Hello everyone from beautiful Guatemala!! Robin and I have the privilege of leading the fall 2011 Crossroads on Outreach here. We are going to be in various places here over the next 8 weeks, ministering and sharing God's incredible love.
If you would like to follow the team blog, the address is: http://www.cdtsoutreach2011.blogspot.com/
We will be posting some things here as well from time to time, but there will be more stuff from different members of our team posted there.
Thanks for praying for us!
Sunday, November 20, 2011
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Hello dear family and friends,
We hope that this November finds you eagerly anticipating the Thanksgiving season while remembering that Christmas is just around the corner. The past few months have flown by for us since we stepped into the new responsibilities of staffing a Crossroads DTS. We've had our share of joys and challenges and have enjoyed getting to know the students very well through the weeks. The older couple in the picture with the matching shirts are the school leaders, the other 6 adults are our students and crouching down are two teen-aged children of one of the couples.
We will be leading the outreach to Guatemala for almost 8 weeks. We leave on Saturday, November 19 and will return on Wednesday, January 11. Most of our time will be spent at the YWAM base in Antigua, Guatemala assisting them in various local ministries. We'll also spend 2 weeks in Guatemala city living with host families and one week staying at a camp in San Juan Sacatepeque. Over the course of the outreach we'll do a variety of things possibly including: children's ministry, street ministry, dramas, music, speaking in church, reaching the homeless, reaching out to those living in the garbage dump, working in an orphanage, light construction and whatever else our contacts dream up for us! Everyone in the picture is going except for the school leaders.
They are a mature, talented bunch and we are very excited to bring the team to Guatemala and see what God has in store for all of us. Please keep us in your prayers as we finish preparations to go, as we travel and throughout the outreach. Caleb will have an added challenge on outreach since he broke his hand this past week on the playground. He'll have cast for most of the time that will need to be removed in Guatemala. We are in need of roughly $3,000-$4,000 to cover airfare, expenses and base fees while we're gone. If you'd like to support us financially please send a check to: YWAM Chico 15850 Richardson Springs Rd, Chico, CA 95973. (Please enclose a separate note with our name on it and leave the memo line blank.) Thank you for your prayers and finances, we couldn't do the ministry we are called to here without your help!
God bless,
Dan, Robin, Caleb, Josh and Nathaniel
We hope that this November finds you eagerly anticipating the Thanksgiving season while remembering that Christmas is just around the corner. The past few months have flown by for us since we stepped into the new responsibilities of staffing a Crossroads DTS. We've had our share of joys and challenges and have enjoyed getting to know the students very well through the weeks. The older couple in the picture with the matching shirts are the school leaders, the other 6 adults are our students and crouching down are two teen-aged children of one of the couples.
We will be leading the outreach to Guatemala for almost 8 weeks. We leave on Saturday, November 19 and will return on Wednesday, January 11. Most of our time will be spent at the YWAM base in Antigua, Guatemala assisting them in various local ministries. We'll also spend 2 weeks in Guatemala city living with host families and one week staying at a camp in San Juan Sacatepeque. Over the course of the outreach we'll do a variety of things possibly including: children's ministry, street ministry, dramas, music, speaking in church, reaching the homeless, reaching out to those living in the garbage dump, working in an orphanage, light construction and whatever else our contacts dream up for us! Everyone in the picture is going except for the school leaders.
They are a mature, talented bunch and we are very excited to bring the team to Guatemala and see what God has in store for all of us. Please keep us in your prayers as we finish preparations to go, as we travel and throughout the outreach. Caleb will have an added challenge on outreach since he broke his hand this past week on the playground. He'll have cast for most of the time that will need to be removed in Guatemala. We are in need of roughly $3,000-$4,000 to cover airfare, expenses and base fees while we're gone. If you'd like to support us financially please send a check to: YWAM Chico 15850 Richardson Springs Rd, Chico, CA 95973. (Please enclose a separate note with our name on it and leave the memo line blank.) Thank you for your prayers and finances, we couldn't do the ministry we are called to here without your help!
God bless,
Dan, Robin, Caleb, Josh and Nathaniel
Sunday, April 10, 2011
Blessing and Blessed
This past week we were privileged to have a team come from our church in Michigan, Friendship Chapel. Four youth leaders, Mike and Tammy Heyboer and Shaun and Tracy Vander Lugt, along with six of the members of their senior high group, Jake Heyboer, Eddie Gust, Steven Diekema, Victoria Geurink, Kayla Schut, and Melissa Wilkins.
They arrived very late on March 31st (11:45 pm) and snoozed for the 1 1/2 hour drive from Sacramento to the base in Chico. After a few hours of sleep the team ate a quick breakfast in the house they were staying in and joined the rest of the base for a time of intercession on Friday morning. The focus of the intercession was on the youth of England. At one point during the this time all the youth were asked to stand in the middle of the group to represent the youth we were praying for. Wonderful words were spoken over both groups.
The team then started right in on the work project that had been assigned to them for the week. painting the Sweetwater cabins. Sweetwater is where we house some of our guests during large conferences. The cabins were in desperate need of a fresh coat of paint. As we got started it was evident that the railing on the front of two of the cabins was in bad shape and needed to be replaced. The team was able to bless the base by purchasing some treated lumber to fully replace these as well. Friday night was a time of relaxing and recouping after a hard days work. The power went out for a couple of hours and we sat and watched a movie on Mike's laptop.
Saturday the team got back to work and did a lot of power washing and painting and building the new railings. The power went out again on Saturday night, and the team spent the evening talking on the front porch and worshiping God.
Sunday the team went with us to church at New Beginnings Fellowship. After church we all spent some relaxing time at Bidwell Park in Chico. Some of us played some soccer while others played in the playground area or just sat and relaxed on some blankets. The power actually stayed on that night and we enjoyed another time of worshiping.
To be continued.....
They arrived very late on March 31st (11:45 pm) and snoozed for the 1 1/2 hour drive from Sacramento to the base in Chico. After a few hours of sleep the team ate a quick breakfast in the house they were staying in and joined the rest of the base for a time of intercession on Friday morning. The focus of the intercession was on the youth of England. At one point during the this time all the youth were asked to stand in the middle of the group to represent the youth we were praying for. Wonderful words were spoken over both groups.
The team then started right in on the work project that had been assigned to them for the week. painting the Sweetwater cabins. Sweetwater is where we house some of our guests during large conferences. The cabins were in desperate need of a fresh coat of paint. As we got started it was evident that the railing on the front of two of the cabins was in bad shape and needed to be replaced. The team was able to bless the base by purchasing some treated lumber to fully replace these as well. Friday night was a time of relaxing and recouping after a hard days work. The power went out for a couple of hours and we sat and watched a movie on Mike's laptop.
Saturday the team got back to work and did a lot of power washing and painting and building the new railings. The power went out again on Saturday night, and the team spent the evening talking on the front porch and worshiping God.
Sunday the team went with us to church at New Beginnings Fellowship. After church we all spent some relaxing time at Bidwell Park in Chico. Some of us played some soccer while others played in the playground area or just sat and relaxed on some blankets. The power actually stayed on that night and we enjoyed another time of worshiping.
To be continued.....
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