Outreach Details!!! :)

Wow. I just realized that although some of you may already know a little bit about my outreach location and what I will be doing, I haven't posted anything about it on my blog. I don't know what I was thinking because I am anxiously awaiting December 5th. This is the early morning that our entire group of 3 separate outreach teams are flying out of Maui to Honolulu, then to Tokyo, then Taipei and finally - off to Bangkok, Thailand - which is what I have been informed, a 20+ hour flight. (The flight is not what I am excited about. --eeeks!) After we arrive in Bangkok, all 3 teams will be spending 10 days together at the Thailand YWAM base, helping out with ministries there. When the 10 days have passed, Team C and Team Bangla will disperse and my wonderful Thailand/"M" team will begin our 3 month outreach adventure! Our first destination will be Khonkean, Thailand where we will spend Dec. 15th- Jan. 5th helping a woman named Nella start up a new shelter called the Tamar Center for women. She was the founder of the first center in the city of Pattaya and now she is wanting to expand the ministry. It's really exciting because we will be the first group involved there to help her start everything and reach out to the women in this new town. I pray that it will be a success and that it will make a profound impact on the lives of these women and their families! The reason the Khonkean village was chosen is that it is a poorer section of Thailand and the people there don't have many resources to make a decent living for themselves. Typically when this is the case, the women usually feel inclined to cave into prostitution because they think it is the only possible means to provide for their families. What breaks my heart even more is that some of the parents sell their daughters (as young as 6 years old!) into prostitution just to make a little bit of money! When this decision is made, they have to move to the city of Pattaya, the Red Light District of Thailand along the coast where most of the prostitutes thrive. Our goal will be to show these women and mothers that Jesus loves them more than they can imagine and that he has created them for a much greater purpose and they do not have to resort to selling themselves...also that Jesus will provide for their needs if they put their faith and trust in Him!!! **** We will be travelling to "M" after this for a period of time that we have not finalized yet. Our contact there recommended that we only stay for about 2 weeks for our own safety. The whole time we are there, we will be monitored by the G.I.'s (government intelligence) to make sure that we aren't evangelizing to the people of this country. While here, we will be reaching out to the people living in the slums and we will be teaching English (incorporating the gospel in whatever way we can!) When we leave "M", we will head back to Thailand for the remainder of our outreach. My team will be ministering to the town of Pattaya, the red light district of Thailand. We will be working with the bar girls and prostitutes (typically the same thing) -- again, we will be teaching English to them and witnessing along the way like we will be in "M". We will also be helping in the slums of Pattaya, reaching out to the children there and showing them love they might not have experienced before. ***I will add more to this as I get any more updates!
So, all that being said I, I would like to ask you to pray for Me...and my team as we prepare for our Asia outreach.. I don't think that there is anyway for me to totally prepare myself for this (as far as the culture goes...Guys Mills is pretty much all I have known and I'm pretty sure that doesn't qualify for culture at all! Anyways, I really have been getting prepared in other ways - learning so SO much about the character of my sweet Lord and living my life out in the way that He intended me to; walking with Him every step of the way. :)