Due to popular demand, I am going to try to post one blog from each month telling you about daily life in whatever country I am in. Month 2 is a little bit late obviously, but here is a glimpse into one of our days in Thailand.
A couple of things you need to know for this blog:
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Team time and feedback happen 6 days/week.
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A John is a man who buys a prostitute
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A prostitute often doubles as a waitress
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Lighthouse in Action (LIA) is the organization we partnered with – they do bar ministry, cafe ministry (Zion cafe), slum ministry/monk chat and intercession
The first week our team was assigned intercession, which consisted of one 2-hour prayer walk in the morning . After that was lunch followed by another 2 hour prayer walk. The other big piece of intercession was heading up nightly worship to help prep and send out the teams that are going into the bars. So we put together playlists and worked with worship leaders to usher in the Holy Spirit and get our hearts more in tune with what it is the Lord had orchestrated that night in the bars.
The second week our team did monk chat and slum ministry. That consisted of one 2 hour prayer walk in the morning. Then, after lunch, we went to a temple nearby and literally chatted with monks for a couple of hours. Slum ministry was playing soccer with the boys in a poorer neighborhood nearby and kind of showing them that the people that come in and work at Zion Cafe are a safe place should they ever need anything.
The third week we did bar ministry. That means that we prayer walked in the morning for 2 hours and then we did day bar for a couple of hours after lunch. Day bar is simply where we go to the bars in the afternoon when they’re not quite so crowded and help the workers set up for the day or just play pool and talk about what is going on in each of our lives. Then we go out at night to the bars we prayer walked by during morning prayer walk, and ask God where He wants us to go and we go there. We order a drink for us and a person the Lord highlights to us (whether that is a John or a waitress) and we just love them and engage them in Kingdom conversation.
At the end of the month, we invited the people we built relationships with to a party and that gets them connected to LIA and after that we just trust the Holy Spirit with those connections and anything that happens after that.
Thank you all so much for your continued prayers and support for me, my team and my squad. They mean more than you know and make SUCH a difference in the way we do ministry and love others.
