Here is the video from our outreach:
Monday, May 11, 2009
Sunday, February 15, 2009
Back in Australia
Hello to all our blog readers,
Most of you have probably already heard but we are all back safely in Australia now. We are just getting ready to start our week of debrief before graduation on Friday night. Thanks for all your prayers during outreach. We had some awesome ministries that we were involved in and a lot of people we were able to impact in the 2 months we were out. I'm sure you'll be hearing a lot more from your sons and daughters soon if you haven't already. Be sure to ask them about those stories where God was really moving. Thanks for being a part of this journey!
Most of you have probably already heard but we are all back safely in Australia now. We are just getting ready to start our week of debrief before graduation on Friday night. Thanks for all your prayers during outreach. We had some awesome ministries that we were involved in and a lot of people we were able to impact in the 2 months we were out. I'm sure you'll be hearing a lot more from your sons and daughters soon if you haven't already. Be sure to ask them about those stories where God was really moving. Thanks for being a part of this journey!
Sunday, February 8, 2009
Pray for our last week
Please pray for both teams as we finish up ministry in Thailand. The girls have been doing some hard core ministry with the prostitutes down on Bangla Road in Patong Beach, Thailand. We've been building up some realtionships with the girls who we even go down to see during the day time. Pray against the spiritual strongholds and spiritual warfare we feel in there every time we are down there. Pray that lives would be changed and we'd be able to connect these girls with the ministry we are working with here as we are leaving in a few days. Pray for salvations and Jesus to reign in that place!
Monday, February 2, 2009
Update from Phuket girls
Update on girls ministy in Phuket:
We arrived in Phuket on Monday afternoon. We are loving being here. We are working with Mark and Sharon who are running the SHE Ministry in Phuket. They reach out to women and children at risk, primarily prostitutes. They run a center where the girls who come out of prostitution can live and work. They go out into the red light district and talk to the girls and get to know them. So eventually they carry the conversation into offering them a way out of prostitution by making jewelry and chocolate. A lot of the girls will become Christians too. We are living in the center with 5 of the girls and an older couple (in their 70s from England who came to help for 4 months). Some are not yet Christians. We get to live and work with them by making chocolate and boxes. During the day we also go out for prayer walks and really pray into the ministry we are doing. Tonight we will go down to Patong Beach where there is a street with hundreds of bars and about 1200 prostitutes. We will do a lot of praying and a lot of talking with the girls. We're stoked to be here and know that God will do some amazing things as long as we walk in courage and boldness.
We arrived in Phuket on Monday afternoon. We are loving being here. We are working with Mark and Sharon who are running the SHE Ministry in Phuket. They reach out to women and children at risk, primarily prostitutes. They run a center where the girls who come out of prostitution can live and work. They go out into the red light district and talk to the girls and get to know them. So eventually they carry the conversation into offering them a way out of prostitution by making jewelry and chocolate. A lot of the girls will become Christians too. We are living in the center with 5 of the girls and an older couple (in their 70s from England who came to help for 4 months). Some are not yet Christians. We get to live and work with them by making chocolate and boxes. During the day we also go out for prayer walks and really pray into the ministry we are doing. Tonight we will go down to Patong Beach where there is a street with hundreds of bars and about 1200 prostitutes. We will do a lot of praying and a lot of talking with the girls. We're stoked to be here and know that God will do some amazing things as long as we walk in courage and boldness.
Friday, January 30, 2009
Update from teams
Update from team in Khao Lak (Megan, CJ, Brent, and Joppe):
We've been spending our days teaching English and doing construction in the afternoons at a new church and at a preschool. On Saturdays we work with a kids program and Sundays we speak in church, sharing testimonies and preaching. The church is amazing because it's new Christians and some non-Christians. We have a great opportunity here to impact a lot of people with Christ. We know people here will be saved...please pray with us for that. We've gotten to do a few fun things here....we hung out with a DTS outreach from Singapore for the first 4 days we were here, we've gone on a boat ride into the "little amazon" with snakes and monkeys (it looked like something out of the movies), we went to the tsunami memorial, and we've gotten to cool off at the beach a few times. It is SO hot here and humid. The living conditions have been super rough for us here but it's good to have that "real" outreach experience where you realize that you can only make it with God's strength. We've been spending so much time with God here individually and as a team. We've had time to really study the Bible and reflect on things God has taught us over the past 5 months. So as hard as it is here, it's so worth it and we wouldn't trade this experience for anything. God is so much bigger than any problem we will face here. We truly believe the words in Romans 5:3-4 where it talks of how our struggles lead to perseverance, then to character, which leads to hope. We are such stronger people because of persevering through the hard times.
Team in Phang Nga:
They have been teaching English and doing construction. They are also working with the church during the morning service and hanging out with the youth group. They rode elephants on their day off. They've been living with air conditioning and free internet because of a festival across the street but half of the team has been sick.
The next plan is to move to new locations again on February 2nd. The girls will all head south to Phuket to do prostitute ministry and the guys will come up to Khao Lak. Hopefully they will help finish off some of the construction so the new buildings are ready for use. We will all meet up in Phuket on the 11th for 2 days of debrief before going back to Bangkok and then back to Australia on February 14th.
