Now to get to the website VernonJournal.com you have to type that into your browser because you can't get there off of this website which exposes what these missionaries are up to.

Well, here is a picture of Esther their new Akha slave. Now at VernonJournal.com they go to some length to explain how a mother of ONE and her husband are SO busy that they need a maid now and want you to pay for it? And a disciple slave at that, coop the other Akha villagers, one captive Akha to convince them that this might be their great escape from human rights abuses and poverty.

For those of you who haven't been reading this website for a while, and aren't caught up on the issues, its like this. The missionaries go to Thailand and take on the Akha who suffer under extreme poverty and human rights abuses. The Thai govt. is busy taking their land along with the Queen of Thailand, a case the UN just made comment about. The missionaries go in and take their children away, don't inform the parents that they are making a profit off the children, and then the missions tell the churches the children are abandoned, abused or orphans, which in fact is very seldom the case. But makes a great cash generating story line.

There are scores of missions doing this, so you see how well it works. The number of children involved is in the thousands at any one given time. The problem is so bad that the Thais are having to close Thai schools in Akha villages because there are not enough children left in the village. The Akha children are made to be ashamed of their culture, seperated from their language and forced to convert. The US Embassy isn't going to do shit about it. UNICEF needs to get to work. The missions treat the Akha worse than animals, and if they WERE animals, animal rights laws would offer them more protection than they have now.

Church people don't mind, maybe in part by being dyed in the wool white racists themselves, but often because it doesn't matter what you do to people to get converts. Once done, too bad.

While the missions bring in millions of dollars so that they can live the good life helping the poor Akha, they say little to nothing about human rights abuses, you'd be lucky to even find the term on their websites. If something isn't done to address these very basic inequities, nothing is going to get better. But human rights are for white missionaries, not poor brown tribal people.

Dear Paul and Lori:
Akha people are not a sideshow or here for your entertainment, Akha traditional clothing is for Akhas, if you want to wear micky mouse ears, go to Disneyland. So get those traditional Akha clothes off your baby, because no traditional Akha woman has a maid. Your a lousy mother anyway, because a decent mother would not deprive Akha children from being raised by their own mothers like an Akha. You get to raise your child Abi with YOUR belief system, that you would never let anyone else interfere with, yet you are denying the Akha women in your captive village that very same right. Is this your Akha pavillion at disneyland?

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 (Salem Alliance Church) 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. (Wife Nancy Kukaewkasem)
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.

Stats:
Nancy Kukaewkasem Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=804428331

Sponsoring Church:
http://www.tfrc.org/Content.aspx?site_id=10191&content_id=73497

Aje:
Aje and Nancy run Akha Outreach. These are the people that Paul and Lori work for. Yot:
Yot is Aje's brother. He runs DAPA in Chiangrai, a project started by Paul White Lewis.
Yot accused of sexually exploiting Akha girls in the DAPA Hostel in Chiangrai over many years. Despite the fact that admin people at DAPA knew this was the case, Yot was promoted and left in control of DAPA for another 10 years.
Oddly enough, New Life Center Chiang Rai has their home just down the street on what used to be the residence house for DAPA.
Will Lori and Paul be leaving their daughter with Aje's brother anytime soon?