Adventures – Page 49

Unseen Victories

July 1, 2012
Adventures
Reflections

At training camp, many different leaders encouraged our team to seek out the small victories in the day to day. The little things are going to be a big deal, they said. This is a hard ministry. In the time you are there, you don't always get to see much fruit. That doesn't mean that things are changing or that God isn't moving. He is. It just takes time. Well, I am finding they were right. As much as I want every bar girl I spend time with to immediately realize and believe in their worth and leave their job right away, that's not how it...

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...

Hold my purse, God’s calling.

If you know anything about me, you know I'm not too big on going outside my comfort zone. So naturally, the other night God basically shoved me out of what was comfortable and into one of the coolest experiences of my life. It was Thursday night and we were coming to an end as my team headed into our last bar for the night. We sat down and my teammates started talking to a bar girl right away. I was off to the side just looking around the bar when my eyes landed on a middle age white man sitting alone at the bar. Between looking at the...

I need you for the ups and downs

Each night when you set foot on Bangla Road you really don’t know what to expect…. when you combine adults, alcohol, immorality and lots of broken hearts you can imagine how much chaos can and does ensue. We have been here for a few weeks and we have seen the rollercoaster that you can walk into. Last thursday we hit the plummet of the roller coaster. We hit walls where we had seen open doors so far. We were completely ignored by girls that had normally beckoned and...

Fires are Starting

Monday: Jesus is real. Fo’ serious. Okay… so crazy things happened tonight on Bangla. I will try to summarize. So, I’ve been struggling with feeling led to any of the bars or any conversations… like, “hello God, I came and You promised that You’d lead me… what’s up? BUT tonight two beautiful women of Jesus on my team came and spoke over me, telling me that God was directing my steps tonight, that His grace would follow, and that I already knew where I should go. Uh…… awesome. So, in the middle of...

God works through the sweat, the mud and even the snails

It wouldn’t be a mission trip if you didn’t get your hands dirty, right? Well I think some of us might have forgotten that a little bit. We came on this trip thinking we would be going out during the night to make relationships with bar girls and then teaching English and baking cookies during the day…boy were we wrong. Being the type of girl that I am and the way that I was raised I have no problem getting my hands dirty while I am doing some hard...

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