Just about a week ago I arrived in Thailand with my
squad. We are on our new teams now. I have Logan and Tyler T. from my previous
team and I will be working with for the first time Jennifer Miele, Anna
Matthews, and Chad Riley. I am excited
to see what God has in store in and through this team. When teams were announced I felt the Lord
calling this team Lion of Judah. So as a
team we tried to come up with a name.
After a little prayer and talk we decided to call ourselves “Roar”. (don’t be quick to laugh, well ok you can
cause I did) We decided we were going
to be a powerful team for the kingdom.
We discussed how a lion’s roar is an expression of their power, and they
roar out of the security of their identity.
At this point in our walk with Jesus our power and authority has become
expression of our identity in Him.
Roar Girls at James Bond Island being goofy. The 1974 Bond film The Man with the Golden Gun, was filmed here. It was a good day to see the beauty of Thailand.
When we
arrived I was told I would be working in Bangkok with women in the sex
trade. The women and I on my team were
to be working with “the Well” while the men were going to be doing what is
called “manistry” up in Chang Mai. The day we were to head to our ministry site
we found out plans had changed and we would be taking a 13 hour bus ride south
to Phuket. All of us girls were pretty
sad and upset and didn’t understand the
reason for the change. As of now we
still don’t really know why plans fell through.
We as a team have had to process and accept that God had a different
plan for us here in Thailand.
In
Phuket we are working with a missionary couple teaching English to kids, street
clean up, and hope still to get a chance to go to a red light district. We are
actually in one of the hardest hit areas of the Tsunami of 2004. We may be doing construction at some
point.
So I
have already begun learning a big lesson in Thailand. I think I am learning that I do all my work
onto the Lord. Whether God calls me to
the Red light district or cleaning the streets I do all things for His glory. I am learning to do all things with joy. I am learning to walk through disappointment
and still stand firmly in the knowledge that God is good. The sex trade is still a burden for my heart
but my desire above all is to go where the Lord leads me and do to whatever
that is with joy.
