Near the end of 2017 Amp and I went to the north of Thailand with a small team of people from the Living Room Vineyard in Bangkok. Bangkok is a city of 10 million people. We are familiar with lots of people in one place so a trip to the north was a trip to the country side for us city dwellers. Our first stop was a visit with the mother of a lady from the Living Room Vineyard. She lived by herself... more

Jeff, an engineer, grew up in a Buddhist home in Thailand. He became a seclusive and quiet young man, due to his home situation. Education was his way out of the chaos of his home life. As an adult, through relationship with some missionaries Jeff encountered Jesus and He changed his life. Today Jeff and his wife Tida run the Yindee Coffee house in Rayong, Thailand, which also serves as the home base... more

The village of Muyange is developing into a more affluent neighbourhood and land is being swallowed up quickly. Opportunity has arisen for the ministry to purchase two adjoining pieces of land which would allow proper vehicle access to the church building as well as the necessary space for the expanding ministry. The reality is that once this land is taken, the ministry will not be able to afford to... more

What are signs of the Kingdom of God touching earth? How do we recognize them and participate? In this 3 minute vlog I touch on this by looking at the prayer of Jesus in Matthew 6:10 and by retelling a recent experience I had travelling between Nepal and India.

Todd Rutkowski

The New Dawn Vineyard in Bangkok,Thailand secured a location in the middle of Kloney Toey (the largest slum in Bangkok) in 2007. A team lived in the KT area in a smaller facility for the previous 7 years. The renovated 5 story facility, with financial help from the Canadian Vineyards, held a gathering place and kitchen on the first floor and rooms for music classes and English classes on the 2nd... more

Chumpoo (pronounced Chum - poo) lived in Kloney Toey, the largest slum in Bangkok Thailand, when the vineyard team first met her. Over 100,000 squatters live in squalor in Kloney Toey; an area between the freeway and the Chao Phraya, a major river in Bangkok. Together, with her adult daughter, Chumpoo found herself caught up in the lifestyle of addiction. Her daily routine orbited around her drug... more

They live in Northern India on the outskirts of Dehradun. For centuries, as a people, they found their livelihood in snake charming. You may have seen them featured on the pages of National Geographic. Walking the streets of India I have witnessed their magic. They carry their snakes in baskets and wow their onlookers with their imaginative control over this ever so crafty creature. It is a sight to... more

All six of us were invited to join her and her two children for a visit in her living room. Brian and I from Canada, Bruce from the U.K. and three others from the Philippines.

Her home is two 8 x 8 rooms on top of each other put together with found materials. The ceiling of the first floor is about 5 feet off the ground.

Her home, surrounded by many other similar homes, is in the middle of the... more

As we waited at the home of Ben & Rachana Isaacs, the escort vehicle arrived to transport us all for dinner. I am not sure if I have ever been picked up in an escort vehicle for dinner before, never mind for dinner in Silguri, India. After swerving our way through traffic, rickshaws, tuk tuks, cows and people on the streets of Siliguri, we eventually arrived at the former Deputy Minister of the... more

His grandfather moved from Southern China to the Highlands of Northern Thailand to grow opium, hoping to capture a piece of the lucrative opium trade between Great Britain and China. Two generations cultivated this nutrient rich soil carefully tending the opium plants as they emerged from the soil. Once the opium poppy's bloomed the opium tears, the dried latex in the poppy, were extracted from these... more