LAST POST! SHUTTING DOWN TONIGHT!

Carrianne is leaving in a few hours. They cannot go into Thailand because of all the current events going on, so they are flying into Taiwan at 8 pm tonight. PLEASE PRAY!
I have to temporarily shut down this blog while she is overseas for safety purposes, so please email me and I will keep you updated as soon as I hear any word from her. I will open a new blog eventually so please email me if you want to find out about her whereabouts and ministry, as that will be my only way to contact you with the new blog address.

cbarr63@ymail.com

or

cbarr63@gmail.com

Thank you all for your love, prayers and support for our baby girl!! It means more to us than words can say!! Keep praying!!

Love in Christ, Christine Barr

UPDATE: new temp blog here

HELLO!!!!!
FINAL POSTING!!!!
This week is going to be crazy. We leave saturday! AH I'm stressed out. Keep me in your prayers for the teams saftey and I tend to worry ALOTTTTT, so that would be great if ya'll could pray for me because I'm kinda nervous.. This thursday is Thanksgiving and each person at the base gets to invite one person off the streets to join us as a guest. It's going to be so much fun, over 150 people are coming for our Thanksgiving feaist. YUMMY. All day we packed and wieghed our suitcases. It had to be under 45 pounds. So stressfull. All the boys helped the girls pack because we were packing way more then we should have. I now only have 10 shirts for 2 whole months. CRAZY. They helped me alot though because then to show us how heavy they are and how we are to carry it and walk so far, we went on a little hike up the crazySF hills. SO HARD. After we got back to the base I downsized on everything. So hard packing light and for 2 months. I did it though (:
Okay one last thing I must say before I leave you all. Thank you all so much for keeping me in your prayers and if you guys sponsored me , thank you so much!!!!
If you guys still want to send me money PLEASE send it to my parents house beacuse I will have access to my account. (: Thanks guys

HELLO FRIENDS!
Holy kal-molly!!!!! It's been so long since I last updated. I'm so very sorry. Well anyways the last couple weeks have been very deep and very emotional. Last week we learned on how to intensely study the bible with our speaker Art collins. He was great, he bought us donuts everyday for class. This week we studied on the holy spirit and evangelism. Saturday we spent all practicing for our dancing and drama skits that we will perform this week at Cumberland -( A local church in China town ) we will also be doing these skits and dances during our outreach. It's been a very long week because I have been sick ): YES.... i do miss my mom !
Okay so this Saturday we are performing for Cumberland all day then next weekend is our off weekend. My friend Kate and I are going to be coming home for the weekend, we will be celebrating Thanksgiving since I will be in SF on the actual day. THEN that next weekend we leave for ASIA!!!!!! (: I'm so excited. I can't wait. I will hopefully write more to you guys soon. Sorry it took forever. It's been so busy here and the day's fly by so fast!
LOVE ALWAYZS,
YOURS TRULY, the mission girl, Carrianne

JUST FYI:
Just to let ya'll know if you are still planning on sending me support while I am gone in SE Asia then will you please send it to my family instead of the church. (So they can deposit it in to my bank while I am gone. Because I will have access to my bank.)Thank you!

Stay in touch. If you have a facebook check out some of my pictures on there (:

THIS CRAZY WEEK

Hello family,
This week has been intense. Our speaker this week is talking on 'plum line' which is going deep. Forgiving and asking forgiveness to God and those you hurt , for things that are burdening you down. It's really deep stuff. last Saturday was the prayer walk. It ended up being 19 miles long. I only got through 1/2 of it but I did all the hill's and climbing. First hill I was walking up i twisted my ankle and went down. It wasn't that painful ( but still hurt ) so I kept going. Then my hip popped out and would go back in. Going up the hill's were rough as it was but every step i took i cried out in pain, sobbing the whole way up twin peaks. It was horrible. I ended up returning back to the base and rested the rest of the 3 hr. left. Before i went back I got to take a really cool picture of this huge cross. ( there's a story behind that.) It was so awesome to see the whole view of San Francisco and that big ol' cross.

There's also a picture of Earl and I! He's one of my really good street friend's. I really adore him.

