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It's been a busy month working with SCHOOL OF PROMISE and THE RIVER. SOP had 68
kids in their summer ESL program, most of them Buddhist. And The River had a great 3-day camp
and also an outreach concert for the local community. I also did some interviews for them of people
with changed lives due to help from their ministry. This week I made a trip up to Chiang Rai to seek
better services for my friend Ahoo, who is partly deaf and has slurred speech.

I am open to helping more groups, but lately have been very busy with those I already help! I am
happy to apply my skills to help these people be stronger in the Lord. With my experience as a
professional photojournalist, 20 years of freelance photo work, and expertise in video production, I
hope to help touch more hearts for Jesus,,, either with the donors back home, or with outreach tools
for local ministry in Asia.

I will be relying on funding from donors back in the USA. l ask for a stipend or donation from
the groups I work with, but most do not have a budget for Media... they rely solely on donated help.
Thank you for considering how YOU can help me, as I help these groups that are doing AMAZING
and LIFE-CHANGING work with the people of SE Asia!

Since July I have been helping the School of Promise, a small Christian bilingual school that just
ending their second year of working with at-risk kids near Chiang Mai, Thailand. (See ZOO TRIP
pictures under "Jan-Feb Photos" on the menu to the right.) I produced a You Tube video called
"What is this thing called Love?" for their website. Click on the yellow type to watch the VIDEO.

My current project is doing a short "teacher recruitment" piece, and then will be doing a longer one
for them, a more in-depth look at the home situations of some of the kids. Please PRAY for this
school, they are really making a difference!

I've started helping an awesome ministry in Hang Dong, a suburb of Chiang Mai, called The River.
They are a mission group with multiple ministries happening, from the far north of Thailand to the
far south. We talked about me going down to the border of Malaysia and Thailand to an area
where there is rampant prostitution where they have a new ministry. Most girls/women in the sex
industry are there by choice, but especially in this area, hundreds are FORCED to be there and are
very young. It's a dangerous place, but The River team has some good connections and wants me
to go down to get photos and videos. Meanwhile, see a page under APRIL photos for some work
I've done for them here in Chiang Mai area.

As you probably know, the vast majority of Missionaries rely on financial support from friends,
family, and churches "back home." I am not sponsored by any church, only friends who believe in
the work I'm doing,,, that it helps people, and furthers God's Kingdom. The last two years have been
amazing in how God has led me to a nice 3BR house, two outstanding roommates, three friendly
dogs, a sturdy old Toyota pick-up truck, some wonderful friends, and a great church to attend.

As far as regular commitments go, my budget is only $1450 a month, but I am about $300 short of
that at this time. Thank you if YOU can help me to be full time as a Missionary in this far-off land.
Even $25 a month goes a long way here!

And I sure do need a lot of prayer to be doing this. Write me if you'd be serious about praying for
me. (I send out a special prayer email to about 30 people.)

You can check out more of my photos below, and also in the menu on the right. Please drop me a
line if you have any questions or comments.

Make it a great day... God Bless You!

Bob@DigitalMission.us

Links to pages on this site:

Site design and all photos
Copyright 2007-12, Robert Bowling

Visitors to this site since 9/1/08

Now serving in Southeast Asia

Bob Bowling
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Based in
SE ASIA

School of Promise
V I D E O !
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five minute VIDEO about one of
DigitalMission's clients...

CLICK here to watch VIDEO

"My
command
is this:
Love each
other as I
have loved you.
Greater love
has no one
than this, that
he lay down
his life for his
friends."

John 15: 12

"Life! in Pictures."

I am hopefully coming to USA for
a visit in late June to early
August! If you can help with
donations toward a plane ticket,
that would sure help. It'll have to
be "God-thing" this year 'cause I
don't have the money, but I'm
planning to go!

An old friend has offered to
donate some funds so I can
attend my high school reunion in
Atlanta, Georgia on July 13/14.
So if you are in that area I look
forward to a visit with you!

You can contact me at:

Info@DigitalMission.us

And please consider a DONATION
to help DigitalMission do a great
job. I do have a 501(c)(3) you can
send to in Colorado!

I'm still about $300 short on my
monthly budget, but I seem to
get a special gift every few
months, so a special thank-you
goes out to you folks!

"He is no
fool who
gives up
what he
cannot keep,
to gain
what he
cannot
lose."

- Jim Elliot,
Missionary

Hello! My name is Robert Bowling. I am a Media Consultant and Missionary from Portland, Oregon...
now living in SE Asia. On these pages you'll find information and photos on my current projects as
well as the best of my older work. I've worked for three newspapers as a Photojournalist and
travelled to 31 countries. I've worked for Northwest Medical Teams in Romania, Albania Health Fund
in Albania, Young Life in Italy, taken five trips to Thailand to help folks working with tribal people, and
worked in Panama on the motion picture, End of the Spear. CLICK on the links on the upper right to
view my article about working on the movie set, and also my newspaper article about Holocaust
survivor, Alice Kern, and our trip to Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen. It won "Best Feature Story" from
the Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association in 1999!

Digital Mission is helping more Ministries!

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Your donations
MAKE A DIFFERENCE
in many lives
(including mine!)
through the Mission
groups I am helping.

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Proud student at the School
of Promise in Chiang Mai.

The Young and the Old at a Karen
tribal gathering at Christmas.

Laughing Karen ladies,
Karen tribal Christmas.

Akha kids using a "clean water system"
installed by a work team from USA.

Blind beggar at Doi Suthep
temple in Chiang Mai, Thailand.

Bob eating breakfast in Karen village while room-
mate Pastor Suradet irons his shirt for church!

Teacher Amy and students from School of Promise
work on a handout for Thai thanksgiving day.

Fun games at a Christian camp for Akha tribal
teenagers during their "summer" break in April.

Karen communion service near
Melanoi, Thailand.

Orphans from Burma/Myanmar, now at
a children's home near Mae Sot.

Little girl at Refugee Camp for people
from Burma near Mae Sot, Thailand.

APRIL/MAY NEWS, 2012:

Akha ladies watch the games during summer youth conference
in the mountain village of Abolsang. Much of their head decor
is real silver, and some coins are over 100 years old!

Fun games at the Akha youth conference. These are the
old tire relay races, with a lot people laughing and clapping!