Hope On The Borderline

Hope on the Borderline: The Tana Family Newsletter October 1st, 2025 Ever feel like you’ve got nothing—but you give anyway? As a leader, I expect myself to bring direction and encouragement. But that morning, I couldn’t even get up without a struggle. I was supposed to lead our team in prayer before outreach. The only thing I could think to offer was reading Psalm 23—because Zz had been memorizing it for school. I hadn’t slept well, and Sirichai had needed a lot of attention through the...

Hope on the Borderline: The Tana Family Newsletter September 24th, 2025 After 14 years of calling Thailand home, it's very embarrassing to still not be able to communicate well. At our first staff meeting of the year we made some New Year's resolutions, with good intentions, I said I'd learn more Thai. It's taken me nearly the whole year to get started, but weekly Thai classes have finally begun, and I'm feeling excited to keep learning. What’s a habit you’ve been meaning to start — but...

Hope on the Borderline: The Tana Family Newsletter September 17th, 2025 Four years ago my life felt like it was spiraling out of control. Judah had just survived a double pulmonary embolism and a partially collapsed lung (following a routine knee operation), we had a miscarriage that felt like I had carried death within me. Then, while running for help during a fire that had jumped from our neighbor’s property to ours, Judah tore two of the three ligaments in his ankle. Surgery followed—and...

Hope on the Borderline: The Tana Family Newsletter September 10th, 2025 Two weeks ago, I lost a diamond from my wedding ring in my house. Judah and I searched for it, but we had no luck. I kept my eyes peeled for nearly a week, hoping it might turn up somewhere around the house. During that time, I kept finding little fake diamonds from Zz’s mermaid dress, which I had recently washed. They had fallen off and were scattered all around the house. It was very disheartening every time I picked...

Hope on the Borderline: The Tana Family Newsletter September 3rd, 2025 The Surprise We Get When God Moves When I first moved to Thailand fourteen years ago (Sept 1st), we spent a significant amount of time taking our kids in our then school of 40++ around our village of Wang Pha in small groups to pray. We went out in small groups to visit moms and babies, widows, the weak, hungry, and those needing encouragement. We prayed for and hung out with people... played with their babies and listened...

Hope on the Borderline: The Tana Family Newsletter August 27th People Wonder How It All Began... On August 23rd, 2022 our friend sat at our dining room table and told us about this message she received from a Kenyan national claiming she was stuck in Myanmar. What we thought was some random scam message unraveled into being the first we had really heard of this global atrocity—this mammoth deception, this horrifying truth that hundreds of thousands were trapped just kilometers from us in...