What we have seen so far

Hello everyone,

It has been about 2 weeks since our last update, and we are now in Cambodia. If we had only been here for the past two weeks it would certainly have been worth the trip! We are so thankful for how the Lord has set everything up for us!

After staying in Trat for one night we left for Pattaya and arrived there in the evening. We went downtown to explore the main part of the city and found that it is basically like Las Vegas times 10. We later learned that the main difference between Las Vegas and Pattaya is that many of the bar girls/prostitutes in Pattaya sadly have no choice but to enter the trade. While in Pattaya we also realized the immense problem of gender confusion in all of Thailand and the great need for outreach not only to bar girls and prostitutes, but also to the ladyboys, as there are many.

Downtown Pattaya during the day.

Downtown Pattaya at night.

The next day we met with a lady named Angela who was our main contact in Pattaya. She runs the YWAM slum ministry (Project L.I.F.E) in and she invited us to participate in different activities that the ministry puts on for the kids. Steve and I were very surprised to see how incredibly well ALL the ministries (from different organizations) work together in Pattaya. On our first day we were invited to go to a weekly prayer meeting where leaders from different organizations come together to share what is new, what their needs are and what they need prayer for. There were about 9 or 10 people from different organizations/ministries at that prayer meeting and it was so encouraging to see them all pray for each other and encourage each other along. Over the next few days we got to go with Angela to a few different slums and help out a little with the kids' programs. We are absolutely thrilled about Project L.I.F.E because of the way we saw the staff interact with the kids and share Christ with them. Their goal is to not only reach out to the children but also to expand as a ministry to be able to reach out to the parents and families of the children. We are so excited to see that happen!

Some of the children from the first slum we went to. They are so cute!!

Finally in Thailand! :)

So...it has been a looong time since we last posted an update. A few things have changed since the last one, one of which is our itinerary. It turns out that we will be going to Cambodia as well due to visa issues - 3 weeks before we left we realized that you only get a one month visa when entering Thailand by plane, which means that we will have to leave the country after 1 month, stay somewhere for a couple of weeks and fly back in to Thailand in order to get another 30 day visa. Thus, we decided to go to Cambodia, so we talked to some people, got some contacts and will be heading there in just a couple of weeks.

Our first week in Thailand was great! We stayed in Bangkok for 4 days and met with some missionary friends of ours from India (Josiah and his wife, for those of you who know them) who were on vacation in Thailand.


While in Bangkok Steve got to talking with a Swiss tourist about Jesus, which was really cool. We haven't seen him since that night, but we have been praying that the Lord continues to speak to him and sends someone else to help him find Jesus. We were also able to visit the Youth With A Mission Bangkok base and we tagged along with them to a Night Light 'info session'. Night Light is fantastic organization - their purpose is to help prostitutes and trafficked individuals who want to get out of the trade, but their main mission is to help these people find their true worth and