Last night the guys and I on our team went down to the brothels here in Chaing Rai. We asked God to show us who He would want us to talk to and to open up doors. i ended up talking with a man there who was very open to listening to what I had to say. I talked with him and shared with him about the Lord and what He has done for us. I shared with him what the Lord had done for me and how I came to know Him. I just ask that you keep this man lifted up in prayer. That God will touch him in a miracolous way. I am not going to share his name or where the man is from out of respect for him. I want to tell you though what it was like there and some other things that had happened. When we first got there girls were coming up to us trying to have us be with them, we just told them no that was not what we were there for and we kept walking. We asked God to show us what He wanted us to do there, and who He wanted us to talk to. He opened up the door for the man that I had told you about just a couple sentences ago. I am praying that we will be able to go there again and share with more men there. I ask that you as well keep us lifted up in prayer. You see it is the men that we need to reach the most in these situations. You see if you can slow down the demand you can slow down the supply and eventually put a end to this. Once again I ask that you just keep this man lifted up in prayer that God will touch his life in a amazing way. My friend who I talked with there I want you to know that I am praing for your. I pray and ask that you please stay in contact with me and I will answer any questions that you may have. I want you to know
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The monk that I have been talking with came to the coffee shop yesterday and we were sharing with him about Jesus. He told me that he wants to have lunch with us and hang out everyday. I ask for your prayers that God will move in every conversation that we have. I still continue to go to their temple even though yesterday they were telling me to leave. I feel that God wants me to continue to keep going back there and praying over it even if they don't want me there. God told me to keep going there because he said that is where he belongs and its time to make a difference there in the temple. So I am going to keep going and see what God does and I know that He will move in that place, because every time that I go there I feel His presence more and more every time. So please keep lifting me up in prayer that God will do some miracolous things there before I leave, that we will see a change in their temple and God will get the glory in this place. I love you guys and want to know that I am praying for each one of you and I pray that everyone who visits this site will receive a blessing from the Lord, that He will reign in your life, and that you will be able to start seeing Him to some amazing changes in your life. That you will grow closer in a relationship with Him everyday
Last night we were handing out flyers to help the cafe that we have been working at to let people know what we do on Friday nights. What we do here is play music and have games and also sell bake goods every Friday. As we were handing out flyers, we hand one to this white man and his kid. He asked us what this was for, I told him well we are Christians and.... Then he cut me off mid sentence as soon as I mentioned Christian, and he said screw you guys you guys are the scum of the earth you guys do not belong here. I just told him God bless you and that Jesus loves you and I walked away. We continued to hand out flyers and he walked by us again and started saying the same kind of stuff, that he was going to call the authorities because he said that what we were doing was illegal. I just once again told him God Bless you and that Jesus loves him. You see though in Psalms ch1 it says Blessed are they who are persecuted for my sake. Even though it was not physical persecution it was still a form of it in a verbal way. I ask that you guys after reading this will pray for the man and his son, that God will touch him in some way. Today also I went back to the Monk and tried to see him but he was not there. Some of the monks were waving their hand at me stating they wanted me to leave and that they did not want me there. The dogs that they had there were growling at me and barking and I could feel the enemy. So I went right outside of the temple at the front entranced, and I asked God what he wanted me to do. He said go back in there and show them what you have written out and don't leave till you hear from Pom Sok the name of the monk I had seen before. So i went in there and showed them what I had written down, and what I had wrote down was John 3:16 in Thai. I showed it to them then the next thing I know they handed me a phone and Pom Sok was on the other line. He told me that he was going to meet me at the music thing we do tonight. I am very excited see him again and share with him more about Jesus and show him John 3:16 in Thai. This is what it is in Thai
John 3:16 16 เพราะว่าพระเจ้าทรงรักโลก จนได้ทรงประทานพระบุตรองค์เดียวของพระองค์ที่บังเกิดมา เพื่อผู้ใดที่เชื่อในพระบุตรนั้นจะไม่พินาศ แต่มีชีวิตนิรันดร์ John 3:16 Last night we went to go and see girls that have been rescued from sex trafficking. Some of the girls that have been rescued are as young as 12yrs old to mid twenties. We played some games with the girls and saw some of the things that they did there like learn English and a variety of other things. While we were there we could not take any pictures or videos of the girls for their protection. The reason being is that since they were rescued their pimps who were trafficking them are looking for them. There is a total of 80 girls that have been rescued at their facility here in Thailand. Some of the girls there have kids that have come from them being trafficked. The name of the place that protects and rescues these girls is called Destiny and Rescue. They also have a coffee shop and also have a hair salon where they give the girls jobs and get them back up on their feet and take care of them. They have locations all over the world where they help these girls. I pray that one day I may be able to get involved with them to help try and rescue some girls as well. This is something we really need to pray for because this kind of stuff happens all over the world and even happens in my own back yard America. We that believe in Jesus know that we move with the power of His Spirit and through Him we can make a big difference even if what we are doing may seem small to the world, but if we are doing it with the Lord it will make a huge difference. I want to thank you all for your prayers and I can not wait to get back and tell you face to face the things that have happen here. Tonight we are going to the Chiang Rai YWAM base and we are going to have a worship night with them there. Also today is our leaders Trey's birthday and we are going to have pizza and ice cream its the typical American in us lol. Love you guys and God Bless you.
