Dear everyone 

        It’s been more than yesterday & I am ashamed/ ‘not keeping in touch’ …. As the expression goes….
        So a note to you good folks this Monday.  A couple days ago (really) the GYPSY KING TYSON FUREY (World heavy weight boxing Champion         Of the entire world stopped by – to say ‘hello’ as great boxers do.  

        The folks who alerted the Champ and his team about us; were  (as you would imagine)  the owner//managers of the two Irish Pubs” in town:   Scruffy Murphy’s  and the other  pub down the street: the Blarney Stone. …No, The champ did not stop for ‘a pint & a pie’ at the pubs, Really. but their  public relation folks who brought him & his team to our Mercy Centre -  to visit our kids.   

    He visited our kindergarten, smiled for pictures,  visited the near-by slums.   Said it all reminded him of his younger days when he too was poor and destitute. That folks like us at Mercy Centre  ‘ helped him along the way’.

       He is nearly seven feet Tall and total muscle; the largest & most powerful man I have ever meet: yet so gentle and graceful.  The smallest of the kids loved him.  None were afraid of his size and strength. No  crying,  all laughed and giggled as little kids are supposed to do. I am also sending pictures.  Thought you might enjoy this. 

Prayers & Respect as always – even more than ever.  Fr. Joe in Klong Toey