Church in Saigon, Vietnam

Church in Saigon, Vietnam

I started going to a church in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, Asia, in around April or so 2013 when I was 28 years old. I help them at their English club as well. It consists of some young adults during the English Club.

2013
28 years old
Saigon, Vietnam, Asia
Joey Arnold

Children Ministry Team

After high school, my missionary friends flew me to New York for camp and college. I arrived in New York in June 2004.

In September, during the first days of college at the Word Of Life Bible Institute, I auditioned for the Drama Team, but was rejected, but director John "Giddy" Brown, of the Children Ministry Team (CMT) saw me and welcomed me into his team.

I was able to join forces with another guy with glasses, as we were Flatman & Bobbin, which is a puppet-show parody of Batman & Robin. Our team was able to faciliate and run children events with songs, activities, games, puppet shows, drama skits, food, music, lessons, and other such things, at schools, churches, fields, buildings, in the different states in and around the state of New York USA, which includes New York, Connecticut, New Jersey, PA, and others.

I was on this team from September 2004 until August 2006.

Kim Possible

At the house of the Sprietler family, I first glimpsed the cartoon TV show on Disney that is called Kim Possible in the year of 2002.

Kelly Clarson won the first American Idol that summer of 2002.

I became friends with my church friends Joe, Alicia, Bethany, father Joe, and the mother, Sprietler, who lived outside of Forest Grove, Oregon USA.

They went to the church True Hope Fellowship in Forest Grove, Oregon USA, which my mother attended from around the years of 2000 until 2007 or so. Prior to that, my mother was mainly attending the Cornelius Community Baptist Church in Cornelius, Oregon USA from around the years of 1983 or so until around the years of 2000 or so.

The youth group at True Hope was called Stand, or 180, I think.

I inspired the guitar playing youth pastor of this group, who ended up going to another church a few years or so after 2002. The Sprietlers must have followed him to this new church, or they disappeared to say the least  and I have not seem them in years.

Travel The World

I have wanted to travel the world since I was eight years old in the year 1993. Around this time, I started drawing maps of the world, which I copy from a map on our Living Room wall.

Around this time, I had an annual State-Required Test which evaluates and considers the validity of my progress in Home School. I drew a map of the world during my all-day test in 1993.

That year, I drew pictures of me on a wheeled platform that is sailed by balloons which soar to the sky and attached by string as inspired from the balloons seen at car-dealerships like the Ford and Chevrolet near our neighborhood.

The balloons would entice people to come see me from far and near.

The wheels would allow me to travel the world.

Go to where the people are.

The platform is for sharing good news with others.

Sinking In Seattle

I remember being in the back seat of a blue or white 1980's car when I was three years old in the year 1988, I believe, as we rolled from Forest Grove, Oregon, to Seattle, Washington, USA.

This car was full and I remember seeing a bunch of bridges, as in over-passes, highways, and ramps, since all of these things were new to me. The car was full with around 5 larger people and me, my brother, and possibly my older sister, since my younger sister (and last remaining sibling) was not born yet until 2 years after that in 1990.

There was a piano in a big room with curtains.

There was another room with many stairs which were also like seats as found at college classrooms.

There was a large pool that they placed me in, that I would have drown in if they felt like letting go of me as they tried zapping me into Kermit the Frog.

1988

Seattle, Washington, United States

By Joey Arnold, the Original Oatmeal

Travel