Weird that I am in the 10th month of the race.
How the heck is that possible?!! I can officially say that I will be home next
month. Gaaaaahhhh. That is surreal.
Anywho, this month is the long anticipated MANistry and
WOMANistry month. All of our boys are together goat farming in northern
Thailand, while all of us ladies are spread out through Thailand. I have the
amazing privilege of working with 20 other amazing squadmates and sisters down
in the gorgeous, island area of Phuket (poo-ket). We are working with SHE
ministries (shethailand.org) and will be going out into the bars on Bangla
Road, in the Patong District, building relationships with and ministering to
the girls working in the sex trade in the bars of the red light district. We
will also be encouraging the women who work for this organization, helping
build a new facility, and hanging out with the children who live in the local
community.
This is going to be an emotional, hard, and stretching
month, and I count it such a blessing that I have such an opportunity.
Please cover us and the people we are going to encounter in
your prayers this month, because we will really need it. Please pray for the
softening of the hearts of these girls and for the lowering of their defenses.
Please pray, in the grace of God, for the men who solicit these bars, and pray
for their freedom and for their redemption as well. Please pray for divine
appointments, and that the Holy Spirit would guide each of the conversations we
have. And please pray for us, for
spiritual protection from the climate and spiritual attack as we take the
frontlines on such a heavy spiritual warfare, and for perseverance as we
continue to go out.
Thank you all for your prayers and support, and I cannot
wait to share testimony of God’s work in this place and the redemption granted
to the people we encounter.
