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Monday, April 12, 2010
Thursday, April 8, 2010
What's been going on with me...
I love Jesus
Last weekend my friends took me on a trip to visit family in Colorado Springs. We went and saw ‘The Thorn’, an Easter Production put on by New Life Church.
It was amazing and a good reminder why I do what I do. I want to tell people about Jesus and the fact that He died for all of our sins.
Pier Ministries
Over the past few weeks I have been able to visit people in our neighborhood, talk with them, pray
for them and just listen to what’s going on in their lives.
It’s really fun and a good change from sitting in the office. Since January we’ve been able to visit and pray for 10
people, more than 800 families have received food from our grocery assistance program and more than 20 families have received brand new outfits.
We have seen clients from the food program transition into volunteering their time to help other people. It’s really been great.
We are partnering with another ministry to offer After School Homework help at our building 4 times a week.
This month we are starting to offer basic English Classes for our Spanish speaking neighbors.
It’s been a great season with some really good success stories and I couldn’t have done it without you. Thanks for being part of the team.
I want to be honest with you. For the past few months I’ve had some major financial struggles. Due to the economy some of my supporters couldn’t support me financially any longer and some of my basic cost, such as rent and phone have almost doubled. This leaves me almost $300 short each month and it makes it hard to keep going.
I need your help
Would you please pray and consider giving $30 a month towards my ministry? More details are here
Exciting New Ventures
While I love working with the ministries at the Pier, I also realized that I miss working with young people. Right now we don’t have enough staff, volunteers or money to start a youth program at the Pier.
So I asked the Leadership Team if I could volunteer some time over at the Boys and Girls Club down the road to start building relationships with teens. They agreed and I’m pretty close to finishing with the volunteer application process (Interview, drug test, finger printing, orientation) and am quite excited to start hanging out with some teens.
Please pray that I would be able to relate well and have chances to tell the kids about Jesus.
Last weekend my friends took me on a trip to visit family in Colorado Springs. We went and saw ‘The Thorn’, an Easter Production put on by New Life Church.
It was amazing and a good reminder why I do what I do. I want to tell people about Jesus and the fact that He died for all of our sins.
Pier Ministries
Over the past few weeks I have been able to visit people in our neighborhood, talk with them, pray
for them and just listen to what’s going on in their lives. It’s really fun and a good change from sitting in the office. Since January we’ve been able to visit and pray for 10
people, more than 800 families have received food from our grocery assistance program and more than 20 families have received brand new outfits. We have seen clients from the food program transition into volunteering their time to help other people. It’s really been great.
We are partnering with another ministry to offer After School Homework help at our building 4 times a week. This month we are starting to offer basic English Classes for our Spanish speaking neighbors.
It’s been a great season with some really good success stories and I couldn’t have done it without you. Thanks for being part of the team.
I want to be honest with you. For the past few months I’ve had some major financial struggles. Due to the economy some of my supporters couldn’t support me financially any longer and some of my basic cost, such as rent and phone have almost doubled. This leaves me almost $300 short each month and it makes it hard to keep going.
I need your help
Would you please pray and consider giving $30 a month towards my ministry? More details are here
Exciting New Ventures
While I love working with the ministries at the Pier, I also realized that I miss working with young people. Right now we don’t have enough staff, volunteers or money to start a youth program at the Pier.
So I asked the Leadership Team if I could volunteer some time over at the Boys and Girls Club down the road to start building relationships with teens. They agreed and I’m pretty close to finishing with the volunteer application process (Interview, drug test, finger printing, orientation) and am quite excited to start hanging out with some teens.
Please pray that I would be able to relate well and have chances to tell the kids about Jesus.
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
Snippets of my life
Blast from the Past:
My friend David Skeat from way long ago in Australia came to the States and we were able to hang out for a couple hours in Vegas! Loved it!
Here you see Peter cleaning the exhaust in the kitchen. Recently we had a base cleaning day and Peter, Stacy and me were in the same cleaning group and tackled the kitchen with great success.
Peter was with us for 3 months cooking for the DTS and Mission Adventures and has just recently returned to Canada. It was amazing to have someone oversee the kitchen! What a blessing.
Our DTS of 5 students will be going on Outreach soon with Stacy and Andrea leading the group, while Joshua and Andrew stay back and organise the September DTS.
Mission Adventures also had a busy spring break with training about 150 students in Evangelism. We are praying for 600 students total this year!
Life with friends:My friend Leona (middle) and her husband Jeff took me on a trip to Colorado Springs for my birthday. It was awesome to hang out with friends and family, see an amazing Easter play and just relax.
While in Colorado Springs I was also able to reconnect with my friend Helen (left) who's gearing up to staff a DTS outreach to Africa in a few weeks.
Life at Church:This would be a picture of Tony, our youth leader at Junior High. When I took the picture it was 4:35am.
Why do I have a picture of Tony at that hour? Well, it's because of INSOMNIA.
Insomnia is an all night event for Junior High Students. We go to Adventuredome, Ice skating, jumping all over trampolines and shoot people with paintball at some really early hour in the morning.
I love Insomnia, because you get to hang out with students all night, talk and introduce them to Jesus in a very different way.
This year we took over 500 Junior High Students and Leaders on the all nighter! (For whatever reason I couldn't turn the picture. And then I decided it was funny)
Life with Friends:
Life with Friends:One day, when you and me hang out, we will have to play UNO 'brazilian rules'. It's so much fun and sometimes even a little painful!
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