PDA leader heads for Myanmar

Simon Park in Thailand seeking visa

by Jerry Van Marter
Presbyterian News Service

LOUISVILLE — Presbyterian Disaster Assistance (PDA) head Simon Park is traveling to Bangkok, Thailand, to meet with other international relief agency officials and hopefully to obtain a visa to visit relief workers in cyclone-stricken Myanmar.

According to Insik Kim, the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)’s area coordinator for Asia/Pacific, Park will meet with representatives of the Christian Conference of Asia and the Church of Christ in Thailand as well as other relief agency officials to update the situation in Myanmar.

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