I live here, and I take these.
I’m Patinya S.. I live in Bangkok and do ministry work here.
From time to time, I’ve taken photographs of the city — the temples, the river, Chinatown, and all the ordinary moments in between.
Eventually, I started thinking about the people who pray for us and check in on us from eight thousand miles away. What I wanted to send them wasn’t another email or message. It was something tangible: a card, with a real photograph from my point of view on the front, arriving in their mailbox.
I’m not a professional photographer, but these are moments I’ve enjoyed seeing and capturing, and I’d like to share them with you. Maybe you’ll find something in them that you’d enjoy sending to someone you care about.
What buying one actually does
This is a purchase, not a donation. You are buying a printed postcard and the stamp on it. Nothing here is tax-deductible and nothing is being collected on anyone’s behalf. What’s left after printing and postage helps keep me here doing the work — that’s the whole arrangement, and I’d rather say it in one sentence than dress it up.
How it’s made
You pick a photograph and write the message. It’s printed on card — your photograph edge to edge on the front, your words on the back — then stamped and put into the US mail. We post to US addresses at the moment.
I read every card before it prints. Not to judge your handwriting; because my name is on the front of this and I’d like to know what goes out under it. It means there’s a short wait before yours is posted, and it means I won’t promise you a delivery date I can’t keep.
And because it is a postcard: there is no envelope. Whatever you write is visible to everyone who handles it between here and there. Worth knowing before you start.
The verse, if you want one
You can have a Bible verse printed underneath your message. You choose the reference and the words come from the translation, so nothing is typed in by hand and nothing gets misquoted on your behalf. Leave it off and nothing is printed — it’s a card, not a tract.
The photographs
All of them are mine. None of them are stock, none are AI, and none have been bought from anyone.