Newsletters

Christmas in Klong Toey

6 December 2019

Along with revered legends like the Archangel Gabriel, who appeared to the Virgin Mary to ask if she would be the Mother of Jesus, we hold dearly to the Star in the East. This hallowed light brought three Wise men, schooled in the lore of

Going going Back to School

24 October 2019

Dear everyone – it’s been a while, so a letter today to catch up, even a bit. Hope you are all well. Prayers and respect to all of you. Fr. Joe & all of us here

Life with our Children

30 July 2019

Life with our 140 Klong Toey mob of mostly orphaned kids who live with us in five scattered houses here at Mercy Centre plus our small 2 acres’ farm on the outskirts of the city and the 40 kids in our kindergarten in the mud flats of Koh Lao for&

A New School Year

18 June 2019

It’s a new school year in Thailand and I wish you could see our children spic and span in their new school uniforms. Kids who never had a new dress or pair of trousers, so proud to walk into their classroom and tell the teacher their name.

Easter Letter 2019

9 April 2019

We did, didn’t we. We walked in the shadow of the Rainbow and tossed coins of gold across the midnight skies. Above the slums – above the pig pens. Above the water buffalo stalls.

A School Painting

8 Febuary 2019

A couple days slow, but really never late for Chinese New Year. The first thing we decided to do this year, to celebrate in your name and our name and most of all in the name of our most abandoned children in our Janusz Korczak school