The latest issue of the Legacy Leader hit newsstands today – or students’ desks as it were. In this issue, students wrote primarily about places of interest around Chiang Mai. Find out the place to get the best view of Chiang Mai, where to buy almost anything,…read more
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It is that obnoxious season of the year again. Santa Clause is depicted in every shopping mall. Everywhere you look, there are those fake evergreen trees with red and silver balls hanging on them and sometimes a plastic angel perched on top. And then there is that maddening music. If I hear Jingle Bells one more time, I am going to scream! …And by the way, I am talking about Thailand, not Los Angeles or Dallas. It is now all over Thailand, too.
23 July 2023 to February 2024
Dear Beloved Brethren and Fellow Laborers, We started to write to you in July of 2023 and nothing more each month after that. We had a few more false starts with some added info—but we needed a miracle in the department of “TIME.” No matter what, you, our faithful brethren, have continued with notes and letters of encouragement, continued in prayers, and in donations. God is great—and so are you fellow laborers! Thank you for your love and patience.
The laws have changed again! It seems to me like they keep changing the laws every month or so. In order for us to bring students from Myanmar (Burma) to Legacy in Thailand, we must have them attend a Thai language school. In order to attend a Thai language school, they must acquire an Education Visa (ED visa). In order to acquire an ED visa, we must pay a local language school a yearly fee for them to attend on Sundays. They can then attend Legacy school on weekdays.
We need your fervent prayers on two accounts. First, we have some serious problems getting our young people over from Myanmar (Burma). There always seems to be problems with visas, etc. In order for us to bring our young people (Burma Nationals) to Thailand we must acquire the appropriate visa. For our Burma students to stay and study at Legacy for three years, they must return home each year and then get another ED visa (Educational visa) for another year. This is time consuming and expensive when one adds up travel expenses and more visa costs. But this is the Thai law and if we want them to continue their studies at Legacy, we must comply with the rules and regulations of the Thai Immigration Bureau.