Hello everyone .my name faisal bhatti from pakistan and i am christian .
please every one special prayer because i am under a very big problem please friend prayer for God that i am free our problem .friends i built a chruch our willage and this works very big and i am just student but i will try . ..please connect me this email desert_lv@yahoo.com

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you all at Journey.

Wow, it has been a year since we last post a message and half a year since we visit you. May the blessings of our Lord be upon you in this holiday season. May His Presence strengthen you and May His grace fill your heart with gratitude and love to touch others.

Hope to see you again soon.

Journey Family,

We miss you so much! We're in New York and are toughing out the cold weather. We've been doing great out here but do miss family, friends and good Korean food. I ventured into real estate, Ryan's busy with work, our Golden Retriever puppy is keeping us busy and we've found a great start-up church.

I hope all of you are doing great and hope to keep in touch. Email if you can at jamy_cho@yahoo.com.

Take care

Lawrence/Sharon,
Happy New Year! It was so good seeing you guys few weeks ago. Hopefully, I will be in HK again soon... Blessings!!!

Happy New Year to our dear brothers and sisters at Journey.
We are relaxing in this sometimes warm and sometimes cold neo-subtropical winter weather in Hong Kong. People are sick around us but we are enjoying relatively good health. Great to have seen you all in the beginning of Dec. Sorry, to have miss a few of you. Let's keep in touch. Do call when you have time, 626-921-4687 our skype phone, and its free to call in the L.A. area.

Hey guys,
Here's the link to see pictures of Santa, the wise men, and the elves...Enjoy!
http://share.shutterfly.com/action/welcome?sid=2IZsnLhy3YuMA

Hey peeps,

Sorry I didn't get to meet up with everyone this past weekend in Dallas. Cathy, Alex I heard from Angie you guys were down here too. Maybe next time... I might be coming to LA this Christmas..

Edited by author 11-16-2005 02:01 AM
hi pastor charles, i am sorry to tell you that i do not know when. only our father can make it for me. but anyway i am doing well here and enjoying the busy time with so many books at school library. thank you so much for your prayers. your pcictures make me more homesick and more miss all of you.

Hi merry. we missed you when we were in Asia. I hope you are doing well in Phlippine. so when are you going to come to LA? :)

dear pastor Charles and Jenny, Angie. i miss all of you. it is so nice to see your pictures in asia. i am sure that you did have a good time there. the place seems so familiar and it brought me back to the memories.
i am doing well and do not worry about me. thank you so much for praying me in your prayer time.

Jenny, i how are you doing?

Praise God! We just baptized one of the brother here in Asia. He just accepted Christ at the end of July!!!

I'm glad P. Charles and Heaja got in okay considering someone didn't email the itinerary to anybody!!! But hope all of you are eating well. You guys don't want to get sick. Trust me... China hospitals are the WORST!!!

Frontview of All Nations Language School

hey, Journey! We are in some country in Asia, teaching English. Guess where!!!

Journey family @ JAMA Australia

JAMA Australia Team II

JAMA Australia Team

Dear my friends there, this is Merry Huang. do you still remember me? i am in the philippines already. the school is very pretty and nice. you can visit our school webset. www.bsop.ph i miss all of you.

Jenny, how are you? i miss you.

hi,everyone here. i am Merry. do you still remember me? i have not been here for a long time. how are you doing? i am doing well. after reading pastor Charles's message, i felt that i wanted to say something here. i saw your faith and your outreach. i see lots of light is being lit and i see big smiles on people's faces. i am touched by you guys very much. i want to join you and do things together with you. our father wants us to put our faith into practice and you guys are doing that. may our father bless you and your family. i will remember you in my mind.

