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