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Our 2009 Other Sheep Asia Trip
Index / Log for THAILAND
July 11 - 29, 2009, Chiang Mai
August 23 - 30, 2009, Bangkok
Index / Log for THAILAND
July 11 - 29, 2009, Chiang Mai
August 23 - 30, 2009, Bangkok
Other Sheep in
Chiang Mai, Bangkok,
& Mae Sot, Thailand
Chiang Mai, Bangkok,
& Mae Sot, Thailand
Steve
Parelli,
Other
Sheep
Executive
Director
Parelli,
Other
Sheep
Executive
Director
| Jose Ortiz, Other Sheep Coordinator for Asia |
| Chiang Mai, Thailand, July 11 - 29, 2009 |
Photo at left: Jose Ortiz at the northwest corner of the old city moat of Chiang Mai
Old Sukhothai
Historical Park,
Thailand.
July 21, 2009
Historical Park,
Thailand.
July 21, 2009
Flight from Kathmandu, Nepal, to Chiang Mai, Thailand, with
connecting flights in Dheli and Bangkok.
Friday - Saturday, July 10 - 11, 2009
CH Hotel, Chiang Mai: Writing reports on Nepal. Preparing for
Chiang Mai. Steve sick two days.
Saturday - Tuesday morning, July 11 - 14, 2009
Top North Hotel, Thapae Gate
Tuesday - Friday 1PM, July 14 - July 17;
Thursday - Wednesday, July 23 - July 29.
Contacts and meetings in Chiang Mai, Thailand
The Thai Village Gay Way by Dr. Kenneth Dobson
Special visit and conversation with Joyce Hanks, former wife of
Rev. Dr. Thomas Hanks, founder of Other Sheep, Khlong Khlung,
Thailand (South of Chiang Mai about a 5-6 hour drive).
July 18-19, Sunday evening - Monday morning
Chance Meetings - Human Interest Stories - Chiang Mai
Travel from Chiang Mai, Thailand to Singapore
Travel, by overnight train from Chiang Mai to Bangkok, Wednesday -Thursday, July 29
-30. Travel, by overnight train from Bangkok to Butterworth, Malaysia, Thursday -
Friday, July 30 -31. Friday nigh in Georgetown, Malaysia, hotel, July 31. Travel by train
from Butterworth, Malaysia, to Singapore, August 1, 2009.
Contacts and meetings in Bangkok, Thailand
Sunday evening through Friday morning, August 23-28,2009
Friday morning, August 28, 2009
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Contacts and meetings in Mae Sot, Thailand
August 29, 2009
August 28-29, 2009
connecting flights in Dheli and Bangkok.
Friday - Saturday, July 10 - 11, 2009
CH Hotel, Chiang Mai: Writing reports on Nepal. Preparing for
Chiang Mai. Steve sick two days.
Saturday - Tuesday morning, July 11 - 14, 2009
Top North Hotel, Thapae Gate
Tuesday - Friday 1PM, July 14 - July 17;
Thursday - Wednesday, July 23 - July 29.
Contacts and meetings in Chiang Mai, Thailand
- Tuesday, July 14, 2009
- Meeting with, and visit in the home of, Rev., Dr. Kenneth Dobson,
Office of the President, Payap University.
- Friday-Sunday morning, July 17-19, 2009
The Thai Village Gay Way by Dr. Kenneth Dobson
- Meeting with area gay Christian pro-LGBT activists at the office of
MPlus, arranged by Pongthorn Chanlearn, MPlus Project Director
- Friday, July 24, 2009
- Meeting with a leading Thai evangelical pastor and two of his fellow
religious leaders
- Sunday noon, July 26, 2009
- Attend open house of new (gay-owned and operated) business -
Associates of Dr. Kenneth Dobson
- Monday evening, July 27, 2009
- Meeting with a second (expatriate) evangelical pastor (identity
withheld) and wife
- Tuesday morning, July 28, 2009
- Meeting with Eva Pascal, M. Div., and Adam Dedman on the
campus of Payap University arranged by Rev., Dr. Kenneth
Dobson, Office of the President, Payap University
- Tuesday morning, July 28, 2009
- Introduction of Project Director Pongthorn Chanlearn of MPlus to
Rev., Dr. Kenneth Dobson, Office of the President, Payap University
- Tuesday afternoon, July 28, 2009
- Our initial (and on-going) contact to/in Chiang Mai:
- Nhkumm Naw, Human Rights Education Institute of Burma,
Coordinator - Community educator to vulnerable Burmese
migrant MSM and LGBT communities in Thailand
Special visit and conversation with Joyce Hanks, former wife of
Rev. Dr. Thomas Hanks, founder of Other Sheep, Khlong Khlung,
Thailand (South of Chiang Mai about a 5-6 hour drive).
