Adventures – Page 11

I see you

March 17, 2014
Adventures
PASSPORTTHAILAND

To the toddler that runs around the bars playing with last night’s garbage like toys. Your mother is a prostitute. It is not your fault. You spend your days in the arms of your mother’s friends who are prostitutes while your mom is working at the bar. I see you. To the working girl who is all dressed up with your hair and makeup done. You are playing a game of pool with another customer. You smile and laugh at the customer’s jokes; you flirt and act like you are having the time of your life. You put on an act and leave the bar holding the hand of that man who will...

Temple Aftermath

March 16, 2014
Adventures
General Posts

My team and I just got back from a week in a Thai village, Mae-Ai, about 3 hours north of Chiang Mai. It was an interesting week to say the least; my first adventure with squatty potties and bucket showers. We worked in the rice fields, played with kids and hung out and talked to locals. During our first few days in the village there was a Buddhist festival in the nearby temple. To be honest, I'm not sure what they were celebrating. They paraded down the streets at night with a man-made bull statue and flashing lights on their trucks, all completely drunk. They offered beer to anyone...

Let it go

Worry, anxiety, and fear are emotions that no one enjoys experiencing. When these feelings start consuming your thoughts, keeping you up at night, and distracting you from life happening around you something needs to change. God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind. 2 Timothy 1:7 I have been praying every day that God takes the burdens from me that have been weighing on my heart. As I was praying again about the same things on the three hour journey to the village God spoke to me and said, “I hear you, I have everything in my hands but you...

Do something

February 26, 2014
Adventures
PASSPORTTHAILAND

I am reading a book called Terrify No More it is about an organization that does a lot of work in Southeast Asia to free people from modern day slavery. This includes men and women who are trapped in work camps working to pay off a debt that will never go away, children who work in unimaginable conditions rolling cigarettes, and girls who are tricked or coerced into working in brothels. The challenge the people in this organization are up against seems to be too hard with too many obstacles, yet they press on to work for freedom and to bring justice to the many that have no hope. One...

Taking Down the Tinsel

February 25, 2014
Adventures
Spiritual Journey

Every day a small group of our team members travels to the red light district to prayer walk and talk to the people that we have started to form relationships with in the bars. We have some good relationships with a few of the workers at a lady boy bar that we visit almost every day. Last week we walked by and noticed that they were setting up new decorations, tinsel and streamers, all over the bar. Our leader, Kelli, questioned one of the workers about why new decorations were being put up. They said it was just for a change of scenery. They then asked, “It...

Do what you know. Do you know what you know?

February 24, 2014
Adventures
PASSPORTTHAILAND

There are times in our lives that we don’t have a step-by-step tutorial on what we’re supposed to do next. Most of our life is like that, we’re not sure which move to make or how to make the right choice. The pressure to make the right move is almost unbearable. What if you make the wrong decision? What if you totally blow it? Will the people around me be disappointed? Will my parents be disappointed? What if I really blow it and disappoint God? These are real questions that go through our minds daily. Fear of failure is a powerful and destructive motivator. Actually, my...

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