For our ministry we went to hippie hill again. We are starting to go every Wednesday now. This week was really awesome. As soon as we got there we met this man who showed us around and introduced us to everyone. I mean once you live there in that park and hangout all day smoking you become friends with everyone! So he knew allot of people and now we do too (:
I also met this one guy that Jana and I talked to for about a good hour. We just got to share about why we were there and also about PropK. He didn't know all the facts about that so he was about to vote yes but we got to actually share with him the truth about it ans now he's rethinking his vote. It's so awesome to see God work through others and what you do. It was a great ministry day. The picture of the painted heart in the peace sign was at hippie hill and thats where I took the picture PRETTY SWEET(:

There's also a picture of a homeless man with a scary mask on, I thought I'd pass on the love with that picture & The line of people waiting to get into Glide .

I'll write more another time. Hope everyone is doing great. Please keep praying for me and what God has for me after this DTS!
LOVE ALL AND MISS YOU TOO!
~Carrianne Barr

long week......of longness!

Hey ya'll,
I'm so sorry it's been a while since i last wrote. These couple of last week's have been going by so very fast! It's sad to think I only have 4 more months ): sad day! So last week we learned about Tabernacle and Justice/Intimacy and for this week we are learning about the city's and why God calls us to city's allot. It's strange to learn about but you learn interesting things that you would have never thought about before. This Saturday we are going on a freaking huge prayer walk! We are walking across SF, no joke it's a 12 mile walk.
That's going to hurt my leg's really bad ): ouch!
hahah! I have had a blast being here learning more about our awesome Lord!
This last weekend was our off weekend. I went home for less then 24 hours but still being in Morganhill I missed my home, here in SF! I miss and love you all!
I'm sorry about not writing more. Hopefully this next week wont be so long.
I am still in need of lot's of prayer and support! BTW: Thank you for those of you who have been supporting me! LOVE YOU ALL!
~carrianne

call and response. (:

Hello Guys,
It's me again! Another week of awesomeness! ( if that's even a word )
hahaha! This week we learned all about spiritual warfare. It has been super neat to learn all kinds of great stuff. Our speaker was Dean Sherman on tape, but he is coming tonight to talk about grace! It's going to be great stuff.

Our group does a lot of stuff here regarding human trafficking and we even have a program focused just on women who are trafficked here in SF, called 'Justice matters'! SF is one of the biggest city's of human trafficking. We went to the premiere of 'CALL AND RESPONSE'. It's a film about the world's 27 million most terrifying secrets! About real modern-day slavery. It's so sad to think and know that there are these things going on right here in America! Here's the website for that if you want to learn more about it www.callandresponse.com . I also very much encourage you all to go see the movie. ALL the proceeds go to CALL AND RESPONSE which help get the girls, children and young boys out of slavery and sex trafficking. There's a movie theater in San Jose that plays this movie. It comes out this weekend! We also learned about Prop K . It seems like a good thing, like it protects sex slaves. But in terms it actually prevents police from investigating into cases of human trafficking. Vote no on PROP K... and that is all I have to say about that (:

I'm excited about Dean Sherman coming to speak to us. He is a great speaker, I adore his lectures! This weekend we have mostly off. I'm hoping to get in some much needed rest!

If you are interested in helping support me , write me an email at
pinkandwhitezebras@yahoo.com or send an email to MHBC! check the right sidebar for link (:
Thank you all!

Another week went by super fast (:

HELLO AGAIN!!!
Can you believe it's been a whole week since I last updated ya'll? I'm very sorry about that!
It's been super busy here. Every week there's a new speaker that come's to speak on a different topic. This week was Debby Wiley and she spoke on ' hearing God's voice ' . It's been very awesome to find out God speaks to you in all different kinds of ways! I guess I never realized it before. It's been emotional also. My weekly ministry is evangelism, this week Jana W. was in charge of heading it up. So she spent the whole after noon ( Wednesday )baking cookies and then we went out and handed some of the homeless and other people on the streets cookies. Each bag had about 3 cookies and a bible verse card. We got to share what the verse meant and prayed with the people who wanted it. It was strange to see that some people wouldn't take the cookies knowing who we were. It was still a blessing getting to give out some thing with our prayers as well. This week went by so very fast. Each day we do something different after our daily classes. Each Friday night we go out with jugs of hot chocolate and cups and hand out cups of hot coco (with prayer attached of course (: !)
This Friday it was really exciting ! We went down a dark allay ( that I was a little afraid of ) and handed out some coco to the people hiding out doing drugs. We met this one lady who was smoking ,even though she didn't trust our coco we got pray with her and she said she was going to come visit our YWAM base. I hope She will get to talk to some of our staff some more about God!

