Hello Family and Friends! This is just a brief update to let you know that we all have made it safely to Thailand! You should will be hearing from them soon. We are all pretty exhausted from 20 hours of flights + a 9 hour bus ride, so give them a little grace and patience! We will have a day to rest then begin a few days cultural briefing and ministry training with our host Emmi, here at Lighthouse in Action. We couldn’t be more excited. We’ve been together for less than a week, but it is undeniably evident that the Lord has anointed this team for great things. Thanks for sharing...

Kap-un-ka: or in English; thank you. I have found myself saying thank you over and over on this trip and I have had a lot to be thankful for. I am blessed to have had the opportunity to spend the past three months loving on the Thai people and growing close to the girls on my team. To say that my time here was good would be an understatement. I have been stretched in many ways. I have learned many new things about the Thai culture and about life in general. I now know what Taro tea is and I know firsthand what “songkran” is all about. I worked in a café for the first time...

Make a list and check it twice! This is not just for Christmas; it is for every day of my life. To do lists and accomplishing goals give me a direction and a sense of purpose for each day. I grew up writing every school assignment down in my assignment notebook and crossing it off my list when I had completed it. As I started to take on more responsibilities in college through work, volunteering, my participation in organizations, and my classes every meeting, deadline, and thing I wanted to accomplish was written down. This system kept me organized and on task so I could use my time to be as...

Hollow eyes stared back at us as we continued our prayer walk down the Red Light District. It was a young Thai woman, straddling the back of a white man’s motorbike. Her light sweater was pulled loosely around her shoulders as she continued looking at me. Her eyes spoke volumes she would never voice. Pain…anger…fear…shame; all of that wrapped below the surface of a nice smile. Those unspoken words haunted me the rest of the day. How could any man buy a woman for pleasure? How could any woman be enslaved not only physically and sexually but also by their own shame?...

As I walked up and down the streets of the red light district of Chiang Mai I prayed for the girls that work day after day selling themselves to foreigners that go there for the prominent sex tourism. I see young Thai girls walking with older white males, I see bars that advertise women as a product, and I feel the emptiness of the lifestyle of these women. As I pray, I sometimes get songs that come to mind and I believe that God places songs on my heart as a way of speaking to me especially while prayer walking areas with a lot of prostitution. Today the song “A Thousand Years”...

Airports are cool, and I have seen quite a few of them this past year. Getting on a full airplane to a faraway place makes me wonder what the other people are up to that are on the same plane as I am. What are their plans? Are they going on vacation? Are they going somewhere for work? Are they going to visit family? Sometimes I get to talk to people at airports or on airplanes and ask them what they are doing and where they are going and it is always so interesting to hear their stories. I was charging my phone in the middle of the atrium at the Atlanta airport like a sitting duck with people...