Cambodia

It's hot. It is melt your face off hot like I've never experienced. There is a lot of rice being consumed. Most of the girls are constipated. And half the guys. I got bit by a big stupid centipede and then I found a scary little scorpion beside my bed. Which is a pad on the floor. Yet in light of all of this, it is an absolutely incredible country. The people are so hospitable. So welcoming and friendly. So smiley and love giving you time to talk and become friends.
We have been here for five weeks now. We traveled through a lot of the country in our first week and the past four weeks have been spent up north in a little village called Preah Vihear. We are living in a little two story house. It is a really fun little community. Our team shares the house with two amazing Camai sisters who teach English here at the house every day to kids from the surrounding villages. We host stuff here all week, kind of like a VBS deal. We tell stories about Jesus. We do crafts that are always linked to Bible stories. We play movies and of course there are always lots of games. We are also working with a near by orphanage every day as well. Our missionary contact here goes to a great little church that we also have been welcomed into. We have helped build some gardens and done all sorts of physical work there to help keep it looking beautiful and in running order.
One of our biggest roles here, has been to help build the local Christians as much as we can. Our students have been doing amazing jobs of running regular Bible studies and meeting one on one with people to disciple them. It has been pretty cool to see everyone from our students to the locals all growing and learning about Jesus together.
We head back to the capital city on Monday to do a bit of ministry there and debrief a bit and then its time to fly fly away back to sweet comfortable western culture. Please be praying for the strength and energy to finish well for our crew. And continued health as we have had no serious issues yet(what a blessing!).
If you wanna check out the EDTS freshly updated blog page for a more detailed run down of this semester, the link is right here for your viewing pleasure!!www.endurancedts.blogspot.com
If you would like to be on my extra detailed, picture and video loaded super update mailing list, please contact me at kris.friesen@ywammontana.org. You can contact me as well at the address if you are interested being a part of these amazing God stories and adventures financially as well.
Thanks again for everything. I love love love and miss you all.
-kris-

Outreach. Part 1. On the fly. Literally...

Outreach. Wow. Already. Six more of the eight to go. What the heck you say? What about the first two? Well let me tell you... I'm sitting on a table at the Seattle airport waiting for the Air Asiana booth to open so we can fly to Korea and then on to Cambodia. But the past two weeks are what you all want to hear about right now yes? OK then. By popular demand I will obey the cries of the masses. Or maybe almost no one actually reads this and I only write that to make myself feel good. Either way here is the super fast run down; we spent two weeks in the Bow Valley. At the Branch Church in Canmore. We helped kick off their first ever morning service, which will now continue on every Sunday morning at 10:30 am. It was a ton of fun. What an awesome group of people. Just trying to live out family and love on the people around them. It was a huge blessing to work with them. We handed out flyers to get the town aware that the church even exists. We volunteered at fundraisers and provided volunteer first aid care at a skate comp and we hit up the tourist spots and chatted with people about life and love and happiness and the Holy Ghost. One of our afternoons some of our guys ended up in the Banff high school chatting with the principal about what we do and why. He thought it was super cool and let them walk up and down the halls praying for the school and the teachers and the students. Super cool. And Saturday night Cassie (co leader) and I were filling up the van to have it ready to go in the morning, and some random dude paid for our gas. As in a $125 fill up. Saw the YWAM logo and just felt he should pay for our gas. never worked with YWAM himself. Just heard about what we do and felt lead to help out. Thanks random Mike from Calgary for blessing us with that surprise!So yeah. Then we drove back to Montana. Changed our gear. Flew from Kalispell to Seattle and here We wait for part two of the outreach. Cambodia. Teaching English. Teaching super basic community development skills. Trying to change a world view of a broken nation. That every human is valuable. That sickness is not because they were bad, but because they leave their crap in their drinking water and live in their garbage. Talking about Jesus with a people ready to really live and be free! Yesssssss. So please pray for us! It is gonna be friggin crazy. And awesome. Please email me at kris.friesen@ywammontana.org if you want to know more by receiving my super cool update letter things. They have videos. And Pictures. And links to things that help you be more of a part of the adventure. Talk to you all soon enough!
love and be loved
Kris

yeah dudes!

Oh, man. Life is awesome! Hard stuff. Good stuff. Crazy stuff. Mundane stuff. New stuff. Old stuff. Shtuff. But dang, Jesus makes it aaaaall good. He really makes all things work together for His good. Speaking of His good - this school I am staffing is getting rocked! We are learning so much. People are crying. Growing. Learning. Throwing off old ideas and paradigms.

