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So, today we got a chance to wrap up our trip. Looking back on everything we've been able to be a part of this trip has been amazing. We got chances to do outreach to people who might not otherwise hear the gospel. We got to witness God move powerfully in the services. Overall we just got the opportunity to be used by God to effect eternity for some people. So with last nights service being the last one,today we got a chance to wind down before we drive back home. We were blessed with the opportunity to be able to go to Disneyland and just have a day together as a team and have some fun. It was a treat to spend a whole day at the happiest place on earth. A lot of the team split into groups and the guys ended up spending most of the day just hanging out and going from ride to ride. It was such a joy to have time just to have fun. Now we're ready to head back tomorrow and see what God has in store for us back in Oregon.

There is always that day that comes on a teip that is very sad. That day is always the day that we do our last service. This day was no different. Now, it was a Sunday which ment that we were able to do a lot of services, but it still means that when you get to that last one and it is all done, its over. So, it was a sad day, but, we did have the opprotunity to do some awesome ministry today. First we had the privalage of attending Parampunt Praise Chapel for their Sunday morning service and just enjoy that. Second, we went to Orange and ministered at a church where the Praise Chapel Frontline Warriors meet. The Frontline Warriors is a biker church. Lastly, we were able to go out to Azusa and minister at their service.

Paramount was awesome as always and a great way to start the day. When we got to Orange and met up with the chruch, we knew that it was going to be a good service. Pastor Chris shared a powerfull message and uring the altar call, people came up to recieve salvation, it was awesome.

After that service, we went to Azusa and met up with Pastor Woody who showed us around his church. We were able to do some dramas and skits for them as well as have Pastor Danny come and share his word for them. I think God knew exactly what this church was needing because, the dramas and skits and the word just hit it exactly. It still blows me away that every single time, God knows what needs to be said and when it needs to be said.

So, yes it is a sad day, but God uses sad days just as much as he uses happy days. Speaking of happy days, tomorrow we have been blessed with the opportunity to go to Disneyland and have a day just to have fun before we go home. It is going to be really nice to go and just have a fun day together as a team.

Today was an especially exciting day for us. Tonight we had the opportunity to minister at Paramount, but not just Paramount. It was Paramount' Spanish Service. Earlier in the day, we were able to go help out at an outreach that Praise Chapel Stanton was putting on in Anahiem. It was really cool to be able to go and do dramas for them and go to their houses and invite them out for a free BBQ.

So in Paramount, we went to the building that Fresh Fire used to have church in. It is now used for their spanish church. They were putting on a big event and invited a lot of the spanish churches out. So we got to go their and do the ministry. So it was really cool to be able to go and see them all come together. They had one of the most amazing bilingual worship services. They did some songs in english and some in spanish, they even did some with both. We did our dramas and Pastor Danny shared a powerfull message. It took him some time to get used to having a translator, but he did and God showed up. The service went great and we got to go out with them afterwards and hang out.

Today started off with a lot of excitment, The team splitted up angain. Team A, which was all the guys went to A Worship Facilaties Conference in Long Beach. Team B, the girls, went and hung out with Pastor Angel, from Paramount, and his family. After that was all done we met back up and went to a service in Gardena.

We got to the church and met with their youth leader, David Tijerina. We got to talk to him a little bit about what he has been doing in his community. It is really cool to see him in a little town changing it for Christ. We had the privalage to be able to go and minister to them. Service was so good and Pastor Danny's word hit home with what their pastor had been talking about. It was an amazing time and God did some really cool things. After service we were able to fellowship with them and we played games for like an hour afterwards

Today was a very action packed day. Started out with class then we split up and had Chris, David, and the first years went to Ariel's old high school, Long Beach Poly. Danny, Brittany, and Casey went to Orange to help them distribute food boxes to people that came to get them. After that, everyone met up in San Bernadino to minister at a service there.

