NEPAL We spent a total of four weeks in Nepal. We spent the first two weeks in the city of Kathmandu running VBS (Vacation Bible School) programs, helping build and clean a brand new church, as well as running an after school program for teens a few days a week. Our last two weeks there, we worked with Five14 ministries trekking up into the Himalayan mountains to help build brand new homes for those who lost theirs due to the tragic earthquake that happened in March of 2015.
SOUTH AFRICA We spent 6 weeks in the beautiful city of Jeffrey's Bay. During our time here, we served in the community soup kitchen sharing testimonies and connecting with the locals. We worked with youth running after school programs, spoke at youth groups, did door to door evangelism, and prison ministry. After four weeks there we drove eight hours to Cape Town, South Africa and worked in a little township called Khayelitsha for two weeks. There, we worked with a daycare, did evangelism around the neighborhood and attended the community's Sunday service where we were able to witness an elderly woman walk again after being paralyzed for two weeks prior. They carried her into church that morning and she was healed right there 3 hours later. One thing we wanted to see on this trip was a miracle and boy did see one! God is so good!
DUBAI Dubai was an accidental trip. We had a layover there between Nepal and South Africa but little did we know we needed our son's birth certificate to get on the flight and into South African territory. Still to this day we think God pulled off yet another incredible miracle that day. We were so sure there was no way we were getting to Africa because we thought we had packed away Casey's certificate in all our stuff back in Cali which no one would of had access too because it was all locked. When we called home to explain our situation to our parents, there it was sitting on my father n law's desk in his office. We were mind blown! It took a few days to send it over seas to us so in the mean time we stayed put and a friend of ours booked us a hotel room on the top floor that sees over the entire city. We were able to spend 4 days touring around this beautiful city and catch up on some much needed date nights with the help from our leader who stayed back with us. What a blessing this turned out to be!
MEXICO We think that everyone should go to Mexico at some point in their lifetime and when you're there, don't forget to eat some authentic Mexican tacos! That's exactly what we did to celebrate our 3 year anniversary.
CANADA We took a drive through Mississauga, Canada to visit a friend on our journey from West Coast to East Coast. It was a nice time connecting with fellow YWAMers and we look forward to doing it a-lot more often.
AMSTERDAM Ahh, the beautiful city of Amsterdam. Filled with so much art, so many lights, and sooo many bikes! This was our home for 10 months from July, 2020-May 2021. Here we worked with YWAM Amsterdam leading Street Evangelism, Ministry Nights and Big Friday Outreach Ministry. Our initial plans when we came was to begin a youth ministry right in the heart of Amsterdam but God clearly had others plans and was preparing and prepping us for something totally different during the Covid-19 lockdown in the Netherlands. Life in Europe came with many lockdowns and quarantines but because of this, we were given a lot of time waiting and hearing from the Lord on how to move forward as a family in obedience to His word. We said our goodbyes to this beautiful city, this beautiful nation and set off yet again on another adventure.