The first week of outreach

The first week of outreach has been awesome! The first day was spent driving to Kelowna, which was a lot of fun in the van. (We only had one child freak out and say that he wanted to go home about two hours in. It’s all good.) Arriving in Kelowna, we were met by a Korean man named Daniel and he guided us to the place where we would be staying at for the night. We drove to a beautiful house atop a hill that is owned by an awesome Korean couple. In the morning we spent some time praying for the couple in there house and speaking prophetic words over them and the city of Kelowna. It was a really awesome time.
I had an interesting word there for them and the city. I saw our group in the spirit gather up something like snow balls and throw them out onto the city and I also saw the couple speaking life into the city from there house in the mornings.
After our time in Kelowna we journeyed onward to Vancouver. We arrived in Vancouver on Tuesday night and stopped at our place of residence for the next few days- the Full Gospel Assembly church in Burnaby. We are guided to our room which is the church nursery, not bad.
That night we found out that there was a prayer meeting going on with the Zion church. Our base leader John Knoch told us that it would be beneficial to us if we went there and it was. We arrived with a little help if a GPS. Going upstairs to a small room filled with a diverse group of people praying, we are introduced to the group and given an opportunity to share. The pray time there was phenomenal and we had many encouraging words spoken over us. One of the highlights for me was meeting the Russian missionary that was a guest to the Zion church. We struck up conversation and I began to tell him about where we were planning on going. I told him that I was hoping to get to Seattle for church on Sunday and he asked me what church we were going to. I told him that I was hoping to go to Mars Hill. He said “oh yeah, Mark Driscoll, I like him.” He began to tell me that he watches the pod casts in at his home in Russia. It was so awesome to meet some one from Russia who was stoked on reformed theology.
For the next few days we had the opportunity to minister at Union Gospel Mission. UGM is a shelter for the homeless, but it is not your every day shelter. This place packed with a highly energetic clientele of about 120-130 homeless people from all different experiences and backgrounds, and seven crazy staff that we had lots of time to get to know and encourage. There are probably too many highlights to share but I think the number one was the time Barbie and I got to spend with Bill Wong. He is the manager of the UGM. We spent a large portion of the day with Bill running around the city picking up donations and talking. We really connected with Bill and had an awesome time of fellowship with him. It’s truly amazing to hear stories of the lives that have been changed by the mission and we were blessed to have been there.
Next up for us we are headed to Seattle. We need Prayer, today (Saturday) our van decided to break down, I guess the fuel pump and the fuel relay were on the last legs and decided to throw in the towel. So we are now in a holding pattern. Praise the Lord. We are being obedient.
Saturday night we got to relax and hang out with Dan & Arielle (Barbie’s bro & his GF). We had a really nice visit and had some delicious Indonesian curry. (made from scratch! Thank you!) It was a fun time, and as always, ended too soon.

Today is Sunday, the seventh day of outreach. WE are hoping to leave today for Seattle, but alas the van is in the shop still. We went to church at the Full Gospel Assembly this morning. The New Waves team performed a couple of their dances and the Hauka. The church was very culturally diverse. We had a lot of fun and were very blessed by the congregation. WE got to pray for many people after the sermon and the youth rocked it out. We had lunch with them after and it was a really cool time.

So here we are, not sure what is ahead, but we are confident in what the Lord has told us and are excited for the next seven weeks!