2017 FOT Information Letter

Jack fruits are native to South Asia. Its fruit is the largest tree-borne fruit in the world, reaching as much as 80 pounds in weight, up to 36 inches long, and 20 inches in diameter. Here you can see a small jack fruit is much larger than my head. Here one of the students climbs the tree at the farm to retrieve the fruit. Waiting anxiously for the scream from above “Incoming!!!”… And success! We harvested nine using a screen to catch them and used them at Legacy school in a number of ways below.

Luke 21:20 ‘And when ye shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that the desolation thereof is nigh.’ I know that the armies are not yet at Jerusalem’s doorstep (Hamas being the closest so far), but things are beginning to gel for the end time conflict of armies in the Holy Land. ISIS, now called the Islamic State, is continuing its advance and ethnic cleansing efforts in northern Iraq. The attacks on Christians and Yazidi minorities continue. The men are killed. The women and young girls enslaved. Children are being beheaded. Those who do not convert must flee for their lives or die.

Since my arrival here at Legacy I have tried many new and interesting types of fruit. Some I had already tried in the […]

Gloria and I are together here in Taungoo, Myanmar (Burma) with 33 Church of God brethren and children to keep Passover and the Days of Unleavened Bread. We have been able to come together from different parts of Myanmar. One graduate of Legacy Institute in Chiang Mai came all the way from the China border bringing two friends to see us. She had to cross into China via mountain trails and come around into Kachinland by a circuitous route to avoid the fighting between the Burma army and the Kachin Independence Army.