Why?

What am I doing?

Why am I sitting on this plane?

Why are you having me go teach english, Lord? I'm not qualified!

I don't think I have a strong talent for teaching... Wouldn't I be better useful using my strengths for you?

Why... why... why.....

Why me?

These questions filled my mind as I was cruising through the sky, high over the pacific ocean...

There certainly isn't any doubt that God has been leading me here...

But I still wonder why He's sending me to the jungle...

Perhaps there's something out there that he needs me to learn so I can be more useful...

Perhaps He needs to put me in a position where I have to completely and utterly trust Him...

Perhaps there's something else that he needs me to learn that I have no concept of...

Whatever the case may be...

I'm here, and God is with me... through it all... (Matthew 28:20)

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I landed in Bangkok at 1:08 AM local time. Mike and Marilee were willing to pick me up at the airport and we got to their house at about 3:15AM...

I got a few hours of sleep and this afternoon I'll be taking the bus with Sarah Van Hee up to the Sharons project.

Thank you all for your prayers for safe travels... I had a number of delays but God worked it all out perfectly!

Please keep me in your prayers for continued safe travels.

The dreamliner

Home and then Thailand

Last monday after finishing our daily staff meeting at MissionTV, I was handed the letter...

I went to my office and began to read it...

My mouth dropped open...

A tear threatened to spill over...

And a sense of resolve, determination, and nervous excitement coursed through my veins...

The person who sent that letter, was offering to pay for my plane tickets to Thailand.

Money for the plane tickets was the last major thing that God needed to provide for me to go.

At that moment, a whirlwind started. A whirlwind that probably won't settle down for a couple weeks.

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I flew home on Wednesday...

Went shopping and got my visa for Thailand on Thursday...

On friday a friend taught me how to operate a boat. (Never done that before, and will likely do it in Thailand, so my parents wanted me to get a little experience under my belt.)

Sabbath was a wonderful time with my church family...

Sunday will be packing...

Monday saying goodbye...

Tuesday... I fly!

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It's crazy how fast God can make things happen!

It's going to be an adventure, that is for sure.

There are a lot of unknowns... but where God leads, He will provide.

Please pray for me while I prepare to go and while I'm there.

Thailand!

Last Saturday evening, I got an email...

A rather desperate email at that...

The Sharon Family mission project in Thailand is in a difficult situation where they need an english teacher as soon as possible...

Others were asked, and for various reasons decided not to go...

And so, I was asked to go...

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I've known the Sharon family for several years, and have actually thought about going to help them at some point in the future...

But I wasn't expecting to be asked to go... now... 

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So at this point, the call has been made...

The door is open...

And I'm moving towards that door, praying that if God wants me to go He will provide the necessary resources to go. (plane ticket and visa)

So please join me in praying that God will make His will plain...

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If you'd like to learn more about the Sharon family project, visit their website here... http://sharons.jesus4asia.org/wp/

Also, a few weeks ago I started another blog with a bit of a different focus than this one. Check it out here... http://thoughtstouplift.blogspot.com