Author: Adventures

Doing Life Together

Community looks different everywhere you go.  Sometimes community is hard but community is beneficial to everyone involved.  When we live out community the way that Jesus asks us to, we are stretched, grown, and educated.     Paul tells us in Ephesians 4:25 “Therefore each of you must put off falsehood and speak truthfully to his neighbor, for we are all members of one body.”       In the community that we have formed here in Thailand, I have already been stretched.  The Lord has called me into another season of leadership this...

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Spirit of the Living God

I couldn't have picked a more beautiful place to spend the next 2 months, Phuket scenery is absolutely breathtaking and the people are just as beautiful.  My team is staying at a house with a couple other missionary groups, there are 72 people in our house… I love it. I love how busy it is, I love everyones passion, I love the craziness… kinda reminds me of home. The past week our team has been doing a lot of preparation for starting bar ministry next week, preparing our hearts for what we're going to see and just encouraging each other in our identities in...

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Flying with My Brother

I had the middle seat. Sandwiched between two complete strangers on a 14 hour flight to Tokyo is not my idea of a good time. But, it was cool. I figured I would make friends with the small Japanese man on my right and the guy to my left.   I took it upon myself to clear the air early on in the flight, I did this by offering up my assortment of sinus medication and some raisinettes. The raisinettes proved to be a successful catalyst for conversation, and I soon found out that the Japanese man could speak very little english and the guy to my left (Eric) was going on...

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Battle Wounds

I fought with the ocean and lost. It is true for 10 of us who after a day of doing some construction work for SHE got to go to the beach for the first time. It is incredibly beautiful, secluded, and calm with islands in the distance. All sweaty from a hard days work, I sprinted to the water excited to cool off. Luckily some other people got to the water before me otherwise I might not have a foot due to the razor sharp rocks of death. I of course didn’t have shoes I could wear in the water so it took me approximately 15 min to get up to my neck. In between I tried everything to avoid...

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Battle Wounds

I fought with the ocean and lost. It is true for 10 of us who after a day of doing some construction work for SHE got to go to the beach for the first time since arriving. It is incredibly beautiful, secluded, and calm with islands in the distance. All sweaty from a hard days work, I sprinted to the water excited to cool off. Luckily some other people got to the water before me otherwise I might not have a foot due to the razor sharp rocks of death. I of course didn’t have shoes I could wear in the water so it took me approximately 15 min to get up to my neck. In between I tried...

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Holding on to hope

(from a few days ago in my journal) Today we walked Bangla Road (where we will be doing our night ministry) for the first time and it was so heavy, even during the day. There are literally HUNDREDS of bar, which means that during peak season there are around 1200 girls working every night. Girls at risk of being purchased and taken advantage of. As we walked down the main road and saw the alleys branching off that were filled with what seemed like an endless amount of bars I felt this weight…this feeling that I will never be able to have any sort of impact because I am too small,...

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