An Amazing Intern from Master’s College On occassion, ZOE has interns from the local Masters College in Santa Clarita who assist us with varying projects around the US office. The interships are for class credit. This semester, we happily welcomed on board Lynlee Kumamoto from Masters. Lynlee was able to intern at the ZOE Children’s […]
Soccer Jokes Aside Q: Why did the soccer ball quit the team? A: It was tired of being kicked around! Q: What do you get when you mix 20 ZOE youth, 11 American interns, 35 Thai vocational training students, 35 Aussies … and a handful of teachers, ZOE volunteers (plus their kids) and a few […]
Delightful ZOE Volunteer! Last month, we debuted our volunteer spotlight article. Our volunteers assist us with various tasks and projects in the ZOE USA office. All of our volunteers have such an amazing heart to serve. Some of our volunteers find out about our organization through friends, school, the local Santa Clarita Magazine or just by […]
7-Eleven As I drove around doing errands the other day, my mind wandered from thought to thought. My to-do lists. What to cook for dinner. Things to remember. And then I saw it. Another one. A new one, which had just been built. A brand spanking new … 7- ELEVEN store. My 5-year-old daughter and […]
Khantoke Dinner -with Grace Baptist I’m the sort of person who needs to hear something many times before I can memorize it. I need to drive somewhere several times before I can remember where to go and … sometimes I even need to meet people a few times before their names and faces are familiar. It’s a […]
You Have to See It To Understand It. By Pam Noritake As short term teams, we blow in, blow up and blow out…but to see what breaks God’s heart will stay with us for a lifetime. Our desire is to share this “burden” with you our family, friends and supporters so we can understand more […]
Bug Swatting It could almost be a national sport! Walking around the children’s home, you often hear the sound…. “Swoosh…. ZAP!” As you turn your head in the direction the noise came from, you see the remnants of a fried mosquito or other such creature fall slowly to the ground. The device used to “fry” […]
What is Food? Since moving to Thailand, I have had to rethink the question of, ‘What is food?’ Are animal intestines food? Are leaves food? Are frogs food? Are ants food? And what about cockroaches? I used to look at leaves as just things that fell off trees and created work to sweep them up… […]
Through the Lens Noelle Shumer’s thoughts on her time in Thailand at the ZOE Children’s Homes “My heart’s longings always urge me to undertake a journey to visit the country of a foreign people far across the sea.” — The Seafarer As I sit here and try to think of how to sum up […]
More Than a Shelter…It’s a Home It was a sight to behold: As the representatives and donors from Life Outreach International drove out of the forest and pulled up to the new ZOE Children’s Home in Northern Thailand, they stood speechless, tears of joy in their eyes, at the site of the newly completed “House […]
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