Disclaimer: This blog was written a few weeks ago Leadership is probably one of the hardest things I have ever done, but it has been one of the more rewarding and growing things I have ever done.  Being here has put me right in my element and completely out of my element all at the same time.    All my life I have carried people’s burdens.  Before I knew what the Holy Spirit was and how it worked I was always one who worked off of people vibes and I would sometimes physically feel the way people were feeling emotionally.  People’s emotions always had a...

Disclaimer:  This Blog was wriiten several weeks ago.   There are so many times we feel alone in this world.  So often we can’t see or feel the presences of the Lord and his armies around us in our times of need, struggle, or even triumph.    We have been in Thailand for about four weeks now.  Closing in on the halfway point I have reflected on all that has been going on.  We have struggled with so many things here.  We have been attacked spiritually in ways as subtle as tiredness and apathy and as blatant as bring up our pasts again.  But...

So it’s been raining here nonstop- pretty much every day.  And the funny thing is, we’ve been praying for it.  We’ve been singing “Let it Rain” all over Bangla.  We desperately wanted a break from the heat and a visible representation of the purifying redemption of Jesus.  Which is awesome.  But now we feel like we’re drowning. So last night in intercession while that song was playing again, I started joking with Jesus (we do that sometimes) about how we really only want figurative rain.  And then He said to me: “It...

I have been sick for the last 8 days, and let me tell you, I’m sick of being sick. This entire week, I’ve had to sit here on my top bunk, sweat drenching my blankets, completely drugged on Dramamine and Tylenol PM and anything else that might give me some rest. A few days ago, I finally had enough of my hopeless day-dreaming of home and all the things I would do when I get there and what I would eat and how I would feel and who I would see. I finally decided being sick wouldn’t distract me from my purpose here. So, I listened to a podcast from Cornerstone in Simi...

As our journey has continued on we have come back to debrief every night with more and more stories of being able to talk into the bar girls about their self worth. This is both exciting and heart wrenching at the same time.   These girls see prostitution as their only way of providing for their families and themselves; and their parents force many of them into it. Some have been in the bars for the majority of their teenage and young adult life and have developed the idea that their beauty is based on whether or not they have a man with them at the bar. This realization hit me like a...

This week on Bangla has been incredible. Absolutely, ridiculously, incredible. Our team has gotten opportunities to pray for various people on Bangla, and my God has moved and healed! He’s answer prayers left and right, and I mean… specific prayers. We ask Him what to pray for, He gives us ideas, we pray, He answers. It’s ridiculous. I’ve been asking Him to heal ladyboys of their need for perfection, body image, and entertainment. These men have been raised up as women in order to make more money for their families. Their identity from the beginning has been to...