HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

hi everyone,

i have been so busy, Mission Adventure Teams every week and it's a lot of work, but it's been a blast! so much has been going on that time just kept flying by and i just realized i hadn't blogged in a long time. i hope everyone had a great thanksgiving with their families and friends! we had a wonderful time here at the base.. my mom and dad came up and had thanksgiving dinner with us! most of the staff and DTSers invited one local person to dinner, so we had about 70 + people here! it was really great with lots of food and desserts. there were at least 7 different types of turkeys, huge pans of potatoes, sweet potatoes, green bean casserole (yum!), corn casserole (thanks, mom!), two different Tofurkeys, vegan gravy , rolls... i baked 3 pies and loads of other sweet things- and oh yeah, can't forget the great coffee and flavored creamers! mom and dad brought bags of persimmons from home and branches of rosemary bushes and i had candles, so we decorated all the dinner tables really pretty! we had a wonderful prayer before dinner, and my parents got to meet a lot of my street friends here, as well as other YWAM staff members. after, we all went to a nearby park and played football! well, i didn't play football, i played on the monkey bars! anyway, i got to go back home with my family until Tuesday evening, when they brought me back to the city- my new home! it was a great thanksgiving, and i have so much to be thankful for! hope yours was great! :)

baby Rhyder update: his heart surgery was scheduled for dec 1, but it was postponed and will now be done this tues, dec 8. please pray for him! :)

Today the new DTS group will be doing their outreach in viet nam and thailand, just like i did for my DTS last year. i had an opportunity to go for 2 weeks in january, so i am going to thailand!! i will be doing everything the DTS are going to be doing - ministry work ,with the local YWAM group that i got to spend time with last year. i am so excited because i truly fell in love with that beautiful country and the beautiful people there, too! i wanted to let everyone know something... when i started my 2 yr commitment in june, i sold my car. i put that money in the bank, and have used it occasionally for some 'extra' things i have needed while i was here. one of the things i've used my money on is my trip to thailand. since it's a personal choice for me to go, i didn't want to burden my sponsors- everyone who supports me already has been so generous and i appreciate every one of you- and every single dollar you give to support me and my ministry! i love doing this, and i couldn't do any of it without you! i did want you all to know, though, how i was paying for this trip, because i didn't want there to be any concern as to how i was spending your finances. anyway- i just wanted to be upfront and let you all know what's going on and stuff like that!!

please keep me in your prayers, and please pray for baby Rhyder, too! please also send me your prayer requests! me and the other staffers get together every morning and pray- so i'd love to pray for you!! thank you for your love and support- it means so much to me. hoping you all have a safe and happy Christmas! love always, carrianne barr

PICTURES FROM FOOD PANTRY AND A FEW FAMOUS PEEPS!

........fall

Hello everyone,
Since I last wrote, a lot has happened. I started working the Mission Adventure (MA) teams all by myself, and it's really exciting. I work weekends from Fridays thru Sundays. Last Sunday while out with my team, we saw my old Sunday school teacher while passing out homeless sack lunches .... Miss.Debbie! ( she wasn't homeless, nor is she old! hehe) She was on her way to see Wicked at the civic center. (: So with my new schedule, I now have Thursdays off. Last Thursday was really tough. We always have food pantry on Thursdays, and my friend Rachel and I always deliver two boxes- one to a lady and the other to a man; neither of them can walk very well. We set aside a box for each of them and then deliver it to them after the pantry is over. Last week we went to the mans house- his name is Don ....we didn't get an answer and after talking to the hotel manager they gave us the key to his room. They figured he had been away for several days and we could leave his food on the counter. We walked in to find that Don had passed away. It was really hard to realize he was dead, and to walk in and find him like that was terrible for both of us. Don had shared a lot about his life with us, and we were able to pray with him often, as well as just let him talk and be his friend. I know I'm really going to miss him and his stories of serving in the Viet Nam war. I didn't really know how to deal with it and it's been kinda hard on me, but God and my family and my friends here really got me through it. This Thursday's food pantry was really fun though. We had a couple of celebrities come and help us out. One of my favorites was David Arquette, from Scream, Never Been Kissed and 8 Legged Freaks!!!

It was really cool. (:
So right now, I'm a little sick with a chest cold, but hopefully that will go away by this weekend before my teams get here. Fall is here and thats my favorate season. I LOVE FALL....I bought 4 mini pumpkins and decorated my room very nice and AUTUMN-ISH!!

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Thanks for your support, love and prayers- it is really helpful to know you are with me in this way! Please let me know what's going on in your lives and what I can pray for you for!!

Hello everyone,
So starting in October I will be running MA teams with Kaitlyn. It will just be her and I and it looks like it will be really busy. BUT I am so looking forward to starting MA up again. All of October-December is filled up already.(: The new DTS for fall 09 are here.... It's really strange to think that it's been a year already since MY DTS last fall.I'm so excited for all of them, because I know how great DTS was for me! Yay.

I'm growing some pumpkins, peas and carrotts outside my window ....they are starting to grow and Im sooooo excited. yay!!!!

Please keep me in your prayers and make sure you pray for baby ryder as well. He has a hole in his heart and will need surgery at 3 months. Also a boy on the DTS needs to get his green card in order to go on his outreach ...please keep him in your prayers along with me and ministry starting back up in October. Thank you.

