Hello everyone!!!!
Merry Christmas!!! I'm in Cambodia right now. It's been almost three weeks. I cant believe time has gone by so fast! Right now its "cold"season but to me its pretty hot still! We are all staying at the YWAM base and have been making friends with all the staff. Our ministries are so exciting! We get to be involved with amazing things here. I go every Monday,Thursday and Friday Mornings ( 9-12)with two of my students to the Village to teach English and bible stories to kids. We have so much fun teaching there, we all play soccer when the lesson is over. On Tuesday and Wednesday mornings (9-12) I go to an orphanage and play with the kids and have bible lessons too. In the evenings after lunch I teach two English classes at the youth center. I teach level 2 and level 9 English. We have a big test next week!!! (:

The students are involved with allot more ministries during the week.
Cambodia has been wonderful!!! I love riding my bike through Battambang to grab a coconut or a fried banana! Hope you all have a wonderful Christmas!
Thank you for all your prayers and support!
Carrianne

Hello friends and family,

I am leaving in two days for three whole months!!!!

Yes, can you believe it's time for outreach!This Fall school has been amazing but has also gone by so fast. Our flight leaves Monday morning and we will be making a pit stop to Bangkok for one night ( I'm so excited I get to see some of my friends) Then we will be busing it over the boarder to Cambodia and staying at the YWAM base there for 2 months. We will work with YWAM and help teach English, play sports with kids and possible some flood relief stuff, since allot of south east Asia is flooded. On my birthday (Jan 22) We will be busing it over the boarder again ( different one though) to Vietnam and will stay in Saigon for a week then fly to Hanoi for the rest of the month!!!! I'll let you know what we do in Vietnam after we return safely (;

I'm so excited. Please be praying for our team(:

Love Carrianne

See you all in February !

Happy Christmas, new years,my birthday and valentines day!!! (:

November 1st

Hello all!

Everything with the DTS is going great. We are in our 8th week of lecture phase and we only have a month left before we leave for outreach. I’ve been really busy with the school and being in charge of communication and scheduling the Vietnam part of outreach.

Please keep me in your prayers. I am in need of the financial support of our outreach plane tickets.

Also my room mate Laura is getting married and will be moving out in April , so I am looking for more support so that I can hopefully live on my own in my apartment still.

I leave with my 9 students and 2 other staff to Cambodia  and Vietnam on November 28th until February 16th Please keep me in your prayers !!!!!

I  thank you all for your love, encouragement, support and prayers…I can not do this mission work without you all.

Carrianne

God speaks but are we always willing to listen?

God's been doing some really awesome things in my life! So last week the speaker spoke on the character and nature of God. In this time God put on my heart to do a DTS equip. (which is a secondary school that teaches you to lead outreaches ..) I would have to leave my home (San Francisco) yet again for two more months. It feels like I just came back from two months over seas and now I'm leaving on another outreach in November for three months and God's trying to tell me to leave yet again for two more months.... come on God , I live here now!!! I have an apartment. church , friends and a community here. Well it's not all about me. God spoke to me during a lecture about sacrificing and giving something up to serve the Lord. Right then and there I felt like God was saying give up you " rights" and where I call you is your home. WOW... did that hit me... it was like the speaker was talking to only me!!! I gave my "home" up to God right there and then and went and told my directer , Steve that I was interested in the DTS equip. He was very excited and later told me that he's been praying for me and hoping that God would put that on my heart so I would be the one that would want to do a DTS equip. The next day I went out to coffee with my other Leader, Jason. I shared with him what God was speaking to me and how I am interested in doing a DTS equip to further my knowledge on how to lead DTS'. He was so excited and said that he had been praying for me because he wanted me to start LEADING outreaches to Thailand next Fall and that the DTS equip would help me and was a conformation to his prayers.

It's so amazing how God works. I am still blown away by all of this. ....but wait there's more.....

