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Guidelines for Outreach - DO • DO – Start with prayer and a clean heart. Ask for God’s direction in setting up divine appointments. • DO – Pray for protection and covering for you, the team, co-workers, family members, ministry and the ministry’s reputation. • DO – Take spiritual warfare very seriously. 2Cor.10:3-5 • DO – Pray for transformation of the area we chose to go to - bars, stores, managers and owners to establish good businesses which value human dignity, rather than for closing of businesses/streets. • DO - Be sure you are motivated out of love for God and the broken and not seeking excitement, sensationalism,… Read More

Well, today is the first day I have actually been able to get out of the house and DO something besides just walk the dogs! Last week, even just to take a shower was like a huge accomplishment for me - that flu bug really hit me and Daryl both pretty hard. I STILL have a horrible hacking cough and have had to take NyQuill twice every night for the last week and a half, including last night... if I don't want to keep Daryl up and if I want to get any sleep at all. But praise God, at least today I have felt good enough to actually make it out of the house in something other than my pajamas! Anyway, I went to breakfast with a friend in charge of… Read More

Well, because Pablo got pretty sick all Saturday night - vomiting and diarrhea with mucous and blood in his stools - I was very worried. Especially because he lost his appetite - he LOVES Cheerios and we give him a couple for a treat - and he wouldn't even eat one when I offered one to him in the morning. But a few hours later, he seemed much better, ate the Cheerio and started chasing Ziggy, biting him and chasing him around the room. So, instead of running Pablo to the emergency vet (it was Sunday) I decided to wait till today and see how he was doing. Pablo seemed fine, had firmer stools but still with mucous. Then when I took Ziggy out to… Read More

Tomorrow is another class "Reaching out to Pimps and Prostitutes" - which we hold the last Sunday of every month. I didn't 'advertise' tomorrow's class because of the weather and because Daryl and I have been getting over the flu for the past two weeks... I didn't know if we'd feel well enough to have the class and I didn't want to have to cancel it if a whole bunch of people were planning on attending. I usually ask that people RSVP before coming, but I didn't do that this time - so I don't know if anyone or who will show up tomorrow. This month we have been working on completing the paperwork for our 501c3. Lord willing, we should have 501c3… Read More

Well, I promised to share some of the great things God is doing in Bangkok the next time I blogged - so here goes... Earlier today I shared my trip to Bangkok and Cambodia at church. The enemy hit me so hard - it was crazy... as soon as I finished sharing, I was bombarded with accusing thoughts, such as "You did terrible, you didn't glorify God at all, you didn't say anything you were supposed to say and said a bunch of stuff you shouldn't have... on and on and on. It was so bad that I was almost in tears! I'm not exactly sure why - and I knew that the thoughts were not of God... but to be honest, I've been sick with the flu all week and haven't… Read More

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Cambodia Killing Fields

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008

Unfortunately, the photos I took at the Genocide Museum are pretty lame. They were taken with my camera phone, and you can see the reflection from behind me on most. But just looking at the pictures, you get the idea. Honestly, you probably wouldn't want to see some of the pictures clearly, in detail. Like the one with a guys face blown off. Or some of the ones with the fried bodies after being electrocuted and killed on these metal beds. I felt so ignorant when we visited the museum. When I was a student, I hated history... but now I kind of wish I would have paid better attention in school. This stuff is definitely something that we should… Read More

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Sick, jet lag, spiritual attack or all of the above?

Monday, January 21st, 2008

Okay, I've been in bed all day today again. It's weird - I was somewhat okay yesterday - still felt a little strange, but okay. Then last night I started having all these bad thoughts and got really depressed and wished that I had said things differently when I shared my testimony and all these "should have's" kept coming up and pretty soon I couldn't sleep because by this time my stomach was rocking and in pain - I got hit with a wave of nausea and thought I was going to throw up but thankfully I didn't. My nose is running like a faucet and my sinuses are all messed up which is probably why I've had a headache also... today I have been so tired… Read More

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It's good to be home…

Friday, January 18th, 2008

But honestly, it's a bit of a downer too. I suppose that I'm a little (or a LOT) jet lagged - I've been in bed all day until about 5pm (granted, it's like 10:30am in Bangkok right now) but I had no problem sleeping all night last night since around 7:30pm. It's just such a difference - coming from such warm (hot - 85-100 degrees F) weather (to 20+ degrees colder) and although it was pretty poverty stricken - the atmosphere was so much more pleasant... I can't put my finger on it - but I think it may also partly be because I didn't have any 'responsibility' while I was in Bangkok - I mean - we had LOTS of stuff to do while there, a schedule and… Read More

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Cambodia was AMAZING!

Friday, January 18th, 2008

(I wrote this while I was still in Bangkok but couldn't post it while I was there) Well, today we're flying back to LAX. Praise God!!! :) But honestly, I will really miss this place. I DEFINITELY want to come back, and bring Daryl and my sister Ashley too. I have so much to say and I have absorbed so much - I wouldn't even know where to start! We did SO MUCH in such a short amount of time - I am so ready to go home. This morning I've decided to spend alone, as well as last night when we got back from Cambodia. I wish so bad that I could speak Thai - as well as the Cambodian language. I LOVE the people here, and wish that I could communicate with… Read More

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