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