Cottage Industries

Two things are currently conspiring to put cottage industries in grave danger. One. The growing obsession of the west for unique goods produced from small cottage industries placing a high demand on small goods producers to figure out ways to...

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What is a Mom?

What is a Mom?

We hope you had a great time celebrating your Mothers last week! It is awesome all the things mothers do, much of which we just never know about until we become parents ourselves. One of the coolest things about the homes we support in Myanmar...

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My Precious Time with LFM

This week our guest blogger is MuTu the new Love For Myanmar Intern from Yangon. He is assisting Meagan Henry, Director of Myanmar Ministries Relations, with updating all of our children for 2014 as well as other team functions. He is a welcome...

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Celina’s Top Ten Travel Must Haves

Celina’s Top Ten Travel Must Haves

Well, here at LFM we are moving full force into trip planning for July. We are busily setting itineraries and planning events for the people coming with us to Myanmar this summer. With the new addition of land in the Mon state and pilot projects...

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Come See For Yourself!

Come See For Yourself!

We have been busy as bees working on this years (first) annual fundraiser. Next Tuesday we will all come together at Crestview Baptist Church so that we can share our vision with you. It is your chance to come out and hear stories and ask...

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Swim Little Fish

Swim Little Fish

One of my favorite over arching themes that we reinforce here at Love For Myanmar is the belief that sometimes children should just get to be children. We facilitate this through a number of programs in Austin and in Yangon but one of my favorite...

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They will know us

They will know us

A few weeks ago Rachel Goad wrote a blog for us and talked about the Austin Refugees she works with in Austin. She ended the blog with an old hymn and one line has just been stuck in my mind every time I start working on Love For Myanmar ‘stuff’...

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Spring is here!

Spring is here!

It’s the beginning of spring! A time when we symbolically celebrate new beginnings and welcome the end of winter and the brightening of the world outside (yes, even in Texas!) Suddenly greens seem so much greener and there are wildflowers popping...

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It was the best of times….

It was the best of times….

Love For Myanmar founders Gary Watkins and Reed Iwami are finishing up a two-week ‘vision’ trip in Myanmar. They have been prayerfully gauging the new economic and government waters and have been in consideration for the next steps to take...

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It’s a JOY

It’s a JOY

Our guest blogger this week is LFM Karen Church Youth Teacher Rachel Goad. If you ever get the opportunity to sit down and talk with this interesting young woman of God, take it! She is currently working on becoming a home birth midwife and has a...

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I will not leave you

I will not leave you

“My top priority is for people to understand that they have the power to change things themselves.” – Aung San Suu Kyi ‘The Lady’ of Myanmar. Her story is inspiring, if you don’t know it look it up. We forget that there are people all...

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