Lighthouse '09

As many of you know, I'll be traveling to SE Asia next month for a short-term missions trip to the people of the Sea Tribe islands. Taylor puts on this program called Lighthouse and students who are accepted into the program are selected for different trips all across the world to participate in a month long missions trip. Each trip is different and works with a different ministry. Really, its an awesome opportunity for students and I'm so glad that Taylor offers something like this.

In SE Asia, we'll be staying with different host families and learning about their lives and culture, as well as their beliefs and worldviews. We basically are doing some relational evangelism with these people as we share our own lives with them as well. The main thing we'll be doing "evangelistic-wise" is to be sharing parables with the people, just like Jesus himself did. This is the part that really excites me. Indonesians loves stories and so do I, so the chance to just tell a whole bunch of stories with these people really excites me. This is actually my first missions trip, and I'm seriously pumped that its going to be in such a beautiful place like SE Asia!

I have no idea of what to expect, honestly. I have some idea from what we've learned about their culture and worldviews, but I'm unsure what our trip will look like. I love my team. They're really a bunch of great men and women and I'm humbled that I get to serve with them. I can't wait until we leave, which is actually in just one week!

Your prayers would be awesome as our team gets ready to leave and we would especially appreciate your prayers from Jan. 7-28 while we're doing some kingdom work halfway around the world.