God continues to amaze me and teach me every single day that I am here. Sometimes He teaches me through His word, sometimes through the Holy Spirit, and sometimes through other people. I never once thought that He would teach me through a Thai woman in the back of a tuk tuk.                         Today my ministry team and I were supposed to have two dates with different girls in Patong. Unfortunately both dates fell through due to...

We are officially in the stretch of our last two weeks which brings me to a whole range of different emotions. First off I feel incredibly anxious to go home. The time is growing shorter here and I am like okay, time to pack up and go. Truly feeling that sense of “Alberta Bound;” needing me some Canadian. But in addition to this I am feeling the sadness that will come in leaving too. I don’t want to leave the fresh tropical fruit (mango, guava mmm), my beautiful sisters/teammates, or the sun (which has been hiding behind the rain for a while now, sad face). Lastly, I have...

 Several weeks ago my bar ministry team went on our first date with a bar girl. It was wonderful. By some miracle (and that miracle's name is Jesus), we found the place we were supposed to meet her. Seriously, it was a miracle because I'm still not quite sure how it happened. Once we arrived, we waited for a while and I prayed (really prayed, not just a figure of speech) that she would come.  Several of our team members had had trouble with dates not showing up. Once about fifteen minutes passed by, I called her. She answered and said that she was on a moto taxi (a moto is...

This is from last week- I've been trying to process everything, so I'm sorry it's been delayed! I’ve tried to type this out like 14 times and I’m not sure how to contain the awesomeness without screaming, so I’m gonna use bullet points and lots of exclamation points!!!! Crazy freaking awesome things happened on Bangla tonight! While dropping off English flyers to some of our friends I ran into my precious street vendor friend.  We have this routine where I ask her how she is, she misunderstands and tells me that she’s 67, I tell her that...

You know that moment when Jesus is like, "Tell them i love them."? And he says it over and over and he gives you that perfect moment to share who he is and how he loves. Yeah well there was no doubt in my mind i was supposed to tell Bea* that Jesus loves him. Bea* is a lady boy that we met the week before and we had come back to visit him. We talked about what we had done during the weekend and then BOOM. We had talked about church and Jesus before but this time he basically shared his life with us. He shared with us the persecution he had faced and harsh words spoken to...

I think there is a misconception of the character of God in our society.  He has been turned into this judgmental and untouchable power that still somehow lets evil invade our lives.  He fits perfectly into a little box of rules and regulations.  But for me, here in this place, nothing could be further from the truth.  My God is creative and compassionate.  My King is just and faithful.  My Father in heaven has my heart not because of anything I have done, but by His loving grace alone.  My Savior is alive.  He cannot be contained to a box.  He...