Hello all faithful Blog followers. We have a little treat for you today, it's our first video Blog. We just figured that we it would be fun if you could see exactly where we are at and some of what we are doing. Enjoy.
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Outeach week 3
We are now into out third week of outreach. It's funny how God changes things and directs us to people & places we would never think of.
Everyone on the team was really excited to go to Seattle and Mars Hill church for a sunday service but unfortunatly the van broke down and we had to stay in Vancouver for another few days. It was all good though, we got to hang out with Danny and Arielle (Barbie's brother & his GF) for another evening (and shower at their place, yeah!) God always works things out for good for those who love Him.
We also got to spend some time with YWAM Vancouver and encourage their team. They were/are also in the middle of a litigation process for their base. Apparently the city has re-zoned their base as residential and they are not allowed to be there now. So they have been in a large process of getting their base back, good times.
$1900.00 later, our van is fixed and we're on the
road again. Stopping breafly in Seattle to pray for the city we headed to Salem OR. We stayed the night in Salem at the YWAM base which was quite nice; All their guest rooms are theamed after countries and Barbie and I stayed in the Azerbaijan room which was really nice. We met a young 
man named Adrian who we got to spend a lot of time sharing with and praying for, it was really awesome. He's a cool dude. Actually, he is a stunt man and he has done stunts in some pretty big movies like "The Fantastic Four". We only stayed in Salem for one night and then headed for Redding CA. Arriving in Redding at one of our host family's place, Shane and Ginny Grimes, to have dinner and then headed to Bethel Church. I'm not sure if you have heard of Bethel Church, but it is a great place and people are on fire there. The team there ministered to us and we got to sit in on some classes in their Supernatural School of Ministry which has about one thousand students. Our time in Redding was so great and we met and minnistered to a lot of people.
road again. Stopping breafly in Seattle to pray for the city we headed to Salem OR. We stayed the night in Salem at the YWAM base which was quite nice; All their guest rooms are theamed after countries and Barbie and I stayed in the Azerbaijan room which was really nice. We met a young 
man named Adrian who we got to spend a lot of time sharing with and praying for, it was really awesome. He's a cool dude. Actually, he is a stunt man and he has done stunts in some pretty big movies like "The Fantastic Four". We only stayed in Salem for one night and then headed for Redding CA. Arriving in Redding at one of our host family's place, Shane and Ginny Grimes, to have dinner and then headed to Bethel Church. I'm not sure if you have heard of Bethel Church, but it is a great place and people are on fire there. The team there ministered to us and we got to sit in on some classes in their Supernatural School of Ministry which has about one thousand students. Our time in Redding was so great and we met and minnistered to a lot of people.Treasure Hunts- If you have never heard of a treasure hunt, it is about the most crazy thing I have done. Basically you wait on God, asking Him to show places, peoples names, appearance, prayed needs and unusual things to look for. Then you go out and look for them, and when you find those things you pray for people. One of the teams that went out came back with a crazy testimony of finding a woman who exactly fit the list someone made and who told them that the day before she had said to God "if you love me send someone to tell me." No Joke. It was totally amazing and our team has now adoped the idea and are trying it out in other citys we visit. Redding was amazing, going to church there was a blast and I would say probably the most intimate and intense worship I have ever experienced.
Leaving Redding we made the short drive to Chico CA We stayed at the YWAM base there and it is an incredible place. The base there is actually an old hotel built in the twenty's for movie stars
and is still in quite good shape. After we unpacked our stuff ,we found out that there was a pastors conference there with over seventy pastors attending from the county. We were given the opportunity to attend a prayer meeting with them and given some time to speak. It was crazy. I really felt that God had given me a word to speak to the pastors about holding thelogical issues in the open and closed hand and what needs to be in the closed hand thelogically and what we should hold in the open hand thelogically. It went well and I got some good feed back from a few of the pastors. Another thing that happend near the end they asked if there were pastors that wanted to come up for prayer about any personal issues that they had. One pastor named Abe came up and said that he was afraid to blow it and just wanted God to be proud of him. I felt like God told me to tell him that He (God) had a wallet with his picture in it. Yeah sounds pretty funny but, obedience. So after the meeting was done I found him and told him that. He began to tell me that he tells people that all the time and it means a lot to him. He thanked me then began to tell me how he was just so scared of messing up I told him not to worry about that and that it would be important for him to study pastors who have messed up and see where they stumbled and also have a network of Godly men around him to be accountable to he thanked me again and left.
and is still in quite good shape. After we unpacked our stuff ,we found out that there was a pastors conference there with over seventy pastors attending from the county. We were given the opportunity to attend a prayer meeting with them and given some time to speak. It was crazy. I really felt that God had given me a word to speak to the pastors about holding thelogical issues in the open and closed hand and what needs to be in the closed hand thelogically and what we should hold in the open hand thelogically. It went well and I got some good feed back from a few of the pastors. Another thing that happend near the end they asked if there were pastors that wanted to come up for prayer about any personal issues that they had. One pastor named Abe came up and said that he was afraid to blow it and just wanted God to be proud of him. I felt like God told me to tell him that He (God) had a wallet with his picture in it. Yeah sounds pretty funny but, obedience. So after the meeting was done I found him and told him that. He began to tell me that he tells people that all the time and it means a lot to him. He thanked me then began to tell me how he was just so scared of messing up I told him not to worry about that and that it would be important for him to study pastors who have messed up and see where they stumbled and also have a network of Godly men around him to be accountable to he thanked me again and left. The next day we headed out on our first team treasure hunt. The treasure hunt this time was definatly different than in Redding for what ever reason. We ended up praying for a young ladies Dad who was struggeling with pancreatic cancer. How we arrived at this point is the interesting part. Like before, in Redding, we waited on God for people, places, things ect. One person got "Jon and Bon's" which is an ice cream shop, another person got "fountain", and "pancreatic ailment", another got "purple shirt and red nail polish". And another got "octopus". When we met this girl named Jacqueline, she was wearing a purple shirt she had red toe nail polish and she standing was in between a fountain and Jon and Bon's ice cream shop, and in the fountain was a statue of an Octapuss. Barbie went up to her and told her all this. When she asked if we could pray for anything, Jacqueline told us that she had a grandpa who was dying from pancreatic cancer. Coinsidence?
After a few more days in Chico and serving the base there we headed out for Sacramento.
This trip has been amazing so far. We, our team, all believe that God is leading us on a journey that is much different from a conventional outreach, whatever that is, and far from what we might expect it to be. It was the sense from the beginning that He would be putting us in places where we had no business being with people who we would not otherwise ever contact. This is exactly what He's been doing, so far, along with teaching us much of whi He is. Jesus Is Lord!
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