Please pray for us to have a powerful impact these last two weeks and to persevere to the end. Keep praying for good health and protection with the heat.
We've been spending our days teaching English and doing construction in the afternoons at a new church and at a preschool. On Saturdays we work with a kids program and Sundays we speak in church, sharing testimonies and preaching. The church is amazing because it's new Christians and some non-Christians. We have a great opportunity here to impact a lot of people with Christ. We know people here will be saved...please pray with us for that. We've gotten to do a few fun things here....we hung out with a DTS outreach from Singapore for the first 4 days we were here, we've gone on a boat ride into the "little amazon" with snakes and monkeys (it looked like something out of the movies), we went to the tsunami memorial, and we've gotten to cool off at the beach a few times. It is SO hot here and humid. The living conditions have been super rough for us here but it's good to have that "real" outreach experience where you realize that you can only make it with God's strength. We've been spending so much time with God here individually and as a team. We've had time to really study the Bible and reflect on things God has taught us over the past 5 months. So as hard as it is here, it's so worth it and we wouldn't trade this experience for anything. God is so much bigger than any problem we will face here. We truly believe the words in Romans 5:3-4 where it talks of how our struggles lead to perseverance, then to character, which leads to hope. We are such stronger people because of persevering through the hard times.
Team in Phang Nga:
They have been teaching English and doing construction. They are also working with the church during the morning service and hanging out with the youth group. They rode elephants on their day off. They've been living with air conditioning and free internet because of a festival across the street but half of the team has been sick.
The next plan is to move to new locations again on February 2nd. The girls will all head south to Phuket to do prostitute ministry and the guys will come up to Khao Lak. Hopefully they will help finish off some of the construction so the new buildings are ready for use. We will all meet up in Phuket on the 11th for 2 days of debrief before going back to Bangkok and then back to Australia on February 14th.
Please pray for us to have a powerful impact these last two weeks and to persevere to the end. Keep praying for good health and protection with the heat.
Thursday, January 22, 2009
Thailand Update
Hey everyone....
Just wanted to let you know that internet is a lot harder to come by here and we won't be on much. So if you don't hear from us in a week or two please don't be worried.
We are in two different locations right now. One team of 8 is in Phang Nga working with a church and teaching English. Another team of 4 (Megan, CJ, Brent, and Joppe) is near Khao Lak working with a pastor who is rebuilding houses from the tsunami. We'll update you more when we switch locations around February 2nd.
Here are some outreach pictures from Cambodia: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2018058&l=2eec6&id=135000015
Just wanted to let you know that internet is a lot harder to come by here and we won't be on much. So if you don't hear from us in a week or two please don't be worried.
We are in two different locations right now. One team of 8 is in Phang Nga working with a church and teaching English. Another team of 4 (Megan, CJ, Brent, and Joppe) is near Khao Lak working with a pastor who is rebuilding houses from the tsunami. We'll update you more when we switch locations around February 2nd.
Here are some outreach pictures from Cambodia: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2018058&l=2eec6&id=135000015
Monday, January 19, 2009
We're in Thailand
We arrived in Thailand on Saturday night. Wednesday was an emotional goodbye to the kids at the orphanage. There were many tears from every chid ages 4-20. I had 3 little boys I taught in kindergarden that would not let go of me that night. Everyone on the team had the same experience. They wanted to pray over us and how powerful that was. Every child in there was screaming out to God for us and crying their eyes out. They gave us so many presents. It was an emotional night. It's hard to say goodbye to kids who you fell in love with who are used to people leaving them. Thursday morning we woke up at 6:30 to see all the kids outside our guesthouse. It was another goodbye for us. They didn't leave until our tuk tuks drove away (I think they were all late for school). We stayed in Phnom Penh for 2 days. Friday we went to see kids who live at a dump, well we actually went to feed them. It was pretty hard to see but awesome to be a part of something that is really changing these kids lives. The people who bring food come in every 2-3 days to bring food as well as medical attention. We had 3 pretty serious medical problems while we were there. They had to take one little boy to the doctor right away to have surgery. More and more we've been learning on this outreach how blessed we are.
Sunday we hung out all day and flew to Bangkok that night. We arrived close to midnight but waited up for the other girls team in Thailand to get back from doing ministry. It was awesome to catch up with them and hear their stories. They are an amazing group of 4 girls really working hardcore with prostitute ministry. Sunday we hung out with them all day and saw some of Bangkok. We got to have our first Starbucks in a month! We traveled back to the YWAM base and had some prayer time with the girls as they were leaving in the morning.
Monday we had orientation with YWAM here in Thailand and went on a scavenger hunt of Bangkok. We had dinner and then met together with Merv (who came to visit from Sunshine Coast). He was awesome to have around to talk to and just kinda talk to the team about outreach. Today is a Buddhist temple tour and tonight we fly to Phuket. Once there we will drive 2 hours north to Phang Nga to work with a church there. We will be doing construction, working with the church, and teaching English. We plan to be with them until February 1st when we will be working with another church in Khao Lak. Keep us in your prayers that we would stay focused these last 25 days here in Thailand and for team unity.
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