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the beauty at the bottom.

We serve in order to cultivate deep transformation in people, families, and communities.

Servant Life

Meeting Darkness

For nearly all Thai men’s entertainment workers, their job isn’t a career choice, but one from necessity and/or hurt. We started meeting and getting to know our first Thai bargirls on a visit in 2003, then more in 2004, and are still working to help them today. Getting started took some adjustment, to say the least.

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2024 Ministry Report

Thailand Ministry Highlights
by Jim Larson | December 21, 2024 | Read time: 7 minutes

We saw breakthroughs happen on several fronts, new partnerships, including a new very needed project for teen girls.

Servant Life

How We Chose Thailand

It took decades.

How does one decide that God is calling to go somewhere? For both Jim and Judy Larson, the story starts all the way back in childhood.

Servant Life

How We Got Started

living for the poor and broken

Jim grew up on a farm in Illinois, Judy the child of missionaries in Argentina. We met at Wheaton College, having both been challenged away from middle-class comfort and safety. We got together as a couple via reaching out to chronic mentally ill and others in Chicago’s Uptown neighborhood. Here we discuss our introduction as young adults past the usual hurdles of fear and discomfort, into the joy of caring for folks at the so-called bottom.

Servant Life

The Choice

The topic we all like to avoid.
by Jim Larson | October 29, 2024 | Read time: 2 minutes

A century-old poem attributed to George MacDonald well reminds us to consider what really matters.

News and Updates

Addy: Next Steps in Ministry

Time to apply everything he has learned.

Since he was an undergraduate student, Addy has pursued a vision to be a change agent in Thailand. We have watched him grow, including earning a master’s degree in educational management, a teaching certificate, and most recently, an M.A. in Ministry Leadership from Wheaton College.

Here is a current update on where he sees God leading.

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The Well, Bangkok

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