July 18-19, Sunday evening - Monday morning
- Joyce Hanks on video - her experiences talking with Thais about
homosexuality - Ministering with Joyce Hanks in Mae Sot
Chance Meetings - Human Interest Stories - Chiang Mai
- Peth Kongweha, a Thai young man from a northeastern Thailand
village - Others: The Monk from Singapore; The Police Officer Monk for Five Days; The
American Free Lance Writer; The foreign lady who said "Thank you so much -
I'll look up Other Sheep on the Internet before the day is out;" The Facebook
friend from Ghana; Straight ally whose brother came to the defence of a Navel
Academy gay officer of Thailand.
Travel from Chiang Mai, Thailand to Singapore
Travel, by overnight train from Chiang Mai to Bangkok, Wednesday -Thursday, July 29
-30. Travel, by overnight train from Bangkok to Butterworth, Malaysia, Thursday -
Friday, July 30 -31. Friday nigh in Georgetown, Malaysia, hotel, July 31. Travel by train
from Butterworth, Malaysia, to Singapore, August 1, 2009.
Contacts and meetings in Bangkok, Thailand
Sunday evening through Friday morning, August 23-28,2009
- Meeting with a pro-LGBT Episcopal (American) priest
Friday morning, August 28, 2009
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Contacts and meetings in Mae Sot, Thailand
- How it came about that we went to the Myanmar Christians living in
Thailand and what it meant for Steve as a former Baptist pastor
August 29, 2009
- Saw Yuri Galler - President of Myanmar Gay Education and Gospel
Singer. Hear one of his gospel songs on the topic of being gay.
August 28-29, 2009
| Take the 2009 Southeast Asia tour: NEXT |
This web page was begun in Chiang Mai, Thailand, Monday, July 27, and finished, August
14, 2009, in the Bronx, NY. First published July 29, 2009
Visits to this page since July 29, 2009
14, 2009, in the Bronx, NY. First published July 29, 2009
Visits to this page since July 29, 2009
The Rev. Dr. Kenneth Dobson
| Bangkok & Mae Sot, Thailand, August 23-30, 2009 |
| Jose Ortiz Chiang Mai, Thailand |
Pongthorn Chanlearn
Pongthorn Chanlearn
Pongthorn Chanlearn
Joyce Hanks
Bangkok Post Journalist
Nhkumm Naw
David Aye Myat
Saw Yuri Galler
Adam Dedman
Eva Pascal
Steve, working on the train
| Our 2009 Southeast Asia Trip --Table of Contents-- |
Photo Album of Sites
Visited
OTHER SHEEP 2009 ASIA
MINISTRY
Written Report
NEPAL INDEX
June 28 - July 10, 2009
- eNews article on
meeting Sunil Pant
in NYC prior to our
leaving for Nepal - Resource page for
Pastors of Nepal - Meeting Pastors &
Planning Pastors'
Seminar - Meeting BDS, Mitini,
and Protection Desk - Pastors' Seminar
- Indira Ghale's Letter
on the Pastors'
Seminar - Seminar with Blue
Diamond Society - Blue Diamond
Society Members as
our Guests at our
Resort - Two religious
leaders meet us and
Blue Diamond
Society Members at
our Resort
THAILAND INDEX
Chiang Mai, Thailand
July 11 - 29, 2009
- Meeting with Project
Director of MPlus,
Pongthorn
Chanlearn - The Thai Village Gay
Way, article by Rev.
Dr. Kenneth Dobson - Index of Articles by
Rev. Dr. Kenneth
Dobson - eNews introducing
Rev. Dr. Kenneth
Dobson - Meeting with area
gay Christian pro-
LGBT activists - Meeting with a
leading Thai
evangelical pastor - Introduction of
Project Director
Pongthorn
Chanlearn of MPlus
to Rev., Dr., Kenneth
Dobson - Meeting with two pro-
LGBT professors
Bangkok & Mae Sot
August 23-30
- Bangkok Seminar
- Mae Sot Seminar
- Saw Yuri Gospel
Singer and
President of
Myanmar Gay
Education - Meeting and
ministering with
Joyce Hanks - Video Clip of Joyce
Hanks on her
experiences with
Thais and their
understanding of
homosexuality
SINGAPORE INDEX
August 1 - 7, 2009
August 9 - 13, 2009
- Interview with Fridae.
com on "ex-gay" - Interview with
Queercast on the
work of Other Sheep - Other Sheep at Free
Community Church:
Steve preaches; cell
groups visited - Lead study on Bible
and homosexuality
with closeted gay
Christians - eNews on Steve's
Fridae interview and
meeting with
evangelical pastor - Books to Australia
through Australian
educator/theologian
living in Singapore - 58 pastors phoned;
one visited; three
receive books
MALAYSIA INDEX
August 7 - 9, 2009
August 13 - 23, 2009
- Retreat with Good
Samaritan MCC - Seminar with Good
Samaritan MCC:
Topic - "Ex-gay" - Lumut resort
vacation - Anonymous
autobiographical
writing by a gay
Malaysian clergyman
RETURNING HOME
August 30, 2009
Nhkumm
Naw
Naw