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

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

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

i won't be there this saturday

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

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

here's the update on jannet:

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

JAMA Australia Team

JAMA Australia Team II

Journey family @ JAMA Australia

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