But you probably don't even know what "this school" is. Well... it's our usual 5 month DTS(discipleship training school) curriculum, plus a whole ton of bonus stuff. It's called Endurance DTS. It is a little smaller than our usual 40-6- students with only 12. Ages 18-29. But they're rad. I promise. We do outdoor survival first aid. We have volunteered at a crazy 6 stage mountain race. We have been doing sweet evangelism in the Grand Tetons and Yellowstone National Park. We have been learning all sorts of out doors skill sets. So it's busy. It's my normal too busy feeling, plus an extra bunch of outdoors teaching on top of it. But God gives the energy we need. Awesome. DTS does 3 months of lectures and then 2 months of outreach. Missions if you will. This school has this outdoors community theme. We strongly felt like God wanted us serving in that area and in community development as well. So after a lot of prayer, a bajillion emails and a few meetings later this is how outreach breaks down (drum roll please)....

We are going to the Bow Valley on September 11th! I know right - amazing! Two weeks of working with the Branch chruch in Canmore. Tons of practical evangelism in Banff National Park and a few other crazy events TBA. Then we fly to Cambodia for 6 weeks. our contacts there are lining us up with some smaller villages to work with. Teaching community development skills and preaching the gospel to a very hurting and torn people. It's gonna be a crazy ride. Thanks so much for all your support and prayer. We are all in this together. Reaching the world as a community together. Me from here with this crew with the support and love from you where you are! How cool is that. Freakin cool if you ask me.

So if you wanna know more, send me your email address. I am starting a sweet new blog style email update system. It's gonna super amazing. Times ten. Get me on facebook, or email me at: kris.friesen@ywammontana.org  It will be worth being a part of. World changing. Seriously. Let's do it together.

Ok. Bye for meow. Now.

-Kris-

Let's do that again!

Holy Shnikies! Class begins tomorrow for another DTS! And not just any DTS, but Endurance DTS! (insert cool trumpet noise and some sort of awesome theme music) Our five staff and twelve students are stoked and ready to go. Ready to learn more about our amazing creator. About deepening our intimate relationship with the God of the universe. About reaching a lost world with His love. And in the case of EDTS, reaching the outdoors community. The backpackers, hikers, climbers, athletes and adventure racers. We strive to learn skills to be better equipped to be His hands and feet and also to learn applicable skills to potentially work in the field we love - the great outdoors! How cool is this school! I mean can you honestly tell me right now as you read this that you're not at least a tiny bit jealous that you are not here as part of this five month crazy adventure? Anyways, it's gonna be awesome. And I am so blessed to be a part of it.

So yeah. That's where things are at here right now. I will be adding another post soon, as the school gets going and there is more to share. thanks for being rad and being a part of this journey. Even if it is only showing interest by reading the updates. Please keep me in your prayers. Please write me if you have prayer requests. Please contact me if you are interested in being a part of what I am doing down here. I am still working on the financial side of this adventure. the relationships formed through that have already been so amazing. Contact me at kris.friesen@ywammontana.org

peace

home sweet home. for a moment...

Home sweet home. Wherever that is. At the moment - good old Lakeside Montana. You should really come visit sometime. It's quite a remarkable place. Anyways... outreach. It was amazing. Tonight all of YWAM Montana gets together to worship Jesus and to celebrate our school being back. We are gonna to share a few of our stories. I am personally going to share about the incredible growth of the seventeen incredible people I got to spend two months with. Yes Argentina was amazing and we saw lots of incredible stuff happen. Yes I have tons of really cool stories. But I only have a few minutesto share tonight and to me the most amazing and the most lasting thing is the change I saw in my friends. Spiritual growth through the roof. Confidence grown on so many levels. New skills and abilities discovered and practiced. New passions found. It was so. stinking. awesome. Seriously.
     Friday they all graduate and start heading home. Me? Well I get a week and a half off. Then, at the start of June we finish planning for the next adventure. EDTS. An outdoor adventure discipleship training school. Sounds cool? Believe me I know! I am super stoked. We already have all the students that we can fit. The three other staff I am working with are so incredible. God is gonna do super awesome stuff this summer. The school itself begins on June 18th. Three months of lectures in our classrooms here and also out in the woods. We like to take every other week and bring the lessons out with us. That's as good as it gets really. Then we head out across the world somewhere (to be determined) to share the gospel with outdoor adventure community and pretty much anyone at all that will listen! We are even entering (staff and students together) in an adventure race. To get out there into the community of people we love. It is gonna be rad. There are two running stages, kayaking, canoeing, mountain biking and two road bike stages. I have never really done anything quite like this myself, so I am excited and a little nervous. I don't want to like run someone off the road with my bike or anything. Unless it opens up a chance to share the gospel... hmmmm... nah. I'll try and keep it safe.
     But yeah. That's about where things are at right now. There are a million other stories and details. If you want to know anything at all, please facebook me or write me at kris.friesen@ywammontana.org and I can fill you in on anything you may wish to know.
     The last thing I have to add, is about finances. If you immediately became less interested, then read no further and just enjoy the update you just read! If however you are wondering how I am doing on this front, or wish you somehow be a part of what I am doing here, read on...
    
