A Glimpse of San Francisco ~ Carrianne Leigh: November 2012

Thursday, November 29, 2012

This is our fall DTS 2012-2013 group!!!

And we're off!

We leave for LA, Thailand and Vietnam for three months this Monday!

Please keep us in your prayers! We are still trying to raise about $7,000 for the rest of our outreach fees and just getting last minute stuff done. I am the outreach leader this year with 4 other staff and 14 students joining me! I'm very excited about what God will do with us on this trip. We have some wonderful opportunities while on outreach.

For LA we will be working with kids clubs that are involved with kid gangs and we also get a chance to serve the YWAM LA base and work in the Christmas tree lot , talking to people about Jesus and telling them what we do with YWAM. We will also be involved with Water for life in LA that serve places in Africa (building wells). I'm pretty sure we will be digging ditches and working with pluming at the YWAM LA base.

Our time in Thailand we will be working with two different miniseries. One is involved with Children and a justice base ministry. The other ministry will be working with the college age students at the campus teaching English playing games and hopefully inviting them to bible studies and sharing with them about our Lord, savior! please keep us in your prayers through this time. Most students, family's and just the Thai people are Buddhist and if the students give their life to Jesus they might be kicked out of the family- its a very hard decision but knowing our God , He can do anything and help them once they make the decisions to fallow Him. We would love to be a part of seeing this happen but most of the time the Lord using us to plant seeds while overseas and then the YWAM base and friends in Thailand will do their job in working along side these students and the Thai people to disciple them in their walk with the Lord!

Our last stop is Vietnam. We will split the team up and going to the North and the South to love the Vietnamese people! We have underground youth groups to join, prayer walks, teaching English and working with Orphanage. This is a closed country and your prayers will be much appreciated! Last year we had many great opportunities to share Gods love with the students that we thought English to and we hope we have the same opportunities this year as well!!!

Thank you so much for your love and support through prayers and fiances and just keeping an eye on what I've been up to :) Ill return February 20th and hopefully write a quick update on our wonderful trip- I say wonderful because I know that God is going to do AWESOME things, miracles and such!!!! ;)

GOD BLESS and Happy Christmas too!!!!!

Monday, November 12, 2012

Hello friends,

Happy thanksgiving!!!!

I’m so sorry I haven’t written in a while. I guess staffing this school and preparing to lead an outreach is a lot more work then I thought J

I actually am really excited for outreach. We will be doing some stateside outreach this year in Los Angeles. We will be there for a little over three weeks. I've been trying to connect us with the local ministries already there. We are also going to be spending three weeks in Thailand as well as four weeks in Vietnam! There our team will be split up in the North and the south of Vietnam. I don’t think our team has split up before in our pasts visits to Vietnam , so we are super excited to see what God will do with this.

Please keep us in your prayers as we travel for a little less than three months. We will be traveling to Thailand on Christmas day so I’m sure the students might be a little sad to not be with Family but stuck on a 16 hour flight.

Thank you so much for your prayers and support. I will be committing two more years with YWAM in SF in June just to let everyone know! I feel like this is where God has called me. I love living in the Tenderloin and making friendships with all kinds of different people. I also love walking alongside students as they learn to hear Gods voice and grow in a deeper relationship with Him. I also am growing every day and God teaches me so much! Thank you for being a part of my missionary life.

Hope you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving and a Merry Christmas!!! God Bless!!!!

Also please pray for finances because our team and myself are in need of allot of money for our outreach trip!

Carrianne

Who is Carrianne anyway?

In September of 2008, I arrived in San Francisco to start my DTS ( Discipleship training school). I have grown up in the Bay Area, but never had a strong desire to live in San Francisco. God really rocked my world during my DTS and in my heart I knew San Francisco would be my new home. I have been on staff with YWAM for almost 3 years. I worked full-time with Mission Adventures but last year felt called to switch ministries to DTS. Now I help Disciple young men and women and point them towards JESUS!!! I walk along side these students for the 6 month long school. 3 of those months we spend here in the city doing ministry work while learning different topics like how to hear Gods voice or forgiving others. Then we have 3 months overseas. Our fall school focuses on south east Asia while our Winter school focuses on Italy. I have now staffed both schools and God always teaches me new and amazing things!!!

I have no idea how long I will feel called to San Francisco, but this place and these people are very dear to my heart.I just re committed another two years last June and will be starting another school in September 2012. I appreciate all your prayers and support. I hope to update my blog often to let you all know how things are going!!!
Love, Carrianne

Would you LOVE to support me? (:

Hi! If you have read what I do here in San Francisco and overseas and feel called to support me , there are a few steps we can take! **You can send a check made out to YWAM, memo: Carrianne Barr (& name on envelope as well.) **Send a check to Morgan Hill Bible Church ( they send me one big check every month )memo: Carrianne Barr [or] **you can send a check made out to Carrianne Barr Address and phone number will be given to you if you call or email me (408) 427 1333 Carrianne@ywamsanfrancisco.com

What's a.. DTS?

Lecture Phase: The first portion of the DTS is spent at our training facility just blocks away from the hub of the city, located in the Tenderloin neighborhood. Surrounded by urban needs and challenges students are encouraged to dig deep in pursuing God through lectures, small group discussions, reading assignments, and personal reflection. In this significant location, students experience God in extraordinary ways. God reveals himself through the life and people of the city. Some of the topics that are covered during DTS by speakers from around the world and country are: - Hearing God's Voice - The Character and Nature of God - The Cross - Relationships Reaching Out to the City Out of the overflow from our relationship with Christ, comes the ministry. Our DTS allows students the opportunity to grow with God alongside daily ministry experience. Our streets are filled with people longing for truth, which inevitably creates open doors. Each week every DTS student will choose a ministry that engages their passion and gifting. Previous schools have worked with at-risk youth through an after school club, lead Bible studies in our Ellis room (homeless drop-in center), reached out to female prostitutes (Because Justice Matters), shared art with street kids, evangelized university campuses etc. Outreach : DTS students will spend one month in San Francisco and two months in target nations doing daily ministry with a strong emphasis on evangelism and mercy ministry. Outreach enables students to put into practice what they have learned through practical, hands on involvement. Both the Fall School and the Winter School visit different cities in the world and focus on different ministries. In previous schools, the teams have ministered in Vietnam teaching English to college age students, visiting Thai slums, building a school in Morocco, visiting university campuses in Rome, working on projects to reach those caught in sex-trafficking and using performing arts in the famous piazzas of Italy. The possibilities are endless! Click below to find out more about the schools and their specific focuses.