On The Streets…

Posted by on Jan 24, 2011 in News & Updates | 2 comments





“We are debtors to every man to give him the Gospel in the same measure in which we have received it” — P.F. Bresee, founder of the Church of the Nazarene

During the teams first month with us in Thailand, we spent a lot of time in prayer and seeking the Lord on how to go about ministering in the city. It was during that time the Lord gave Wesley a very prophetic dream. In the dream, Wesley and the team was washing dishes when the drain got clogged by a bunch of nasty waste. Agitated by the clogged drain, he went to flip the trash disposal on. Just when he did two arms shot out from the drain in a silent cry for help.

The dream disturbed him so much he hurried Ashley awake thinking there may be someone in trouble who needed their help right away. It was 5am when they headed out down the street. Looking around they didn’t see anyone in distress. Praying they asked God to lead them to someone whoever it might be. Walking by the 7-Eleven they spotted a young woman sitting on the curb. She was a lady of the night who looked like she’d just gotten off work. She was silent as she sat there. Ashley approached her saying hello “sa-wat-dee-ka.” Asked her her name, and how she was. She looked surprised. Like she wasn’t used to people addressing her, or asking her name. They weren’t able to communicate much beyond that, besides expressing friendliness and sincerity.

When the group met around 9:30am Wesley shared the dream and story with us.

The translation was clear. Don’t forget or overlook those who are seemingly in the trash, cause there are those who are crying out for help. Their cries cannot be heard cause they’re so heavy in the muck, but silently they are reaching up in desperation. It was God’s clear love responding to their cries. The world may of forgotten these people. The world may call these people trash, worthless, nothing, but God thought differently. He saw life. He sees them as He saw us, lost. God was calling us to respond to them. To seek them out, find them, and pull them out just as He did for us.

These people are the prostitutes, the drunkards, the drug addict, the downcast, homeless, and even the transvestites. People we often ignore and look the other way with.

We made a plan of action. We started going on prayer walks around 5am, and discovered that that time of day was indeed the opportune time to talk and approach people. Alot of the girls are off or getting off around then just before sun up. The sun would start coming up around 6:25am so that gave us about an hour and a half to talk and hand out tracks to as many people as we could.


Dustan, Wesley & Ashley during one of our early morning prayer walks around the city.



In early November we started a weekly commitment of going out twice a week in the mornings, and then upped it to three times a week. Getting up around 4-4:30am, we’d get together, pray and head out into the heart of Chiang Mai to hand out tracks and share the Gospel.

One of the mornings there was a girl of the night sitting out in the city square crying. She was unhappy about her life. Our friend John Lambert who’s lived in Thailand for around 3yrs was with us that day and was able to communicate with her in Thai the love of Christ for her and her life. She received everything he said listening intently.


Another time when in prayer, Dustan got a clear leading from the Lord to look for a man in the middle of a book. When we were in the middle of sharing the Gospel with a drunk older gentleman, he looked across the square and saw a young man in the middle of a book. We prayed with the older man. He pointed to the drunk man in the picture on the track we’d given him and pointed to himself. He was a drunk too. We smiled and explained that God loved him. He pointed to his stomach to say it hurt. So we prayed with him, asked God to touch his body, to demonstrate His goodness. The older gentleman smiled, and thanked us for praying with him. We weren’t able to communicate much beyond praying for him, and letting him know God loved him since we had no translator. We pointed him to the track tho to continue reading to learn more.

We then headed over to the young man not knowing what to expect. Turned out he spoke perfect English. He was Karen/Thai and a student at Chiang Mai University. Dustan went into sharing the Gospel with him. He told us he had a friend of his share about Jesus with him before. We left him thinking about God, his life, and how clear it was the Lord lead us to him.

Another time Darlene heard in prayer about someone with a hat & green. Not understanding what it meant beyond that, she went with Dustan and began handing out tracks. They both started talking with two students who understood English, and went into sharing the Gospel with them. At first Darlene didn’t notice, but after talking with the young lady for a bit she noticed she was wearing a hat and had on a green checkered scarf! That was another confirmed leading of the Lord.

All of the team at some point was able to share the Gospel in love openly with a number of lady-boys (a transvestite, or also known as she-boys), or men dressed as women. A few of the responses at times was very positive. One of the things that was so good for the team was to simply be a light. To simply express the Love of God. It’s not our place to start trying to change these people right away. That’s God’s job. Unless the Holy Spirit draw a man he cannot come to know the Lord. Knowing this, our agenda wasn’t to try and shove the Gospel down their throats, but to tell them about Jesus. “Love, love, just simply show my love towards them.” Is what I kept hearing in my Spirit when I’d get around them. Later on, a friend of ours who works in Chiang Mai as a missionary shared with us a testimony of a man who was a “she-boy,” who after a year and a half of coming to know the Lord completely turned full circle back to looking like a man. Praise God! These things are taking place here, it just takes time to see the fruit of it. So we were in planting season. Planting seeds of truth and love in their hearts.

The Lord continued to draw us and the team to different people through direct Holy Spirit leading.

Here are a few of the testimonies we’ve recorded here.