Update 2009:
This is how Paul and Lori Vernon rip off the Akha people. Look at their home page, splattered with images of traditional Akha clothing which the missionaries do their best to eliminate with all vestiges of Akha culture. These white racist dogs sent to bite indigenous children have no shame beyond what they can fob off on dumbed down white evangelical congregations that they drive to their website or babel to during church visitation.

They live on land bought by a mission, where Akha were persuaded to come to that land, then not given ownership of it, so that these Akha are basically prisoners once again. After the Akha came there they then destroyed their culture, burned their motifs and then put fake ones up so outside tourists would not become insulted and angry. This we learned in video taped interviews with Akhas in this village.

Paul and Lori now claim to have a disciple named Esther, a fancy name for having enough money to hire a maid, what other Akha in the village will never be able to afford.

These freak missionaries need to be put on the bus back to the US where they can go and get themselves converted living in a black neighborhood in Portland, where their racist ideas would rapidly get straightened out.

Lori is from Salem, Oregon, Paul from Arvada, Colorado. Salem Alliance church and Faith Chapel Arvada support them respectively.

Someone persuade these carpet baggers to go home.

2008

We note that Lori Crouch of Salem, Oregon and Paul Vernon of Denver, Colorado make heavy use of Akha traditional images on their website, while in fact they work in conjunction with Paul W. Lewis's brainchild, Ajay and the Akha Outreach. These people and organizations stand for the complete ethnocide of Akha traditional culture, language and identity in violation of many international treaties.

While Lori and Paul work in this "converted" village and mention the poverty of the Akha they fail to mention that Ajay bought the land OUT FROM UNDER the village but will not give it to the villagers. Now why would he want to do that? And why would you keep silent about that while speaking about the poverty of the Akha? Why are Lori and Paul silent on this issue?

Why do Lori and Paul spread Akha images and references to Akha culture on their website while they are in fact aligned with the people committed to destroying it?

Wolves in sheep's clothing? We think so.

Paste this link into your browser and go take a look.
http://www.loriandpaul.hopedenver.com/

Ajay's Land for Conversion

Paul and Lori are working in a village where the Akha were made to give up their swing and gates and Akha traditions. We think it is Ethnocide.

But we want to give you more information how this happened and who some of the players are.

Paul and Lori are supported by churches in Salem, Oregon and Denver, Colorado.
Paul and Lori also work with Ajay's missions, Akha Outreach.
Now in the Mae Salong area there is a shortage of land and the Thai government and Taiwanese tea owners keep forcing the Akha off more and more land. So if you work in this area you can take a lot of advantage of the Akha to force them to do this and that if you consider their position.

So what Ajay did as a poor missionary, is that he bought some land, and got an Akha traditional village which apparently wasn't having a fun time, to move to the land. He didn't give them the land we say, but he kept the ownership of the land so that he could control the villagers and make them do what he wanted. In this case convert. And to enforce the conversion he needs people to stay in the village and control what happens, styfle decent, stuff like that. That is where Paul and Lori come in. So the village where they live, the villagers were not given the land, even though it was probably donor money, but the villagers are leveraged by the nice christian people, and have to convert if they want to even live on the land, and, no mention is made of the human rights that were violated that got the Akha in this position. No mention is made of what the Thai government is doing.

So basically, Paul and Lori got their own plantation, that is the position in which Paul and Lori have gladly placed themselves. Nice christian thing to do. And hide the truth.