This past Sunday some of the missions-minded people at our church got together to hang out, eat, and talk about their upcoming adventures! If you've made it to any of our previous get-togethers, you're familiar with how we always seem to learn something new about each other, that we never would have imagined. It was a great time of getting to know each other, and more about the story God is writing in the world through the people at our church.
Some Highlights:
Some Highlights:
HADASSAH LACHMANN - Going to Bolivia (La Paz and Cochabamba) with some of her professors at Moody Bible Institute in Chicago, on a photography missions trip. They will be working with Food For The Hungry's project Little Ones, taking pictures to support that ministry that takes a wholistic approach to helping kids by helping their moms. She'll be gone April 17th through the 24th. She still needs $1600 for that trip, so if you'd like to give, do so before March 16th and here's the info for that:
If you are giving a tax deductible donation, here are the instructions. Please make the check out to “Emote360 c/o Ben Edwards” and write “Bolivia” in the memo line (please write my name, Hadassah Lachmann, in the memo line as well). The check can then be mailed to: Benjamin Edwards 175 SE Roosevelt Ave. Bend, OR 97702
If you are giving a tax deductible donation, here are the instructions. Please make the check out to “Emote360 c/o Ben Edwards” and write “Bolivia” in the memo line (please write my name, Hadassah Lachmann, in the memo line as well). The check can then be mailed to: Benjamin Edwards 175 SE Roosevelt Ave. Bend, OR 97702
AL and KATHLEEN LACHMANN - Al and Kathleen will be heading to a Crossroads (35yrs. and older) Discipleship Training School with Youth With A Mission in Montana on April 26th. They aren't sure where they'll be going on outreach yet, but it might be to the very town their daughter Lydia lives in, although she'd be gone much of the time they'd be there, anyway. Eventually, they'd love it if the Lord sent them to a Spanish speaking country.
BOB and CAROL WALSCH - Bob and Carol have been traveling to Croatia for 40 years. They leave again April 13th and are now dealing with a citizenship issue which only allows them to stay for three months, unless the right citizenship papers go through during that time, so pray for that to get sorted easily! They had so many amazing stories I don't know where to start, but hopefully we will be able to capture some of them on video before they go.
ZACH and SHANIE KNUTSEN - Shanie has been with YWAM since 1984. She teaches a Human Development curriculum and also teaches on inner healing, and she and Zach do prophetic ministry together, around the nation and rest of the world! They will be moving to Redding soonish, just about a month or so, possibly, after Elizabeth introduces their grandbaby baby to the world! Pray for their business and ministry ideas towards creating sustainable income, they have several things in the works including a way of filming and making these teachings available via books and video in multiple languages.
EDWIN AND CAROLYN KERR - Edwin and Carolyn will be returning to Seville, Spain in May, they have a house there they want to sell, it has been listed since 2012, so pray for the sale of that house! They will be there for about a month.
SAMANTHA REED - Studying aeronautics at Liberty University, majoring in Missionary Aviation, woohoo!!
Stay tunes for more on Chris and Amanda Nash, who just left to staff and attend a DTS in Slovakia with YWAM, and more on our partner organization New Reality International, in Haiti!