2012 is already well underway!  I’ve been looking forward to this year since the beginning of last Summer, and now its finally here!  We’ve been dreaming about all that God is going to do this year in our lives and in the nations and it’s no longer a dream, but the beginning of reality!

We are going to see the hungry fed, young missionaries raised up and sent out into the world, children grow in their understanding of the world they live in and the God who made them, and music written and poured out before the Lord!  The first fruits are already being seen this past January. Continue Reading

James 2:14-17  What good is it, my brothers, if a man claims to have faith but has no deeds? Can such faith save him?  Suppose a brother or sister is without clothes and daily food.  If one of you says to him, “Go, I wish you well; keep warm and well fed,” but does nothing about his physical needs, what good is it?  In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead. (NIV)

Over the past 2 1/2 years we have seen some of the most abject poverty in the world.  Children living in homes built over sewage water.  Shacks filled with layers of boys and girls who can hardly move for lack of space.  Little tummies bloated with the pain of emptiness—empty of both spiritual life and physical food.  As a father, I know how difficult it is for my children to give me focused attention when they want a snack, let alone if they hadn’t had a square meal in days.  How can a child hear the truth about Jesus over the rumbling of their empty stomachs? Continue Reading

The Flame Goes Forward – Children’s Performance from Aaron Barker on Vimeo.

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. Continue Reading