I'm currently in Phuket, Thailand, where I will be living for the next month during "manistry", our 9th month of the race, and a month to spend with the other 13 men on my squad. We are working with SHE ministries (Self Help Empowerment), a group that focuses on reaching out to the bar girls in Thailand that often feel as though they have no other options, and are pressured into a lifestyle that Jesus came to deliver us from. Trafficking is a sort of sensitive subject, but a lot of the women on our squad are ministering to these girls, and the men are working on the construction of new facilities for the girls who chose to join SHE. They come, learn skills and identity founded in Christ, and then go and begin new lives with confidence and freedom. We feel so blessed to be here working in a place that I know has stolen the Father's heart. He is so eager to bring His lost sheep home, freeing them from the thorns that trap them, cleaning their wounds, and shepherding them into green pastures beside quiet waters.