summer update

Below is my summer update I posted a few weeks ago on my .mac account. This should hopefully get everyone up to speed. Hope you all are having an awesome summer.   

 Summer is in full force here at YWAM Denver and we are in full swing with our summer schools. This summer we are running a Camp the Rockies DTS with an outreach to Ukraine, Bulgaria, and Germany as well as a SBF core course.  We also currently have two outreaches on the road from our spring schools. There is one in Costa Rica and an Around the World team currently in Rio, Brazil. These teams have had some amazing times being Jesus to the least the last and the lost. The Costa Rica team is working with local churches in nearby communities doing relief work from the hurricane that hit there a year ago. They are also getting times to give testimonies and dramas in the neighborhoods. The team in Mozambique is working in the poorest trash village in Mozambique and are working side by side with a team from Bethel University there. 

    This summer I am continuing my role as the events coordinator at the base as well as developing a curriculum for a school running in the fall called a School of Social Justice. In this school we tackle what is God’s heart for justice in areas such as AIDS/HIV, urban injustice, human trafficking, water relief, refugees, etc. This school will have required internships as follow up in San Francisco, Thailand, and South Africa. ( If these subjects spark an interest in you and you would like to learn more about them I highly suggest checking out the book “ Quest for Hope in the Slum Community” by: Scott Bessenecker). Monday nights I have had the opportunity of leading our local outreach to a state run home for those with permanent mental and physical disabilities. In my next update I will share more about this ministry and some of the stories of the people we work with there. I can just say this. These men and women are some of the sweetest most amazing forgotten about people one could ever know.As many of you know I have been going to the Arvada Vineyard while out here. Our small group has had the cool oportunity of working with the Karin refugees (burmese) in denver. Each small group "adopts" a family and helps them get acclimated. We take them grocery shopping, teach them the bus system in denver, take their kids to school for the first time, etc. It has been a very neat experience. As you can see the summer has been jam packed with activity. Thank you all for all of your love and support. I couldn't do it without you all.

       Prayer Requests:

our outreaches ( please pray for health, safety, and unity for all these guys and girls)

Chris and Norma Black ( the leaders of the Bosnia team as Norma is continuing a very long and painful treatment for her hip)

 Finances. I am still in need of about 250$ a month in support to consistently pay my bills. Please Pray that God would put on individuals, churches, small groups etc. to give.