Monday, September 24, 2012

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