So here's the deal. I am basically at the point where I almost can't continue here much longer. I am still $400/ month short of what I need just to pay my bills. I am moving off the base here into a house with a bunch of dudes, which will lower my bills by maybe $25/ month. I have sold a few things and am cutting out everything that I can to minimize outgoing as much as possible. But the truth is I am still just really short every month. And I have come to the end of my own personal limit. I have been praying lots. I fast. I trust God fully. And I still believe that I am supposed to be here. I am SO blessed that there are so many people already praying for me so much and thank you thank you thank you to those that are already supporting me. We make an amazing team. I am excited to get back up to Canada for a few days to share about all the stories of people lives you have helped change by supporting me here. But I still need some more people on the team. On top of all the monthly things, I need to make a few purchases which are just out of my range right now. As I will be spending about five of the next twelve weeks out in the backwoods and mountains of Montana, I have a few gear upgrades that need to happen. My hiking shoes are eight years old. No amount of shoe goo will work anymore. They are dead. RIP little buddies. My backpack is dead. I tried to get it fixed, but the fix it lady said the material is so thin from use that she can no longer sew it together anymore. Crap. So yeah. I need about 4to500 more dollars a month of support and I also need a few hundred in the next few weeks to get the gear I need for the next school. God has been faithful thus far. Please prayerfully consider joining in this next stage of ministry. It really is an awesome opportunity for all of us to reach the world from our various positions.
     I love you all. I will keep you posted on how things are going. Thank you for reading. Thank you for caring.

love and be loved

kris

Captains log. Day 54

This will be a short one. A 'one for the road' kind of update. Yes. So start our travels tomorrow. Four days of travel. Bus. Train. Plane. Van. A bit of debrief in the middle of it all and then we are back in North America. Man. What a ride it's been. Yesterday we helped finish putting the roof on the new YWAM Peeurto Madryn girls dorm building. It was super fun. And to think about that facility will house hundreds of young female missionaries through the years who will go out and reach thousands and thousands of people and we were a part of that whole story is really awesome. Thank you Jesus for all the amazing stories. And growth. And fun. The next report will be from 'home'.
    Pray for our safe travels and hopefully talk soon!

kris

Here's to Jesus doing cool shtuff

I've been in Argentina now for just shy of 5 weeks. And Jesus is definitely doing rad stuff. First off, the fact that I am awake right now is a miracle. Hahaha. It's a busy life doing this kinda stuff. More importantly - some stories; 
some of the dudes on our team had the opportunity to go hang out at a prison for an afternoon. The prison was for men ages 15 - 30 who have committed murder. The guys on our team were able to share with them in their cells. One younger dude who had only been there for a week (he was fifteen) committed his life to Jesus. Our translator left his bible there for him, so he would be able to get into the word and learn about his new savior. Awesomecross! And the other day we were handing out pamphlets to invite people to a big event and we got to lead a dude to Jesus. This guy was able to come help us the next few days and got hooked up with the church we had been working with so he could get discipled. We have seen a few others on the streets re-commit their lives and youth on multiple occasions make decisions to follow Jesus. It is super awesome to see Jesus moving in this very Catholic country. We are also seeing people lives changed. Prayers being answered. Churches being encouraged and strengthened. All sorts of awesome stuff. Honestly tons of rad stuff is goin down. And people keep telling us that we are such an answer to prayer. That is an incredibly humbling thing. One giant church brought our entire team up front to honor us and tell us what a blessing and answer to prayer that we are. They had been praying for a group of people from over seas to come and help them serve their city. They were super encouraged that young people would give up their time, money, school and lives to fly all the way to another country and help them reach lost people. It was pretty gnarly. I haven't felt that blessed in a long long time.
Prayer request - we are having a big miracle weekend here in Mar Del Plata. A couple of services of prayer and what not. We have been handing out flyers that have prayer request cards on them. We get the people to fill out the cards and we pray for them (over 500 so far) and then at the service, we are gonna pray our brains out all weekend and see God change some lives, bring healing and resources and all sorts of amazing stuff to these people! Yesssssssssssssss. High five God.
OK. love you all. miss you north America. Thanks SO much for all your prayers and support. It's working!
Facebook me if you want more stories or details or anything at all
kris

Sweet Jesus!

