Top pics from our World Race squad
Top photos from last month on the World Race. This is the team that Karen and I pour our lives into. After spending September in Viet Nam, they’ve spent this last month in Cambodia and yesterday flew to Bangkok and Myanmar. In each place they confront new pain and seek to bring a measure of hope. Enjoy.
Thailand – September 2008 – The July ’08 squad on Koh Samet Island. – photo from Jennifer Crane.
Nicaragua – September 2008 – Team 5-Alive: “This 20X20 room is our church. We meet as the body here almost every morning even if it is only to pray.” – photo by Natalie Montgomery
Vietnam – September 2008 – Sleeping in Saigon – photo by Josh Bruce
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Vietnam – September 2008 – “There is prostitution going on every night on the floor below where I sleep…” “…The battle started the day I met Iris. (not her real name) The night I saw her she walked down the dark corridor of the main floor of our hotel escorted by an older gentleman in red silk pajamas. As the man opened the door to room number 7 she looked back over her shoulder intently into my eyes
with this look of desperation and emptiness.” – photo by either Amy McAllister or Tara Bruce
with this look of desperation and emptiness.” – photo by either Amy McAllister or Tara Bruce
Vietnam – September 2008 – A street in Ho Chi Minh City. – photo by Jennifer Crane
Thailand – September 2008 – Racer Patrice Deaton “Telling Ta and Kung how much Jesus loves them.” – photo by Meredith Dinsdale
Vietnam – September 2008 – One of the many, many MANY motorbikes in Vietnam. – photo by Katie Rowland
Vietnam – September 2008 – A beggar in front of the Notre Dame Cathedral. – photo by Tara Bruce
Vietnam – September 2008 – “This is [World Racer] Lisa [Smith] with a baby that has a birth defect called Omphocele (the intestines don’t get fully encapsulated by the stomach)”
– photo by Natalie Montgomery
– photo by Natalie Montgomery
Cambodia – September 2008 – “I look at this boys face and I see a story of struggle, but not one without hope.” – photo by Tara Bruce
Vietnam – September 2008 – A bicycle taxi driver. – photo by Tara Bruce
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“she looked back over her shoulder intently into my eyes with this look of desperation and emptiness.”
This made me cry.
I take a ministry team into a strip club on Saturday mornings. At first, they were pretty shocked we would step foot in the place. Then they braced themselves for the condemnation they thought was coming. It never came.
Our purpose in going is to let Jesus love them through us.
Most people are eager for prayer and we have seen miraculous healings. It’s as if God is saying, “Hey, I’m here and I love you no matter what.”
But the greatest miracle we see is God giving people Hope and healing broken hearts.
It’s amazing how Jesus meets people wherever they are.
Smashing photos here. So many strong associations for all those wonderful guys on the team involved in this, I am sure. Each picture with a story, each story full of both heartache and another way God met someone and expressed His love and mercy. This is good to see in picture. Thanks, lol Cxx
Wow, thanks for the picture captions that share your vision for hope and change for hurting people. I so want my eyes to see like Jesus does – for my children, spouse, and anyone I come in contact with, that I see what they can become with Jesus’ love and power, not simply where they seem stuck today. I am so grateful that Jesus has seen me that way and he never gives up! Author and Counselor, Sandra D. Wilson, writes, “only when we deeply accept that we are both totally sinful and totally forgiven can we deeply accept God’s acceptance.” Paul reminds us too in Romans 8, that nothing can stop God’s love; so Seth and Karen and all you World Racers, keep runnin’ into those lives with Jesus’ love!