Greetings from Thailand!  Life has been full, rapid, and adventurous lately and we are eager to share with you who so generously share with us!  We cannot express how much we enjoy working with Faithful Heart Foundation here in Thailand.  

Get ready for a LOT of photos...

I had a wonderful time with our dorm parents and the children in Mae Jaem.  We even got to go to the nearby Karen village and attend church with them.  These unique and beautiful shirts are handmade by the Karen people (see below) and the proper attire for church.  On the way to church, Pii Nid informed me they were expecting me to share a message.  I pleaded that I was not a pastor and therefore unaccustomed to impromptu sermons, but she insisted and I did the best I could.  It was a strange experience, because in the village not everyone understands Thai, and virtually no one understands English.  

The very drastic contrast between life in the city and life in the village in Thailand always makes me pause.  We often speak of development as though it were an obvious, unquestionable good (like the word progress in the 19th century, before two World Wars).  Running water, electricity, quality education and healthcare, etc. are hard to argue with.  But for every gain, there is usually a corresponding loss.  There is more than a romantic appeal to the rural villages.  There is a simplicity and community feeling there, which is all the more remarkable for its absence in our society of tech and digital loneliness.  How difficult it is to know what is best for others or how to go about helping them!  It is a task to be approached with fear and trembling as well as compassion.  

Reach Foundation Land

Reach Foundation offers for sale 14+ Rai of land referenced by previous email land titles sent to Matthew Pound. This is an exclusive discounted price offered only to Faithful Heart Foundation for a specific amount of time to be arranged between Faithful Heart and Reach Foundation.

Sale price is 2,215,000 Thai baht. The sale price is net to Reach Foundation.  All closing costs, including those normally paid by the seller, are to be paid by buyer.  This includes all due diligence costs, legal fees, transfer fees, taxes, real estate commissions (if any are owed) and any other fees associated with the completion of the sale of the property.

Buyer is encouraged to inspect the land and complete due diligence evaluation as deemed necessary.

Reach Foundation places no conditions on the buyer as to use of the land or the future sale of the property. Should Faithful Heart Foundation successfully complete this purchase transaction, it is free to use and to proceed in the best interest of the future vision of Faithful Heart Foundation.

We will be happy to show you the land and tell you what we know about the property.  

Reach Foundation and its many stakeholders invested approximately 5.2 million baht in the purchase of this land.  This purchase was initiated in 2007.

This offer represents the sacrifice and prayers of hundreds of individual donors who through the years have contributed to the investment and vision that caused this land to be purchased. The stakeholder group, in effect, with the sale of this property to Faithful Heart Foundation, will realize the germination of that vision held dormant for these many years. This land was "prayer walked" with tears and passion and joy to help the plight of needy children giving them a hope and a future found in our Lord Jesus Christ.

Our desire is that this sales price will mean several things.  It will be easier to raise the money for the initial purchase, allowing more resources to be available for development, and to possibility make farming the land more sustainable.