Great to have our Thailand team back. Amazing stories. Amazing pictures. This is the first of ten mission trips to ten countries over the next ten months. It's called A18. And it's our way of putting Acts 1:8 into practice.
I did a video chat interview last week with one of the women who was rescued from the sex trade industry a few years ago. We'll be posting some of the videos on our A18 blog in the next couple of days. Our team of NCCers worked with a ministry called The Well. Thanks to our friend Scott Hodge for the connection. The name derives from John 4 where Jesus has a life-changing conversation with a woman who had sexual issues. Jesus spoke life and hope. And it not only changed the Samaritan woman's life. It impacted her family and her community. That is what The Well is all about.
The woman I interviewed said something so touching that I could hardly hold back the tears. She was in the sex trade for ten years. And she said, "I never smiled." To see her smiling face as she talked about what God has done in her life was pretty overwhelming. She said she always prayed, but she didn't know who she was praying to. One night, some Christians paid her "bar fee" and invited her to an event where she heard the gospel. And the rest is His-story!
Check out A18.
I did a video chat interview last week with one of the women who was rescued from the sex trade industry a few years ago. We'll be posting some of the videos on our A18 blog in the next couple of days. Our team of NCCers worked with a ministry called The Well. Thanks to our friend Scott Hodge for the connection. The name derives from John 4 where Jesus has a life-changing conversation with a woman who had sexual issues. Jesus spoke life and hope. And it not only changed the Samaritan woman's life. It impacted her family and her community. That is what The Well is all about.
The woman I interviewed said something so touching that I could hardly hold back the tears. She was in the sex trade for ten years. And she said, "I never smiled." To see her smiling face as she talked about what God has done in her life was pretty overwhelming. She said she always prayed, but she didn't know who she was praying to. One night, some Christians paid her "bar fee" and invited her to an event where she heard the gospel. And the rest is His-story!
Check out A18.
6 Comments:
I never get tired of hearing stories like this. And I know beyond a shadow of a doubt that Jesus doesn't either. Thanks for sharing this.
Weird. I read the blog and thought "I never get tired of hearing these stroies".
Thanks for sharing and please share more!
JUSTICE! Praise God.
Mark,
Thanks for loving the least of these. It is great to see NCC have such great, biblical vision for mission.
At Living Water International we are blessed to see this. In whatever way we can partner with you, we would love to. I love the A18 site, very cool. We are all on the same team, and that is what makes this all so fun! Let the Church arise!!!
It's all for Jesus!
love you guys!
Brandon Baca
brandon@water.cc
www.water.cc
www.onedollarwater.com
www.adventconspiracy.org
Hey Mark!
Thanks for posting this. Our church (www.kfaog.org)is preparing to send a team to Thailand in January for the second time. That trip CHANGED MY LIFE and the lives of all of the other 9 women that went!
What touched me most about the title quote is that Thailand is KNOWN as "The Land of Smiles" and has a culture that shows no other emotion, so her statement is HUGE!
Blessings on your A18 vision!
Lisa Kurman
Life Development Ministries
Kenosha First Assembly
Wow! Makes me want to take another mission trip. Our family has such a heart for missions - having been to Russia (husband) and Guatemala (me). It's such a life changing experience.
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