On Saturday's and Sunday's ( for the most part ) are our day off. Saturday nights we always have a dance party! So fun! Today my family came to see me, they took me to the wharf and we ate at ' the rain forest cafe' so very yummie! It was great to get to see my family. Right now I am at the laundry mat doing a very big load.

Well I have a book report due tomorrow , so I better get started on that!
If you would like to still support me contact MHBC, the website is on the side here! >
Thank you guys and have a great week in the Lord!

Carrianne Barr

This fun weekend.....

Hey everyone,
This week was awesome. Each week we have a new speaker and this week as I had said before was Blake. I learned very much. It was so great to experience new things with the Lord. I'm really excited about this week , about "Hearing Gods voice".

This weekend was awesome. Saturday we went to the Golden gate park, Botanical gardens. SO FUN! We walked around and prayed for each of the Country's we passed. After a couple of hours of that almost all of the group stayed behind , singing , playing and just having a blast in the park!
(I have so many fun pictures...cant wait to show ya'll ) Then we went to IN N OUT for dinner. Some of the group have never had it before. (: I felt like singing reunited. hahaha ! That night we all ( dtsERS & staff ) went down in the basement with a disco light, strobe light and ROCKING music for a 80's night! EVERYONE dressed 80's and everything. It was super fun! ( yet again, I took 200 pictures ) teehee! SO FUN! I had a great night dressing up and dancing with all my friends. (:

Today was Sunday,
We went to a new church called the ' hot dog' church. (I guess they used to give out hotdogs after each service.) It was okay, I'm not sure if I am going to pick this church or last week's church. They both were very good.
Then we went to pizza for lunch and did laundry. Right now is free time and I just thought I will update ya'll with my happy life here in SF!

Be praying for me with finances. The plane tickets got raised so it's going to be about six hundred more dollar's then I have.Plus I realized that I have no spending money for lunch on sundays and laundry day's.... not to mention spending money in SE ASIA !
Thanks for your prayers support.

Last Saturday we went on a ' lost and found' hunt (?) and stopped at a few locations they wanted us to check out. Here's 1/4 of my group at the golden gate bridge. /\

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Ramona and I on a bus heading towards the wharf. This girl is so sweet, shes from Switzerland ( one of my room mates)!
Julie and I at the palace of fine arts! So pretty here ...
the city view from the golden gate bridge.... prettyness!
And here is my pumpkin i bought and carved .... his name is jerry! (:

YAY!!!! I have so many fun pictures already , it's great..... Today was super exciting and a real big eye opener to see how YOU really do need to listen for God's voice . I realized that I was listening to God when He told me to come here. Trusting in God , that He does know what He's doing has been confirmed too. Trusting in God has a big part in how I got here .
See, when I first realized that God wanted me to join a YWAM I wanted to do a Japan or Australia DTS. When I finally WANTED to listen to God , I realized that He was telling me to do SF DTS for months. God speaks to you in many ways and you really need to be praying to hear His voice and listen to it as well.
I was shocked to hear the speaker speak about this , because God did show me this and when I realized that I need to fallow Him and do what He wants from me and not what I want , Well let's just say this week was really exciting that He confirmed I was really suppose to be here. God's so awesome and I am excited to learn more and become one with God!


