It has been a year since I have updated you wonderful readers on our story with Pat, and for that I offer my deepest apologies. Life does have a way of taking our mind off to different places. The thought of finishing this series kept resurfacing in my mind like my how iPhone has constantly been reminding me that I have yet to update my iOS. In both cases, I seemed to have repeatedly hit the “Remind me later” button. But enough of that, this story continues - today! It is als

For the second leg of our mission trip to Chiangmai, we had contacted Youth With a Mission (YWAM), who then hooked us up with someone named Pat. During our group debrief the night before we were to meet Pat, Qianzi revealed that she honestly knew almost nothing about this person we were going to be working with. The only contact she had with him was via email and one phone call, during which he assured her that he would love us like his own family. But even though we were ven

Another part of our mission trip was visiting the Ark Home, a home for boys run by members of Hope Chiangmai. The boys were all so charming and I would love to show you more pictures of them, but in order to protect their identities I will not be posting any pictures of their faces. When we first came, the boys greeted us politely, but they were quite shy and reserved around us. We tried to break the ice by playing soccer with them, but we soon came to realise that not all of

From the 2nd-11th of December, a team of 12 of us from Hope Church Brisbane went to Chiangmai for a mission trip. Through these blog posts, I will be recounting the stories and testimonies of God's goodness during the trip. We arrived in Chiangmai excited: the mission trip was finally here! But at the same time we were nervous, because we did not have detailed plans on what we would be doing in Chiangmai. Even so, this made it clearer to us how important it is to flow with th