Kyle’s video debut

One of Marianne’s former Sunday School class kids is currently studying at Northwest Nazaren University in Southern Idaho. He had to do a video project for one of his classes, which is posted to on the web. It is called “The Dual”. You can watch it here: “The Dual” (He is the one with the red scarf)

Marianne’s Milestone

Marianne reached the half-century mile marker on October 4, and we were very happy to be able to celebrate her day of honor with my brother and sister in law, who spent some time in Canada and the US, celebrating their Silver wedding anniversary.

Germany 2008

Soccer Fans

Although unplanned, it was nice that our trip home to Germany coincided with the European Soccer Championship games. We were able to join many German fans in rooting for the national team.
Another wonderful celebration we were able to take part in was our nephew Nikolai’s wedding to his lovely wife Anne!

Nephew Niko and his lovely wife Anne

Merry Christmas And A Happy, Blessed New Year!

Solomon asked: “Can it be that God will actually move into our neighborhood?” 1 Kings 8:27 (The Message)

John states: “The Word became flesh and blood, and moved into the neighborhood. We saw the glory with our own eyes…” John 1:14 (The Message)

Christmas 2008

Merry Christmas and  Blessed New Year 2009!

Thank you for your prayers and support throughout the past year!

Update on a possible New Ministry Home for YWAM Kamiah

Northern View

A little over a year ago, we moved out of the building that had been graciously donated to us for ministry use for many years by local friends of YWAM.  We have since had a sense that the Lord wanted to give us our own “domain” for ministry, and we have prayed and thought about this for quite a while. A few weeks ago we began to actively pursue finding a property in our area. We met with a local Realtor and looked at a variety of properties for sale in our area, both with buildings and without. One of them clearly stuck out.
This home is large enough to house staff and students for Discipleship Training Schools. It allows for the possibility of an ongoing sports-outreach to the community and other weekly events, such as Bible studies and youth meetings. It is in great shape and requires almost no renovation or changes to be usable to us. Here are some of the advantages of this property:
Location is only about 3 miles out of town, so it is both close, yet not in a zoned area, that would prohibit us from using it for ministry purposes.

• The property is self-contained with its own septic and water supply. Not to mention the beautiful view.
• The home sits on a 11.5 acre almost completely usable property, in other words, there is much room to expand for building cabins for more housing and a pole building for meeting/classroom/office space.
• We have learned that the owner has already dropped the price to $ 350,000 from $ 395K. Comparisons with other properties clearly let this one emerge as the one perfect for our purposes.

We are quite aware that this is a significant amount of money to be raised, but we have received encouragement from our board to carefully pursue the project and begin a capital fund raising campaign.

View from South

Teams making a difference for Jesus!

This year we hosted three different outreach teams, from Molalla, Sutherlin and Portland, Oregon. We feel so blessed by the wonderful, quality, hard-working, Jesus- and people loving and servant-hearted groups.
Although they were here one after another, the work they were involved in was true team-work. All three groups worked on repairing, scraping, caulking, priming and painting First Indian Presbyterian Church. The church had received a new foundation last year and now desperately needed the exterior work. The teams also did a great job in reaching out to our community and especially in relating to our young people. They did a worship concert in the Park, put on the annual Kamiah Hoop Camp and Vacation Bible School and a very well prepared Field Day with games, sweets and activities.
I think, we are most encouraged, every time, when we see how young people give their time, talents, money, yes, their whole life to the Lord., working hard in His Service. To see how their dedication and service for the Lord enriches them and blesses others is priceless!

Where we serve

Indigenous Ingenuity

After having dug to a depth of 50 feet last year, Mexican scientists found traces of copper wire dating back 100 years and came to the conclusion that their ancestors already had a telephone network more than 100 years ago.

Not to be outdone by the Mexicans, in the weeks that followed, Texans scientists dug to a depth of 75 feet, and shortly after, headlines in the Houston newspapers read: ” Texas archaeologists have found traces of 200 year old copper wire and have concluded that their ancestors already had an advanced high-tech communications network a hundred years earlier than the Mexicans.”

One week later, “Navajo Nation Council”, in its Window Rock, Navajo times newsletter reported the following:

“After digging as deep as 90 feet in wash beds near Kayenta, Elmer Chee, a self taught archeologist, reported that he found absolutely nothing.

Chee has therefore concluded that 300 years ago Natives had already gone wireless.” Ayyyyyyyye.

(Sorry, do not know who to thank for this, probably received it in a forwarded email)

Wanted: New Ministry Home for YWAM Kamiah

In June we moved out of the building that housed our office and room for gatherings. You probably remember that this facility was generously provided for our use during the last 10 years by our friends, the Wasem‘s. Now they need the building themselves and we have been looking for alternatives for quite a while.
We thought we had found a good solution, when a local church was selling their old parsonage building, a double wide trailer house. Another local church had offered us space on their property to set up the building. We submitted an offer for the parsonage building but a day before the church board was to make a decision, they received another substantially higher offer, which the board decided to take.
This meant we had to find an alternate temporary solution. We decided to move essential equipment and furniture into our guest room and rented a small storage unit for other furniture items, files, etc.
We had prayed for quite some time, (and we thank all of you who prayed with us), that we would clearly experience guidance from the Lord in this situation and we think that this answer, even though it was unexpected reflects God‘s wisdom and we can rest in that.
Please join us in prayer, that the appropriate doors for the right property open and that the needed finances will be available for a modest but suitable facility to house our office, meeting rooms and lodging for students, staff and guests, especially in light of our DTS scheduled for 2009. (see page 1)

Outreach Team

Just as last year, we were recipients again of Central Bible Church’s excellent youth ministry to our community!

In co sponsorship with the Wa-A-Yas Nez Perce Community Center and YWAM Native Ministries they were able to enroll about 100 kids K1 through High School in the Basket Ball camp and Kids Club during the first week of August. We doubled our numbers from last year!

In the evenings they invited youths to fellowship with games, skits, songs of worship and personal testimonies about how God was meeting them in their daily struggles. Our local youth discovered that they are not the only ones who struggle! There was mutual understanding and openness to give and receive support.

Friendships are deepening not just between the young people but also between community organizations and leaders, which we are so grateful for!

We are happy to report: Central Bible Youth is planning to return for yet another encounter first week of August 2006!