Easter. In a tourist town. And it's buuuusy. First afternoon off in ages for Michele and I. But dang - life is good, cause sweet Jesus is the best! First - a shout out to the russels. Little baby Max has arrived handsome and healthy! Second - people coming to know Jesus is awesome. People being discipled. churches and groups being united. Good stuff happening all around. I'm at a café on my tiny iPod typing. My wifi is almost up. Just wanted to toss you all a quick little update. I'm alive and well. Thanks SO much for everything. Having a team of people loving and supporting me is the best thing ever. Please continue to pray for wisdom, energy and finances.
Miss you all
Love you all
kris (in mar del plata)

no ablo espanol...

seriously. i suck at spanish. fortunately God doesnt care and can still somehow use us anyways. which is friggin awesome eh! so yeah - buenos aires. 9th largest city in the world. didnt really realize what that meant until i was living in the middle of it. busy noisy traffic outside our balcony 24/7. we bus and train everywhere. we will bus for over an hour through the city and still be in the middle of the city. no jokes. its just shops and shops and shops for ever and ever. theres pretty much a coffee shop a pizzeria or a bakery for every 10 people here. which if i do the math correctly here... yup - one every 4th building. its insane. and the snacks. omg these beautiful wonderful people LOVE sugar. and pastry. thank you Jesus its amazing. i mean i cant afford to eat like they do, but its so wonderful to walk down the road and see windows full of flaky light sugary pastries everywhere. heaven. anyways. ministry.
     its been hectic. because it is such a big city, we are often in one area in the morning and an hour bus ride to another area later. south american culture isnt as time efficient as north america and so its pretty funny trying to make a schedule. at ten at night we sometimes find out that the next is completely changed. hahaha. but i mean who cares! whatever God wants us to do is cool with me.
      we worked with this cool ministry the other day. theres a jail for men. the women and familes who want to visit, have to get a ticket and wait outside for their number to be called for literally hours before they can go in and visit. so a church bought a building right across the road. the open up and serve coffee and just offer a place for the ladies to chill with their kids. serve coffee and just be Jesus to these people. it was awesome. the ladies who we all chatted with were super fun. a student brought  a guitar and was chatting it up with some ladies so i was just holding the guitar for them. a staff of the organization came up to me and said, "you play two songs" ummmmm what? i say, "i dont know how to play this thing or sing" she says, "well you have twenty minutes..." hahahaha. grrreat. i grab brett our guitar man. two ladies, sophie and leilani and i head upfront with them to sing a couple songs. fun times.
     so yeah. its been crazy. if you want more stories, please facebook me personally and i would love to send you some! also - my finances are still a bit lacking, so if you are looking to partner with someone and reach out to people, but are stuck at home with your amazing friends and families, you can through me! weeeee fun. join my team and we can all do it together. a big ol prayer/ finances/ hands and feet group.
     magical. well the coffee shop is closing and that means i gotta pack up and walk back to the base. i love you all. i miss you all.

kris

Argentina

And I'm off. Tonight at 2am. Am I packed? Nope. But I've got a few things in a pile. Have I got everything lined up yet? Nope. But I've got most of it and I mean we have our tickets, so I am leaving either way! Man. Jesus. You're so good. How did I even get here. You have been so patient and good to me and have lead me down some crazy roads. You've also saved me from some ridiculous roads that I wandered down myself. And now here I am. About to fly to freakin Argentina for two months! with 16 amazing students and an absolutely incredible co-leader (michele) and I GET to talk about Jesus there. and be Jesus there. And teach Jesus there. And show Jesus there. And live Jesus there. What more is there to say. I am blessed and I will keep you all updated. Thanks for caring eh.


