Category Thailand

A Red Light District is a place of nightmares. Everything we can imagine—and even more that we can’t—takes place there. I’ve seen some horrifying, heartbreaking, and hard-to-forget things in the past 5-6 years. It started with a trip to Cambodia in…

Hey, Everyone! I just want to thank you all for praying for me while I was in Thailand. Now that I’m back, I’m having a hard time with jet lag (#thestruggleisreal). Right now it’s Monday afternoon, and I leave for…

I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving! I’m currently working on my Christmas newsletter, so if you’d like to receive it (and haven’t in the past or have moved since this past spring), please message me! This fall marks three…

Huh? It was our second night of ministry in Thailand… all eight of us were in a bar together, the first one for many. The story of how we got into that bar is a story for another blog. We…

October completely ran away with me! This blog has been on my heart for a few weeks, but I haven’t had the time to sit down and put it together. Please forgive me! First and most importantly – I have…

A few hours after the party at Rahab, we walked through the night market and heard someone call out to us. We turned, and there were two of the women who’d been at the party! (In addition, the rest of…

There’s a popular saying in Thailand – “Same Same, but Different”. That is the best way to describe this trip to Bangkok: being in the same hood, but seeing so many differences and God moving once again in amazing ways…

I leave next week for Thailand, and I am SO EXCITED to return to the ministry there! Can’t wait to see how people are doing, to see how “Beauty” is doing at Rahab… so many faces are running through my…

Every night in Patpong, there are 4000+ women/teens/men/ladyboys who work in the bars. Then there are the vendors and workers who run the night market, the bar owners and staff, etc. Then there are the children. Some of the vendors…