BACK at home.....home sweet home......

HELLO FRIENDS AND FAMILY!!!!
It's been almost a month since being back in Morgan hill and home.
Let me first thank you ALL for your prayers and support.
My time in SF was amazing and so overwhelming at the same time. OVERSEAS: wow what a time i had. Thailand was wonderful. I LOVE THE PEOPLE there. They are sooo happy to see 'white' people. lol. We stayed next to the Thailand YWAM base in Bangkok which is where the campus students stay, kinda like dorm rooms for the christian boys and girls. It's called BJD!We stayed in Thailand for a whole month, which felt like only a week because the time flew by. We did so many different ministry's along side from hanging with the Thais at BJD, wow what a experience it was!!!Our ministry's contained of going to the slums and playing with the kids, going to the worlds biggest sex places in Bangkok and sharing God with the boy's and girl's prostitutes and just showing them that they too are Gods children and we care about them for who they are. WE also had 'open minstry' where we just prayed or asked God what He wanted us to do that day.We also had days off which were spent at fun places in Thailand such as the ALLIGATOR farm, where we rode elephants , held baby tigers and fed the alligators. !!!! So exciting. heheh!!!!
Vietnam:
Very different from Thailand, alot of the people there frown apon Westerners and only remember the war when they see white people , so they were not always nice or welcoming. That was mostly in Hanoi though and when we visited other places like Da-nang they were much nicer to us. ALL in all, we had a blast! Our ministry there contained of ALOT of silent prayer walks and silly things such as secretly planting scriptures and whatnot. We mostly just showed God's love by loving the people there! We had to wear our bibles and any other christian things on us at ALL TIMES!!!! At the hotels we stay at they tend to go though our stuff and could turn us in if they find all 20 of us with bibles and chirtian things everywhere! It ended up being a very good trip. We got to visit some underground churchs and youth groups. (:
I also got to spend my 21'st birthday there, my team made me feel very special that day (: Even a couple people from the underground church got to come and join me for dinner!

MY trip was very great and we got to plant some seeds there, I cant wait to see what God is going to do through those seeds(:
It was hard leaving the Thais and even harder when the time came to say good bye to my team mates a week after we got back to AMERICA! Tears and much LONG hugs came after the graduation in SF! I DID IT! I finished my DTS and it was amazing. God has showed me so much!!!! HOW HE LOVES!!!!!!

PLEASE still...heheh keep me in your prayers , I am hoping to return back to SF and staff there for a two year commitment. I need to keep raising money and keep TRUSTING in God!
Thanks again for everything,
CArrianne

we're back...

well, not quite yet, but soon! less than a day, in fact!
this site was temporarily shut down for safety purposes while carrianne was in vietnam. now she is in thailand and soon to be leaving for san francisco. i am hoping that you have been following her through the temporary blog i set up, but if not, you can go there now to get all the newsletters i received and posted since they first left for south east asia. when carrianne comes home later this week, im certain she will update this blog with posts and pictures galore! can't wait!
in Jesus-
christine

LAST POST! SHUTTING DOWN TONIGHT!

Carrianne is leaving in a few hours. They cannot go into Thailand because of all the current events going on, so they are flying into Taiwan at 8 pm tonight. PLEASE PRAY!
I have to temporarily shut down this blog while she is overseas for safety purposes, so please email me and I will keep you updated as soon as I hear any word from her. I will open a new blog eventually so please email me if you want to find out about her whereabouts and ministry, as that will be my only way to contact you with the new blog address.

cbarr63@ymail.com

or

cbarr63@gmail.com

Thank you all for your love, prayers and support for our baby girl!! It means more to us than words can say!! Keep praying!!

