Author: Chester

We are expecting to be able to welcome our first child into the world mid-March 2023! We are calling it Baby Peach (ลูกพีช) until birth. Pim is doing good although she is quite tired a lot of the time. She struggled with morning sickness for just over a month but that seems to now be...

Last month the church we go to (the one Pim works for as well) started renovating the building they are in.Much of this work is done by local contractors but some of it needs to be done by others with more experience in certain areas. So I spent a few days running and terminating cables...

This past month I, Chester, was able to help a Bible study development project with sourcing and preparing laptops to be used for translation and curriculum development work. The whole process took quite some time but, in the end, they have new laptops that can be used all over Asia for their work. What do...

January 16th, we celebrated our first year of marriage! Wow, time flies when you are having fun. Right after we got married, Pim was having a difficult time finding a full-time job and so she spent her time doing online work for a company that develops curriculum for schools here in Thailand. Her job was...

Recently we were able to take the girls and staff from a local foundation to Pim’s family’s strawberry farm to pick strawberries. Her family had planted a lot of strawberry plants under the assumption that there would be a lot of tourists coming through the area they could sell to. This was, in hindsight, a...

This past summer was a difficult time for us, and it took me a while to be able to write about what happened. This summer my grandpa passed away as many of you already know. In the first few days of June, we started hearing from our family that Grandpa wasn’t doing well, so we...

There are many reasons. But let’s start with how I got here. I moved to Thailand with my family when I was 10 years old because God called my parents to move to Thailand. So my 2 younger brothers and I had to move too. At first I did not understand why I had to...

The wedding was very beautiful, though I couldn’t remember much of it after the fact. We had to watch the video recording to really help us remember. It all started with preparations of course, which we started doing about 2-3 months before by talking and figuring out what we wanted, where we wanted to do...

It has been too long since I’ve written something and I apologize for that. One of the reasons is that since the last post things just kept getting more and more crazy. Here is a quick summary of this past year The year began like any other. Then came COVID-19 and changed everything from one...