Merry Chritmas from Pesca, Colombia

We rumble over streets and stop in front of a white stucco building.

A woman with grey hair and tanned skin steps from the entry way to

welcome us to our new home.

Our team arrives in Pesca, after a four hour bus ride from Bogota . . .

In Colombia!

I'm in Colombia!

We leave today for 6 day outreach in a rural area outside Bogota.

Please pray for the JOY of the Lord and for great work in the hearts and lives of people we meet.

We will spend Christmas together.

I'm so excited to be part of this team.

Wow.

Check facebook for pics and info.

Reunion in Colombia

Sweet reunion with team Colombia today! We're all together in Bogota. Yipppeee!!! Tomorrow we leave for rural place and work with kids. I'm so excited. Tonight God provided a spectacular sky-show: Rainbow, blazing sunset, swirls of color, twinkling city lights, and O'Ryan warrior-constellation in the sky . . .

Mirror, Mirror

Mirror, Mirror, on the wall, who's the fairest of them all?

I don't want to be the world's top model, but I do want to be beautiful.

A little while ago, I stopped in front of the mirror to check how I looked, a thought came to mind, 

"Why do you look in the mirror so much?" . . .

Invitation to Join YWAM Kona

Here is a Kona promo video. 

No, I'm not YWAM's new spokeswoman . . .

1st Day of Notes

Notes from 1st day of Lecture:

All of my life should be an expression from my experienced knowledge of God's immense love for me.

Starting DTS Tomorrow

Tomorrow my D.T.S. begins.

AKA (also known as): Discipleship Training School; a six-month program, at the University of Nations, in Kona, Hawaii.

YWAM (Youth With A Mission) is the Christian missions organization with which I'm training.

Three months will be here in Kona. Then at Christmas time, our team will travel

to S.E. Asia and beyond to bring the aroma of Christ and offer his freedom to

his precious creation.

The focus of our school is Compassion and helping children affected by child-trafficking

and AIDS orphans.

God is so big and loving and good. I'm so glad I get to go with him to meet and care for these children.

I pray I am trained well. Thank you so much for your prayers, love, support, and for sending me. God provided beyond what I could imagine for me to attend this school.

Love and joy and blessings to each of you.

Palm Trees

What is one thing you see & know you're in Hawaii? 

Welcome, Logan!

Logan arrived in Kona today, God's provision of a sister & friend. She's in the same DTS training as me. I met her in 2006 when I lived w/ my sis-in-law, Janelle, in Gunnison, CO. I liked Logan the first time we met. We spoke competitively to one another on the volleyball court. (aka, 'trash talked' - "Oh yeah? Bring it? Let's see what you got.") Since then, we've been buds for life. And we fight for the same team.

Place to Stay

Does God ever run out of resources?

In 2007, I traveled around the world and saw his hand provide every where I went. 

Now, two years later, I want to see him do it again.

I've never been to Hawaii before, and I would love to come out a week early before classes start. 

I had no idea where I could stay, but remembered my world trip, and figured God would take care of me.

The two weekends before leaving, 8-year-old Drew came running up to me in church . . .