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Oh, Thailand

June 22, 2012
Adventures
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...

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...

Thailand, or the Mulan Soundtrack?

You’re the saddest bunch I ever met But you can bet Before we're through Mister, I'll make a man out of you So being here in Thailand it has felt like we are living this exact theme. We came to training camp these weak individuals not at all ready for the battle that lay before us. I am sure that God was thinking that exact first verse at times—that we were in fact just sad, it was sad that we could think we were ready for this. But he promised that he would not send us into the heat of the battle unprepared—he promised that essentially he would...

Heart Hurt

June 22, 2012
Adventures
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...

Who Knew….?

June 22, 2012
Adventures
General Posts

Who knew that digging and hoeing at a clay mountain in the heat of Thailand, with wonderful teammates would bring so much joy and laughter to my heart? Who knew that people I have only know for a few weeks, would encourage me and pour into me more than some people I have known for years have? Who knew I would begin making long-lasting relationships with so many wonderful women of God in such a short amount of time? Who knew how much, slushies, ice cream, French fries, and toasted bread with sugar and butter would comfort me here in Thailand? Who knew the very interesting things I would be...

Wrecked

I've never been more physically, emotionally and spiritually exhausted, but I've also never been more in love with MY Prince. I've never been more in love with the thought of dancing with Him for an eternity. What an amazing illustration of His divine love for each of His princesses. And what an amazing thought to know that He loves each of the bar girls that I witness to at night JUST as much. But His heart is broken for them, He longs to hold them, nurture them, breathe life into them. They are bound by the spiritual chains that satan has locked them into. The...

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