Haynes Family News

One Family in God

2008-05-18T16:44:00.000-07:00

This weekend the Family Learning Center had it's cultural arts contest. John William did a wonderful painting. Emily did an original song, a poem, and an artwork. Marshall wrote a song called "One Family in God". I got video of the song and uploaded it to YouTube so that our friends cool see it. Marshall wrote the words and sings it while Emily plays guitar for it. Enjoy!

Family Learning Center 2008 Prom

2008-04-27T00:08:00.000-07:00

Emily went to the prom last night at the Rimkok resort. The kids had a great time getting dressed up and having a special evening. Emily designed her own dress and had a local seamstress, Joy, put it together. The fabric was around 700 baht ($25) and the seamstress was 1000 baht ($33). She looked beautiful in the dress!

One tradition that I like here is that they have a time before the prom where parents are invited. There's snacks and pictures taken. The Quinley's, a local missions family, were kind enough to set up a professional photo shoot. We'll post the pictures when we get them. The local newspaper even came out to take photos.

Here's a slideshow of the prom pictures.

Pictures from our family vacation

2008-04-10T20:39:00.000-07:00

I've got some slideshows here from our family vacation. We had a great time in Koh Chang, Thailand. It was great to spend some focused family time. William did a lot of writing, Cindy did a lot of reading, and the kids did a lot of swimming!

Here's some pictures from a wonderful sunset we got one night.

Here's pictures from a ropes course William and the kids did.

Here's the same ropes course with higher elements that Emily and William did.

Here's some other pictures of us playing in the pool and at the beach.

We had a wonderful time and thank those that gave to make this special time together possible!

Enjoying the beach

2008-04-06T00:53:00.000-07:00

We went down to the beach for a little vacation with the family. It's been wonderful and we've been staying at the "Whitehouse Resort" on Koh Chang. It's been a great time with the family and we've spent a lot of quality pool time together. Above is a picture of William with John William and Marshall.

This has been a much needed time for our family to spend together and prepare for the coming year in missions!

Dolphin Bay

2008-03-31T16:44:00.000-07:00

We've had a great time at Dolphin Bay Resort with the family! We've all spent some time in the pool together. Here's a picture of some fun that the boys and I were having.

Family Time

2008-03-31T16:37:00.000-07:00

Cindy's parents, John and Ellen, stayed with us in Thailand after the church mission trip and we've have some special time together. We went to Chiang Mai and got these pictures done one night. John and Ellen did some traveling around and seeing the sights by Tuk-Tuk. After that we went down to the beach at Dolphin Bay Resort. It was a wonderful time for the family! We relaxed, swam, went for walks and collected shells. The boys have become such good swimmers. Emily and I went for an "open water" swim in the ocean and it was a neat time together. She's becoming such a young lady. It's amazing to see her growing, maturing, and coming into her own.

We'll remember these times together for years!

Suwan with the boys

2008-03-12T01:15:00.000-07:00

Sunday we were at the Karin church with the SFBC team. Emily got this great picture of our Maabaan, Suwan with our two boys: John William; and Marshall. We had a wonderful visit with the church and have been working with them all week to help build their new Sunday School building.

Linchee and Emily

2008-03-11T23:42:00.000-07:00

I just thought this is a great picture of Linchee and our daughter Emily. Linchee is a senior at the FLC this year and wants to go to a local university for a nursing degree next year. She and Emily have been friends for 4 years now. Linchee is a member of the Karin Hilltribe and a leader in her church. She heads up the worship team and plays electric guitar!

SFBC is coming!

2008-02-29T22:41:00.000-08:00

We are so excited about the Simpsonvile First Baptist Church team arriving next week! There's a group of 10 coming, with Cindy's parent's included!

The team is going to be working at a Karin hilltribe church, helping build a Sunday school / church office building. The Karin church members are an integral part of the Chiang Rai missions community and provide a lot of the laborers for our missions and projects. It is wonderful that they will be receiving assistance from the Simpsonville team.

Here's a picture that I took with the pastor in front of the church a couple of years ago. The other couple is the Franciscus family.

School Play

2008-02-29T22:17:00.000-08:00

Emily is in a school production of "Little Women". Her character is Amy, one of the sisters. It's been a bit crazy with practices, memorizing lines, etc but she's having fun. Thankfully, the play is when our church team is here. It will be neat for Emily's Grandparents to be able to see her in the play.

Weekend in the Mountains

2008-02-29T19:56:00.000-08:00

A friend of ours invited us to his resort last weekend. It's in the mountains and beautiful! He's got deer, rabbits, chickens, goats, and water buffalo on his property and nearby. The kids had a great time with all the animals. The owners name is Char-lin and he's from Taiwan. I met Char-lin three years ago and encouraged him to bring his family from Taiwan and enroll his children at the FLC. Since then, his children and wife have become Christian and Char-lin is beginning to consider the possibility. Please keep Char-lin and his family in your prayers.

Welcome to the Family News Blog

2008-02-29T18:34:00.001-08:00

We'll work on keeping this blog updated with the latest family news and some pictures. Here's one picture of the family from this past weekend.