Teaching English with the monks has finished, but Jesse and I went into this temple where another DTS student said that he felt a heaviness of darkness in that place. Jesse and I entered into the temple and we felt the heaviness as well. i went into the monastery where this monk was praying to Buddha and I started praying to God the Father and Jesus just asking that His presence would invade that place. I told Jesse that I felt he was suppose to be in the temple with me. He prayed for God's presence to come as well and we asked the monk after he was done praying, if we could share with Him about Jesus and pray for him, he said yes. So I started praying and Jesse stood right behind me interceding. As we were praying we felt the presence of God all around us. After we had prayed and as we were leaving he called us back and gave us some food out of a sing of respect for what we had done. Also when we had finished praying the monk said Amen before we did. We told Bobby who is the missionary who stays here full time what had happened and he said that monks never say amen after prayer. So that confirmed to us that God's presence was there in that place. We have decided to go back everyday and share with him about Jesus, and also pray for him everyday and share the love of God with him. Please pray for Jesse and I as we go everyday for the rest of the time were here that God will change this mans heart and bring him closer to the Creator. As I said when we entered into the temple we had felt a heaviness, but after we had prayed and as we left we felt so free and so light. Like a feather, and we knew right then that God was with us at the very moment. See God's power is so great that it can break down the enemy's strongholds that he may have over a certain area. The enemy has to flee at the name of Jesus, I believe that as we were praying there and as we were praying for the monk, that God's presence did come and that the enemy did leave. I believe as well that as we continue to go back there and as you continue to pray for us as well, that God will move in that place and not only will we see a difference in this mans life but we will see a difference in that temple, and eventually can make a difference in the monk community here in Thailand. We need your prayers and I thank you ahead of time for your support and prayers,
A DTS student on our team Jenna had a dram about a girl named Alena that she was in a rainforest of some kind. Kayla, Sommer and I went on a walk to a coffee shop to get something to eat and to drink . There was this lady sitting and talking with two leaders of our team and we overheard that her name was Alena. After our leaders were done talking with her we invited her over to sit with us and we got to know her. She was from germany and weas just out here to travel and be on vacation. We started talking to her about God and she asked if she could believe in Buddha and God at the same time. We told her no, and we just told her how much God loved her and cared for her. We told her how he wants to have a personal relationship with her. We also prayed for her sister to have guidance and direction. For her as well that God would reveal Himself to more to her, we also gave her some scriptures to look over. I just ask that you guys keep her in prayer. That God will touch her more and show up in her life more and more everyday annd that she will find Him and have a personal relationship with Him. I also wanted to let you guys know that yesterday we went to a Chaing Rai soccer game. Two of the studnets that went and I ended up being able to sit in a VIP section. We were up there and I started talking with this one guy and I found out that he played for the Brazil team that was playing against Chaing Rai. I talked with him for a little bit and after the game he left and then I started talking with another man who was associated with the Chaing Rai team. As we were talking I asked if we could meet the Chaing Rai team and all the players and coaches. He told me to call back today around 12 and schedule a time to meet. I ask for your prayers in this situation, that God will allow for this opportunity and let it be a time where we will be able to share the gospel with the Chaing Rai soccer team. I ask for prayer that God will move during that time and that His presence will manifest in that place as we talk with the team. I thank you so much for your prayers and support and may God bless you every day.
Hello! My name is Kelsey and Zach asked me to share with you all about some crazy encounters that have happened in just the past week, alone.
