“Vacation”

We had a wonderful time with the Olsen and Chaffee families in San Diego.  We have been doing life with these guys along with 4 other families in the CLG (Canby Life Group) for the past 4 years.  We have shared struggles and praises, have done retreats together, ate a lot of meals, as well [...]

Harbor Presbyterian Church

Harbor Presbyterian is a church planting church that has unique vision for the city of San Diego.  We have been encouraged by their hearts to develop relationships within the church body and ALSO reach out to their community.  They have now planted 8 small church bodies throughout the city of San Diego and will continue [...]

Jubilee Diner, Ocean Beach, San Diego

We took the opportunity to put on another Jubilee Diner down at OB (Ocean Beach) yesterday.   The Jubilee Diner was first started back in Florida in celebration of the Jubilee law laid out in Leviticus 25 that called for the people of Israel to forgive others of their sins, slaves and prisoners would be [...]

What do you know about poverty?

Last night we had the opportunity to go down to Horizon Urban Ministries to eat dinner with about 100 homeless folks.  I was asked to speak the message for the evening.  Now, I have spoken to churches and youth groups, leadership groups and mercy ministry gatherings, but not many times to a group of homeless [...]

Beautiful San Diego

If I was homeless, this is where I would come to live.  The weather is a fairly constant 70-80 degrees with a cool breeze off the ocean, lush green grass to lie on, beautiful flowers to enjoy, palm trees swaying, and lots of amenities for the homeless/poor.  And it seems a lot of folks have [...]

Unity in the Body of Christ

As believers we must attach ourselves to JESUS and know that WE are the Body wherever we go- it is not the building, the programs, or the denomination. Too many times we forget the church that we attend is only a small glimpse of what is going on in the Kingdom. It is [...]

just an update

We have spent the last few days reconnecting with some family members from Andy’s side.  Most of them, I had never met and the last time we saw Grandma Coulombe was at our wedding (almost 10 years ago).  We were glad to have an opportunity to share our children with them and catch up with [...]

“What do you want me to do for you?”

We went to the “overflow shelter” in Santa Fe last night, we plan to go again tonight. We met a few men and women who need more of Jesus, got to pray for a man named “Joe” who had been an alcoholic and drug addict for nearly 20 years.  Just last month he made [...]

Ineffective or just having a dud day?

We can make our plans, but the LORD determines our steps.   Proverbs 16:9
Yes, today was a bit of a bust, in a “ministry” sense.  Our fam piled in our borrowed car at 7:45am in hopes of loving on some immigrant workers who stand at a corner waiting for day labor.  We connected with a guy [...]

Praises!

We thank you all for praying for a place to stay in Santa Fe!! We knew we were to just wait for God to move here; nothing seemed to be happening when we tried to make contacts. This was a practice time of patience and we are thankful to say we didn’t have [...]