Eucharisteo. It’s tattooed on my wrist, but I’m only now beginning to realize what it really means. The word comes from the Greek. It’s the word that Christ spoke as He broke the bread at the last supper. He gave thanks. This word doesn’t just mean to give thanks for everything all together, but to give thanks for each individual thing we are thankful for. Through our gratitude, the Lord bestows “charis” and “chara” meaning grace and joy. Eucharisteo is the glue for my soul. It’s all that’s holding me upright through this...

This week we started our ministry in the bars here in Phuket. We traveled about 20 minutes to a part of Phuket known as Patong where we do the majority of our ministry. This is where you will find Bangla Road. Bangla Road is lined with hundreds bars where over 1,500 girls work in the sex industry. There are girls serving drinks, dancing on the bars, playing games with customers, there are people selling anything and everything and they all have one thing in common. THEY ARE BROKEN. As you walk down the street if you look up you will see glass boxes with girls inside dancing. There...

Leviticus 19:28 {Do not degrade your daughter by making her a prostitute or the land will turn to prostitution and be filled with wickedness.} Thailand is abounding in the wickedness that God is warning people about in the verse above. The enemy has so greatly made himself a foothold and filled this land with a dark spiritual warfare.  After leaving the mall today a couple teammates and I became slightly disorientated in our search for our bus “home.” We asked this one man we saw where we needed to go to be at a spot in which the bus would pass and he pointed us down this...

            Sorry about the delay in the blogs, in the business of getting into the routine of life something things are just forgotten and blogging is one of them. My team has gone out twice so far this week and will be going out tonight. Every night there have been battles and victories and we have been able to see how God is working through all of them.               One such victory is a woman named La. We walked into the bar where she works on Monday night and she was...

  Before this trip, I couldn't really tell you that I ever got clear messages from God. Sure, he definitely had a hand in confirming this trip for me but I was still always filled with uncertainty. I went off feelings more than concrete knowledge. One night at training camp they told us we had to do listening prayer. I was like crap, I don't really hear from God. I was filled with doubt and worry. I decided to give it a try anyway and really open up my mind. When I did that night all I saw was this green dinosaur. I told my teammates and we kinda joked about it. I still...

So today was the first time we went out on our own into the bars. Boy, is God craycray. He works miracles in His own way. So we went to the first bar and i had a wonderful conversation with a lady there. She was absolutely adorable. It came up in conversation about whether she met many nice men, and the hurt and pain her eyes revealed when she said no was absolutely heartbreaking. My heart ached for her. Then a couple came up and the look in the man’s eyes when a woman was getting up onto the bar to dance was sickening. I left the bar with a broken attitude and pain instead of joy in...