I’ll spare you the full details because my heart is leaping and I could type for hours…but God is good and big and sweet. The first person we approached at a local market was a Thai lady who was actually a Christian. Um hello, WEIRD, as we were in a secular environment and seeing as the population is 97% Buddhist. She spoke enough English to share with us that she had sort of back-slidden in her faith, so my friend Sommer prayed for her and we already felt chills. We continued to pray and walk as God led us to this old bald guy from England sitting at a table alone in the middle of the crowd. Naturally I forgot to start speaking so Sommer intruded his alone time with a courageous hello. We sat down and start speaking with him about why he was here in Thailand and just sort of small talk. He alluded to the fact that he was in Thailand for the very reason we prayed that he wasn’t, but hey, Jesus hung out with sketchy people so we should, too! But really. Back on track, again…Sommer led the conversation (because for some reason I became mute the moment I saw the dude), and as she boldly dropped the “J” bomb I realized that a revival was happening in my heart, too. You see, this man was willing. He was open, and he was actually excited for some reason that these two weirdos had approached him. He shared with us that he was lonely and that he didn’t have much family and that immediately confirmed the fact that Jesus was trying to find him, and find him soon. Sommer handed him a bible and asked if we could pray for him. Right before I was about to open my mouth for the first time (go figure) something happened. The bald guy looked like he had literally just been knocked over by a freaking stump or something, but we knew that it was the Holy Spirit. Casual. It was hilariously amazing as this man looked at us in confusion and said, “what just happened?” We then proceeded to pray for him and we we were done we left him there, eyes watering, face confused, but Jesus in his hands. Silly of us to think that Yahweh was done when He totally wasn’t. Earlier when we were praying I kept hearing the word “yo-yo” I mean what the heck, right when I think I’m hearing from the Lord and I get the freaking word “yo-yo”. We put it in our pocket metaphorically speaking, and honestly forgot about it. I also felt like there was someone with an illness or pain we were supposed to pray for. As we were “debriefing” what the heck had just happened to us, Sommer literally looks over her shoulder to see a shirt that had a yo-yo on it. I immediately started laughing because it was so stinkin funny. There was this Thai lady in front of the shirt so obviously that was the woman we were supposed to approach. Wrong. She literally spoke no English and when we tried to ask if we could pray for her and did the “praying” sign with out hands, she thought we were awkwardly trying to greet her or stalk her or something. Oops. So we walked around, tried to grab our American friend who speaks fluent Thai, and when our efforts faded…so did we. We went back to the t-shirt, confused and debating on who in the heck to talk to-when two Thai girls approached us asking us if we could answer a survery. Whaaat? Hilarious. Like thanks God. Sommer answered the questions and when she was done we went ahead and just asked them if they knew Jesus. I kid you not, these girls pulled up facebook and typed “Jesus” into the searchbar. We tried to deny our laughter to further explain when they literally pulled up a Thai-English translator on their iPad. Even more comical as God was just handing us this one. I typed in “Can we pray for you” and one of the girls agree to it, point to her head as if she was having severe pain in it or something. So that answered yet another sign of God’s clue. I started to pray for her and in the middle she clasped onto her head as if God were healing it in that moment or something. I’m not sure what God did on that one, but I know He did something. You just read an amazing story that Kelsey and Sommer experienced on a prayer walk. This is what God is doing here and this is why we need your prayers and support. We know we can not do anything alone, but with God He can move through us and we can do all things. I want to finished and let you know another encounter my friend Max and I experienced as well. Him and I went on what we like to call treasure hunts, just like what Kelsey shared with you as well. We prayed together before we went out and I got a picture of a L shaped intersection, and we both got the same direction of where to go. So we started heading down that way and along the way there we stopped at some shops and let them know we were teaching English at a coffee shop. While we were walking we got the felling we needed to go to a Monk chapel. So we headed down farther and we ran into a L shaped intersection just like the one I had saw, and right there at the corner was a Monk chapel, just like Max and seen. We talked to them for awhile and told them we could teach English. So they told us to go to another head monk at a different chapel to get his permission to teach English. We talked with him and he agreed to let us teach English to the young monks there. So we are going there the guys on the team Mon- Fri for the rest of the time we are here, and we are teaching English and going to bring in the gospel the best way we can while we are there. Thank you all so much for your prayers and support as well God is moving and doing great things Sorry I have noit written in awhile, but I wanted to let you all know that I am doing alright . I have been staying back because I went to the doctor and found out that I have celuitus in my foot. I have been taking medicine for it, and I have benn resting it as well. If it does not go away by friday I wll be hospitilized for it and will have to get an IV. So please keep me in prayer. Today was awesome though I got to ride elephants for about a half hour it was one of the coolest experiences that I have done. I will try and post up some pictures when I can everyone has them and I am going to try and see if one day I can get the computer that has the pictures, and just go to twon and upload them on here. I also got a video of a English Camp that we did that I will upload as well when I get a chance to. The team has been doing prayer walks at some night markets by where we are staying. Two of the girls started talking to this guy that was from London who confessed to coming to Thailand to sleep with girls. They started telling him about Jesus and what He had done for them and after awhile and sa they were walking away the guy hiself was speechless, and was crying and they said that you could feel the presence of God all around them. It is amazing here God is doing and moving, in ways ive never felt before. We have been working at a coffee shop and will for the next two and a half weeks we are here. Keep us in prayer especially by foot love you all and God Bless you guys
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AuthorMy name is Zachary Williams and I want to do the Lord's will and I want His will to be my heart's desire. I am from San Bernardino Ca, and I have felt that the Lord is calling me to go and tell people about him throughout the world my first mission trip is to Mexico, then Africa, and I pray more will come in the future. If some more come I will blog about them as time goes on. I pray that everyone of you who has visited my site will be blessed by the Lord and may He be your #1 focus in life. God Bless each and everyone of you. If you do happen to send support financially please send donations to AGAPE Church 950 Laureate Lane San Luis Obispo Ca 93405 Please state that it is for Zach Williams MissionsThank you so much for supporting the work of the Lord and God Bless. Archives
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