ACC Lighthouse Thailand Missions Team

Thailand Missions 2009

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 01:08:00 -0400

Thailand Missions 2009:

Here is a collection of pictures from the WHOLE trip. There are almost 2500 photos, so it will take some time to go through.

Come relive the memories with us!

Medley of pictures from the trip!

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 01:00:00 -0400

Before leaving Austin

During the Temple Tour: A Ferry Ride

A fun-filled team picture!

With church members.

After an evening of learning Muay Thai

English class in a Muslim village

English class at Muslim/Buddhist school

Outreach on the streets of Ao Nang

With kids in Lam Thap

Last full group picture :[.

Medley of pictures from the trip!

Most of the team is back in Austin! Despite many long hours of...

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 08:02:59 -0400

Most of the team is back in Austin! Despite many long hours of traveling, we all made it in one piece. Jenn and James flew to China/Hong Kong and Char flew to Seattle to pick up the girls. Pray for them!

The Austin-bound team misses the three of them very much.

Here is a group picture at ABIA.

We are also aware of the sparse blog posts. Our sincerest apologies - internet was not easily available where we were and time was short! We will do our best to fill in the gaps in the coming days so everyone can read about God’s glory.

Here’s one group photo of our team at the Santisuk church...

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 19:24:57 -0400

Here’s one group photo of our team at the Santisuk church - Radt’s home church.

We are now in the Seoul airport - leaving for Atlanta in about a hour and a half. Austin, we’re COMING!

home coming

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 09:56:59 -0400

Praise God - everyone is safe. We’re heading to the airport in a few minutes for our long journey home. We can’t wait to see everyone. See you at 3:15 PM on Tuesday June 23 We have a lot to share.

June 14th Night Market Outreach: Team prays prior to the...

Mon, 15 Jun 2009 13:33:00 -0400

June 14th Night Market Outreach: Team prays prior to the outreach (look carefully and you can see them at the tables).

June 14th Night Market Outreach: Connie, Eddie, Jie &...

Mon, 15 Jun 2009 13:27:00 -0400

June 14th Night Market Outreach: Connie, Eddie, Jie & Chrisyla performing a drama.

June 14th Night Market Outreach: Peter, James & Steven...

Mon, 15 Jun 2009 13:25:00 -0400

June 14th Night Market Outreach: Peter, James & Steven singing worship songs.

MOOOOORE UPDATES TO COME, but for now...

Sun, 14 Jun 2009 22:05:22 -0400

MOOOOORE UPDATES TO COME, but for now...:

This is James’ missions blog. We’ll update more later tonight. We’re in an internet cafe at the moment and don’t want to pay too much seeing how we just spent almost $65 on laundry for 14 people… (Jie’s sweaty clothes accounted for about $10).

Thank you for your prayers! Keep ‘em coming. Amazing things are happening here and we can’t wait to share more with everyone.

the team is complete

Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:57:03 -0400

Thanks everyone for your prayers: the team is now complete Jennifer arrived safely this morning and James arrived a few moments ago (it’s 11:40 PM in Bangkok). Thank God Oriana’s luggage made it this evening too.

The team took some time today to acclimate to our new environment. We also had our Thai cultural orientation this afternoon, which was helpful. Right now, everyone is sleeping and getting ready for our temple prayer walk tomorrow. Please pray for us as we intercede for the people of Thailand and pray against Buddhism’s stronghold in this country.

touch down

Wed, 10 Jun 2009 15:50:09 -0400

Dear Family and Friends,

After a 29 hour flight, the team has made it safely to Thailand (Mark and Char included). However, Jennifer and James are still not with us. Jennifer is staying over at the Hong Kong airport, while James’ flight from LA was delayed for 6 hours due to mechanical problems. He’s currently in Tokyo. Mark and I will go and pick both of them up tomorrow afternoon and evening.

