Adventures – Page 50

Big Buddha and Spiritual Graves

I serve a living God. So many of us have heard that our entire lives, but for me it hasn’t been until now that I’ve begun to unlock the true meaning of the statement. Yesterday our team went to the temple of the Big Buddha in Phuket. During the time that we all took pictures and soaked up the scenery, I just couldn’t shake the thought that I serve a living God. I don’t have to go bow at a statue for God to hear me, I don’t have to go to a temple with my shoulders and knees covered to hear the voice of my God. Last night as I read one of my...

Lessons from a Lamppost

Each week we do different chores around the house. This week a couple of girls and I had the task of scraping paint off of these lamp posts that will eventually end up at the land (the addition of SHE that will be done in about 6 months). Right now however, the job is to scrape the paint off, sand the posts down, and then finally repaint them. This is not a quick job. We’re talking a few hours wasn’t enough to finish just getting the paint off of one of them. Well, Monday afternoon we had been at it for a few hours and there was so much work ahead of us still. There were points...

just you wait.

Well, the other night (last Thursday) just wasn’t what I would call “good.” I’ll just say it straight up without my usual metaphors or analogies. It was awful. My group went out for ministry. We walked all the way down Bangla just looking around and trying to get a feel for the night. Some nights here are more crazy than others. Some nights, there are a lot of middle-aged men; other nights there are a lot of teenagers and a lot of families. That night, it was all of the above. There isn’t really any way to explain the evening in words, which is...

Faithful to the End

Another week of ministry has passed, and I’ve experienced a whole heck of a lot this week. There’s been excitement and laughter. Passion for ministry and these women. Heartbreak over the things I’ve seen. Disappointment when a girl we’ve connected with backed out of hanging out with us. Exhaustion from hoeing dirt at the worksite. Amazing times of worship and intercession with the team. Rescuing my teammates from a dead cockroach and getting creeped out by the chirping of geckos in the bathroom. Missing home and people I love there. I think the overarching theme of...

day to day.

Hello from Thailand! I just want to give everyone an idea of what our team does on a regular basis so you can be in prayer for us. We are a team of 25, and we’re split into two groups for ministry. Basically, team 1 goes out to Koh Sirey in the afternoon to do manual labor for about 3 hours. SHE, the organization we are working with, is building an entirely new facility. It consists of a few houses for YWAM students and other students participating in helping on Bangla. There will be a pool, a coffee house, and a daycare as well. All of this is expected to be done in the next...

A Journey of Unlearning

This has been a season of unlearning a lot of different types of things I already believed to be true or expected to be true. For example, sharing a room with thirteen other girls is a lot more fun then it might sound. Cold showers are a welcomed thought after a long day either working on the land or cleaning and mopping and sweeping. Getting stared at all the time kind of makes me feel like a rockstar. And, believe it or not, it’s not as scary as I thought to live somewhere where I don’t speak the language. (To date, the only words I can remember in Thai are...

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