Steve pulled me aside later that day and told me that him and Jason talked and how he was really excited that God was speaking to all three of us about the same thing. Well he then went on to say what usually happens if your getting ready to staff an outreach is to lead a whole week by your self overseas .....That's kinda coming up in NOVEMBER!!!!! So, I will be in charge of planning the whole Vietnam part of outreach , flights,transportation, living arrangements and all of ministry and then for a week I will lead it by my self. I am really nervous and kinda scared by I know God's totally got my back.

It reminds me of when Moses took his people out of Egypt and when they started crying out to God when the Egyptians were coming after them. God said why are you standing there??... I've got your back , go forward!!!!! That's how I picture it, Gods saying I have your back just GO FORWARD!!!! I guess I'm in shock that all of this is happening so fast and all I had to do was trust God and let go of the things that I needed to give to Him...

This week we are reading about Joshua and Caleb how they had faith to come back to Moses and say we can take over the promise land... we can do this... and the 10 didn't want to face the giants and stay where they were content.... they weren't willing to go forward and they didn't have enough faith to believe and fallow where God is telling them to go. I am really nervous about the BIG plans God has for me in leading outreaches but do I have enough faith like Joshua and Caleb to go forward and trust in God????
YESSSSSS ! I am believing and TRUSTING and its going to be GREAT!!!!!!!!!

Please keep me in your prayers!!!!

Carrianne Barr

Friends!
I hope everyone is doing wonderful!
I am drinking a nice cold diet coke so I'm doing amazing! My friend who comes in to the base from time to time knows some of the girls like diet coke and buys us some every Friday, he likes to call it DC! hhaha..thought I would add that for fun.

I just got back from being in my friends wedding! It was a beautiful wedding at that! She has been one of my good friends (and supporters) for years. It was such a blessing to be able to be there for her on her special day and be a part of it as well. Her wonderful Aunt and Cousin picked me up on there way to Morgan hill 3 times for things like the wedding shower, bachelorette party and the actual wedding.... BIG thanks to them for the love and rides! (:

The DTS started on Monday. Alissa and I spent ALL day on Sunday picking people up from the airport...and when I say all day I mean from 8am-1am at night....driving around in circles at the airport!....we kinda lost a student...not really, she took a taxi to the base and spent the night here at YWAM SF but we didn't know and therefore we spent most of the night looking for her. I hate the airport now!!!! haha but this week has been fun introducing the students to the Tenderloin and letting them in on all the whats and what-nots to do!
We have 10 students . 5 girls and 5 guys ...first time its been even and not more girls. They all are very nice and I'm excited to see what God has in store for both them and myself!
Tomorrow I'm teaching on intercession and prayer walk!
(: Hope all is well!

Publish Post

Can you believe that September is coming up? I am writing a quick update on my lunch break so it wont be that long just wanted to make sure everyone knew whats going on ! (:

Last week was our staff retreat. We had Monday off and spent Tuesday meeting with our ministry's praying and fellow shipping ( we also ate lunch at a Thai restaurant YUM!) Wednesday we went to Tilden park in Berkeley and swam in the lake, played catch and some card games. Some staff left with a couple bee stings but all together it was a fun day!During the week we also had a couple speakers come and talk to us.

All this week we will be preparing for the Fall DTS to come, they get here Sept 12th. (:

We have as for right now 9 students and hopefully 10 by the time the school starts!

I'm getting excited ..... yay!!!!!!

Okay hope you all have a wonderful week, im a little sick but hopefully ill feel better by tomorrow

Carrianne

DTS= look upwards, inwards and outwards.

 

Hello everyone.

Well our two weeks of  DTS training is over. I am excited for the next school to start. It's coming up pretty quick. We still have allot to do to prepare for their arrival but that usually doesn't happen until the week before they come! They should be getting here on September 12th. So far we have ten wonderful students. The last winter school was my first school ever that I helped staff. I know that God has grown me so much since then and showed me allot about myself. I am not worried about staffing this next school but really excited about what God's going to teach me next ! Please be praying for these ten students that God will prepare their hearts for what He's about to show them and what they are going to experience. I cant wait to walk along side of these students and grow while they grow. (:

Carrianne Barr

Matt 28:18-20

“Did you know that 98% of San Francisco does NOT go to church…..and that’s on EASTER Sunday.”