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Hey guys,
Oh wow.... time fly's when you are having fun! It's been amazing being here and making friendships with the people in the storefront. One day when I was in there I noticed that there was nothing on the walls that indicated we were a Christian organization...and that made me a little worried , so I went out and bought some canvasses and a couple people helped me paint them and wrote really pretty scriptures on them. They are now in the store front and even a Mexican man was looking up in his bible to translate the verses! (: How wonderful the Ellis room/storefront looks now!

Well for the month of September there is no MA groups coming. They begin again in October, and then it's just Kaitlyn and I leading these weekend groups. I'm a little nervous that I might get burned out but also excited to be leading teams again. God will do so much work in these students lives just being here. Now who wouldn't be excited for that?????

So the last week in August was really exciting for me, I got to go on the yearly staff camping trip/ retreat thing. It's just once a year where all the staff can get away from the city and focus on God and be together as group. We went camping (: SO FUN!!! Then the same week baby Rhyder was born ....so I got to go visit him that weekend.... YAY for babys!

It's been so wonderful and such a blessing to be here.
God bless. Love alwayzs, Carrianne

Great week

Hello everyone!Things are going wonderful here. I am enjoying being on staff here so much! I got to lead a MA team for the first time last week. A team of 22. They got to experience different ministry's like Hot chocolate night, homeless sack lunch, homeless plunge , prayer walks ,serving food at ST. Anthony's and a couple other really awesome ones! The homeless plunge is really neat because they get to experience first hand on what it feels like to stand in line at Glide for food and be kicked out at 6am until4pm with only bus fare for 1 way. I really enjoyed leading this team, and it wet really well. It was the last team for the summer until October when only Kaitlyn and I will be leading teams of about 50.

I cant wait to start running teams on my own. I also have allot of background/office work to do until teams start again.

Last Thursday evening I got to return home after the teams left for the weekend! It was so nice to enjoy my weekend at my 1st home in Morgan Hill. I got to see baby Tyler and Catrina before she gives birth next week, also my mom and dad!!!! (:
It was wonderful. Next week is the staff camping trip, that should be really fun and I'm SO looking forward to it !


Here's a couple pictures on our website of the woman's day event , that I talked about a couple postings ago. ( I'm in one of them (: hehe )
http://www.ywamsanfrancisco.org/index.php?option=com_rsgallery2&Itemid=110&gid=3
Have a good week guys!!! (:
Carrianne

August.....

HEY!!!!
So it's already August. Crazy!!! Things are going very well here, so thats great!!! (:
This week there are no MA teams coming so its kinda peaceful. I still have allot of office work to be doing and also working in the storefront/the Ellis room, SO much better then the kitchen. HAAHA! But I'll work were God needs me... lol! Saturday BJM ( because Justice matters ) put on a womans day chin dig. It was so neat, a whole bunch of woman came and we had booths for different things, some was for ice cream, nails, massages, making bead neckless and other fun things for woman. It was just a nice place for woman to come and feel good about themselves . Then later that day my friends came over from MH and we hung out and went to the giants game. #55. WONDERFUL! It was a good game and great to show off the TL to my friends!Today after work a small group of girls and I went over Karol's house and made scones ....SO YUMMIE....homemade blueberry and chocolate chip ones. They were wonderful. It was so fun! Well ta ta for now!
LOVE YOU ALL!!!!!!!
Carrianne

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HELLO everyone!!!!
Happy Sunday! Well I haven't been on in awhile , I'm sorry about that. I have been super busy lately. I have had kitchen duty last week and I'm in there again this week also. It's not east cooking for over 100 Mission adventure students. I'm also in there wired hours so I don't get much sleep. 6am-10am and then back again at 2:30-7 for dinner. I take naps in between being in the kitchen and then it's hard falling asleep at a decent hour so I end up being sooooo tired in the morning. STRANGE! Last Friday we went to the apartment building down the street where all the old Chinese and Rushan people live. We had a ice cream party and played BINGO! It was so much fun, they love that game!!!! Since I have the loudest voice there I was the one to spin the wheal and call out the number.... B7.... it reminded me of 'My Girl' the movie. Well I better get going into the kitchen. Those kids are hungry!!!
Please keep me and my family in your prayers! THANKS!

Hello everyone!
So basically I love being here. Its been awesome so far. I work a lot in the store front so I am getting to know a lot of these people. I baked a cake for a man named Marty today. It was his birthday and he was so excited to have a cake. (: I wish you could have seen his face ! Every week a new MA team comes . Every Tuesday they put on a party in the store front and serve all the homeless people spaghetti and have music for them and everything. It's wonderful. We also have the "food pantry " for all the residence people in the TL. I love working these days! (: It makes my week amazing. I'm doing a lot of office work and doing "behind the scene " stuff for MA!
My friend from my DTS works on staff in Oregon and he's here for the week with his MA kids. It's nice to see him again.
Okay Hope y'all are having a wonderful day

this weekkkkkk

HELLO FRIENDS AND FAMILY!!!!!
How was your 4th of July? I hope everyone had a great weekend! This week went by so fast. I'm still working on small projects to learn more about staffing on MA but mostly I am in the store front. It is very wonderful working in the storefront because I have made lots of friendships with these people that come in everyday! I am having a very great time here, It is my third week and it's wonderful.I have missed home a couple of times, I mean who wouldn't miss Morgan Hill on 4th of July??!!! Well I believe next week I will be working the teams. (:
Thank you to all my loving friends and family who is supporting me and praying for me while I am living here! It is such a blessing to be here and know that I have the support of you guys back home! WONDERFUL! Okay a prayer request for this week could be that I would give God my all and all and to go to Him everyday...find time for God! ~Thanks Y'all !!!!!
Love alawyzs, Carrianne