Love in Christ, Christine Barr

UPDATE: new temp blog here

HELLO!!!!!
FINAL POSTING!!!!
This week is going to be crazy. We leave saturday! AH I'm stressed out. Keep me in your prayers for the teams saftey and I tend to worry ALOTTTTT, so that would be great if ya'll could pray for me because I'm kinda nervous.. This thursday is Thanksgiving and each person at the base gets to invite one person off the streets to join us as a guest. It's going to be so much fun, over 150 people are coming for our Thanksgiving feaist. YUMMY. All day we packed and wieghed our suitcases. It had to be under 45 pounds. So stressfull. All the boys helped the girls pack because we were packing way more then we should have. I now only have 10 shirts for 2 whole months. CRAZY. They helped me alot though because then to show us how heavy they are and how we are to carry it and walk so far, we went on a little hike up the crazySF hills. SO HARD. After we got back to the base I downsized on everything. So hard packing light and for 2 months. I did it though (:
Okay one last thing I must say before I leave you all. Thank you all so much for keeping me in your prayers and if you guys sponsored me , thank you so much!!!!
If you guys still want to send me money PLEASE send it to my parents house beacuse I will have access to my account. (: Thanks guys

HELLO FRIENDS!
Holy kal-molly!!!!! It's been so long since I last updated. I'm so very sorry. Well anyways the last couple weeks have been very deep and very emotional. Last week we learned on how to intensely study the bible with our speaker Art collins. He was great, he bought us donuts everyday for class. This week we studied on the holy spirit and evangelism. Saturday we spent all practicing for our dancing and drama skits that we will perform this week at Cumberland -( A local church in China town ) we will also be doing these skits and dances during our outreach. It's been a very long week because I have been sick ): YES.... i do miss my mom !
Okay so this Saturday we are performing for Cumberland all day then next weekend is our off weekend. My friend Kate and I are going to be coming home for the weekend, we will be celebrating Thanksgiving since I will be in SF on the actual day. THEN that next weekend we leave for ASIA!!!!!! (: I'm so excited. I can't wait. I will hopefully write more to you guys soon. Sorry it took forever. It's been so busy here and the day's fly by so fast!
LOVE ALWAYZS,
YOURS TRULY, the mission girl, Carrianne

JUST FYI:
Just to let ya'll know if you are still planning on sending me support while I am gone in SE Asia then will you please send it to my family instead of the church. (So they can deposit it in to my bank while I am gone. Because I will have access to my bank.)Thank you!

Stay in touch. If you have a facebook check out some of my pictures on there (:

THIS CRAZY WEEK

Hello family,
This week has been intense. Our speaker this week is talking on 'plum line' which is going deep. Forgiving and asking forgiveness to God and those you hurt , for things that are burdening you down. It's really deep stuff. last Saturday was the prayer walk. It ended up being 19 miles long. I only got through 1/2 of it but I did all the hill's and climbing. First hill I was walking up i twisted my ankle and went down. It wasn't that painful ( but still hurt ) so I kept going. Then my hip popped out and would go back in. Going up the hill's were rough as it was but every step i took i cried out in pain, sobbing the whole way up twin peaks. It was horrible. I ended up returning back to the base and rested the rest of the 3 hr. left. Before i went back I got to take a really cool picture of this huge cross. ( there's a story behind that.) It was so awesome to see the whole view of San Francisco and that big ol' cross.

There's also a picture of Earl and I! He's one of my really good street friend's. I really adore him.

For our ministry we went to hippie hill again. We are starting to go every Wednesday now. This week was really awesome. As soon as we got there we met this man who showed us around and introduced us to everyone. I mean once you live there in that park and hangout all day smoking you become friends with everyone! So he knew allot of people and now we do too (:
I also met this one guy that Jana and I talked to for about a good hour. We just got to share about why we were there and also about PropK. He didn't know all the facts about that so he was about to vote yes but we got to actually share with him the truth about it ans now he's rethinking his vote. It's so awesome to see God work through others and what you do. It was a great ministry day. The picture of the painted heart in the peace sign was at hippie hill and thats where I took the picture PRETTY SWEET(:

There's also a picture of a homeless man with a scary mask on, I thought I'd pass on the love with that picture & The line of people waiting to get into Glide .

I'll write more another time. Hope everyone is doing great. Please keep praying for me and what God has for me after this DTS!
LOVE ALL AND MISS YOU TOO!
~Carrianne Barr

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.