kris

a little starter

Oh hey guys. So yeah, I'm going to Argentina in 19 days. Crazy. Soooo I thought I would put up a little starter info thinger. A little, how do you say, somethin somethin on the what's, where's and when's.
     So we are piling 18 of us into two big 'ol vans in Montana at 2am on March 13th and driving up to Clagary! WooWoo! From there, we fly to Texas and then do a little swap aroo and then continue on to Buenos Aires. Buenos Aires - the capital city of Argentina. Several million people. The Paris of South America. We will be working with a YWAM base there doing a bit of this and that. Probably stick around for a couple of weeks and then head straight south to Mar Del Plata. It's about a 4 hour bus ride and it is the holiday weekend destination of the big cities. About .6million people and it is also the surf city of Argentina. Lots of tourists. Lots of beach culture. Lots of needs. After about three weeks of that, we will head waaay south. Like 15 hour bus ride south into Patagonia. to a little fishing port called Puerto Madryn. There we get to help build a new YWAM base and work with churches and kids ministries and a thousand other awesome things. We are bringing a great dance team, so talented musicians and some really good dramas. All of that said, it is only to proclaim the gospel that we do any of that. Breaking down cultural barriers with the arts is a super cool way to start up conversations!
So yeah. May 10 we fly back and get back to things here! So please pray! Still lots planning to get done and South Americans tend to care a lot less about details and schedules, so it can be a bit difficult to get things going on that front.
As well, I am still quite short on the finances part of things. I need a new sleeping bag to take with me and i also have all my bills to pay while I am gone. And I have zero dollars. So if you you'd love to team up with me in that, let me know!! Or just click the link at the bottom of the page and just do it!
I love you all
kris

Jesus is doin stuff

Yup. It's true. He really is. And that shouldn't come as a surprise. I mean He loves us all. By us all, I mean like - every single human on earth. From the dirty homeless guy in Portland, to the oppressive government official in Argentina, to the weird  DTS staff at the YWAM base in Montana. (mostly meaning me on that last one) So what's He doing you ask? we-----ll, let me tell you. In our first few weeks, we saw men and women being healed from years of hurt, guilt and shame. We saw freedom from oppression of the enemy. (demons and crap like that) We saw SO much wisdom imparted and more importantly taken in and applied. That's all cool, but what is it for? Proclaiming the gospel! It's the friggin Word of God. And it is true. And it is good. And it is life changing. So we drove a whole bunch of big vans across four states to do just that! Salem Oregon. One of our other staff (Chase Fowler) has family there and his dad pastors the Salem Alliance Church and they were extremely hospitable. We slept in their youth building and used it for lectures and dinners and what not. From there, they set us up with a bunch of awesome ministries. We got to work with the city of Salem building gardens for a foods and lifestyle teaching and training program with junior grade schools. We were able to work with homeless shelters, food banks and thrift shops as well. Plus, of course, we got to head out into the warm green streets (it was plus 10-15 everyday) and meet people. Hear their stories. If they were into it, we got to love on em with prayer too! Jesus wants us, nah He commands us to share His love. Sometimes that means actually (gasp) telling people about His love and what that all means and blah blah blah you need it to change and all that stuff. So we did. And it was good.
    So now we are back in Montana. Sitting and learning in lectures. Mostly I am helping my Argentina co-leader prepare for outreach these days. I am in the office way to much, yet apparently too little... there's just always more to figure out. But it is all coming along and God's got er figured so we aren't worried. Yup. that's my life in a nutshell at the moment. What's that? You wish you were a part of it? read the next chunk -

I am still struggling with my finances here. I do not want to guilt anyone into anything. What I really want, and what I believe Jesus wants, is people to join me. To partner with me and Jesus on this awesome adventure. The truth is, that I work for a non profit and I am 100% reliant on the support of people like you! Proclaiming the gospel requires finances like anything else. And thank goodness God is big and good and knows my needs. So please pray. Pray that I remain faithful in bringing this to God in prayer and fasting. That I do all I can. and If you also feel lead to join me in proclaiming this good news and love to people, then check out the link at the bottom of the page. Or email me. Or facebook me. If you have any questions at all, please ask me.
I love you all. Thanks for the support even just from reading what I am up to.
love and be loved

