds of families here. With my commitment to ServLife only stretching for one year, it was essential that national leadership take over the program. I'm excited about their involvement with the program, and see them doing great things.

Towards the end of October, I'll be moving up to Nepal to join the rest of my team and start ServLife's second Hope Fund in the Kathmandu Valley. Nepal has the 3rd lowest GDP in the world outside Africa, with per capita income around $210. The Hope Fund will look a lot different there, but projects like ours are so necessary there. I'm excited about the opportunities ahead!