11/20/13. Outreach to : Bangalore , India and Bangkok , Thailand ! We have decided with much prayer that our locations will be set to India and Thailand this year. Which is pretty crazy because this is the first year in about 10 years that will not be going to Vietnam for our outreach. I'm sad about that but excited to see what God has in store for us in a new Country. It will be our first time as YWAM San Francisco to take our DTS on outreach to India which our base directors lived in  India for 25 years doing YWAM there so it's about time we took a team to visit this beautiful place! Our school is going to be small traveling- me being the outreach leader I'm looking forward to the small headcount ! We will be all ladies traveling first to Thailand , staying three weeks in our Urban city location of Bangkok. We will be staying with the YWM base in Bangkok, Thailand working with already established ministries. Then we will travel to Bangalore, India for five weeks. We will also be staying with the YWAM base there and working in the villages helping with the medical trucks and teaching English. I almost forgot!!! We will be staying two weeks in San Francisco doing stateside ministries. I'm stoked about being gin the city during part of December. It's always so festive and I love the city around this time of year but am usually over seas. We will be able to partner with a couple ministries around the city along with going into the different neighborhood's of the city and doing evangelism there- my favorite is going to height with some chalk and a Frisbee to invite the hippies to hangout with us, hopefully we can build some good relationships!!! I'm doing pretty well , I've just been very busy leading this school and planning our outreach. I'm still living in the tenderloin , in my cute little studio. I have been rooming with another YWAMer , Marta- she has been subleasing for my roommate Lindsay while she's away doing a bible school in Madison. Lindsay returns in December and Marta is able to stay and sublease for me while I'll be gone on outreach, which is a huge blessing for me!!!! I would have still had to pay rent while away and it's so nice of God to have worked this out perfect!!! I cant believe its almost Thanksgiving, seriously time has flown by so fast but at the same time I feel so busy and I've been working non stop, I feel like my heads barely above water, there's always something we need to get done and never a time to rest. It's okay because I know I can find my rest in the Lord- He's always perfect ! I have also had some health problems. besides the awesome fact of loosing 85 pounds I have also gained some not so good health issues. I have gallstones which I try to control not having any episodes by not eating greasy or fried foods but sometimes I still get throbbing pain in my stomach from them. I also just found out I have a heart problem. I blacked out the other day- and I've been getting dizzy and my vision getting fuzzy. I went to the Doctors and they had to do a EKG test which they found out today that I have a little heart problem - ill have to be put on a heart monitor for two weeks so they can see if I need medication. Please keep me in your prayers- I'm a little nervous about traveling with all my health problems going on. I feel like I'm still suppose to lead the outreach but all the prayers are much appreciated :-) Thank you!!! Also: We got our visas back for everyone but our Vietnamese and Norwegian students , they usually take longer to process but please pray they accept their visas into India!!! THANK YOU AND HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!!! :-) Love, Carrianne Barr IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO BE PUT ON MY MAILCHIMP NEWSLETTER PLEASE SEND ME YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS pinkandwhitezebras@yahoo.com :-)

Hello friends,
I wanted to wish everyone a happy November! The Christmas tree and ice skate rink is up in union square and that means The holiday season is upon us, so I'm told! ;)

Our DTS is going great so far. I am co-leading the school with my friend Josh. We have 9 ladies which makes it an all girls school. Something that we've never experienced before in YWAM San Francisco! It's been amazing so far , we are on our 8th week.
We have also decided that we will be going to India and Thailand for our outreach! Which our base's leaders have lived in India for 25 years and we have never been as a base before. Something else that's new for this school!!! SO EXCITED!! I'm glad we are going to be spending a couple weeks in San Francisco for outreach as well, I love the Christmas spirit in San Francisco and I am happy to be able to spend some time in San Francisco during December!! Hopefully someone will take me to see the Nutcracker ballet!!! :))))

 I would appreciate prayers for our school during the next couple weeks in preparation for outreach. Our visas for India have been such a pain so far  and really hard to prepare for but our application appointment is on Wednesday! Please pray we all get accepted- We have a Vietnamese and Norwegian student with us applying for  Visas as well. :) Thanks-
Also Things with my gallstones have been mostly under control because I've been trying not to eat fatty foods- but I'm a little worried about going to India with this condition , prayers are much needed!!! :)
Thank you for loving me through Gods journey He's letting me  go through. :)
God Bless.
Carrianne

