Pray for the church of Los Montacitos. We tore it down during our month there and Francis (green shirt) just posted an update on facebook with pictures of the newly completely church building. Lord, please fill the church building that was make larger to hold more of your children and let it be a light on top of those mountains for people searching for you!

Please pray for my host family. That the Lord would be their provider for all of their needs. That they will know an abundance of His love and generosity like they showed me while opening up their home to me for a month. Christian, Me, Nicole, Gabby, Silvia, and Elqui.

Pray for the people working and living in the garbage dumps, that God would open up opportunities and occupations for them to get their families out of the dumps. Also pray for these 2 girls in this picture. They were deaf and we prayed healing over their hearing. Pray that God continues to heal them.

This is Angela (middle)! I wrote about her deliverance from anorexia and depression during our time there. Please pray for God to continue to heal her from her past and making it clear to her daily how much she is loved!

Lift up Carlos (green shirt corner of the truck); that God would continue to speak identity over Him and lead him on the path that has been laid for him. Also for Jackie and Oscar (white tank and Jesus fish shirt) that God would bless their marriage and the work they do with the church of El Salvador and with the World Race.

For my lovely sister Autumn, bless her Lord for all the love and joy that she freely gives to those around her. Also, bless the work that she is currently doing for SHE Ministries and all the people she gets to talk to for your glory! Thank-you God for such a great sister!

Lord, I ask that you would continue to bring in the finances for the students of Shekinah Glory School in Namangalala, Kenya, and to bless the students and the staff that care for the younger children who live there.

Please pray for my darling Calca (bottom), that God would continue to heal her body of HIV and give her a full life for Him. Also praise that our paths were crossed to remind me through the quietest pray from a child, that His love for us is great.

For Victory (left) and Dorcas (right) that God would continue to bless the work of their hands. Also, that all they joy and service they give would be blessed back into their lives, and for peace between religions in their country. 

Please pray for protection over all of our lovely girls from the Abundant Love Girls’ Home, to keep all these beautiful daughters out of the bars. Provide for them all they will need to continue with their educations. Sue Me (left) and my friend whose Thai name I could never understand (Right)

Pray for Tim (left) and the other members of the Children at Risk team; bless their hands that are building houses for people living in shacks, and holding children that would otherwise be ignored. Pray for the community that they are working in that walls would be broken down and hearts would be softened for what the team is doing in that area.

Thank-you for letting me share my heart and pictures of people who have impacted my life. Thank-you for partnering with me in prayer for them and for the finances that brought our paths together.

I would love to know if you have any prayer needs or requests, please feel free to email me and I would love to pray with you. megrthomas@yahoo.com

So we’ve all heard it before

“For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.”

I guess, I never really thought about it much before. It was easy to see the Lord’s plans when I got saved and shortly after signed up for a week long trip to Haiti. That led me an opening to go back for 6 weeks, and then that opened doors straight to going on the World Race. Now that I am home from all these adventures I started wondering what all these plans the Lord has for me are. I feel like everything has changed. I can no longer see life here as I used to. I no longer see church or people like I used to. Christianity itself has changed in my mind. It’s not the laws and legal system I grew up with when if I do this and act this way and not that, I will be blessed. I don’t want to get into an argument about what is right and proper but the law isn’t what holds me to God anymore, is what I am trying to say. Rules of religion are not why I act the way I act, it doesn’t control what I do or don’t do, but try to do all things out of love and allow love of the Father to define my actions the best I can. With all this change of perspective, I sit and I wonder (as well as being asked by everyone I know) “What comes next?”

Drat, was I supposed to be planning that while I was on the race? Whoops, I missed that step of transition. This is where I thank all the wonderful people working in Adventures in Missions, Kingdom Dreams Department for holding a weeklong “re-entry training” called Searchlight. In January, my fellow World Racers and I went down to Georgia for this. It was focused on pinpointing the main things that God had put on our hearts while we were on the field and giving us both motivation and means to get on a path that would make what was on our hearts and visions of what we would love to see happen for our lives or lives that we had crossed paths with this past year possible. 

For me, God had really given me a hunger for more of Him. To grow more into the woman He had created me to be. To be honest, most of the time I still feel really raw and young in my Christian walk. Actually, most of my life as a Christian has been spent in foreign countries. And I love being in foreign countries. I love learning about and being in different cultures, even when it sometimes seems so backwards to me. I loved the people we met and the simple act of sharing each other’s faith. I learned about Buddhism from this one woman I met in a bar in Thailand, and in return she wanted to know what I believe so I told her. I also love languages. I have to say that trying to learn all the different languages was one of my favorite parts of my race. So if the nations is what I love, then missions must still be for me, right? Still though, I didn’t go to bible school, I didn’t even graduate college. So most of the time I feel inadequate to recommend myself as a missionary because I don’t have any credentials except for my time on the race to say what I have to offer is worth it. How can I live to serve the nations if I can’t even recommend myself? 

Then I think of Paul. Blinded on the road to Damascus. What did he have to recommend him? He didn’t receive any special training, just the Holy Spirit to guide him. I’m not saying I’m Paul, but I do really love how God used his life. 

The conclusion I came to that week was that I wanted to join Adventures in Missions in what they are already doing around the world and in the lives of the people going on trips that they offer. I thought about how my own life had been changed since my first trip with them to Haiti in June 2010 and also some of the people around me from the testimonies I had been hearing. Not because of anything I had said or done on purpose either but just through walking in faith. I want to be a part of that. To give back to the organization that has already brought me so much farther than I could have imagined 2 years ago. 

I have signed up to be an Apprentice with Adventures in Missions. This is an 8 month program of working in the office, but also receiving decipleship and leadership training. A time to pinpoint my giftings and where I will be most useful to the Kingdom. I have requested to be a part of the Encounter department, which are the adult short term mission trips we offer (18+). So this will be the office and administrative side of the Edge program I was working with while in Haiti. This position will include connecting teams with contacts and coordinating short term trips and also hopefully leading some as well. To keep this post a little shorter please feel free to email me if you would care to know more specifics about what my apprenticeship will look like.

Maybe plans for my life is a bit much for the title of this post. I am NOT a planner. So the point that I am attempting to make plans for the next 8 months of my life feels like a huge step. But in order to actually be a part of the apprenticeship I have to take a larger step. I have to surrender my finances once again completely to the Lord and His followers. It is a paid apprenticeship, but my paycheck comes from fundraising. I will be working 8 hours a day/ 5 days a week, serving and growing in intentional meetings with other people in the apprenticeship program. Learning how to serve the best we can and helping to raise up more of our generation through the trips and programs offered to see the Kingdom Come. Ultimately that’s why we do the things we do. And that is what my heart is most passionate for. 

So for now these are my plans, and I feel pretty confident in saying that these are the plans that He has set aside for this portion of my life. If you are interested in partnering with me in this please email me your address or just say “more info” in an email. Or you can click on the support me tab on this page. 

Thanks for joining me on this adventure,

keep your eyes open for part 2 :)