Author: Adventures

The Battle Raging on Bangla

As our journey has continued on we have come back to debrief every night with more and more stories of being able to talk into the bar girls about their self worth. This is both exciting and heart wrenching at the same time.   These girls see prostitution as their only way of providing for their families and themselves; and their parents force many of them into it. Some have been in the bars for the majority of their teenage and young adult life and have developed the idea that their beauty is based on whether or not they have a man with them at the bar. This realization hit me like a...

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Love in the Midst of Being Degraded

When I first signed up for this trip I was SO angry at men who could buy a girl for their own satisfaction. How could you ever be so messed up that you could ever believe that it was okay to degrade a girl in such a way?!  How could you ever treat a human being as a commodity bought for your own enjoyment?! But I knew this anger would greatly affect my ministry in such a negative way and I had to do something about it. So I started to pray. I prayed daily that he would let me see these men from His eyes, not my own. Let me see them as His creation also. And He did. I arrived on Bangla...

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Expectations

When we were at training camp, we were told to let go of all of our expectations. Honestly, I’m not really sure what my expectations were coming into Thailand. But I can tell you that there are a lot of things I didn’t expect. I really didn’t think I would miss my family as much as I do. I’ve been away from home for longer periods than this before, and there’s always Skype. Somehow being in another country makes it seem a little harder though. The Lord has definitely given me a new appreciation for the people He has placed in my life back home and I realize how...

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A Love that Overflows!

“But he said, ‘What is impossible with men is possible with God.’” Luke 18:27   As I lay awake last night, really frustrated that I had drank coffee too late, I started dreaming with God. 🙂 I then became thankful for the coffee, because now it was just Jesus and I.   I started dreaming with God. Dreaming of what he is going to do on Bangla while we are here, and after we leave. We will leave God’s fragrance. The road won’t be as dark, because we are there. People will of seen God’s love through our eyes.   God has his plan for...

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Spiderman 3D

God reveals himself and His will during the most unexpected times… One thing He’s been teaching me is to accept my femininity and to find strength in the femininity. He’s also already revealed that I’m called back to America and will have a family, but I didn’t want to accept it because it wasn’t part of my plan. I was going to be a missionary in a far off country for awhile alone and happy. Maybe married if God blessed me in that way, but no family. I’ve seen what havoc they can wreak. WELL, I went to see Spiderman today in the theater! Woohoo! I...

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Leap of faith

For the longest time I’ve always wanted to go bungee jumping. To be able to face that fear of falling and jump. The thought of it always made me so excited. And now I can say I’ve finally gone. But I didn’t think it would have such symbolism in my life as it has. Almost all my life I’ve struggled with abandonment.  I needed a plan. I needed control. And I held onto far too many things. Abandoning myself would mean letting go of those things and that’s not something I was willing to do. No matter how many times God kept telling me to just trust Him fully...

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