August 3 2011

Family,

Thank you all for committing longer with me in my ministry. It has been an amazing two years here in San Francisco serving the Lord and I love what God has in store for me. Working with DTS is very different from the youth in Mission Adventures and Traveling can be hard sometimes also, leaving your home that you have here to go away for two months. Don’t get me wrong going to places like Italy and Thailand is very wonderful but it is hard not having your own bed and living with 19 students. (: I love this life that Jesus has planned for me and I couldn’t be happier serving Him in a beautiful city.

Just a couple weeks ago Laura and I got invited to our friend’s birthday party. He was turning 35 years old and is a strong believer in the Lord. He loves going to his church in concord and telling others about Jesus. He also stops by the YWAM base to say hi to everyone because as he said in his testimony at his birthday party a couple weeks ago YWAM changed his life. He used to be a drug dealer outside of YWAM and he lived in San Francisco in a not so good lifestyle. He started coming into the Base and made friends with all the staff, there he gave his life to the Lord and stopped selling drugs and instead went to church and then school and now he’s a big shot at the place he works. He thanked Laura and I at his birthday party for loving the people that come into the YWAM base and showing God’s love. I felt like a movie star as he introduced us to all his family and church friends. It’s so easy to forget the lives that have changed because of our drop in center/ YWAM base. You sometimes get caught up in seeing the same old faces that come in everyday and the hopelessness in that but it was such a beautiful reminder that God does change lives and He did call YWAM to be in the Tenderloin and that He did call me to do missions in San Francisco.

It’s such a blessing to have friends that support me in something like this. I have enjoyed my time off in July to connect with some of you and see my family. Since the beginning of January I had been working the school and it ended 6 months later. This September I will be starting another school that will go until the end of February so July was pretty much my only time “off” to visit. But what’s time “off” when you’re serving the Lord (; I will update my blog every month (or try to) so please make sure you check it out. It might be my only communication to all you lovely supporters.

Thank you and much love and gratitude.

Carrianne Barr

 

 

Purpose and Outcomes of DTS approved by YWAM's GLT August 25, 2001

1. To GATHER and CHALLENGE people to worship, listen to and obey God, releasing them (in the context of the DTS) to serve through evangelism, intercession, acts of compassion and other expressions of God's heart for the world, possibly even pioneering new ministries.
2. To INSPIRE and CULTIVATE growth in one's relationship with God resulting in Christ like character, which is based on a solid Biblical foundation, the work of the Holy Spirit and the personal application of Biblical truth, especially concerning God's Character, the Cross and empowering Grace.
3. To SHARPEN one's ability to relate to, learn from and work with people, including those of different cultures, personalities and perspectives.
4. To further EQUIP each one to serve God's purposes either in or outside of YWAM Family of Ministries, strengthening a commitment to reach the lost, especially the unreached, to care for the poor, and to influence all areas of society.
5. To IMPART the vision and foundational values of Youth With A Mission International as well as that of the host operating location and to provide information regarding a variety of opportunities for service.

The DTS aims to graduate students ...

• with a growing understanding of the breadth and depth of God’s character and ways
• who are becoming more like Jesus in the way they relate to God and people
  who increasingly cooperate with the empowering presence of the endwelling Holy Spirit
• who listen to and obey God as the result of God’s enabling Grace
• who search the Scripture in such a way that transforms beliefs, values and behaviors
• with strengthened lifestyles of worship, intercession and spiritual warfare
• with a greater ability to work with others, especially those different to themselves
• who can share the Gospel with the lost and have a life long commitment to do so
  with a commitment to continue to be involved in some way with God’s work among the nations, including unreached people, the poor and needy and in spheres of society
• who understand the calling and values of YWAM and are aware of a variety of opportunities available to them throughout YWAM
• with a clearer understanding of God’s purposes for their life and a sense of their life direction
• who either:
• go on to serve God in either a context familiar or foreign to them
• pursue further training (in or outside of YWAM) to equip them for further service.