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

Hello Friends!

These last few months being home in San Francisco have been so nice! I have enjoyed working in the Ellis Room ( our drop in center) and serving at my church here in San Francisco, IKON. I help out at IKON on Tuesday mornings with kinda odd jobs (: I pick up the mail, deposit the offerings, add people who attend the church in our data base and i sent out the quarterly thank you cards to our supporters. It has been really exciting to be able to serve while I'm not bogged down with DTS stuff. Yay!

I only have one more month in the Ellis room before I leave for Montana! For those of you who didn't know, I leave June 23rd for DTS Equip. This is a secondary school for people who want to learn better in leading schools ( which I hope to help lead the next fall school in the outreach phase ). I will be in Montana at the YWAM base until August 3rd. I'm very excited but also nervous about the 2 day "road trip" on grey hound to get there! haha!!! 

Once I get back to San Francisco I will be back working with DTS, preparing for the Fall school. Which I'm happy about staffing another school  but I've really enjoyed making new friendships in the Ellis room and building these relationships to just leave again. BUT God is good and things will work out just perfect!!!

Lindsay (top right in picture) will be my new room mate, she actually moves in this weekend.... so excited about having a roommate again because I've been kinda lonely without one for a whole month!!!! (:

The picture is from this weekend. What a memorial day weekend miracle!!!some of the YWAM sf girls , drove to Mt. Madonna took a little hike, picked berry's at Gizdich ranch and ate some yummy pie and drove through Santa Cruz, ending the day with a lovely dinner hosted by the best mom and dad ever!!! MY great parents!!! (: It was super fun and nice to get out of the city too!

Much love.

Carrianne

I LOVE SAN FRANCISCO

Cambodia pictures

So I have added some pictures from Cambodia and YES!!! the grey hair is MINE!!!! i know outreach does that to you (: Enjoy

Vietnam with friends from a local church. (:

Friends,

Sorry for taking so long to write. While in Vietnam we were not aloud to use the net and now having some free time Ive decided it would be nice to update everyone! The DTS staff gets 10 days off after the DTS graduate to finally relax and take a breath. I unfortunately got sick for more then half of my 10 days. But the good thing was I was visiting my mom and dad and my mommy got to play her mommy role and take care of me. ( She wanted to , so I thought I would be nice and let her) Well now I sit in a little cafe in North beach, back in my lovely city of San Francisco!

Let me just say ....it feels soooo good to be back!!! Three months over seas was a little to much for me.

So I think I updated everyone pretty well with what we did in Cambodia and don't worry when I find time to upload pictures I will soon have those on here. I found one from Vietnam on Facebook. I'm really bad at uploading pictures first thing when returning into the country....haha!

Vietnam was amazing! I really enjoyed returning there, I went on MY DTS in 2009 and didn't have the best of times. But being able to go back was good. The first week and half we spent in the city of Saigon. I actually lead the team during that time. I learned allot of new things about leading. We got to do some ministry opportunities with a local church group. They were so sweet and invited us to go with them to different people houses and bless them. It was Tet which is the Vietnamese new years and so it was a huge thing for them to bring us along. We joined them with allot of things that week and also did a prayer walk around the part of the city were we stayed.

We then had two weeks in Hanoi which was amazing!!! We got to help teach English in a university and on Valentines day gave the students valentines with words we got for them from God or verses, it was really awesome that we had that opportunity in a closed country like Vietnam. We spent allot of our ministry time at that university but we also were able to hangout by Ho Kiam Lake which was near our hotel we stayed at. Some of the students made friends and connected with them on our times off or played guitar and sang worship songs. God has been doing amazing things in Vietnam and He was able to use us during that short time there to share His love to HIS people.... How wonderful that was!!!!

The DTS graduated last Thursday and even tho I was sad to say goodbye to them I know God's going to do AWESOME things with each of them. Please keep them in your prayers because they say in the next 30 days after a DTS is when it either makes or breaks you. ( not to sound mean) DTS was just a stepping stone for them and now they are on there own making decisions to have devotions or to stay on the path that they set for themselves during the last 6 months in DTS.

Well I'm so glad to be back. I'll be staying in San Francisco and working in the Ellis room ( our drop in center) during our DTS off season. I also will be going to Montana June 26- Aug 3 for a DTS equip school. This is a training school for myself so I can better learn how to lead DTS'. I was excited for the opportunity that I had in Vietnam leading for a week and half and I might have the chance to lead part of our outreach to Thailand. (: So this school will help me and I'm really excited to see what God does during this time. YAY!!!!!He is sooo good to me!!! That's everything new and exciting in my life and I'll try and put up some pictures soon from my last adventure.

GOD BLESS and thank you for everything!!!!! (:

Hello Everyone!
Time has passed so very quickly. We leave fr Vietnam on Sunday ( which is my birthday-Jan 22) It's been such a blessing to be working along side the Battambang base here in Cambodia. I know for our team we have had allot of wonderful opportunities being here. Three of our students have been teaching at a public university and have even been asked to write a Christine curriculum so other students can teach off of it. So amazing!!! A couple weeks ago 8 people from our team went on a week long outreach to the villages by the beach about 10 hours away. We went with a youth group of about 12 kids. The first night we stayed at the YWAM base there which they only had room in the kitchen , so we pitched up our mosquito nets and awoke to about 3 people cooking at 5:30am the next morning. We ended up staying the rest of the nights at a guest house so we weren't in the way of their morning breakfast. We ended up going to about 4 different villages around the area and did a VBS sort of program for the kids. We taught them songs, verses, games and taught bible stories and even shared some testimonies. After a long week of playing with kids and walking around the family's huts to pray for people we were rewarded with a fun day at the beach. Our DTS group and the youth group that we went with became ' One family, in Jesus Christ.'At least that's the song we kept singing!!!!
What can I say it's been an exciting two months here in Cambodia and we don't look forward to leaving but we are very excited about Vietnam. Hope you all have a wonderful Jan 22 and think of me all day!!!!! (:
Thank you for all the prayers, love and support!!!!!
Carrianne

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