I can finally see, that your right here beside me.

So our team is back from 10 days in the village. We were without internet so I was not able to post blogs, sorry about that. We stayed in the Fong village and our team split up in groups of 2-3 and we stayed in host homes in the village. It was so cool to live with these people and learn their culture. Some of the things of their culture included getting up at 5:30am to walk to the market to get food for the day, work the rice fields, took bucket showers, and ate rice for every meal from breakfast to dinner. While we were there our team was able to lead a local church service, we had VBS type week, and we taught english at 2 of the local schools, and worked at an orphanage nearby. We were also able to participate in a parade here that happens only once a year which was a great honor. I think that we were most able to reach them in just living with them for 10 days. We did literally everything with them, from going to the market, eating meals, playing sports and just hanging out. We were really able to let our light shine in this village. We were able to pray for our hostmom before we left, me and 2 of my friends started praying around her and she couldn't understand what we were saying, but she instantly started crying and wanting hugs from us. She didn't want to let go of us. I believe that God touched her right there in that moment. I know that God allowed us to sow some seeds in that village and there will be local missionaries there to follow up on the work that we did. Just be praying for the Fong village.
Anways the village was so awesome, but we are back in Chiang Mai now, and we will be working with the brothels and bars here with the prostitues and the prostituted. Thank you guys for all of your support and prayers!

How my heart skips beats when, your love accepts me as I am.

So I wish so bad that I could have been there for the silent prayer march in Houston for the upcoming abortion clinic, but our Thailand team did have night watches throughout the time that the march was taking place. Here in Thailand the march was from 10:30pm to 4am so we had people get into pairs and we had hour time slots to intercede over the march while it was going on. My time was from 1:30 to 2:30am. It was so amazing. I wish I could have been there physically with you guys, but I know our team was in the battle. God just gave me His heart for the matter and I was able to passionately cry out to Him and intercede for the abortion clinic. Everytime I thought I was running out of things to pray, He would give something else on His heart to pray for. I've never felt my prayers be so effective in the spiritual realm. The hour went by so fast, it felt like 10 minutes, but anyways I know that our team was in the battle with you guys, and I know we really did some damage to the enemy. Good job guys!
I have little time to write, but we are doing many things here in Thailand, but our main ministry to going to the bars and brothels where the prostituted woman are. We will be breaking into groups of 2-3 and going inside to speak to them. It is a very dark and heavy place, just be praying that God will give us strength and the right words to speak so that they will be able to see the light that we carry with us. Please be praying for our team!

That what I have means nothing at all, compared to your glory, oh Lord.

So the stateside outreach is over. We stayed in Houston for about 10 days. We had a couple of different ministry types, but our main ministry was the streets of montrose. We just walked around on the streets from 8 to 1am. We did exactly what Jesus did. We hung out with the drunks, prostitutes, homosexuals, and addicts. It was so awesome to hang out with them. We gave them food and water, prayed with them, and talked to them about God. We went out on new years eve and one guy actually accepted Christ right at midnight, when the fireworks started going off. Hah! what a great way to start out the new year.

We also did a lot of prayer walking around the upcoming Planned Parenthood abortion clinic. They taught us a lot of what goes on in an abortion and it broke my heart. I guess I never really knew how they actually go through with it. This new building will have the ambulatory surgical center on the 3rd floor, making it legal to have an abortion at 9 months pregnant. After hearing more on abortion and hearing that we do this everyday and don't think anything about it, i found that i was angry at myself for not caring about it more. I realized how selfish I was. It didn't really affect me so why should I care much about it?.. God broke my heart for what breaks His, and I felt what He felt. We can't stand for this anymore.

We also took a 12-hour training program on human trafficking supported by Redeemed Ministries. What an eye opener. I understand a little bit more of what these girls go through, and how terrible it really is. We went to see some of the brothels that are right here in Houston. I could talk for hours on this. Just be praying. I have to constantly remind myself that God is bigger than this.