Journaling

Dwayne started our meeting with a meaningful devotion on serving the Lord and building relationships with others.  Can you imagine serving Jesus as an educator /administrator for 30 years!  Dwayne has touched many lives and I’m sure that many of the students he has come in contact with know that they are better because of him. What a way to serve Jesus! 

Our team wants to build relationships with people in Thailand.  We want to introduce them to Jesus and make a difference in their lives.  We started training for our Thailand mission today.  We looked at Matthew 6:6 But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen.  Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.  Pastor encouraged us to start daily devotions, if we weren’t already doing that.  We were also encouraged to start journaling, either daily or weekly, to start recording happenings and God sightings in our lives.

We talked at length about being proper guests in Thailand: about being gracious, humble and thankful to our hosts.  We also learned that it’s important on any mission trip to be flexible.  You never know what will happen with international travel and we really want to set a good example for anyone with which we come in contact.

We are thankful for this opportunity.  Now team – Go journal!

Paperwork, immunizations and fund raising !!!

As you can well imagine there is a lot of paperwork and planning to get done in order for a team of 15 missionaries to go to Thailand.  We have been busy getting a lot of things completed and out of the way so that we will be free to study Thailand and learn how to best present Jesus to those who don't know Him.  We have already been blessed to be a part of this team. 

Of course, there will be a few immunizations necessary to keep us safe while we're out of the United States. OUCH! There is also the fund raising involved to make this trip possible.  Our church has graciously agreed to pay a part of the fee, and we are each paying another part of the fee.  However, there will still be more funds needed.  I've never been involved in fund raising to any great extent and I've learned something interesting about it - it's not easy!  It's difficult to ask people you know to help support your mission by contributing funds to your cause, but something dawned on me the other day. It makes you HUMBLE!  What better way to approach a mission trip than by being humble?

I ask each of you that reads our blog to please pray for us while we are preparing, traveling, and volunteering. 

Please come back and visit us again.  We'll keep you undated as we prepare for Thailand.

Welcome

Our blog will allow our mission team to keep our congregation, family, friends, neighbors and community at large conscious of the development of our team as we seek ways to glorify God in our lives and in Thailand.

With joy in our hearts, we humbly ask for your support to help make this mission trip successful, be it prayer and/or financial.