From Jannet in Thailand... Jannet, we miss you. Hang in there and may God continue to use you for His Kingdom!

hello all,

how is everyone doing? i've been in thailand for about 3 weeks now. right
now i'm in khao-lak (which is in southern thailand). my team is working at
one of the biggest displacement camps in this area which is called bang
muang. there are about 2,000 people living in this camp. there is a tent
that we mainly work in which is run by calvary chapel. my team is teaching
english to kids and adults and we're also going around and just helping out.
  for example, some of the guys have done some construction work and us
girls have spent time taking care of babies. today i picked up trash and
helped to clean the community because the prince of denmark will be coming
to the refugee camp tomorrow. a lot of kids come to our tent to just hang
out with us. they are so cute. they cling to us like super glue. our main
focus is to serve the people and build relationships with them so that we
can share our faith. about a dozen people have come to the Lord because of
former ywam teams that have been out here.

last wednesday was the thai new year so a lot of businesses shut down for
one week to celebrate. the thais celebrate by putting powder on their faces
and throwing buckets of water on eachother. it's a massive water fight
which is good because it is super hot and humid over here! i don't think
i've sweat so much in my life!

we've also experienced death in the camp. one young guy named jay died last
week. he had accepted christ about 2 months ago but he was struggling with
depression and alcoholism because he tried to save 4 children during the
tsunami but they all died so he blamed himself a lot and was blamed by
others in his village for their deaths. he died of alcohol poisioning. but
before his death he led his father to the Lord and his sister accepted
Christ the night that he died. his mom is still a muslim but she comes to
the tent more often so i believe that she will eventually accept Christ.
because of jay's death a lot more people have been coming out to the tent
and many people ask us questions about our faith. the thai tradition is to
keep the dead body (in the coffin) in the person's home for 3 days. because
jay had spent so much time at the tent his body was kept in the tent and
when he died some of the guys in our team decided to sleep in the tent with
some other guys from calvary chapel (who sleep in the tent every night--it
is their home right now). people asked us whether or not we were afraid of
jay's spirit so it was a good opportunity for us to share how our flesh is
nothing and how our soul either goes to heaven or hell and that in Jesus
Christ we have nothing to be afraid of.

i've made friends with a few thai women but i feel there is one woman who
God has placed on my heart to minister to. her name is pen-pish. she has a
5 month old son. i met her the first day i arrived at the camp and she's
been learning english from me. i really believe that God is after her
family because her cousin comes to learn english as well and he has a strong
desire to learn more about Christianity. pen-pish has read a book on
christianity but i really pray that God will convict her in her heart so
that she will passionately accept Christ.

it's hard to listen to so many different stories of how the tsunami has
affected people. most of the people in this camp have lost family members
and they have tears in their eyes as they tell their stories. one woman was
flung onto a pole during the tsunami and she cut her achilles tendon but
didn't feel anything until after everything was over. she was just in
complete shock and she was holding onto the pole for 30 minutes until a huge
crane came to take her down. and she was never able to find her sister's
body. she told me that she has dreams about the tsunami every night.

please pray for these people because many of them feel depressed and
hopeless even though they smile on the outside. the thai people are really
nice and hospitable.=)

hope this brings some light about the tsunami and some encouragment as well.

thank you for all your prayer!

--jannet

Edited by author 04-04-2005 10:26 PM

Here is a precious image of some of our 'JOURNEY KIDDIES'

Friends, Let's chew on this. “Brokenness is realizing He is all we have. Hope is realizing He is all we need. Joy is realizing He is all we want.” Larry Crabb, The Safest Place on Earth

here's the update on jannet:

she left for thailand today. gone for 2 months. please pray for her.

AN UPDATE FROM JANNET:

hey everyone,

just wanted to let you know that i'm going to be going to thailand for my 2-month outreach. thailand was on my heart even before i came to dts and i prayed about my outreach location...so i know that God wants me to go to
thailand. my team will be helping out with tsunami relief. also, next week i'm going to be going to kauai with my outreach team. we're going to be serving a small church on that island. please continue to keep me in your prayers...that God would work through my team and that He would show us how to reach out to everyone we come in
contact with.

thanks so much! have a great weekend.

--jannet

So, does that mean we're still having it?

i won't be there this saturday

Hey guys,
HOpe you're having a great week thus far...my week has been interesting...
Are we still having a prayer meeting and leadership meeting this Saturday?
Just wanted to know...
If this Saturday doesn't work out, can we reschedule it for the 19th? The 12th is bad for me because I have a conference I need to go to.
With love, Viv

Hey, everyone! Journey is looking for an administrative assistant who can spend 10-15 hours a week. If you know anyone or if any of you would like to apply for this position, please contact me (Charles) 213.422.7445

Kani needs prayer cuz she's taking her CSET test tomorrow.

