The Night Shift
Sorry, it has taken me so long to write about what exactly our
ministry is this month. With less then a week left though I’d like to give you the general rundown and
later on a couple of specific stories.
So as I said before we are working with Lighthouse in Action in
Chang Mai, Thailand. This month it
is just us 5 girls because the guys are doing “MANistry� We are staying
in a nice guesthouse on the southern side of the city.
Deep Roots Ladies
So the day in the life version. We get up at about 9:30 am and
have devotions as a team. Then Chandler, Katie, or Mandi will go 2 at a time to
WonGen Kafe and will work there from 11-4 pm everyday. The remaining 3
will stay around the guesthouse. I usually go back to bed until lunch time to
help and catch up on sleep. Then we’ll go somewhere near by for lunch which is
usually noodle soup, fried rice, or pad Thai. Then come back and work out,
journal, or sleep some more. Then around 4pm Bethany and I have been walking to
the slums which is about a 5 min walk. We have been just walking around saying
hi to everyone, chasing this little boy and girl around as the giggle for
delight or hanging out with our new found friend “Sor� (blog to follow). Then
we get back and go to dinner, have a team debrief then start worshipping and
praying into the evening.
Then it’s time to go to work. We get all beautified well as beautified as you can get with
a very limited wardrobe, and take the 20 min walk to Loi Kroh Road, which in
Thai means “Sinful Street.� We pass the little Thai local bars, the cat tied to
the pole, and the popular Chinese restaurant every night to get to our street.
Once we get there 2 of us stay out and pray over the area and the conversations
that are going on while the other 3 go bar hopping for the evening.
Sinful Street
We make our rounds to about 3 or 4 bars every night to say
“Hi� to the bar girls and lady boys we have become friends with over the last 2
weeks. (Now don’t worry Mom and Dad we’re just drinking cokes.) The bars have Connect Four, Jenga and
this other dice game that the bar girls typically play with their customers so
we’ll play with them or just simply sit and ask about their lives. We sit there
as we watch “Farangs�, foreigners, walk up and down the street looking for the
right bar or most of the time the right girl they can take back to the hotels
that surround this sinful street.
I have finally got over the urge to punch every old white man
I see and know that God loves them too. Ugh it makes me sick but they are just
as lost and broken as the girls they are taking home. Like in John 8 I have no
right to pick up that stone and throw it. There have been nights when I just
come home wanting to throw up and cry myself to sleep, and nights where I skip
home because of the good conversation and fun night we had.
There are stories to come, but I have definitely seen God at
work in so many ways this month. He’s shaken locked up emotions and thought out
of me, brought us girls closer together, and shined His light down the sinful
street where I know He walks every night desiring to love and be loved by the
men and women there.
Please keep Loi Kroh Road in your prayers and us 5 girls as we
finish up our ministry there. Thanks for reading!
