Outpour | Joshua Glover
Mae Sot, Thailand
My name is Joshua and my heart swells and shatters for this next generation of youth and children. To see them walk in the wholeness of their God-given identity, and the fullness of their royal inheritance, is the mountain I will die on. I have a burning passion for God’s Word and to see others come alive and encounter the Living God through His living Word. I also like to climb on tall rocks and spend as much time as I can around a table with those I love.
Before moving to Mae Sot, Thailand, I had spent the better part of a decade traveling the world, participating in international missions, and living within mission-minded communities with the intent of seeing His Kingdom come and His will be done on Earth as it is in Heaven. Throughout all of my experiences within the countless places the Lord has taken me, I have seen first hand just how far God’s goodness will go to overtake the darkest of places and how He invites us to be an essential part of His solution to transform this broken world into wholeness. It was when He brought me here, along the border of Thailand and Burma, where He broke my heart the hardest. While looking upon the many babies and children who had been labeled with statelessness and abandonment along the border, and the countless lives displaced and uprooted by 70+ years of war and tyranny, I knew I couldn't live with myself if I didn’t do something about it.
After wrestling with the Lord on how to find a solution to such atrocities, He placed me in the position I am in today. At the start of 2024, I joined the team here at Outpour to work directly with our Refuge Youth Home. It has been my life’s greatest honor serving and discipling these youth. I believe they, and many others like them, are a major part of God’s plan to heal and restore a hurt and bleeding nation. They are the Oaks of Righteousness spoken of in Isaiah 61 who will REBUILD, RAISE UP, and REPAIR, the desolations of many generations. It is my life’s mission to see these Oaks bloom.
Outpour Family Foundation has spent the last 20 years serving the people who transcend the Thai/Myanmar border through educational training, social enterprises, community outreach, and child and family advocacy. To empower individuals and families to find belonging and restoration in Christ while creating eternal impact.
Here at Outpour, my primary role is Lead Advocate for our Refuge Youth Home. The Refuge is a youth safe home for boys and girls aged 10-19 who come from desperate situations in conflict zones across the border in Myanmar. This home provides a family structure and safe space for these youth to learn and grow in all areas of life. The heart behind this home is to:
- Equip youth with education and training to go back to poverty-stricken and war-torn areas in Burma to help their people
- Model Godly family, love, and values
- Obtain proper documentation for all who come into our care
- Establish a safe, nurturing environment
- Restore children to family and family to children
- Pray for PEACE and RESTORATION for the nation and people of Burma
- Pray for all of the youth and kiddos that are under our care. That they will walk boldly into the the fullness of their God given identities
- Pray for God ordained partnerships and relationships that will increase the impact of this ministry.
- Pray for the Gospel to spread like a wildfire across the border of Thailand & Burma.
Our Refuge Youth Home is not just a family-style home that has taken in a handful of youth from across our border to create a safe space for them to come and receive an education and set themselves up well for the future. It’s a FAMILY in every sense of the word, and the youth who are there have been each other’s family for most of their adolescent years.
PlahSoe loved his family, and he had so many dreams for each of them. Before his passing, he was just a few months away from graduating high school and was excited to get a full-time job where he could earn more
money to help support the dreams of his siblings. His heart for them was HUGE and he wanted every opportunity for them that they could possibly have. He longed for them to get their identification so they could freely travel outside of Mae Sot like he could. He longed for them to be able to continue their education at University if they desired to keep studying.
He had already personally begun saving for all of these things for them—committed to sowing into the futures of his brothers and sisters. And our desire is to continue carrying that dream.
This legacy fund—set up in PlahSoe’s honor—will help provide continued education opportunities for the rest of the youth and kids at Refuge Youth Home, as well as help them toward getting their identification. It will help set them up well for the future and allow each one to continue pursuing the dreams the Lord has placed on their hearts.
If you would like to give toward this fund, you may do so using this link.
“Prepare to receive babies and children,” the Lord said to our team years ago. Not knowing the extent of what God meant, we have been preparing ever since—learning more about the need in our border town where trafficking of all kinds happens behind closed doors. We believe God is using us to help pave the way for future children to be rescued from the harsh reality of abandonment and the risks that coincide with it.
In February 2020, we located the right piece of land, signed a contract, and placed a down payment. Then, as we began fundraising, Covid hit the world. Yet in the midst of a global pandemic, we saw over $450,000 come in and officially paid for the land in full in June 2021! Only God!
Our land will be a safe space that legally and lovingly protects and advocates for the best interests of vulnerable and at-risk children (0-18), especially those who are stateless. Providing loving foster families, education, training, legal identification, as well as physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual support, the end goal is to see these children reunited with or legally placed in their forever families.
We want to see these children restored to family and family restored to them. We want to see them obtain proper legal identification that will allow them a better and brighter future. And we want to work alongside the governing authorities and court systems of Thailand to eventually see a reversal to the laws set in place. We long to see a nation transformed and see statelessness eradicated!
“That they may be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord that He may be glorified. And they shall rebuild the old ruins. They shall raise up the former desolations. And they shall repair the ruined cities, the desolations of many generations.”
-Isaiah 61:3-4
As we’ve been constructing our multipurpose building on our Safe Home Land and preparing to move from our current rented spaces in town to our new location, we are in need of an additional separate storage building/tool workshop to help keep our multipurpose building functional for its intended purposes.
The building specs will include:
-A 10x10 meter basic cement storage building with roof
-Supplies for creating all the needed shelving within the space
-Gravel for extending a road from our parking area to the building
-A cement slabbed workspace area outside the building entryway & a covered awning to serve as a space for our welding table & other tools/workshop materials
-Flooring, electrical, etc. costs for the unit
This campaign will also help provide funds for the following:
-CAD designs floor planner program—so that we can begin working on the designs of our next builds
-Help with supplementing some of the salaries for our security staff on the land
*Please note: the graphic above is merely a mock-up and not the final intended product.
This building is essential for us to be able to fully move from our current rented spaces. Once this storage building construction is completed, we will fully be able to turn our attention to preparing for the next builds which will include the first of our Safe Homes.
To give toward this project, you may do so by clicking the link below or by mailing a check to The Cause. Thank you in advance for helping us "Move it, move it"—getting us closer to seeing more children restored to family through Outpour Family's safe home land!
https://thecause.givevirtuous.org/donate/move-it
To Give by Mail:
Please make checks payable to The Cause and include Outpour-Move It, Move It in the memo.
Mail Checks to:
The Cause, Inc.
4225 Oceanside Blvd, Suite H-325
Oceanside, CA 92056