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-