Some before and after pictures of the Tsunami destruction in Sri Lanka and Indonesia.

http://homepage.mac.com/demark/tsunami/

Please let us know if you can come so that I know how many to make dinner for. Thanks!

hey guys...what's all this talk about a baby? Remember, we're focusing on the necessities first. Food, clothing, and SHELTER! No B-A-B-Y! Anyways, Sung will be moving our big furniture on Saturday night at 6:00 pm. He needs a lot of help. SO, if you would like to offer your services, please come at 5:00 to our place and I will feed you!

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good to hear that Sung and Vivian are getting ready to be parents :) hurry up!!! Anyway, congratulation for a new place.

Baby dedication this past Sunday.

Wow...this is my first time checking out the message board. I had no idea it was in existence for so long. It's pretty cool. Anyways, I just wanted to say congrats to Vivian and Sung for finding a new place. That's great that everything worked out so conveniently. So now that you have the extra room, you can start planning for the future (hint hint). Journey is looking for more young families. :P
Anyways, Sera and I missed you all yesterday, but thankfully she is doing much better now.

Hey guys! Just wanted to update ya'all on our apartment situation. Well, yesterday we spent all day looking for apartments in Pasadena, La Crescenta, K-town, and Alhambra. It was very tiresome! We decided to cut a deal with our manager since we have a good relationship with him. He offered us a 2 bedroom/1.5 bath apartment (upstairs and on the other side) for a low price of $1050. This place is like 2.5 times bigger than our itty bitty apartment. And we don't have to pay another security deposit and can start paying from the 1st of February. We also have 2 weeks to slowly move in. No boxes, no moving truck. So, praise God! Also, they are hiring an investigator to check out the mold problem. And both Sung and I got checked out by the doctor, and we're both fine. We are just going to need some help with the heavy furniture this weekend...(hint, hint =) )Anybody need some weight-lifting exercise?

Dog pile on Angie!

Journey 2005 Winter Retreat...sort of.

here's a mystery guest that was there scaring random people.

retreat was pretty good considering all that happened.
ummm... i know i took most of the pictures, but i don't have any with me in it. it's kinda sad. can somebody (eh hem... jenny) post some of the pics here?
thanks mucho.

Gracious Father of light,
give us eyes to see Your worth.
Heal our blindness. Save us from the deadly diseas of seeing the world
as worth more than its Maker.
Restore the capacity of our hearts to cherish
infinite beauty and savor infinite sweetness.
Deliver us from the deadening effects of
thinking this short life is the main thing.
In Jesus' name, we pray. Amen
Prayer from "Life as a vapor" by John Piper

Tsunami, Sovereignty, and Mercy

Here's a short article from John Piper offering a guidance regarding what just happened in South East Asia.

http://www.desiringgod.org/library/fresh_words/2004/122904.html

From Jannet (YWAM Training Center)

aloha from hawaii!

i got here on thursday but officially started classes today...well, we had
introductions and went over the overview of the dts program.  i'm getting to
know my roommates and different people around me.  our class is so
big...there are 231 students!  there are usually about 40.  the worship time
is so awesome because you can just feel the holy spirit in this place.
people are so carefree and they just worship however they want to.  i feel
so blessed that the school is being led by the founders, loren and darlene
cunningham.  i know that this is the place that god wants me to be and i'm
so excited to grow closer to him.

the weather was so nice for two days...warm with a cool breeze.  but now
it's overcast and it rains randomly...but it's not cold so i can handle it.
=)

i hope everyone is having a good new year so far.

the picture i've attached is taken from the balcony of the building i'm
staying in.

--jannet

Edited by author 01-04-2005 03:32 AM

from Jannet, YWAM Training Center, Hawaii

i was thinking of visiting him with another friend of mine who knows keith. whenever you guys are ready...

