A Prayer Challenge for YOU

I love being in Thailand. The longer I am here, the fonder my heart grows for the people.  The Thais need Jesus!!!  But, there is a specific group of thais that I would like to write about….the prostitutes. I have a challenge for you tonight. Later this evening a large group of us consisting of [...]

Vegetarian Festival ~ Please Pray!

It is now October and in Thailand this month  marks the time for the “great” Vegetarian Festival of 2009. Or in other words, marks one of the darkest spiritual times of the year in the country.
The Vegetarian Festival a.k.a. the Gin Jay Festival is celebrated by Buddhists of Chinese descent and is started with the [...]

Lion of the tribe of Judah – Misty Edwards/ Can I have More of You – Kim Walker

August Overview

Wow, I cannot believe that a whole month has gone by since the last time I posted anything! Eeks!
I’m just gonna start out by saying that the month of August was an awesome and quite the emotional month. It is very hard for me to put into words every thought and emotion that has been [...]

Thailand At Last

Hello from Thailand!!! I am officially here . Wow, what a great journey to a great place filled with great people.  It feels so good to be back with Brian & Mary Beth (MB) and their family again.  Tonight we had a very nice fellowship, worship, and prayer time with the Garsee family [...]

Sudan

Students attending the Loka Senior Secondary School
My father recieved an email this morning  from our field coordinator in Sudan, Dickson Mutiso, informing us of some very sad news. His email said that one of the students from the Loka Senior Secondary School (LSSS (a Global Response Project)) was bitten by a snake and died.  This [...]

One week to go

Only one week to go till the big day…
So many emotions are whirling inside of me the more I realize that the day of departure is coming closer and closer.  I feel excitement, anticipation, joy, thrill, sadness, a pinch of stress, and a butterfly or two in my stomach.  I praise God for this opportunity [...]

cleftRock

On Monday, we left for a place called cleftRock to get away as a family so Dad and John could unwind from their most recent trip to Sudan and also to kind of prepare for my upcoming trip to Thailand. cleftRock is a retreat center for pastors and missionaries and their families. It is a [...]

IDP Camp Update

As this post is written, my father, Tom, and my brother, John, are in Sudan with the rest of our team coordinating and distributing food, clothes, blankets, hoes, seeds, and other essential items to more than 1,200 people in the Internally Displaced People’s Camp in Loka. As far as we know, everything is going very well. [...]

Thai Trip Progress and Prayer Need

Progress Report! – Right now I am working on getting my visa application out so I can actually get into Thailand. I am praying that it goes through smoothly and without a hitch. I am also praying that they will grant my request for two visas instead of just one because one is only good [...]

Great news!

I have some wonderful news to share. GRN has raised almost $20,000 for the IDP Camp in southern Sudan!!! This is truly an act of the Lord. It has been amazing of how many people have responded so quickly to reach out to these people. To date we have been able to give about 200 [...]

Critical Need In Southern Sudan

As many of you know, my father and a friend recently returned from Sudan. While they were there, our GRN team had an opportunity to visit a new IDP (Internally Displaced People’s) camp that has settled in Loka (Home of GRN Sudan). The situation is critical! These people were displaced by the Lord’s Resistance Army [...]