What does a typical day in the life of a minissionary at SHE look like?
Mornings may or may not include run with Charlotte, walks to get iced coffee with Kerri or women's fellowship.
our local fruit market
By lunchtime, all thirty of us are (usually) awake).
KK, Tabi and Lauren ready to rock
During the afternoons, half of us do construction on a what will be the new head quarters…
Emily, Vinny, KK, Lauren and Kelly taking a break at the new HQ
while the rest of us help around the office, in the kitchen, or prayer walk the bar district.
Annie and Faith making mosaics for the new sidewalks
meet Sumo, the local office baby 🙂
Dinners are early, followed by showers or team time or the occasional (dreaded) blog.
At 8, we all gather for worship, then half the group hits up Bangla Road while the other half stays back and intercedes.
Around midnight, we all come back together for the nightly debrief, inevitably followed by a quick walk down to the street corner to get some $1.50 pad thai.
On the weekends, we take some time to recharge.
Lindsey taking in the Phucket view
This is it. It's real life. It's crazy and surreal and has its moments of adrenaline and fatigue, days that run together and days that never end. It's different and normal and it. just. is.
We're World Racers. We're real people. We laugh and cry, we get excited and tired. We get along and we fight and we pray and we mess up.
We only have three more months of language barriers and team times, or fighting for internet and laundry, of living out of a backpack and never knowing what the next month (or week or even day) will hold.
This life we live, though, doesn't end with the Race. Just because we;re doing ministry here doesn't mean it ends when we go home.
Quite the opposite, in fact: come December is when our real ministry begins.
Look out, Satan.
The light's coming and we're never backing down.
