Photos From Another World

After our time in Australia with YWAM, we spent two months on Outreach. 

First month: Bangkok, Chiang Rai and Chiang Mai, Thailand

The Largest Lounging Buddha

The Famous White Temple

We saw so many sights and learned so much about the culture, the religion and the food :)

But we did a lot of hard work and spent a lot of time with amazing boys and girls.


Did You Know? Thailand, especially Chiang Rai has the highest rate of boys and girls from the ages of 5-15 years old sold or kidnapped into the Human Sex Trafficking, slave trade. Chiang Rai is near the border of Burma and Laos. Most children are sold to "job brokers" by their parents who can't support them. They are taken to brothels masked as "massage parlors" and picked out like puppies at a pet shop. The details are gruesome and prison like. A few postings below there is a YouTube video that explains Thai sex trafficking.
Did You Know? There are more slaves today than there EVER was during the Transatlantic Slave Trade. From 1650-1900 there were about 10 million slaves sold. It is said that 800,000 slaves are sold or captured into the human slave trade every year. 70% of those slaves are sex slaves.


The children you see were the children that would have been sold...if a pastor of a church didn't create a boarding school for them to live, sleep, eat and be educated. These are the faces of the very children that would have become slaves..but instead have been given a hope and a future. We got to be a part of this and we had the chance to share the Gospel with them. We played with them, taught them stories, practiced English, prayed with them, fed them and taught them how to hug. :) But I think we left more blessed than them.

They LOVED hugs!