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Culture, Football, and Surfers

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About thirty island teenage boys and young men in football jerseys cheering with raised arms alongside visiting adults on a red-earth pitch

April 2026 opened with two occasions Philip counted as a privilege.

On 5 April Philip shared that the week before, they had taken part in a cultural event in Thailand and came second. "It was a privilege to be able to share in the Thai culture."

On 9 April he shared that Beram had been on the island for a few days with his football team from Australia. Among them were Mineiro and Fabio, famous players from Brazil. They encouraged all the young soccer players on the island. They use sports as ministry, and the young men could all listen to their testimony, with Wud as translator. "What a privilege."

On 21 April Philip introduced the Moken surfers: they are doing very well and are in the ocean almost every day.

From 26 April to 25 May Philip and Wud visited South Africa, where Wud got to see the penguins that were on his list.

Six adults, two women in traditional Thai dress and a Western man in a white jacket and pink Thai trousers among them, in front of a purple event banner
Visitors from Beram's football team with local hosts, together at night in an open-air Thai restaurant
Wud waving at an African penguin on a brick path by the sea, with mountains behind