Hi! Can we update the pictures on the website? Let's visit Keith again this weekend cuz i heard he wanted more visitors.

Winter retreat is postpone to January 7-9, 2005. Please mark your calendar.

For any updates about Keith's condition, please visit : http://www.servantkhp.blogspot.com/

pray for keith's full recovery!

Matthew, the ministry is much better than the website... haha

On behalf of Queen Jenny

This is pastor Matthew K. I just want to say to all you Journey folks out there - great job with the website and the message board. If the ministry is as good as the website, you'll be in great shape - ha ha, j/k. Hey! I'm jealous (more envious) of the great chemistry you guys have among yourselves. Spread the spirit! Blessings.

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it is ok,paster charles!! i forgive you!!haha! i gave myself this name because i want myself to be merry and happy everyday. before i was not. haha.just joking. it is so cool to talk with you here. Angie, how are you? i will say hi to others for you ! where is Jenny and Trudy, paster Charles? i miss them! i want to see them here. Jenny and Trudy, when will you come here? can you show yourselves later? i miss you guys very much!

what! merry, mary, marry, marie, mari.... it's all the same.. haha
sorry merry!

hey sunteen and merry... we miss you guys. say hi to all the other people for me. PASTOR CHARLES!!! you spelled merry's name wrong.

Sunteen, Betty, Mary! We miss you guys... Jenny is in tears because they want to go back to Kaifeng. ;) We had an amazing time with you all and we all want to go back! Hopefully, we'll see you soon and by that time, I will be speaking CHINESE to you. haha

  I'm glad to be here and enjoy this perfect website. I still keep all the memory of you guys. Thank you all for joining the Chinese class. I really like to be with you all. Keep in touch!

oh, i am so happy to get here. seeing your messages and your pictures, it brings me back to our camp. i miss you so much. now i am in the church which is near to our school. it is a little hard for me to teach the kids English,who nearly know nothing English. but i will do my best. welcome to our school!!!! oh, i forget something. i am in China. i met Charles,Jenny, Trudy and Angie in the summer camp. it is so glad to talk to you and see your website. see you next time!!!

hey, guys! I'm writing from Shanghai. I'm here for two days for a meeting. Our team is doing great except for the fact that Jenny's Tabasco sauce is running out. I found one from a local market in Shanghai and will be delivering it to her soon. We had a great time in Beijing and our team flew into another city to teach English. We 've been moved by many college students who are already serving the One who has called them. Continue to remember us in your prayers! By the way, I had a frog-shoulder skin/meat for a dessert :) They told me what it was after I finshed it!

GOT IT!

Hey you guys I JUST threw up a prayer...did anyone catch it?

Hey, just reminding everyone to keep the members who are in China right now, or will be there soon, in our prayers. They need as much prayer support as they can. So, if you're reading this right now, throw up a quick prayer, thank you.

"From Mattie's Website" : www.mattieonline.com
Making Real Sense of the Senses

Our eyes are for looking at things,
But they are also for crying
When we are very happy or very sad.
Our ears are for listening.
But so are our hearts.
Our noses are for smelling food
But also the wind and the grass and
If we try very hard, butterflies.
Our hands are for feeling.
But also for hugging and touching so gently.
Our mouths and tongues are for tasting.
But also for saying words, like
"I love you," and
"Thank you God, for all of these things."


Mattie J.T. Stepanek is a 13-year-old young man who was born with a rare neuromuscular disease called dysautonomic mitochondrial myopathy. His disease is one of the 43 types of diseases being researched by the Muscular Dystrophy Association.
Mattie has a sister, Katie, and two brothers, Stevie and Jamie, who each died during early childhood from this same infant onset disease that affects Mattie. Mattie's mother, Jeni, has the adult onset form of this disease. She did not know that she would ever have the disease, or that she would pass such a disease on to her children until after she gave birth to them. Mattie lives with his mom and his service dog, Micah, in Maryland.

