Hello my faithful blog readers. Sorry I have been so bad about updating our blog things have been a little nuts. I've been waiting to post until I could set everything to private viewing so I could share about our upcoming move to Thailand.
Dear Family and Friends of Tyson and Tess Bush,
The Bush family has an exciting announcement to make, as of the beginning of June 2010 our new homeland will be the Kingdom of Thailand. We are going to work for Projects for Asia (Tyson’s parent’s charitable foundation/ministry) for at least the next year.
We are very encouraged about the first part of this move because it involved selling most of our possessions with relative ease. The house sold without even having to put it on the market, as well as the cars, furniture, and whatever else was accumulated over the past five years of marriage. We have never once asked ourselves, “why are we doing this” because once we heard about what we were going to be doing we knew we had to sell everything and go.
What are we going to be doing? Projects for Asia as a ministry does a lot of different things. The orphanage is a main part of the ministry with around 70 children (5 years to 16 years of age) and it grows monthly. The Kingdom of Thailand has just granted PFA permission to start a school for the 70 kids and eventually want the school to handle many more. We will teach English classes, ballet and sowing (Tess, not Tyson) P.E., Math, etc. We also will be apart of the schools administration, from hiring of Thai teachers to teach the kids during the first part of the day to scheduling sporting events with other Thai schools. During the nights the school is opened to the community for adults and other kids to come in and learn English giving us a chance to evangelize through that social interaction. On 2-3 weekends the school loads up a lot of the kids and takes them back up into the tribes where they are from to do outreaches and give out much needed food and clothing, some of which the kids make themselves. Seeing that someone is providing care for their children is sometimes all it takes for a relative or member of tribe to give their life over to Christ. Finally, participate as needed in the bible school PFA runs for local Thai’s looking to move up or go back into their villages to plant churches after all the outreaches, or just want more teaching in the word of God. And now to you, we have committed to go and give this our all for one year at which point we will reevaluate and decide if we want to stay longer. (Having a one year old son makes you think more than you did when it was just the two of you). We will be getting some money from PFA but need to raise an additionally 2,000 to 2,500 dollars a month. We would both ask that you prayerfully consider helping us reach this goal with your monthly pledge (that is tax deductible). If you do consider this project a worthy cause please fill out the enclosed contact card and send back to us your pledge and contact information. All Contributions are being collected for us by Greenbrier Church and checks should be made out to Greenbrier Church with Tyson and Tess Bush in the memo. Below we have listed all of our contact information, phone, blog, website, and email addresses as we will be keeping in contact with those of you who want us to update you on this year long journey. If you have any questions feel free to contact us as we would love to hear from you. Thank you for your prayers and support.
Tyson, Tess and Sawyer Bush
Our Blog address: www.Tysonandtess.blogspot.com
Email: Tessbush@gmail.com ; thetysonbush@gmail.com
Phone: (757) 287-9589
Personal Address: 1716 Crowsfoot Ct. Church Address: Greenbrier Church
Virginia Beach, VA 23464 1101 Volvo Pkwy
Chesapeake, VA 23320
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