Be sure to stay tune for more to come (:
ALSO:
Check out our fun lil DTS blog that one of students made for the group.

sanfranciscodts.blogspot.com

powerrrrr

Hello ya'll,
This week has been amazing. I cannot describe how awesome it is here. We walked almost everywhere this weekend. It was so fun exploring everything and making this my city. (Besides my foot being swollen from all the walking.) Today was our first lecture The speaker was great , his name is Blake Mattock . He spoke on being a poser in life and how your actions look towards non Christians. Very deep. Be patient with me for just a little more longer. This first week was so emotional and long but at the same time it went by so fast. I'll write more when i find time, sorry it's been so busy here!
Carrianne

getting started

Hello family and friends!
I miss and love you all!
It has been awesome so far! I share a room with 5 other girls, this has been interesting getting ready in the morning with only one mirror(:
God has been great at making me very comfortable with everything so far! We get up each morning at 7am for breakfast and then we have choires , class and mission work.

Okay,
So Today we just finished class early so i have free time till lunch. We usually have class in the mornings after breakfast and choirs. My choir is to clean up the class room which means take out empty cups and vacume the floor and just straighten up. Different lectures every day this week. We first started off explaining everything thats going to be going on and going through the gidelines. We each said our testimony's which took about 3 DAYS total for staff and dtsERS to talk.I realized listening to everyones backgrounds and how they came to know the Lord and how they got here, I am very blessed by how I was raised and stuck with God. Right now its been so great and I am starting to love everyone here! Theres a couple homeless men that we made friends with, infact the 2nt day here we jumped right into reaching out to others and went into 5 small groups to go out and ask people certain questions! It was awesome hearing different answers and talking to these street people one on one!
Everyone of these students here with me are so different. Some are from Kentucky, Ohio, Florida, Canada, Switzerland, Washington and even a couple from good ol' California! It's so awesome because even though they are all so different they still have one thing in common with everyone, A passion for God and to show His love to others!

All of this is super hard to explain and I hope you understood how amazing it is!

OFF TO THE BIG CITY!

Hi, this is Carrianne's mom.

Today was the day we took Carrianne to YWAM, San Francisco. Jo'elle came along with us, which was a tremendous blessing to us all! Coming into the city was somewhat of a shock to mom (me, even though I was born there!) but everyone else seemed perfectly fine with it.

Glide Memorial Church is directly across the street, and it was lunch time... hundreds (seemed like more!) were lined up for a block or more for a meal. The sidewalk right outside YWAM's front entrance was full and bustling... homeless, mentally ill, prostitutes and drug addicts, not meaning to stereotype, that's what we were told. This was hard for me to realize that my baby was going to be living here! I met Regina, selling a street newspaper. She was friendly and had a beautiful smile. God is good.

We were taken on the 'grand tour' by Rhonda. She is married to Ben, and they are the facilities leaders. The staff was wonderful, happy people. Carrianne's fellow DTS'ers were also a lively and friendly bunch. My heart was set somewhat at ease, realizing that God is in control, He loves EVERYONE that will come across my daughters path, and He has a wonderful and exciting plan for her life! We are so proud of her!

Carrianne shares a room with 5 other girls.

Please keep in touch with Carrianne by visiting this blog and commenting often. And of course, please remember her in your prayers often.

Sunday, Carrianne and Jena were commissioned off by MHBC. Pastor Dave brought the girls up during both services, asked them questions about their mission with YWAM and the ensuing outreach to Viet Nam and Thailand, and prayed over them with the elders. Thank you, Morgan Hill Bible Church for your support and love and prayers! You guys are awesome!

Here's a view outside the main window and of the game room, where it's open to those coming in off the street from 9am t0 5 pm, for Bible Study, prayer, games and visiting

Hello everyone,
I am getting ready to walk out the door to leave.
Well so far I don't feel to anxious.
I'll write more when I get there and settle in!
(: Pray for me!
~Carrianne

LAST WEEK of.....

