Mail from Canada

We had a special privilege in our last trip to refugee camps on the Thai-Burma border. We had a team from BC led by Peter's former youth pastors, Ralph and Carrie Peters. Presently, they lead a mission organization called Climb Inter-cultural and Carrie directs English Language for Life in Canada program at Christian Life Assembly in Langley, BC. The program has a large group of resettled Karen people from Burma now living in Langley. These people last lived in a refugee camp high in the mountains of Northwest Thailand. Leaving family and friends behind they have started a new life in Canada. When they heard that Ralph and Carrie were coming to Thailand they wrote letters and produced some videos of greetings to send back to family still remaining in the camp. The pictures above show some of those who received letters from Canada, and some of the group watching the video greetings on the laptop. The journey to Mae La On camp took us about seven hours each way, with four hours requiring us to traverse the mountains rough gravel roads. It was hard for us to imagine how difficult the transition must be for those people, who having rather return to the simple bamboo homes they fled in Burma, must now make a new life in Canada.