Going to Ariel's high school was really cool. We got to see some of her old teachers and talk to some of the people she worked with at the school. She showed us all around and then we were able to go to their bible club meeting during lunch and Ariel was able to share a word with them and we got to just talk and hang out with them. It was really cool to be able to go into a high school during school and minister.

For us at Orange, it was really cool to be able to go and just be there for them, to do whatever they needed. We helped them put food boxes together and then gave them to anyone who came in looking for some help. It was a great way to just be able to share the love of God with people.

When we all met back up in San Bernadino, we were really excited to meet Pastor Victor and to minister at his church. Before service, we had an incredible prayer time with him and some of his church members and without any hesitation we went into an awesome time of worship. God did some cool things during worship. After worship, we did not have a lot of time, we did some dramas that really were to bless them and Pastor Chris shared a quick word with them. We thought that because we were so rushed that we were not as affective as we could be but, God doesn't have a time restraint and doesn't need a lot of time to make an impact. So many people came and just told us how blessed they were. After the service, the church staff came and prayed for us and anointed us with oil. Not only did we get to bless them but they blessed us. It was so cool.

Today was another one of those awesome opportunities that we were able to go and minister at two different places tonight. Team A (Chris and Fam, David, Brittany, and Rel) all went to San Jacinto and Team B(Danny, Audrey, Casey, Mike, and Ranae) went to Stanton. Isn't it cool how God can be in two places at once because he showed up at both services and had his way with them.

Team B, had a great time ministering in Stanton and were able to do a lot of dramas as well as Pastor Danny sharing a word with them. God was able to speak through Danny and use him to just talk to those people.

Team A, also had a great service in San Jacinto. God moved through the dramas and Chris spoke about remaining in him. After the service we were able to pray with the pastor Randy and his wife Nichelle. Chris gave the pastor a word about having the heart of David and it turns out that is the 9th time he has gotten that word since he has been there for a year. Chris also told him about a vision he had of a ship breaking through these barriers of ice. As soon as Chris said that, Pastor Randy asked if Chris had been in his office. Chris was surprised and said no. Pastor Randy said you have to come see my boat. We went to his office and he had a boat on a table that was huge. He told us about someone in his church who wanted to bless him and so he made him a boat out of trash and gave it to him. He keeps the boat in his office as a sign of what they are going through and what they can get through. It was amazing to see how God was working there.

Tomorrow, some poeple will be going to Ariel's old highschool Long Beach Poly High School for a bible study and everyone else is going to Orange to help give out some food boxes and then we will all meet back up and go to our service in San Bernadino. It's going to be awesome.

We are Masters Commission know that ministry is not all about just speaking from a pulpit or doing dramas. Ministry is building the kingdom of God and that is what we like to do. A little while back, Pastor Danny was talking to Pastor Ted Ryeback from Praise Chapel Orange, and told him that we were going to be having an open day today. Pastor Ted told him what was going on out there and said that he had a lot of things to get done before their harvesters starts this weekend. Pastor Danny was more then ready to jump on that opportunity.

So, today we went and helped Pastor Ted get ready for Harvesters. He did have a lot to do but, we are Masters and no job is to big. We helped him to clean the church and organize their attic to clear out a lot of the junk they had. He also needed help fixing the skateboard park that they have outside their youth center. We had to pull off old boards and replace them so no one got hurt. We got a lot more done then Pastor Ted was expecting and where very happy to help them get things done.

After we had done all of that, we wanted to do something as a team and decided to all go to the beach. We got to play in the water, and the crazy thing is that you don't freeze in this ocean like you do in our oceans back home. We also got to throw around the football and build a sand castle with dual walls that were still easily destroyed by the tide. It was a lot of fun and we had a great time as a team.

Today was a good day. We started off the day with a time of prayer and devotions. David spoke a message on the new element of discipleship, which is Eternally Minded. He talked about the importance of being focused on eternity and not just the things of this life. Now, we did not have a service today, but, we did take this opportunity to have some class time.

