Bring a fork, J!

Most of you know by now that J (Jason Hinckley) is coming out to see me in January. He and Vee have become very good friends via email already and can hardly wait to spend time together. They have so much in common it is eerie. Both came from broken homes and turned to drugs and alcohol at an early age. Both went through a rehab program and met Christ in a radical, life changing encounter. Both are now serving as pastoral interns in their respective churches and are attending Bible training. (Vee is finishing up seminary and J starts studying at Midwest Baptist shortly after he returns from Thailand.)

J will be very busy. He'll have chances to preach and to share with small groups, youth groups and in individual homes. We'll travel to southern Thailand for three days and to the western border to visit with missionaries for two days. At Khao Lak, the pastor we will work with there wants me AND J to preach that Sunday in her church as a kind of spiritual father and son team preaching exercise. J will work with a prison ministry in Bangkok and will visit the slums with me to work with kids. All in ten days. I suspect this will be a life altering experience for him.

One thing he can look forward to. Each week at Soi 107 while we are working with the kids, a vendor comes up the street pushing his little cart along. The selection is usually pretty similar. Today's choices were: some kind of caterpillar and grasshoppers in two sizes.


Or the ever popular dried frogs. Buy a bag of your favorite, or if you are having trouble making up your mind, mix and match your own combo bag! (By the way, clicking on any of these pictures will enlarge it.)

If you know J, I expect you to hold him accountable. Is he going to do this thing for real or is he going to be the soft, city-slicker farang? We'll know in just over six weeks!