The Process Has Started

So this is my first time blogging but I think it will give me a good opportunity to share what God is doing and will be doing in my life over the next few months. God has given the opportunity to go to Thailand for two months this summer to serve with World United Missions. I'm staying with Bobby and Paula Wills, who I met at Woodlands Camp a few years ago. Their family has been serving in Bangkok for past two years and has graciously offered me a place to stay while I'm there.

Bangkok, Thailand is a crazy place. It has a population of 12 million people with less than 1% Christian. Most people are Buddhist or what they call Folk-Buddhists which is a blend of spirit worshiping and Buddhism. Sexual sin is huge in Bangkok as well as sex tourism and human trafficking.

I have opportunity to help with college students at the local university of over 30,000 students. School starts in June so there are many outreach opportunities to give Thai students a chance to practice their English.  I will also be working with the slums and orphanages in Bangkok which will give me a completely different experience.

At this point, God has been opening up huge doors for me to be in Thailand. The craziest one is my traveling expense. A round trip is around $2000 but the Lord has provided another way. I work with a guy named Ryan Roberts who I've known for a very long time. Ryan and Bobby Wills met when  Bobby was working at Camp All-American. Ryan and his wife Michelle are one of the Wills' monthly supporters. To make it even crazier, Ryan's dad is a pilot for Delta and has offered me a buddy pass. This will cut my traveling expense from $2000 to around $400. After the Lord opened this door it was clear that He wanted me in Thailand this summer.

Please start praying for what God is doing in Thailand and how he will use me. I'm going to do my best to try and update on a consistent basis so you will know how to pray. I want to leave you with a quote that was very influential in my decision to be obedient to the Lord's calling for me to serve him this summer:

"Will we refuse to sit back and wait for some tingly feeling to go down our spines before we rise up and do what we have already been commanded to do? Will we risk everything- our comfort, our possessions, our safety, our security, our very lives- to make the gospel known among the unreached people? Such rising up and such risk taking are the unavoidable, urgent results of a life that radically abandoned to Jesus." - David Plat, Radical

For The King,

Tate