Today was also a day for us as a team to do things to bring us closer together and work on some stuff that needed done. It was a great team building day and we can not wait to go to Orange tomorrow and help them set up for thier upcoming harvesters event. We do not only come to do services but we come to build the kingdom. That is whaqt we are going to do.

It is really cool that on mothers day we get to go to the mother church of the Praise Chapel fellowship. The church that started it all with pastor Mike and Donna Neville. We met pastor Donna when we came to LA last time in Redondo Beach with pastor Mondo Luna. She was a guest speaker during there 3rd year anniversary service and we were doing some dramas. She loved the dramas and told us that we just had to come and minster at her church.

The day that we got to go and minister just happened to be, Mothers day. We were able to do two dramas, one of which really had to do with mothers day. Pastor Donna spoke a wonderful message about mothers and all the things she lurned from her mother. It was a really good message and we were all very blessed to be there for that service. Tomorrow, we will be working on school and taking care of some buisness for our church back home.

So we finished everything up In Hanford this morning and were able to pray with them before they went to do a car wash with the youth. We said our goodbyes and hit the road for LA. It was not to long of a trip and were very excited to pull into Ariel's mom's house again. She was more then happy to welcome us and begin the amazing hospitality that she always gives us.

Today, we had nothing scheduled to do but we found out that they were have a BBQ and rap concert over at Paramount Praise Chapel (Ariel and Ranae's home church.) So most of the group went to the concert and had a really good time hanging out with people and listening to some rap music. The rest of the team went to the mall and did some looking around.

Tomorrow, we will be going to Momma Praise Chapel, or Huntington Park Praise Chapel. It is the momma church because it is the church that started it all. We can not wait to go and minister at there special mothers day service. We are expecting great things from God and can not wait to see what he is going to do.

Well before this trip, none of us knew where Hanford CA was. Well I can tell you that we deffanetly know where it is now. Today we were able to hit the streets of Hanford, passing out flyers and talking to anyone were saw, inviting them to come to the special service that we would be ministering at. We also got to hit up the high schools and pass out a lot of flyers. Also, today pastor Danny, Kori, the kids, and Ariel headed down to L.A. to go to a wedding.

Tonight started off great as we began to see lots of people show up for the service. We really wanted to hit the night hard with a lot of skits and dramas because there church had a heart for it as well as using them to minister to all of the visitors. It went really well, above all of that, God showed up through pastor Chris's message. There was a lot of people that came up for the altar call.

Oh and did I mention that they were having a free bbq after the service. Talk about awesome. It was a great time for us to get poeple just to come over and hang out. We were able to fellowship and just have a good time with all the people here in Hanford.

It has officially started, The 2009 spring So Cal trip is upon us. Today we traveled to Hanford CA, a small little town in the middle who knows where. It is near Fresno, which means that we will get to see some of our peps from Fresno. Despite all the excitement that happened on the road, like tire blowouts, we made here at about 9:00 o'clock. Pastor James Purser was more then happy to great us and show us the building. They were just finishing a Spanish service at the church and after that, they had provided an amazing diner for us. We ate and fellowshiped together, it was a really good time of stories and grub.

Tomorrow, we are going to be going out into the community with one of the youth members here, Jesus, is going to be taking us to pass out flyers in the community and try to get people to come to the service that we will be having tomorrow night. We can't wait to see what God is going to do this trip and are so excited for all the things that are starting to happen here even in the beginning of the trip.

Today is the start of the 2009 spring so cal trip. We are getting started early and are expected to make it down south in the evening. We are planing on this trip to be one that God just completely takes over and does what he wants to do on this trip. It is also very exciting because we are going to be going to a lot of new churches this trip and that is always a big thing for us. So as always be checking the website often for pictures, blogs, and updates on the things going on, and to get a better idea of what we are doing on the trip follow us on twitter at crossfiremc.