Thailand Team 2026

Yesterday, when I asked one of the girls if there were any games she liked at school, she just shook her head. I then asked if she liked any games at all, which she enthusiastically nodded to. She explained that they do not play any games at school, all they do is study (probably why she is so smart and picked up the English very fast). I told her that in Canada we like to play lots of games when learning at school, she was very excited to learn English, but more excited to play games at our "school". And of course you can't have "school" without a school bus. Since a big yellow bus would not fit into any of our suitcases, we used the chairs at the church instead. If you have been to Junior Youth Group at Westwood (which I may be biased but I think everyone should be there, leader or youth, it is so much fun - shoutout to any youth reading this!), you may have played the bus game.  This game involves seven rows of chairs, set up as the "bus" and each r...

Each morning our team starts the day with breakfast and scripture study together, squished around the one large table in the hostel breakfast area. We have been reading through the book of Acts and there are so many practical lessons from the life of Paul and the stories of the early church. In reflecting on the early church and Pauls relationship with them, there is a consistent theme of encouragement. In his various letters to churches Paul often gives encouragement to the church and tells them of how he is encouraged by their faith, as he mentions in Romans chapter 1.  " For I long to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift to strengthen you—   that is, that we may be mutually encouraged by each other's faith, both yours and mine." - Romans 1:11-12 At the end of the meetings we have been sharing with the team the messages of encouragement that have been sent in. It has meant so much to the team to hear from the church at home, to be prayed over, and...

Sawasdee ka (hello)! Today was our second full day in Thailand and our first day with the whole Lampang church. This morning we joined our Khmu brothers and sisters for church; to worship together, pray together, and learn about the word of God.  Walking in to the church building and seeing the faces of some church members I had met 8 years ago and recognizing each other brought me so much joy. For the first bit in the morning while those leading worship practiced we got to connect with the church elders and their families. We sang some songs together and the kids did a wonderful job leading us through the actions. While we didn't know the words to the songs we were all worshipping together.  Throughout the service we heard from Nolan as he preached from the book of Acts. Several church members got up and shared their testimony of how they came to know God and how God has been at work in their lives. It was amazing to hear these stories of transformation - how God was at work ...

What a crazy 25 hours it has been! We are now a full day ahead of most of you (don’t worry, we won’t spoil what happens in the future - but it was fun time travelling). Our flights went smoothly after an initial delay in the Prince George Airport, thank you for all who were praying for safe travels, the Lord was looking after us for sure, we even got all our seats together on our longest flights with Nolan somehow being seated right in the very middle: We are just about to land at our last airport in the next hour at Chiang Mai as I am writing this. The journey has been a great time of bonding with tandem napping times, in-flight monopoly (not sure if David has a future career in property management, haha), new food, and tracking down the best and most caffeinated coffee in the Taipei airport. Some of the highlights include sitting all together on our long haul flight and watching Zootopia 2 at the same time. We also got to stand on a piece of Canada in the Vancouver airport and feel...

​ The team is officially on our way to Thailand! Thank you to everyone who has supported us through prayer, finances, showing up in amazing outfits to trivia (shoutout the Ray/Windolf team). We are so blessed to have a community of people behind us as we go.  Through the trip we will be sharing updates, photos, and prayer requests. If you haven’t yet, please sign up to receive our updates, share with others, and join us in prayer as we join with the church in Lampang to serve God together. 

🐑 The Great Sheep Guessing Challenge Welcome to the Great Sheep Guessing Challenge! This week David led the team through a Sunday school lesson on the parable about the lost sheep. We had a blast as a team going through the lesson and making our own sheep at the end. Some of them have a looooot of personality :) It has been so good to have some more time to bond as a team and have some fun together. See if you can guess who made each one and share your scores! Match each sheep to the team member who made it! Sheep 1: Ja'Quazius Select name Cadence Ava Silas Katie Nolan Katelyn Lauren David Tyler Sheep 2: Quack Select name Cadence Ava Silas Katie Nolan Katelyn Lauren David Tyler Sheep 3: Flufferson Sel...