Howdy folks! I’m in Bangkok, Thailand getting ready to hop on a bus and head over to our ministry site for the month in a small town called Sai Yok. It’s in the rural Western region of Thailand close to the Burmese border. We don’t know a whole lot about our ministry but we have heard it has to do with evangelism and some form of goat herding.
This is “manistry” month for us, meaning all the men are going to be together serving in one place while the women mostly do sex trafficking ministries. Those just work out better when they’re all women so we’re happy to step aside and spend a month together. I’m hoping that we/I can learn more about what my relationship with God should look like as a man so I would really appreciate your prayers in that area. This will be very valuable to not have any female influence on how I’m growing because, let’s face it, a woman’s relationship with God is often very different than a man’s. Not always but in some areas it is. The women on our squad are incredibly strong and influential so this will be awesome to step into some fresh territory for me.
Also, I greatly need your prayers because I’ve stepped up as one of the four team leaders this month. One of the previous leaders wanted to take a break from all the responsibility for a month and I’ve been asked to fill in for him. I have no idea who will be on my team. We haven’t made them yet because we wanted to base them off of our ministry and we just don’t know enough about that to split the guys up yet but please just pray that God gives me more discernment and wisdom to lead the men on my team to a new level of faith this month!
I wish I could tell you all about where we just came from but I’m not supposed to. AIM has issues with us talking about closed countries we’ve been in, apparently, but I can say that we were at an orphanage for special needs children all month. It was really hard at times to not only see the social injustice but experience it. It was a very good month overall, though.
That’s about all I have in me right now. I woke up early to update you guys but I still have to pack up my stuff, too, so I need to get going. It’s only about a 5 hr bus ride over to Sai Yok so we’ll be there before lunch, I think. I say that now but who knows what’s actually going to happen. Cross country bus rides never go quite the way you think they will.
Love you guys and definitely fighting for you in prayer!
