Team Verse:

"Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us." -1 John 4:11-12

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!

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.