Sunday, November 20, 2011

Outreach Guatemala!!

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!

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