Eighty percent of the over 260,000 people of Surin province are Northern Khmer by ethnicity and nearly 100 percent Buddhist by religion. The people are very friendly and seemingly open to the Gospel. They love to visit and have fun, and they value one’s ability to control his/her emotions and say “no problem” in the face of problems and stresses. Along with a major drug and alcohol problem, AIDS is also spreading among them and producing an increasing orphan population. A large casino sits on the Cambodian border some 40 miles away, and severe poverty hovers close by as well as in other outlying areas of Surin.