Hellooo  everyone!! So sorry for such a delayed update! The past few weeks have been such a whirlwind. Here’s a little update on what the Lord has been teaching me and what my team and I have been up to! The past few weeks we have been going into elementary and middle schools teaching English and sharing Jesus’ love, encouraging the 1% of believers at the local churches, and going into the Juvenile Detention Center to minister to the girls there. While trying to figure out what to write about, I kept thinking I should focus on the impact we have made on others. However, the...

Jesus is everywhere. He doesn’t just meet in the big sanctuaries with bright lights and hundreds/thousands of people. He meets in the small room of a house-turned-church with only 15 members.   “For where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I among them.” – Matthew 18:20   Today, our last ministry day here, was a reminder of that. We went to Motana Church this morning to preach a message and walked into a small, but beautiful yellow room with a few pews and a pulpit. The yellow walls instantly made me smile and brought feelings of warmth & joy...

Teaching English has been one of the main ways to do ministry here in Ratchaburi. We go into juvenile detention centers hosting English seminars and go to schools & teach classes to  the kids all week long. If I’m being honest, when i heard that this is what we would be doing for a week, i wasn’t that excited. If I’m being really honest, i didn’t see the full meaning and impact it could have. I knew it would help the kids in the future with getting a job and things like that, but that was all i saw.   As we prepared for the week to come, our host,...

Teaching English has been one of the main ways to do ministry here in Ratchaburi. We go into juvenile detention centers hosting English seminars and go to schools & teach classes to  the kids all week long. If I’m being honest, when i heard that this is what we would be doing for a week, i wasn’t that excited. If I’m being really honest, i didn’t see the full meaning and impact it could have. I knew it would help the kids in the future with getting a job and things like that, but that was all i saw.   As we prepared for the week to come, our host,...

Hello!!! Creation, specifically of humanity, is what has been my focus and a constant theme throughout this trip. It started at training camp, we had some alone time to decompress all that we have been learning and I decided to write. Something that a lot of people don’t know about me is that I really really love creative writing. I was writing a vignette style account of the creation of humanity. I thought a lot about how humanity itself is such an overlooked example of God’s hand and his hope for us. It’s almost obvious, yet abstract. I think that’s why it’s so...

For the past two days we’ve had the chance to go into the juvenile correctional facility here in Ratchaburi and teach English to girls ranging from ages of 13 to 23 years old. A lot of the girls are there because of drugs, petty theft, or they took the blame for their brother/ex boyfriend/etc.’s crime. By coming to and completing the English seminar we hosted, their sentence will get reduced by a month. We had about 15 girls come, which was perfect for the amount of people we have on our team.  (orange shirts: already received their sentence // pink shirts: waiting to go to...