January 2011

Happy new year everyone!
I hope you all enjoyed the Holiday season! I know I had a wonderful time!

Christmas eve my parents picked me up (aren't they awesome) and we went to Christmas eve dinner at my aunts house. It was so exciting to see everyone. All the cousins got a cute little basket full of cookies for Christmas! (: I had a great Christmas at my parents house and we enjoyed Christmas dinner at Denny's... don't judge! It was a wonderful Holiday grand slam!(: heheh!

I had a whole week of Christmas vacation spent at home with friends and family! It was really good spending some time with my nephews and getting to know Tyler, he's three and can say my name perfect!

I got to bring in the new year with some friends and make soap ...new years eve soap with my mom...it was really exciting!
Just a heads up my birthday is coming up.....Jan 22, so mark your calenders...I'll be having a post up in a couple of days telling what I would like! HAHAHa Just kidding! The DTS school starts Jan 24Th so that's coming up and I'm so happy! YAY!
<-- This is a peppermint chocolate shake for Christmas! Yummy

Thank you to all my friends and family who helped make my week joyful and fun.

Merry Christmas from Carrianne Barr

Merry Christmas everyone! I LOVE YOU ALL!

Season's greetings!
Very very soon you all will be receiving some Christmas cheer from your local missionary! (:



I was looking through my very cluttered in box and just re-read an email that a lovely young lady wrote to me and my Mission Adventure staff after she spent her spring break here last April! I thought this was such an answer to everything we do here...like the whole goal and reason why I live here and wanted to be a part of Mission Adventures so that our youth would see the need and want to serve our Lord in doing Missions as well.



"Dear Carrieanne (I hope that's how you spell it), Mikel, and Tia;

I wanted to tell you all thank you so much for everything you did for us, that would be Element
Youth group ( I think we were your last group and our youth leaders name was Dustyn), over our
spring break. It was amazing! One of the most impactful weeks of my life and one of the best. At first
I could not understand why God wanted me to go. I mean my boyfriend was not going and it was
spring break and I had a ton to do. But now I know why I was there. Thank you so much! It has
changed my life and made me actually pray and consider becoming a missionary in my uncertain
future. Before spring break I was in my own box, thinking I would just get married and do whatever,
never thinking of outreaching. Isn't that weird? God doesn't just want us sitting around. Which leads
me to tell you guys that God used you to show me that I will do something amazing for Him. I am not
sure what yet though. Anyway I remember in the beginning when we got there and Carrieanne found out I was 18 and offered me to get an application for DTS. The first thought that came to my mind was no way would I do that. I barely am going to get through this week. But after Thursday, I could not believe I thought
that and now I miss you all and serving there so much that I would apply. But I can't because I am
going to be a camp counselor over the summer. So I just wanted to say you guys opened my heart to what my potential is to do to serve and a lot more. And this might sound strange but I was wondering if there was a way I could talk to Carrieanne more because I had a lot to say. so if I could get her email or anything that would be great.I love you guys and miss you"

Every once in a while I stumble across something very encouraging, hope you enjoyed !Thank you &
have a wonderful Christmas!
Carrianne Frances Leigh Barr

Greetings,
I have some fun and exciting news!!! Well after allot of prayer and consideration I have decided to commit another two years to serving the Lord here in San Francisco. This time it will be a little different because I am changing ministry's and will be working with the DTS ( disciple ship training school program) I will be starting a little before my two years would be up ( June) and will be leading the coming up January Winter school! This is such a blessing, I have been praying and felt like God has been saying two things....one was for sure to work with the DTS and the other was to stay another two years, well since I got accepted to jump aboard with the DTS crew I had to commit to at least two schools... that meant God answered both of my questions in one and how excited am I to be able to walk along side the the students and grow with them in this next season! We already have 15 students which is such a blessing in it's self because usually the winter school only has about 5 students signed up.

