Adventures – Page 44

On the road again.

August 22, 2012
Adventures
Adventure

If I could sum up the past three weeks in one word it would be change. Coming home is never easy and this time proved to show the most change, in me and in those around me. Because I knew I'd only be home for three weeks, I didn't really settle in. Being home consisted of resting, seeing friends/family and support raising. God is always faithful and allowed me to raise all the money needed for this trip and see most of the people I wanted to spend time with. At this point, I'm ready to go. I'm happy I get to spend time with friends in GA and...

Same Same But (a LOT) Different

How do we go back home and be the same person we were? That’s the question that has been on everybody’s mind since we started our ministry here in Phuket. The answer is a simple one, but it is far from easy. The truth is we can’t. There is no possible way you can see the things we have been seeing for the past two months and not be changed by it. Going into this trip, part of me knew that I wasn’t going to be the same person when I went home. I think that’s part of what made me so hesitant in the weeks right before this trip. Not that change is a bad thing, (in...

Kicking off the the training wheels….

Kicking off the training wheels and moving into your big kid bike…this is a exciting experience for every little kid right? I mean it means that you aren’t a little kid anymore and you are becoming a big kid! That’s always a great day…but can also be a terrifying one. That’s where this kid is at the moment. My daddy has shown me the big kid bike and I’ve watched him take off the training wheels and I see the hill in my driveway that looks like a mountain as I am sitting on top of it on my big kid two wheeler...

Just You Wait

Tomorrow night is the last night I will walk down Bangla road and watch, with my own eyes, the love of God pour over that place. I'm not sure how i feel or what to think. Before I started this Journey it didn't occur to me that I might become friends with some of the girls i would meet. It didn't occur to me that I might fall in love with these people. I never thought they would become my sisters. It never crossed my mind that even thinking about leaving this place would literally break my heart. But when the Father touches a place, he freakin' blows it up...

Rest in the Darkness

Disclaimer: This blog was written a few weeks ago Leadership is probably one of the hardest things I have ever done, but it has been one of the more rewarding and growing things I have ever done. Being here has put me right in my element and completely out of my element all at the same time. All my life I have carried people’s burdens. Before I knew what the Holy Spirit was and how it worked I was always one who worked off of people vibes and I would sometimes physically feel the way people were feeling emotionally. People’s emotions always had a...

Quiet Words and Constant Faithfulness

July 21, 2012
Adventures
Reflections

It's totally surreal, as mostly everything attached to this trip has been. Getting here, living here, loving here, and now leaving here–all challenges in different ways. Yet the Lord has proved his faithfulness each time. As my ministry team and I prepared to walk off Bangla Road for the last time, we decided to pray over it. On our last way down, I felt led to speak Jesus' name quietly over the street and the people so I did. Jesus, Jesus, Jesus. There is such power in his name. It unnerves and disrupts the heaviest pockets of darkness. It changes the...

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