Smile in the land of smiles!

Hello from Ton Sai, Thailand All is well from our end. We are enjoying meeting people and climbing. The climbers here are pretty good. Christmas was as good as it can get in a country that doesn't quite recognize Jesus. There is not much for me to share. Most of the sites are not new, yet things still amaze me. The pollution and how animals are treated is rough on a soul. Seeing the poverty and feeling like a tourist is an interesting experience. We are here to bring light in a dark place, to love each other well. I think we are doing that! Thanks for praying. Thailand is not an easy place to BE. Have a great New Years. Jordan

Bye Sheep.

Hello! 

My team and I are off to the Land of Smiles (Thailand) tomorrow morning. I will try to get on here once a week, we'll see how that goes. I do ask that you would pray for us. Any and all is appreciated. This is my last trip for a time with YWAM, so I want to finish well and share God's love with others. Hope you have a lovely Christmas and New Years. I will be home sometime in March, but until then...

Love,

Jordan

Thailand or bust

Okay, so maybe we are not leaving quite yet, but does six days count as being a lot of time?

The last few weeks has been delightful, but in a little over two months it will all be over and we will all be going home, traveling or sticking around for awhile.

To end, an Anne Lamott quote...

"My friend Terry says that when you need to make a decision, in your work or otherwise, and you don’t know what to do, just do one thing or the other, because the worst that can happen is that you will have made a terrible mistake."

To the water...

It has been quite the week here. Lives have surely been changed. It is crazy some of the transformations, whether attitudes or full on excitement for life. 

The picture below is the line we had for baptisms. There is one missing. We dunked 18 of our lovely students. Wow! It was pretty awesome.

That is about it. Words can not express all that happened, but there are only three weeks left until we head out. Off to Bangkok we go!

Thank you all.

i know the sun must set to rise.

As we gear up for the last four weeks until eight teams head out for eight different countries all over the World, there is an atmosphere of excitement and enthusiasm.

We all want to make a difference, to find out the niche in this world where we can actually change it.

How can we use who we are, the person God put together, to serve, to share, and to love others (specifically rock climbers and travelers) for two months?

How do we stay relevant, while standing on the Rock? How do we change a generation focused on self? How do we use our seemingly random passions to make a dent in people's lives?

I suppose life is a journey of figuring out how to do all that, but I will find all the boldness in me to accomplish it. The end.

I just got Psychotic Intertia-ed

The crew that's going to Thailand

Hello loved ones,

I am unsure on whether anyone reads this thing anymore (Parentals do not count, they get me face to face every week thanks to Skype). Much has happened this week. We had a lively speaker who shook up our ideas and even theology a bit.
I highly recommend clicking on the link below to hear what we hear (and you can see the pdf). Start with Identity-Session 2-The Importance...and move on.
http://www.patrickdodson.net/Podcast/Podcast.html

Now, I will tell you, he says things in an extreme way to poke you, to get you to think and talk to God about what you really believe.

Also, Psychotic Intertia is the book by Patrick Dodson. It rocked me. Find it on Amazon

“I do not feel obliged to 

believe that the same God who 

has endowed us with senses, 

reason, and intellect has 

intended us to forgo their use 

and by some other means to 

give us knowledge which we 

can attain by them.” Galileo

Hammock, book, and a french press

I've been reading a good book recently. If you want to be challenged, read it. It is called Psychotic Inertia by a fellow named Patrick Dodson. He is coming to speak on our school.
So, I just wanted to say, "Hello."
New Zealand is doing well. No major shaking. Soon and very soon I can announce where I am headed for 2 months of outreach. Until then, I am playing with Apple's newest software update on my iPod. It is sweet! Also, shout out to my mom for the amazing coffee. Thank you Topeca for existing.
Peace.