Thanksgiving is coming up and I am thrilled to spend the day here in the Tenderloin with all my friends and family. It will be my third Thanksgiving here and every year all the staff, DTS students and interns get to invite two guests that don't have a home of their own to spend Thanksgiving with us! Last year we had around 90 people to share this special day with, we are assuming there will be a little more joining this year because our numbers have increased since then. What a blessing (:

Please be praying for me that I will be a good listener and able to grow in my walk with God and be able to learn new things with the DTS. Also that support will grow and not weaken for my next two years.
There's another need that is kinda embarrassing to ask for but my little acer laptop has seen it's better days and I am hoping that God will provide me with an upgrade....yes I am turning to the dark side and want a mac , please pray that God will provide me with one ..maybe for Christmas? (: Love you all
Carrianne Barr

October 26 2010

Family & Friends,

Hope all is well! We had our first rain storm this last weekend; I realized I’m in need of a rain jacket. (: Also we had a team here too, they were so awesome and not just cuz they bought me ‘Philz’ coffee. Hehe!

They came an extra day which meant they got to experience our homeless plunge day, I kicked them out at 6 am like the shelters do to homeless and they have to stand in line at Glide and St. Anthony’s for Breakfast and Lunch. This activity isn’t meant for the team to pretend to be homeless but to experience what its like to be homeless, they also can’t go into any shops or places homeless can’t go into even for bathrooms. They had a blast and I enjoyed hearing all the stories from each group. My two interns and new staff for Mission adventures are catching on real quick with leading teams … so proud (:

Please keep me in your prayers for I have an opportunity to help lead the winter school DTS this coming up January, which means stepping out of Mission Adventures department and starting something new. I’m very excited but we still need Mission Adventure staff to comment to leading spring teams until I can know for sure I will be doing DTS. Winter school outreach focuses on Rome and Turkey.

Also please pray for my friends Luke, Adam and Michael who attend my church IKON, their whole building burnt down which means they lost everything and is in need of ….well everything! This happened last Tuesday at 5am in the morning. THANKS!

Love you all,

Carrianne

FALL FALL FALL...i love october

I very much enjoyed my time off I spent in Morgan hill. Thank you , for those of you who were able to make it to my dessert party. When I was home on my vacation I was able to talk about what I have been doing the past year and what my ministries are, I hope you all have a better idea of what it looks like now. (:

When I returned home, here in San Francisco, I was greeted with 2 interns from Westmont and a new staff member that will be working with Mission Adventures. What a blessing that is to have them here and allot of pressure of me just working teams by myself.
This past weekend we had our first team , we only had 7 students but it was still a fun packed weekend. We spent our Saturday morning serving Breakfast at Glide , that was honestly my favorite thing that day because I got put as the greeter and hand people the trays of food. I felt like I was working at IN N OUT again. hehehe (: We also got to go down to Powell street and set up our prayer station, this activity was the hardest for the kids, but they were very bold in their faith and kept on asking tourists, shoppers, homelessness and giants fans if they would like prayer... very proud of them. We did sack lunches, street cleaning , prayer walks and hot chocolate ...we ended the day with eating at Chutneys, the best Indian restaurant in the TL!

Well I am super excited for fall, as soon as I got back from my trip we had a heat wave here in San Francisco, it was crazy...so I'm now ready for some October drizzle. (: Hope you all have a great fall. Enjoy!

Thanks everyone, Carrianne

Today is JOELLE'S Birthday... a little shout out to her...happy birthday girl! LOVE Ya

Hello August~ Good bye summer!

There's been so much happening that it seems like ages since I last wrote...
Last Sunday we had a wonderful bake sale at Daloris park to raise money for our staff camping trip which is at the end of this month. We baked all night Saturday, making all kinds of goodies..such as Walnut chocolate dipped cookies, peanut butter cookies, Carmel apples, snicker brownies , lemon bars and much more. It was such a beautiful day out and a successful bake sale at that. Made around $200 for our camping trip(: Yay.....

