Enjoying the Oregon Outdoors

Every winter we try and get out to the mountains for some ice skating and sledding.  This year we are going to try and get some snowshoeing in as well, but our first time out to the mountains the kids had a blast ice skating and sledding.  Great times and it is so great to be able to drive an hour and a half away from the rain and be in the dry snowy mountains of Oregon!  

The kids had a blast sledding.

Enjoying the snow

YWAM Western North America Gathering and NAMALT Meeting

I just returned from a YWAM Western North America Gathering held in Chico, CA.  It was a great time and there were around 250 YWAM'ers representing all of Western North America.  YWAM is goin thruogh some good structural changes, and this gathering was about how that all looks.  Long story short, it was great and so good to see old friends and meet new ones.

The other purpose of my time in Chico was meeting with our Mission Adventures North America Leadership Team (NAMALT).  This is a once a year meeting and I always look forward to it.  We are seeing Mission Adventures programs pop up all over North America rite now, and it is so cool to be a part of it all.  This was a great meeting of goals setting, strategizing, prayer, etc.. for our ministry.  One great take away from our meetings is we are offering 4 internships this year, one in Salem, one in Orlando, one in San Fransisco, and one in Vancouver BC to help YWAM locations in their pioneering of the program.