Thank you Vanessa for the wonderful pictures of some of our work in Thailand:) Just a little snapshot of what we are doing this month.Welcome
to Chaing Rei Thailand. Yes we are in Thailand again. This is our ATL (Ask the Lord) month. We were supposed to go to Indonesia for our month but the cost of getting there went sky high, so needless to say God sent us here. I came here hearing we were going to be a part of a tribe living in a village. I didn’t know what that would look like. Well needless to say when we arrived here I was blown away by God’s creation yet again. We are surrounded by beautiful mountains, a river right down the road from our hoouse, a giant python across the road, and yes elephants roaming around and just down the road from us is an elephant farm. How cool is that? We are even going to ride an elephant this week for fun. We are staying at a great house that reminds me of Swiss family Robinson home. So very cool.So that being said, what is God teaching me this month already? He is telling me to REST in him. What does that mean exactly I wondered. Well I don’t have all the answers to that question, but I believe he is telling me to just rest in his love, his grace and overflowing joy. I came into this month thinking that I would figure out all my plans for after the race. I would get it all figured out and feel peace. Oops there is that darn control again. It keeps creeping back on me. I felt that I needed some control by knowing what my future holds. Well I was wrong again. I was told that maybe I need to just go deeper with God for this month and let him speak to me when it’s time. I don’t need to figure it out because God already knows. This doesn’t mean that I am not going to try my hardest to get a job and pursue my dreams. BUT it may mean that I won’t know what that looks like till I walk in the door after the race. Am I OK with this? Not yet, I still feel unsettled and anxious in many ways. Yet I know that God didn’t just put me on this 11 month journey and at the end he says “Ok thanks for doing this and now you are on your own, have fun” Heck no, our God is bigger than that and he will take us to the very end of our journey.
I am learning to let go of more control, rest in God and be OK with the fact that sometimes we just don’t know. I ask that you continue to pray for me as I go through this process of trusting God more and walking in faith. I really want to pour into these people this month.
Our ministry includes construction, painting a mural on the church and teaching English. We also want to do some relational ministry by learning the trades of the people in the shops here. It is hard since they don’t speak English but it’s not just words but our actions. Pray for our team as we continue to work here this month.