HELLO! These past few weeks have been really busy getting ready to lead our discipleship training school this September. I'm being trained but often times you need to just learn how to lead while doing it. I've been scheduling speakers to come and teach different topics, like how to hear God's voice and the Father-heart of God. It's been a really good learning time for me. I'm excited about the upcoming school. Right now we only have 7 students, which is awesome but I would like to see more students rise up and want to come to a discipleship school to be trained for full time missions, ether in other country's or right here in San Francisco! I would love to see people come here that have a passion for the City of San Francisco and want to grow  closer to God in this time. We are so blessed to have a student from Korea coming here for our school and someone from Vietnam is applying as well. I'm super excited if this is what God has for our Vietnamese friend to join us for the school. We as a base has committed going to Vietnam for outreach's , I myself has gone three times , practically in every city in Vietnam but our base has gone for 12 years now. We've even sent out a missionary to Hanoi. So you can understand our excitement for a student coming here from a closed country that we've spent years committed to praying for. What an answer to prayers!!!! He can make such a difference in his homeland with some disciplining training. :)))) Please keep our accepted seven students in your prayers as they are preparing to come here, finances is always something trying to stop the Lords calling of them coming here. Please pray as well that we get an over abundance of students wanting to make a difference and applying for our school! We would love to have 10-20 students!!!!! Would that be amazing to have 20 world changers here!!!!???? Please also join me in prayer about ways to reach our Vietnamese community right here in San Francisco!!!! I am actually having a game night TONIGHT, that's right tonight!!!! Ive spent the last couple months prayer walking Little Saigon , which it literally 5 blocks away from our base. In little Saigon there is only restaurants and Salons.I have also tried to practice my Vietnamese (all 7 words i know) by going to the restaurants but that got expensive, :) So I decided to try a game night to reach the Vietnamese , We went around asking people to write in Vietnamese a game night flier. Then we went around passing them around to everyone in Little Saigon, asking people to meet us in Quickly which is located in Little Saigon. This morning we interceded for our time tonight and prayed that people actually show up and want to play games and of course teach me some more Vietnamese!!!! :) Please keep tonight in your prayers, that this will open the door into the Vietnamese community and we can start making a difference in our own City!!!! This is my heart, and hopefully we can start a full time ministry! Thank you for reading about my missionary life in SF! If you ever want a tour of the city,Tenderloin or YWAM please feel free to call me! I would love to show off my wonderful city and beautiful friends that come in daily to our drop in center! Prayer Requests: I have been having awful pain in my stomach lately so last week I went to the doctors and had an ultrasound. They found gallstones in my gallbladder and my liver was infected as well.My Dr. Says I don't need surgery to remove the Gallbladder yet but since I have allot of stones, she is afraid they we get infected easier. I don't want the surgery,but I don't want to be overseas for three months and have an episode. That would be awful!  I'm trying to not eat fatty foods to avoid irritation. Please pray that the stone dissolve by them selves and I don't need surgery! Here is a good website to describe what I have and some good natural ways to get better!!! http://www.healthcareatoz.com/home-remedies-for-gallstones continued .... I am having surgery for my cyst on top of my right foot. August 29th I will be having my cyst removed. I have had it for about two year now and it becomes very bothersome, mainly when i wear certain shoes that rub against it. I have to wear flats to avoid irritation which is terrible to walk in around the city . Please pray for quick healing after the surgery, so I can walk to and from work! THANKS :)   My information: YWAM SF Carrianne  Barr 357 Ellis Street San Francisco, CA. 94102 408 4271333

Summer 2013

Hi guys,
I've had such a lovely summer so far! One of my supporters and dear friends bought me a ticket to come and see them in Arizona!  I was able to to spend a week with them in the wonderful heat:)
I was really spoiled and felt like I actually had a true vacation! It was much needed after four years in the Tenderloin :)

We even saw the Giants win the D-Backs :)

 After Arizona I had a week back at YWAM, working in our drop in center and training for the upcoming school! The next week was spent in Gilroy and Morgan Hill doing some fundraising and saying Thank you to all my supporters for the prayers over the last four years!!!