I have one more week till I leave.
One week!
I am super excited, really nervous too. (:
This week is super busy, last week of work along with last week to hangout with buddy's. I have allot of dinner/coffee plans wit people. Yay, I cant wait. I'm already packed and am just dieing to do that last batch of laundry so I can zip up my bags! My baby TyTy left for Mexico on vacation along with my sister and brother in-law . I wont see them again before I go. I'm going to miss that kid.
Well I can't wait to see what God has in plan for me..... exciting!
I'll be really busy this week so I'll next update this once I get settled into the base!
~Carrianne

FROM THE INSIDE OUT

Hello everyone,
Three more weeks till I leave. I am super excited about it but really nervous too. I started my packing list. I know that sounds funny to do three weeks ahead of time, but I have never been on this long of a trip before. I'm starting to realize and set aside all the things I wear the most so I pack ONLY what I need. The list is mostly done.... with a few things I add as I see something laying around that I might need. So far it's looking good. Packing light is going to be the hardest. Anyone has any tips for me? Well I'm doing really well on my support, still need some more though but I know that God will provide me with just the right amount that I need.
To Trust is the hardest because I'm always worrying about something or another. (:

Favorite song that helps me through so much :

.................From the inside out
" A thousand times I've failed still Your mercy remains
And should I stumble again I'm caught in Your grace
Everlasting Your glory beyond all fame
Your will above all else my purpose remains
The art of loving myself in bringing you praise
In my heart and my soul I give You control
Consume me from the inside out
Let justice and praise become my embrace to love you from the inside out
Everlasting Your light will shine when all els fades
Never ending your glory goes beyond all fame
And the cry of my heart is to bring you praise
From the inside out , Lord my soul cries out."


Favorite bible verse that helps me through so much:

Proverbs 3:5-6
" Trust in the Lord with all you're heart and lean not on you're own understandings, in all you do trust in Him and He shall make you're paths straight."


pray hard. -carrianne

first support letter i sent out (:

Hello Everyone,

As most of you already know I am leaving this September for my YWAM (Youth With A Mission ) trip. For those of you who don't know, let me explain what I will be doing! I leave September 15th for Francisco for four months. During this time I will attend DTS (discipleship training school). I will be trained to disciple people and tell others about God, to grow closer to Him and become a stronger child of God! After those four months of training and loving the people of San Francisco, I will then do my outreach portion of the trip. I will leave for two months and travel to South East Asia! I am so very excited about this trip and have been praying for years now, to see if this is what God wants from me! Guess what? IT IS!
I have been saving for over a year now with two jobs , and let me tell you ... I thought saving would be easy, but with bills and financial obligations it hasn't always been. I still need to raise more, so if you would like to help me reach my goal for my remaining portion of the trip costs by supporting me financially, that would be a big BLESSING! Please also keep me in your prayers, for this is my first lengthy missions trip and I'm kinda nervous about being away from my home, church , family and friends. Thank you!

If you would like to help support me you can make your check out to Morgan Hill Bible Church. It can be in the form of a one time gift or on a monthly basis, which will end at the time I come home. It is important that you make the checks out to Morgan Hill Bible Church and not to YWAM, and you can just put my name on a separate piece of paper and include that in the envelope.

If you want to contact me, you may email me pinkandwhitezebras@yahoo.com or call me (408) 4271333.
Thank you so much and please keep me in your prayers!

Please check out my blog, too! http://www.cbmissionstrip.blogspot.com

Here is the address of which you can send your checks to.
Morgan Hill Bible Church
15750 Vineyard Blvd. #110
Morgan Hill, CA. 95037


Thank you,
Carrianne Barr

30 DAYS TO GO!

Hi Everyone!
As you all know, I will be attending the Urban DTS Program (Discipleship Training School) at YWAM- Youth With A Mission, in the Tenderloin District of San Francisco for 4 months, then will be off to somewhere in South East Asia for the following 2 months... and I'm very excited! I would like to use this blog as a way to communicate with all my friends and family, and to keep you updated on all that I'm doing, my prayer needs, support needs and so on! Please click the subscribe button in the upper right column so that you can be notified whenever I make a post, and then you won't miss out on any of the excitement! I would love it if you commented on my postings, especially to help keep me connected to you... this will be my first time away and I think I may get a little homesick, so write, write, write to your hearts delight! YWAM is an awesome program, so please take the time to check out their website and learn more about them and all they are doing to reach the lost for Jesus Christ. I am going to be living in the beautiful building on their homepage, cool huh?!
I love you guys and will be praying for you all, too. Love Carrianne