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5 things I never thought about before leaving

June 23, 2012
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Adventure

1.the public bathrooms in a foreign country: can I flush the toilet paper? Will they provide toilet paper and soap? Answer: no. instead: some places have hoses to clean yourself with! Interesting experience… Or you use a squatty potty for a cleaner release lol or you just throw the tp away. needles to say, my first experience in a public bathroom scared the poop out of me (sorry, pun intended 🙂 ) 2.being a person of minority in a foreign country: we’re famous! We get honked at all the time. Especially when there’s an entire truck full of farong (foreigners). It’s...

Lanterns in the Sky

This ministry is hard. I know that should have been obvious coming into it, but man it really is HARD, and it’s hard in a way that my team couldn’t have prepared for even if we tried. Thursday, I asked the Lord to really let me see the brokenness on Bangla Road. Well, He delivered that’s for sure! As soon as we walked on to Bangla Road, my ministry team decided that we needed to pray a little more before we walked into a bar. As we were praying, we noticed a lantern in the sky, which just so happens to hold a beautiful promise to me: See, the first night we went to...

Delivered and Set Free

“In the day when I cried out, you answered me, and made me bold with strength in my soul.” Psalm 138:3 You know what is great about our God? HE FORGIVES!! It doesn’t matter what you have done, the Lord has already forgiven you. He knows what you wore your 3rd birthday, knows where you sat on the bus today, he knows what you were thinking about in 1st period lecture that wasn’t Biology, and he knows that you will end up living on Hartford Street in the brown house in the third one down even...

Oh, Thailand

June 22, 2012
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General Posts

First off, I know that I said I would blog once a week and I failed at that horribly. Sorry. But I just feel I should write one now. 🙂 I just haven’t found a way to write what I have been feeling, I could tell you about the heat (sweating by the gallons), or how interesting the food is here, or how the people at the tea stand down the street are absolutely amazing and some of the most generous people I have met. But I really want to tell you about the ministry I am doing. Let me just start off by saying, never in my life did I think I would be able...

Heart Hurt

June 22, 2012
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Reflections

I don’t know how to write this blog. I’ve been processing all day, and I still don’t know how to put into words what I saw and felt last night. We’ve been out in the bars several times already, at least 4, but the reality of what I was seeing didn’t really hit me until last night. Coming on this trip I begged God to show me just a little glimpse of His heart and His pain, and I repeated that prayer before we went out. That’s a dangerous stinking prayer. It only took a few minutes for us to sense that something was different on Bangla...

Spirit On the Mount

God speaks to me through nature. Since I have known Him, it has always been that way. One of the things that has been really difficult for me to grasp since being here is to look around at all of the BEAUTIFUL scenery and try to understand how all of these people can go on, not knowing who God is. On Tuesday, we got to pray over one of the shrines, here are some pictures of the nature surrounding this shrine. On the left is on our way to the shrine, on the right is what the shrine overlooks. To be Thai is to be Buddhist. That is a saying that is pretty common here. I knew that...

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