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DTS Workshop Worship on Fire

Thu, 26 Aug 2010 16:09:07 +0000

I have had the privilege this past week of leading worship for the DTS Regional Workshop for Cambodia and the surrounding nations. It is so beautiful when you have voices from Cambodia, Thailand, Myanmar, Vietnam, Philippines and more all singing the praises of Jesus! Each morning’s worship session was unique in how the Holy Spirit led and each was just as special. We had a morning inspired by my son Jacob’s worship as I used his child sized guitar and led us in some fun loving children’s worship songs. The group got right into the mood and danced before the Lord with great joy as God touched our hearts! We had another morning filled with passion and fire for the Lord! Matt Nelson exhorted the group to come to Jesus for greater passion in our lives and the Lord did not disappoint as he filled each heart with a fresh fire for the Lord. The following morning was a morning of deep intimacy with the Lord as we grew in the revelation of His love for us and our response to His love.

I’m struck by the fact that the facets of the Lord are endless and we could worship the Lord uniquely each day for the rest of our lives and never exhaust the nature and character of God. I know for me as I have entered into missions the last 18 months I have had a new revelation of who the Lord is and the significance of worshiping Him with every tribe, tongue, and nation! It is one of my favorite things to do! The more nations, the better, and I truly believe the Lord feels the same way! If you’ve never had that experience then I encourage you to do whatever it takes to put yourself in a situation where you can worship the Lord with people of a different culture. It will change the way you worship for good!

Call2All DTS Says Goodbye to Bangkok

Mon, 12 Jul 2010 14:35:43 +0000

Well, our team finished the last day of ministry here in Bangkok today. What a wonderful two weeks! Just remembering all that we have experienced is amazing. We spent a day touring a Buddhist temple and some tourist attractions, we spent many days with King’s Kids doing fun discipleship programs, and also many hours working on service projects in the slum. We spent hours across the street doing evangelism at the university. We met many non-Christians, many Christians, and loved learning from both. We were able to share the Gospel with hundreds of people in this community. We preached on street corners, at bus stops, and on the campus. We visited a church, preached, worshiped, performed, and testified at another. We laughed tons, prayed tons, worshiped tons, and even danced a bit!

Through all of this and more we have fallen in love with this nation. Two weeks has hardly been enough to satisfy my longing to spend more time in this beautiful country. Today as I looked ahead to the Call2All DTS in April of 2011 I started thinking of spending a few months here for outreach. I believe God is preparing this land for a great harvest and I for one would love to be a part of it. I certainly think that having a ministry on the largest university in the world is fairly strategic!

My prayer is that we have been a blessing to the ministry here with YWAM Thailand. I know they have been an incredible blessing to us. I believe the fruit we have seen over our short time is being passed on to very capable hands and I believe the seeds we’ve sown will be watered and harvested. I believe the water we’ve poured on the soil is soon to produce a great harvest that the team here is so ready for! I would encourage as many as possible to come join this family here in Thailand to work the field in this nation. I believe you will love every minute! I definitely have!

Call2All DTS Reaching Out to Slums in Bangkok

Thu, 08 Jul 2010 01:03:32 +0000

Yesterday was such a wonderful day for our outreach team here in Bangkok! We spent most of the day as a team working in a community close to the YWAM Thailand base. We put on our construction hats in the morning and laid some concrete in a small section of the community while others passed out Gospel tracts and another group shared with a woman who is very open to the Gospel. This woman, Joy, a couple days ago as a Buddhist, prayed to our God to send some people to help fix her house. The next day we arrived to repair the siding of her home that sits above a sewage filled swamp. While our team worked on the house Ronda and Kellye got a chance to share with her and she was so thankful and open to learning more. So yesterday when we came back our team went back and shared some things with Joy they felt they had heard from the Lord for her. Through translation she asked them how they knew all that about her. They shared that Jesus knows everything about her and that He sent us to share with His love for her. We are still praying for her salvation, but believe the soil is ripe in her heart for her to meet the Lord.

Today is yet another day filled with service projects and evangelism at the university. Pray for us that the Lord would go before us and prepare the way of the hearts that we meet. We want to see continued harvest while we are here and are grateful for every opportunity to share His love in these communities!

Thanks to everyone who is praying with us!

Bangkok, Thailand

Thu, 01 Jul 2010 14:16:24 +0000

What a couple days! After flying through Honolulu, Tokyo, Taipei, and arriving in Bangkok we have been experiencing a beautiful part of the world with our outreach team. We are staying with YWAM Thailand and have been blessed to be hosted by an amazing group of leaders. Yesterday we were overwhelmed by an orientation that helped us understand Thai culture and how to stay here and be effective in our ministry in this area. We also watched a DVD showing the collection of ministries that are based out of YWAM Thailand. Incredible! This place is busting at the seams with vision. Every ministry highlighted brought us to tears and made us hope we were going to be working with all of them!Unfortunately with only two weeks we don’t have time to do that…but we get to work with the incredible team that runs King’s Kids in Thailand. We are going into some broken communities close by and will be working with 40 to 60 kids ages 2 to 15. As we learned about how they serve these communities our hearts began to break and fall in love with every kid even before we have met them!

Today we continued our orientation to this area by visiting a Buddhist temple. What an amazing experience to see how deeply engrained this religion is in Thailand. Over 94% of those in Thailand are Buddhists. Our hearts truly broke for the people living under the lies that they need to earn merits with a god to gain favor with him. My Jesus is so good! He has loved me when I merited nothing and gave me complete and total forgiveness when it was the last thing on my mind.

This evening our team ventured out to the university campus across the street to meet people and trust for open doors to share Christ’s love on this campus. The reports have been so wonderful as many friends were made and doors are opening to see God move powerfully in this part of Bangkok.

Tomorrow we begin our work with the wonderful King’s Kids team and will also continue to build relationships at the university here. Join us in prayer as we trust God to breakthrough in this nation!