BY THE WAY.... can you believe it's been four years??? A couple weeks back marked my four years being on staff at YWAM in SF!

THANK YOU

Wednesday's afternoon Tenderloin hair cutting day!

My friend, Chops and I have a ministry every Wednesday afternoon, cutting peoples hair who can't afford it themselves. We love to help people but we also have an awesome opportunity to share Jesus' love with them while they wait. That's my job!!!! Yes, along with sweeping up the hair and signing people in I also get to sit down and talk with the guys who are waiting to get their hair cut. We also play some worship in the background which makes for awesome conversation starters! It's a great way to serve our community but also get to build relationships and invite them to our bible studies and prayer tables we have during the week!

**Please keep us and this ministry in your prayers  for more focus on the Lord and how we can better serve Him during this time !!!!

Love Costs Everything Persecuted Church

This video is only 25 minutes long..... But it's well worth it!!!

Hello Family,
I am doing well in San Francisco!
During  my 'off season' with DTS I am working allot in our main Drop in center , called the Ellis room. I really like connecting with the people that come in daily and building relationships with them. Everyone knows me as one of the girls that's been here forever. Even tho it's only been four years it sometimes feels like I've known these people forever!
I like being able to stay in San Francisco for a good amount of time this spring/summer. I'm looking forward to our staff retreat this year, spending a weekend in the woods fellow-shipping with one another and having some great quite time with the Lord in some trees!!!!


Also last October God was speaking to me about putting earthly things before the Lord. I was praying and He was speaking loud and clear that something I often put before God is FOOD! I used to go to food for everything, when I was sad, happy, mad and even rejoicing...always food...not going to God instead, or second. And that's not good. So i decided to change my eating habits for the Lord, because I also knew that what He's called me to do ( going over seas and serving ) I need to be at my best! I started a diet/ life style eating changes the last week of October. With a 1 1/2 month over the seas break. I am proud to announce that I have reached my first goal of loosing 54 pounds!!!!!!
yay!!!! My first goal was fifty pounds and now I'm on to my next goal ( with a 4 pound accomplishment) of loosing another 50 pounds!!!!! Just thought everyone should know. It's all for God, He wants your all and all and nothing should go before God, even something so little as food....
Thanks for the prayers and support!!! :)
love Carrianne

OUTREACH IS OVER.....

Lets start out with some pictures of our wonderful 2012-2013 FALL DTS OUTREACH!

**Starting from the bottom up- our time in LA and Thailand! 

( baking cookies,passing out tracks on the eve of the "end of the world",selling Christmas trees @ywam LA, washing vans,more Christmas, group shot in Thailand, Teaching English with juice boxes and Thai friends!!!) 

Anyway, you can tell by the pictures that we had a wonderful outreach overseas and even right here in good ol' California ! Los Angeles !We stayed in Hollywood working with Oasis of Hollywood for three weeks.

We were able to help work with after school programs like kidz clubs in the schools teaching bible stories as well as working with the youth in the area having a safe place for them to come and hang out on Friday nights. Its called club Zion and its a safe club for the youth of Hollywood to come and hangout , dance and listen to a message about God. IT was a wonderful time we were there because we helped package over 300 presents for the kids. We also were able to help at the Christmas tree farm raising money for YWAM LA. it was all so fun and we only had three weeks in the lovely city of LA until we traveled on CHRISTMAS DAY to Thailand! 

Thailand was amazing as always. We stayed at the YWAM base there and  worked with the different ministries We spent about 5 weeks in Thailand and another 3 weeks in Vietnam teaching English and putting together children shows where we were able to share God with the Vietnamese children! 

It feels so nice to be back ! I love chilly San Francisco and of course the comforts of my own bed and all!!! :)

I started work today. I have an office shift right now, answering phones and replying to emails and of course sending off my blog:)

I am excited to start working with the Ellis room ( our drop in center ) a few days a week as well as meeting about our upcoming DTS starting up next September! I guess good news is IM LEADING THE NEXT SCHOOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

wow!!! Super exciting and really challenging as well :) BUT GOD is soooo good and i cant wait to get trained and learn more about how to disciple and actually lead a school. 

GOD BLESS!!!! -Carrianne