This week sees the start of another Syzygy mission trip, this time to Thailand.  We’re going to four different places in two weeks, where we’ll be catching up with mission workers working with:

• OMF in Lopburi
• Compasio in Mae Sot
• Eagles’s Rest near Phuket
• Urban Neighbours of Hope in Bangkok

In the process we hope to be meeting with mission workers, doing some training and member care.

Having visited Thailand several times we feel very much at home there and are looking forward to being back.  We love the food and the smiling, welcoming people, many of who have little to smile about.  Despite the glitz and opulence of cities like Bangkok and Chiang Mai where the tourists go, many people live in abject poverty in huge slums and it is estimated that over a million people work in the sex industry.  Some of the people we are visiting live and work with such people, living alongside them in slums or working with those scraping a living from scavenging on rubbish dumps.   For us, it’s a privilege to get alongside people like this and support them in their amazing ministries.

Please pray for:

• safe and punctual travel
• good sleep and recovery from jetlag
• effective training
• wisdom and sensitivity in dealing with issues

Our journey starts on 22^nd January, and ends with a return to the UK on 5^th February, just three days before heading off to Turkey… but that’s another story!