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

This is our fall DTS 2012-2013 group!!! 

And we're off!

We leave for LA, Thailand and Vietnam for three months this Monday!

Please keep us in your prayers! We are still trying to raise about $7,000 for the rest of our outreach fees and  just getting last minute stuff done. I am the outreach leader this year with 4 other staff and 14 students joining me! I'm very excited about what God will do with us on this trip. We have some wonderful opportunities while on outreach. 

For LA we will be working with kids clubs that are involved with kid gangs and we also get a chance to serve the YWAM LA base and work in the Christmas tree lot , talking to people about Jesus and telling them what we do with YWAM. We will also be involved with  Water for life in LA that serve places in Africa (building wells). I'm pretty sure we will be digging ditches and working with pluming at the YWAM LA base. 

Our time in Thailand we will be working with two different miniseries. One is involved with Children and a justice base ministry. The other ministry will be working with the college age students at the campus teaching English playing games and hopefully inviting them to bible studies and sharing with them about our Lord, savior! please keep us in your prayers through this time. Most students, family's and just the Thai people are Buddhist and if the students give their life to Jesus they might be kicked out of the family- its a very hard decision but knowing our God , He can do anything and help them once they make the decisions to fallow Him. We would love to be a part of seeing this happen but most of the time the Lord using us to plant seeds while overseas and then the YWAM base and friends in Thailand will do their job in working along side these students and the Thai people to disciple them in their walk with the Lord! 

Our last stop is Vietnam. We will split the team up and going to the North and the South to love the Vietnamese people! We have underground youth groups to join, prayer walks, teaching English and  working with Orphanage. This is a closed country and your prayers will be much appreciated! Last year we had many great opportunities to share Gods love with the students that we thought English to and we hope we have the same opportunities this year as well!!! 

Thank you so much for your love and support through prayers and fiances and just keeping an eye on what I've been up to :) Ill return February 20th and hopefully write a quick update on our wonderful trip- I say wonderful because I know that God is going to do AWESOME things, miracles and such!!!! ;)

GOD BLESS and Happy Christmas too!!!!!

Hello friends,

Happy thanksgiving!!!!

I’m so sorry I haven’t written in a while. I guess staffing this school and preparing to lead an outreach is a lot  more work then I thought J

I actually am really excited for outreach. We will be doing some stateside outreach this year in Los Angeles. We will be there for a little over three weeks. I've been trying to connect us with the local ministries already there.   We are also going to be spending three weeks in Thailand as well as four weeks in Vietnam! There our team will be split up in the North and the south of Vietnam. I don’t think our team has split up before in our pasts visits to Vietnam , so we are super excited to see what God will do with this.

Please keep us in your prayers as we travel for a little less than three months. We will be traveling to Thailand on Christmas day so I’m sure the students might be a little sad to not be with Family but stuck on a 16 hour flight.

Thank you so much for your prayers and support. I will be committing two more years with YWAM in SF in June just to let everyone know! I feel like this is where God has called me. I love living in the Tenderloin and making friendships with all kinds of different people. I also love walking alongside students as they learn to hear Gods voice and grow in a deeper relationship with Him. I also am growing every day and God teaches me so much! Thank you for being a part of my missionary life.

Hope you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving and a Merry Christmas!!! God Bless!!!!

Also please pray for finances because our team and myself are in need of allot of money for our outreach trip! 

Carrianne

Our coming up Discipleship training school starts this Fall ( September 17th 2012)
I will be helping staffing this school in San Francisco and possible leading the outreach portion to Thailand and Vietnam!

If YOU or  if you know anyone that wants to grow in their relationship with God and have a hands-on experience in knowing God and making Him known then this is the school for you!!!!

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http://www.ywamsanfrancisco.org/dts.html

Out of the overflow from our relationship with Christ, comes the ministry. Our DTS allows students the opportunity to grow with God alongside daily ministry experience. Our streets are filled with people longing for truth, which inevitably creates open doors. Each week every DTS student will choose a ministry that engages their passion and gifting. Previous schools have worked with at-risk youth through an after school club, lead Bible studies in our Ellis room (homeless drop-in center), reached out to female prostitutes (Because Justice Matters), shared art with street kids, evangelized university campuses etc.

Outreach:

DTS students will spend  three months in target nations doing daily ministry with a strong emphasis on evangelism and mercy ministry. Outreach enables students to put into practice what they have learned through practical, hands on involvement. Both the Fall School and the Winter School visit different cities in the world and focus on different ministries. In previous schools, the teams have ministered in Vietnam teaching English to college age students, visiting Thai slums, building a school in Morocco, visiting university campuses in Rome, working on projects to reach those caught in sex-trafficking and using performing arts in the famous piazzas of Italy. The possibilities are endless! Click below to find out more about the schools and their specific focuses.

BY the way...................................I graduated my DTS Equip and now I'm back in San Francisco! I loved my time in Montana, it was so refreshing and peaceful! 

During our 'lecture' portion we read 4 books and did reports, ( i loved reading boundaries- it really helped me thinking about the future DTS and what boundaries mean ) presentations and taught on the values of YWAM. It was really neat to learn more about teaching and learning the confidence to do that (: We also had a huge exam on all the teachings for our  six weeks being there---- it was open book but we all spent hours going through our notes and working hard!

And we all did good and graduated

At graduation dessert 

Katie, Me, Raegan, Tara and Alisha 

I had SO much fun and made some good friends during my school!

( we had a FREE car wash for our Lakeside friends and were able to share with people what we were doing and what YWAM is.....so cool)

i saved the best for last...... I met Loren Cunningham ( the founder of YWAM) on skype! (: Yay!!!!!

Hello everyone!!!!
-or should I say Howdy since I am in Montana!!!! ; )
Well I made it here safely , after our bus didn't show up and spending a whole night on the floor of a greyhound station but that no big deal! right?!!

Kayla and I have been here for 2 weeks already, I cant believe time is flying by so fast! I'm really having a wonderful time! First of all its so beautiful I cant stand it!!! And we are learning so much DTS stuff to better equip and empower us for what God has called us to do! I love it! Its been really redeeming and refreashing to be in nature and get a new feel for other YWAM bases (in the country& I LOVE IT!!!!) I've spent some time by the lake already reading and doing my homework with my new wonderful equip friends, so nice.

Well that's just a quick update about Montana!!! (: Have a wonderful Summer ya'll !!!!

Carrianne Frances Leigh Barr