Hello everyone! I am making a blog filled with all of my social media posts throughout this past Squadleading season. Some of you don’t follow my social media and I would love for you all the see a deeper glimpse into some of the things I was able to share on that platform! This is for Thailand. (captions follow the pictures)
Met this little squish at ministry yesterday. Loved on her. Prayed over her. Made it my goal to make her laugh constantly. Thank you Jesus that this gets to be my life for the right now.
September 28 2019
Working at this little orphanage has made me think a lot about what I want in my future family. I’ve spent much time as I am holding babies and toddlers dreaming about what having a family will look like, and also thinking about the true reality for these little humans too. I am so excited for the day where I have a family and I get to love on and create a beautiful family unit, but my mind quickly flashes towards the child I am holding and the fact that their reality may or may not ever actually include a forever home. I have the biggest heart for kiddos and the impact these small humans will have on our world. I think one of the biggest privileges we as adults get to have is being able to raise and pour into children. Praying over them. Loving them. Pouring grace and truth into them. Guiding them. Helping them navigate the gifts they have been given as they get older. I am so thankful I got a small snippet into the life of this little girl, even for just a few hours. For those few hours I got to love her, pray over her, and care for her. My biggest prayer is that as life continues to unfold for these little kiddos, that so many people will come into their path and show them love and care and the fathers favor on them. I pray they will know they have a forever home in Jesus and that they are invited into his family with the most open arms regardless of situation.
September 29 2019
Two of the sweetest teams and such a privilege to get to pour into them. These are the two teams I am primarily over for these 9 months! Picture one is of ARISE and they are a spunky bunch that loves each other hard. They fight for each other and they stand up for truth. They are positive, open, bold, loving, and radical. POWER HOUSES! Picture two is of SELAH and they are a bunch that loves so intentionally. They seek each other out and they have made a point to love each other well. They are passionate, outgoing, tender, humble and kind. WARRIORS! I love them all. So thankful for these two teams and the squad the Lord has placed before me to walk alongside this crazy season.
October 7 2019
This week we start debrief. After one month on the field we take a week to rest, debrief, and refocus to start back at ministry full and ready again. We only have a few debriefs on this long journey, but I am so thankful. My heart is ready to speak into and minister to my amazing squad this week, but more importantly I am so ready and thankful to receive from the Father this week too. Life on the field longer term is hard and gets painful quick. Be praying the Lord revives and breathes life into us this week and fills us so full we can live out of the immense overflow the Lord provides for us.
October 8 2019
These people. This group. Sometimes I find myself in small moments taking pictures like this. In this picture they were arriving at debrief and were just waiting patiently for their room assignments. In these simple moments are when the Lord shows me how much of a blessing it truly is to be here in this season. In the simple I feel he speaks the loudest. We are now back and jumping into ministry after a week of rest and we are excited and ready for what the Lord will do in this next month! So thankful and so excited for the ways the Lord will continue to use us!
October 17 2019
I made a few tiny friends today. Fed them. Bathed them. Played in mud with them. Made and gave them medicine. Hugged them. My heart is so happy. Joy joy joy joy 🙂??????
October 18 2019
Here is a snapshot into “nap time” here at Agape today. Getting to love these kiddos has been such a blessing. I pray lives of abundant love and joy over them. I pray the Lord uses their lives as testimonies of how the Lord is our father and we are his children regardless of where we come from and what our earthly families look like.
October 25 2019
My sweet sweet sweet Ponesa. I miss your little heart already.
October 26 2019
Driving home today from ministry our driver pulled over to let us take pictures of this beautiful place! I will miss this beautifully colorful country coming up shortly, but I am thankful I get to continue on this journey with these girls and the rest of our amazing Gap Y squad!
October 31st 2019
All of these sweet little babies. I pray the Lords hands on their lives. I pray revival into their futures. I pray the Lords steady hands into their paths. So thankful for the opportunity to love on these kiddos and pray for them over and over and over and over and over again. They are world changers and I pray they become little kingdom fighters.
November 1st 2019
Most of my ministry looks something like this. Pouring into those who are pouring out. It’s been one of the biggest blessings to be a Squad Leader over Gap Y. I love getting the opportunity to teach them, disciple them, pour into them, love them, rally next to them, call them higher, push them deeper, celebrate with them, cry with them, and do life with them. As a squad leader I get the beautiful opportunity to get my hands dirty with them in ministry here in country AND the opportunity to mainly pour into these racers. It’s a crazy radical combination of revival happening and I am blown away by the joy I have in the process.
November 2nd 2019
AGAPE! I worked at an orphanage for half my time in Thailand. As a squad leader I bounce between primarily two teams and I am hands on at ministry with them! One of the ministries was Agape! AGAPE is an orphanage for babies through teenagers who have HIV and AIDS. These kids are usually kicked out of the surrounding orphanages or are the kids no one wants or will take. While working here we got to work around the grounds, love on these kiddos, and spend so much time in intercession over these sweet babies and their futures! We got to make relationships with the teenagers, and I got to watch the team working here LOVE SO HARD. It was the sweetest thing to watch the team pour out so much and to watch the Lord use them so radically!!
November 16th 2019
Connie’s foster Home. This was the second ministry I bounced between!Much like Agape, this was a refuge for kids who don’t have a home. This ministry was run by a beautifully compassionate couple from the states that moved to Thailand to rescue children who don’t have a home and be a loving place for them before they are adopted by their forever families.The team at this ministry helped the nannies take care of the kiddos, they taught the home school lessons, they provided the nannies relief, and they got to pour into and build relationships with the nannies. They fought to love these kids so well and pray the Lord over them daily! I feel blessed I got to be one of the people that got to love these kids in their lifetimes and I pray MANY come after me in their lives to love them so much more than I could in my short time with them.
November 17th 2019
Thank you for reading! Thank you for supporting! Thank you for doing this journey with me! Next up, Malaysia social media blog!
