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That was probably one of the craziest decision I have ever made. But I don't regret it at all. It really changed my life. I have been a regular runner, but we are talking about 2-3 miles run and nothing close to 13 miles. So this is a big journey that I want to share with all of you guys of how I feel and of how I learned so much from it. The story began 12 weeks ago. I decided to go through a training for a half marathon and sign up for the race. With 3 months preparation, I thought I should be able to nailed it. Grant and Andrew, my friends from the States decided to join in the fun (which I am really glad and thankful). So it begins. It was a great 12 weeks of training, it's not perfect by any means, but I said we did a pretty good job getting ourselves awake on 6:45 am almost everyday and follow through our running plan. But let me tell you, without those guys, I probably have quit a long time ago. So every week, we are getting stronger and stronger. We were keeping

Wow, time does fly! I feel like this month have passed by even faster than the months before. I hope you are all doing great and if some of you are in the East Coast, I really hope that you and your family are okay and that I am praying for a quick recovery. This month's highlight would be the camps!! Earlier this month, the junior high group had their camp and they asked me if I can come and help with devotion and take them out for running in the morning. Oh man, don't we have fun... just imagine about 25 junior highers in one place, without their parents. Yeah, it was crazy fun! I had the chance to share about my life and the ministry I am doing here. I was able to share and speak into their lives, letting them know that God can use each one of them like He uses me. It was such a sweet ministering time to this kids. I am so blessed and privileged to be able to teach and give input to these people's life. A week after the junior high camp, my youth group, JFJ

Hey everyone. You know when you have one of  those month that you are just non-stop doing stuff... yeah, I am having one of those right now. It has been so full and yet so fun, I know I have not been good in keeping you updated but I am going to try harder from now on :) Things has been really good around here. The ministry with the youth is growing and there has been a few more doors has been opened for me. I seriously cannot even begin to tell you of how God is really up to something really big in this city. We are in the middle of 40 days prayer and fasting as a church, praying and interceding for the city and the country. There's something changing in the spiritual realm, as well as in the physical realm. We did an engineer student camp for 3 days. The church has been doing this for many years, but this year they feel like the are most successful. The response was amazing, the testimonies of the students was very powerful and we get to share life with them. It left me really

Oh wow. Wow. Yesterday was my 1 year mark here in Thailand (not counting internship). I still remember when I came in to the airport that night, the people who are suppose to pick me up waited at the wrong exit so I cannot find them. Oh, how time flies. I have been so blessed to be here, to be doing what I am doing and to know that this is the place God wants me to be for this season. I am so grateful for every friendships I have here in Thailand, the ministry opportunities that has been given to me, the love, the community, everything. I hope I have made an impact in these people's life as much as they did to mine. I am also grateful for every trials and circumstances that I had to face. And for every victory that God had given me, everyday I see that His grace is enough, it's abound in me. There's so many things that God taught me in this past year and each of those moments are so precious, because it's making me me more and more like him. I am also grateful for

I was in the car, traveling from the south of Thailand back to Chiang Mai. It has been a long ride, we were probably 10 hours into our trip and we still have about 8 hours left. So I decided to listen to an audio book called "Radical" by David Platt. The book is about forsaking the American dream and pursuing the Lord. It doesn't seem relevant to me at that point but I decided to give it a try. And of all the things he said, one sentence really stuck to me. "Why don't we desperately seek Him?" I mean, when we are in need of something great, why don't we desperately seek Him? I know that it is our human nature, the constant battle that is in our mind that hinders us from seeking the Lord. But we have been redeemed and now we are being transformed in his likeness and image, we should want to seek him. Like for me personally, my heart longs for Him, I want to feel Him, touch Him and understand Him more and more. But in the reality, I'm more likely n

Well hello! I know that it has been a while since you hear any updates from me, but here I am back and ready to share about what has been happening with my life on this side of the world. Life has been a bit tough. Well maybe not a bit, but a lot. I know like in my past blogs and letters, I sounded really excited and full of adventures. And I am still excited, but I want to share also with you my struggles, that sometimes, storms come into your life and that we need to be reminded to keep our eyes on Jesus.   You all are aware that I have been taking a pretty big role here with the church and have been so involved with the youths and everything. This is one of the reason why I haven't been able to write you some updates because my days and weeks has been so full and leaves me almost no time to write some updates. In the beginning when this first happen, I was so unsure about everything and seems to kind of got lost and don't really know what to do. As time pass by, I get on

"Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds,  because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance.  Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything." James 1: 2-4 I have been pondering on that verses for quite sometimes now. It is such an amazing and powerful verses, written by James thousands of years ago and yet still so real and relevant in our lives today. Sometimes we need to be reminded again and again that this process that we all have to go through, God intended it to happen. There has been many times when I question God, "Why?" just simply because I don't understand and it is so hard to go  through it. But God is really teaching me that it's not the 'why' that counts, it's the 'what'. We need to have that perspective that knowing that all these happen for a reason and at the mean time, keep focusing our eyes to the Lord an