Also pray for Oriana as Delta/NW has lost her luggage (the one that has her clothes in it). We’ll be heading back to the airport to check on its status when we pick up the rest of the team. Pray for Chrisyla too because she can’t find her cell phone and thinks she lost it in Atlanta.

We’ll post more later.

Thanks for all your prayers.

Josh

Welcome to Georgia

Tue, 09 Jun 2009 11:23:00 -0400

We are safely in Atlanta! Chillin’ in the cafe area - using our four hour layover wisely with childish card games and eating food.

I am happy to report that everyone survived the trip in one piece, with no vomiting or disappearances during a bathroom trip. However, Jie thinks the peanuts are stale. So sad, too bad.

Praise God especially for Chrisyla making it through the flight well! Please pray for God’s serenity and protection over us as we continue our travel. Also lift up Connie in prayer as she may be catching a bug. We all need good rest and sleep in the coming hours!

P.S. Jenn and James are safe and are keeping each other company! However, we are all not looking forward to the long flight soon approaching…

From darkness to light.

Tue, 09 Jun 2009 01:31:03 -0400

Some 4 hours and counting — our team is heading out to Thailand for the next 2 weeks!

We have been floored by the generosity and prayers of all of our brothers and sisters in the past few days, weeks, and months. It has been an amazing encouragement and blessing to all of the members of our team to know that we have a host of prayer warriors interceding on our behalf as we prepare to go preach the gospel of Jesus Christ to the people of Krabi in Thailand. Please continue to pray unceasingly for us: we’re going to need it. I am confident that no prayer will go unheard or unnoticed by our Almighty God.

Our main prayer requests:

1.] That preaching the Gospel and glorifying God would be our mission above anything else.

-This has been something that God has been convicting our team of in a crazy and undeniable way. Pray that the power of the cross and the gospel would be on our hearts and minds in everything that we say, do, and think. Pray for the hearts of the Thai people, and that every aspect of presenting the Gospel — preaching, hearing, and believing — would be done through the power of God and not of our own words or efforts. Pray for boldness and courage in the face of different cultures, languages, and religions.

2.] That we would have protection from spiritual warfare in every possible way.

-Thailand is a stronghold for the enemy, whether in the form of the prevalent Buddhism or spiritual superstitions. Pray that our team would be prepared and guarded against any attacks from the enemy. Pray against every type of spiritual warfare — spiritual, physical, logistical, mental, emotional — as Satan has already been bringing attacks against members of our team just in the past several days. Pray that we would continue to arm ourselves in prayer, in Scripture, and in immersing ourselves in the Holy Spirit.

3.] That our team would be unified in Christ, in our mission to spread the Gospel, and in love.

-Our team is coming in from all over the place, whether geographically, in age, in spiritual maturity, or just being distracted from this trip in many different ways. Despite this, we are confident that if we offer our burdens and our weaknesses to God, He will make it strength. Pray for our leaders (Josh, Char, Mark, Radt, and our translator) and for God to give them wisdom and guidance in every decision. Pray for our team to do everything in love, and to focus on our task at hand, not allowing spiritual warfare to enter into our group.

We have an amazing opportunity to share the Good News with people that have never heard the name of Jesus before, and we are freaking excited. The anticipation is palpable. We have faith and full confidence that God is going to do crazy things and bring people to Him through Christ. Continue to intercede for us as we go to do the work of God. God is good, and God is love.

All for His Glory,

Steven Chang for the ACC Lighthouse 2009 Thailand Missions Team.

“But get up and stand on your feet; for this purpose I have appeared to you, to appoint you a minister and a witness not only to the things which you have seen, but also to the things in which I will appear to you; rescuing you from the Jewish people and from the Gentiles, to whom I am sending you, to open their eyes so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the dominion of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those who have been sanctified by faith in Me.” - Acts 26: 16-18

The 2009 Thailand Team. Please pray for us! Stay updated by...

Sun, 07 Jun 2009 19:07:11 -0400

The 2009 Thailand Team. Please pray for us! Stay updated by reading our blog at: http://thailand.acclighthouse.org/