Two little girls, living in poverty were being used as child labour to help their parents meet basic living needs. Their parents loved them dearly, but, due to circumstances and financial hardship, were unable to look after them in a way that every child should be looked after. The police were about to intervene and…
Naang is a woman who is involved with the work of The River Team. She is quite poor and lives in this tiny hut. Despite her financial poverty, Naang is a generous woman, opening her tiny house each week for people to come and connect and discuss life issues. Those who attend her meetings must …
The local government recently organised with us, a “Cultural Exchange Evening” between the local Hang Dong youth and 22 Australian year 10 and 11 students recently served with us at The River. The evening was attended by a number of local dignitaries who were delighted to connect more closely with us and our visitors. …
Hotel room renovations at “The River” are continuing. We are currently training young men in various areas of construction, particularity in the refurbishing the Hotel Rooms. These young men are learning: organization skills, furniture restoration, tiling and painting and carpentry and cabinet making. The main goal for this training is to ad value to…
Erik Klar (left) Baptising Wi (center) during The River Conference In the early 1990’s Erik & Mariaana Klar began to feel a burden for an unreached people group, the T’Hin Tribe ( an ethnic group, who escaped the 1970’s communist uprising in Laos by crossing the boarder into Thailand). Miraculously, the Lord led the Klars to these people and this resulted…
Last Friday we farwelled five “community development” students from Rajabhat Chiang Mai (university). These five had been working with us interns over their summer break. As well as being involved in many of our community development works, these uni students also chose to sit in on our daily prayer, worship and teaching times. They understood virtually none…
The River Team – April 2011 The River Team is a continually expanding group of men and women (presently in excess of 50 people), mainly Thai-born, but also several other nationalities, all sharing a heart to facilitate the healing of communities environmentally, physically, emotionally and spiritually. The River Team was established and continues to by…