kris

hello 30's

This is not ministry related. This is just a moment of woah - my life is awesome! I got up early this morning. Not my favorite thing to do, but always worth it. And I had a purpose. How do I want to begin my thirties? Outside and with Jesus. So I headed down to the lake. Facing the rockies across the waters. As the sun was making an attempt to warm the earth. On the frosty wooden dock. And I just hung out with my Father. Reflected on what has been the most amazing twenties anyone could ask for. And thought about how the next ten may look. The sun was slow in coming, but it does as it does and it got me to thinking about some stuff a few people have been saying to me lately. "It's a time of change" My life is changing. God is showing me new things. He is opening my eyes. He shaking things up. And like the sun comes up over the mountains and completely changes how everything looks and feels, so God is continually shining through and changing everything. cheesy? Who cares, it was friggin awesome. I can't even count the amazing friends I have. Not to boast, but to say again - how blessed am I! seriously. There is little to nothing above my God that I value more than friendships and the area most blessed in my life. mmmm sweet Jesus.
     So I hop back in my car. I have an old mix cd playing that I don't even know what's on it. And a Relient K song comes on. One line goes roughly as follows, "... you say you will not dwell on what I did, but rather what I do. Then you say I love you and that's what you're getting yourself into".
    We aren't who we were. We are who we are and who we are becoming. And I love it. my thirties begin with the God of the heavens saying He loves me. The now me. And He loves me. And I wonder what I am getting into for the next ten years. He says He loves me and that is what I am getting in to!
     I miss all of you. Thank you for blessing me with your friendship. Go talk to Jesus today.
He is the be--------------sssssst!

so far in dts

Wow. Life in the fast lane. I forgot what you were like. But hot dang, God is good. I am currently in my room and I can hear students out in the hall cleaning and going about their daily business. It's twenty to four which means that for most of them, it's a time for work opportunities. A chance to be a blessing and serve. (And a good thing to, 'cause the mens washroom could use some love) I am living with the students in the student dorm here in Lakeside, because the staff dorm is currently being renovated and will be for a bit of time still. So I have the wonderful opportunity to be surrounded by these amazing people 24/7. and I really do feel like that's a blessing. I mean I miss my quiet time. If you know me at all, you'll know I love just being by myself for a near endless amount of time, just doing my own thing. But then you'll also know that I love being a part of peoples lives and having fun with fun people. And these are super fun people. We have married couples and singles. We have highschool graduates of age 17 and we have life experienced couples of 55. From around the world. And every sense of humor you can imagine. It is amazing. Our speakers this year have been incredible and I wish I could write out all of the amazing things that have already been shared and taught. (if you'd like more details, send me an email!)  This week our speaker is teaching on the topic of grace and friends - I can not hear this stuff enough. The magnitude of the gift that we have been given... I don't even know what to say. Yeah. So... I miss you all. Whoever you are and where ever you are. If you are reading this, I pray you have an amazing week and think about how awesome it is to be loved by the God of the universe. Cause it's friggin awesome.

If any of you are interested in getting involved in what I am up to in any way, please check out the paragraph at the bottom of the page! I need lots of help and I would love to have you be a part of my awesome 'make a difference in the world' awesome team!

-kris-

OMG it's 2012

Wow. 2012. 2011 - you were a good one, but 2012... you're looking to be a new possible number one. I had an amazing Christmas. Thanks Banff and Canmore friends for the good times. Ryan, thanks for working for those lift tickets. The Branch - it was an amazing 1 year anniversary service and I am so blessed to be a part of that family! Mom, dad, Kev, Pam, Jordin, Grandpa and Grandma - thanks for the amazing week of family Christmas goodness. you are all a giant blessing to me and I had a blast with you all. Gwen. Kitty. Love of my life - I miss you. Anyways. Tomorrow morning the Winter DTS begins! We have a school of 43 students and it's looking like a really really awesome group. I can't tell you all how excited I am to be a part of this adventure. Man, it's gonna be friggin awesome. I hope you all had an incredible holiday season and i miss you all very much. 
            One prayer request I do have is that my finances are still a bit behind. I am SO incredibly thankful to all of you who have and are supporting me with prayer and finances! But the truth is that i am still a fair bit short of my needed monthly intake of the moneys. If I could ask you all to pray for me in this it would mean the world to me. I know God wants me hear and that He will work things out, I am just trying to do my part by making my needs known. I would love you all to partner with me in this! Spreading the Jesus loves takes money too and every little bit makes a huge difference. Even 10 or twenty dollars a month makes such a huge difference. If anyone has any questions about my finances, or how they can help, or how what the money goes to, or anything at all please feel free to ask me anything.
           Thanks so much for all the prayer and support. Now go and start your 2012 with smiles, high fives and fun times!!!