Ok finally going to update my blog sorry for not doing it
for a looooooong time. I have been really busy the last few weeks. But these
last week have been really good. The theme two weeks ago was evangelism and we
went to Pattaya in Thailand. The weeks lecture started off with children's
evangelism by a women who works in the slums in Pattaya that we got to work
with later in the week. After the first day of lectures we had a another
speaker name John and he talked about new ways to evangelize and that could be anything
from standing on a pop can to rapping. The teaching continued till Thursday and
then that night we went into down town Pattaya to apply what we had learned
that week. As a group we started off with worship in a prayer house in the
middle of the red light district. (The city of Pattaya is only know for one thing and that is it's red light districts prostitution is everywhere and child trafficking.)From there we went out into the city.
My team
consisted of three people and the first people we talked to were two men who
owned a tailor shop in the red light district. That night was powerful for me
but also hard we talked to many people and some avoided us and other where
confused. The main thing that night that stuck out to me was how God spoke to
me. When we were talking to the men who owned the tailor shop an old woman came
by with red rose and she had the saddest look in her eyes when we said no. As
soon as she walked off I felt like I needed to buy a rose but I didn’t want to
stop the conversation with the tailor guys. So when we finished our
conversation about 5 minutes later we started on our search for the women with
flowers and we found her. After I bought my rose we sat and prayed for about 15
mins. and asked God to give us directions for what is next and I got a picture
of a women dancing on a platform in a black mini skirt and platform heels with
a stripper pole behind her and pink and white flashing lights all around. I knew
instantly I needed to find that women and talk with her so my team started to
head back the red light district to find her and along the way we ran into one
of the other teams and one of their members had almost the same picture so
together we went in search of this lady. We walked up and down the street but didn’t
find the women but along the way we did go into a bar a talk with some of the
bar girls. I never did find the women but I interceded for her and prayed for her and I could feel God presence as I lifted her up in pray and I knew it was ok.The whole experience was such a powerful thing by the end of it I
realized I had no fear of people. And I could look at any one no matter what
they looked like or what they were doing and see that God love them and begin
to see them how God sees them.
Also my team is getting ready for outreach in Bangkok, Kolkata India, and the villages in Chang Mai. I am so
excited for India we are getting to volunteer with the mother Teresa house
specifically the home for disabled children and the destitute and dying. I am
sooooo excited to see what God has in store for us and all the adventures I get
to go on with him. I hope to keep my blog more up to date but life keeps me really busy and I have very few spare minutes sorry
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