Even though Mattie's form of this neuromuscular disease is a mutation and very, very rare and difficult to understand, his doctors have learned a lot about what it does to Mattie's body and some of the ways to help Mattie stay as healthy as possible. Mattie uses a wheelchair to get around, like his mom, Jeni. But he also needs a trach (a breathing tube in his neck/trachea), a ventilator (machine that breathes for him), lots of extra oxygen, a Broviac (tube into his heart for medicines and blood products), foot braces, and lots of other equipment. It may sound like a lot of stuff for a kid, but Mattie really knows how to "celebrate life" and "play after every storm."
One of the things Mattie has done to help him cope with loss and continue celebrating life is to write. Since the age of three, Mattie has been dictating, recording, and writing poetry, short stories, and essays about many topics, such as grief, nature, love, disability, hope, life, and peace. He put together his first collection of poetry at age five for a school contest. At age 11, he became a New York Times bestselling author when his volumes of poetry were published. Now, he has had five books of "Heartsongs" poetry collections reach the New York Times bestseller lists. His second book, Journey Through Heartsongs, reached all the way to number one!

In addition to writing, Mattie loves public speaking. In his role as the National Goodwill Ambassador for the Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA), Mattie does a lot of speaking about how the MDA helps kids and adults with neuromuscular diseases.

He also likes to speak about peace efforts and global tolerance. Mattie has spoken to school children and business leaders, medical personnel and church groups, fire fighters and Harley Davidson riders, all across America. Mattie loves talking to anyone who loves to listen, and then ask questions! One of his favorite speeches was when he got to introduce his hero, Former President Jimmy Carter, at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC.

Mattie has also shared his messages of hope and peace on many television programs. He has been on the Oprah Winfrey Show, Larry King Live, Good Morning America, Primetime, The Today Show, and many other programs many times. Every year, he also helps with the Jerry Lewis Labor Day Telethon. In 2002, he drove cross country with his mom, and friends, Sandy and Chris, to be in Los Angeles for the Telethon.  

 He loved getting to see his country coast to coast from the van. In 2003, he was unable to travel because of a decline in his health, so he enjoyed co-hosting all 21 hours of the local Baltimore, MD station telethon.

Mattie feels very lucky to have met many wonderful people during his journey through life. He has become close friends with lots of great people, including Jimmy Carter, Oprah Winfrey, Larry King, Christopher Cross, Lance Bass, and Billy Gilman. During 2003, Mattie and Billy Gilman collaborated on a CD project, Music Through Heartsongs. On the CD, Billy sings 12 of Mattie's poems that have been put to various styles of music, including Celtic, soft rock, Hawaiian, country, jazz, and pop-Christian style. One of his favorite tracks, I AM/Shades of Life, was made into a music video, where Mattie has a cameo.

Mattie also feels very blessed just to be alive at age 13. Children born with his disease do not usually live very long. Mattie knows that each day is a gift, and he makes the most of it. He says he gets his strength from God and his mom, and also from the people that become part of his circle of life. "People tell me I inspire them. And that inspires me. It's a beautiful circle, and we all go around together, with and for each other. What a gift," says Mattie.

Sushi is not good

Ramiro, I think I met you on past Sunday with your wife and your daughter. I was caught up with few people and I looked for you afterward but couldn't find you. I would love to get to know you. When you get a chance, please give me a ring or e-mail me. My cell phone # is 213.422.7445 or my e-mail : kim.charles@mac.com

I am looking for more information on Mall Latino, which I understand is a ministry of the Journey through All Nations in Lake View Terrace. I am the director for a learning center in Pacoima, which is around the corner from Lake View Terrace.

This is interesting. Well, i'm posting only cuz i was pressured into it by a couple of people who will remain anonymous but are the only other people who posted anything...heheheh. Well, since this space is meant to share i have a prayer request. I just took a blood test to see if something is wrong with me. Pray that it will come back negative...it's not for HIV...or is it? It isn't. Thank you.

Edited by author 04-21-2004 08:40 PM
Hello everyone... I'm the 2nd person to write in this... I'm so happy because Pastor Charles is the coolest Pastor EVER and he's OUR Pastor YAY!!=)

Waz up, Journey! We can use this space to create a virtual community. If you have any suggestions, comments, ideas, thoughts, struggles, prayers.... USE THIS IS SHARE YOUR LIFE with us :)