MercyWorks

MercyWorks to Give More Micro Enterprise Loans

As we just celebrated Independence Day here in the USA, MercyWorks is helping people in Asia as well as in our own hemisphere to know God and to help care for their own families. At the end of last year, a MercyWorks team visited a Micro Enterprise Development project in Pattaya, Thailand, called “Itsera” (the [...]

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Taking A “Step Ahead”

Our first stop on Thursday was visiting Step Ahead Bangkok, a micro-enterprise development ministry headed by YWAMers John and Kimberly Quinley, American missionaries who have lived in Thailand for the past 25 years. The fruit from their many endeavors is evident in changed lives throughout the country. Our goal for the first day was visiting [...]

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Jesus Loves the Little Children

After seeing the work of Step Ahead Bangkok and Step Ahead Pattaya, we then drove to observe YWAM’s SLUM ministries. This is perhaps one of the simplest and purest ministry concepts I have ever seen in 30 years of full-time missions work. I suggested to the team they use the letters in SLUM to stand [...]

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Learning Firsthand What God is Doing

Sunday and Monday were a continuation of a huge learning curve. Back in Bangkok, we learned more about how to make a difference in the human trafficking industry. We met a YWAMer named Chris of MST Project (Male Sex Tours) who believes men as the main consumers of porn and as the traffickers of porn [...]

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