Next week is our last week of teams for the season which sadly means my lovely Summer of service staff will be leaving soon. We are having a goodbye dinner on Saturday night to thank them for such a wonderful summer of service(: I will miss them. On Friday night at the Sugar cafe here in San Francisco we are having a fundraiser and silent auction to raise money for our Ellis room and our new ministry 360. The Ellis room , as many of you know is our drop in center ( at our ywam building ) that's open to the public Monday-Friday. 360 is another ministry connected to the Ellis room that we are just starting up. It's meant to be a discipleship program for some of the regulars that have been coming into our base for years and we have built relationships with. Please be praying that this auction will go well and that we can get the funds needed to provide a wonderful ministries for our friends. Also if you want to come and join in on the fun, 20% of all drinks and food will be given to our ministries at YWAM SF. How exciting is that?!!!

See you all soon. God bless!
Carrianne Barr
357 Ellis st.
San Francisco, Ca 94102

JULY

Hello everyone,
I hope everyone had a wonderful June! Mine was wonderful and so far July is looking to be just as nice as last month. I have really enjoyed our summer teams that have come through here and our summer staff are doing AMAZING! Since I have been leading teams for a year now , it's been really nice to be overseeing the teams and letting the sos (summer of service staff) lead. They are such a good bunch of students...we have another kitchen summer staff joining us this week that will help out a lot with our 90+ students that are eating here. (: Last weekend two of our staff members got married, Katie one of my DTS leaders looked beautiful walking down the aisle! We danced all night long... my favorite song was party in the usa! heheh! The wonderful thing about last week was everyone was back...all my good friends, it was sooo nice to see everyone.

I really enjoy getting to go back home on some weekends. I loved seeing everyone and having a wonderful 4th of July in the most awesome town ever....what a blessing that I live so close to home to get to return on my days off. I LOVE YOU ALL!

I know that it's been a year but because some of my supporters were committed just for a year I'm asking if you all could pray about financially supporting me. (: Thank you for all your love and prayers!

my new room #14

I want to start blogging to you all in video for a bit just so you can get a better glimpse of where I live and what I do a little more clearly....thank you all

love carrianne

Summer!
Well everyone, summer has started! My short term summer staff are here, we have had one full week already of training and this week is training as well. We kicked it off with a big Hawaii theme welcome party... it was super! Next Monday summer officially starts for us because that's when our first team arrives for the season. I am very excited to teach my summer staff. They are so wonderful and such a great bunch. We have six so far and two late arrivals come in a couple of weeks. It's going to be an awesome summer.

I changed rooms a couple of weeks ago, I am now roommates with my dear friend Laura and am located in room 14 next to the laundry room. Our winter DTS should be returning home on Saturday but sadly we have lost a few loved ones.... Amanda Evens my darling friend since my DTS has left to join LAs Vegas' ywam team and Jake and Amanda - Our part time staff will be leaving us to return home to Texas on Wednesday. So sad! :( I miss them all already!

I have been her for a year now.... on June 20th will be my 1 year mark... wow.... I love it here more everyday, Yes I miss my family and friends and even Morgan Hill but I couldn't see myself anywhere but here. I know God's blessed me so much just being here... I have life good...and I'm a missionary... hahahah (:

We started every Monday night a community night with all our friends that come into the storefront, we have dinner and fellowship and it's been great. It's ending for a couple months while our busy Mission Adventure schedule starts up but its been so wonderful to have it.
I love that YWAM has different ministries within itself but when community night goes on we can all join in with the people we love in the storefront and have family time together!

I feel like Gods telling me this season to pursue Him more and dig deeper into the word more, which means giving up 'free' time to be with Him and read the bible more. So if y'all don't mind to pray for me that I will do what He told me to do. (: LOVE YOU ALL and thanks for everything you all do.
Love, Carrianne