Busy in Mendocino

We have been in the Mendocino/Fort Bragg CA., area for 6 weeks.
We have been very busy on a number of fronts.

Suzanne has made a connection with a group of young believers and is thriving.


Emily Suzanne and friends at the Lord's Land.


Suzanne's first day of surfing.
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We've had the opportunity to take walks.




Shannon and Val picking blackberries
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Daniel has been harvesting wild Prince mushrooms for the past several weeks:~)

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Shannon was able to go to the Mendocino Vacation Bible School for a week.

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Daniel has ministered in churches, home meetings and outreaches in the area.


The Lord's Land Tuesday night pot luck meeting in the Big House.


1st Baptist church's Friday noon meal for the needy in Fort Bragg.


Playing music with several homeless friends at the Mendocino Presbyterian
Church outreach. They put out clothes, serve a hot meal and provide showers
for the homeless and needy.


Daniel ministering at a Sunday morning meeting at Grace Community Church in Fort Bragg.

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The fire pit outside our room at the Seafoam Lodge.

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We went to Sabine Balls Memorial at the Lords Land. Daniel got on top of a tree
and shot this 7 photo panorama image of those who gathered.
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In addition Daniel has been upgrading the seafoam lodge web site.

Our time in Crescent City during July 2009

We stayed with Roy and Pam Holloway's in their Crescent City home.

On the weekend we had three meetings.



We provided the deserts for the Friday night meeting. Val's carrot cake...yum. Topped with a cream cheese frosting and pecans. She also made her State Fair winning Chocolate cake and Pam made some great chocolate brownies.





Friday night meeting at the Holloways in Crescent City.

Saturday morning a group gathered and then dispersed around the property to be still before the Lord. We then came together and each one shared what they had received encouraging one another.



Saturday afternoon we had a BBQ followed by a little concert by me.



Suzanne and friend Kelsey.



Shannon steering Roy's tractor... Roy let her go on the tractor several times over several days. At least an hours worth of time! Fun!

We and those we were with were encouraged in the Lord!

Breakfast at Taylor's in Cave Junction, Oregon

Val and I went to breakfast at Taylor's in Cave Junction this morning.
Every time we go through this area we try to stop in to buy their custom
hand-made sausages. Their breakfast is served before 10:30 in the morning . Val and I got 1 order of their potatoes with a variety of sausages and peppers etc. and two 16 oz. coffees and slpit the meal. The cost? $5! An incredible deal!

If you ever are in Cave Junction, this is a must see... stop by... eat at... buy sausages place!

Sabine (pronounced Sabina) Ball dies... or should I say she has graduated to be with the Lord.

I learned today that a good friend in the Lord, sister Sabine Ball, passed on to be with the Lord Tuesday, July, 7, 2009 morning at 11 AM in Dresden, Germany. She was 83. Sabine (pronounced Sabina) was a colorful woman with a passion for Jesus and a heart to help troubled young people.

Sabine was a millionaire – hippie – founder of The Lord’s Land in Mendocino, CA - and eventually became the “Mother Teresa of Dresden, Germany.”

Sabina started “The Lord’s Land,” a place we have spent time at over the years in Mendocino, California. It was a Hippie commune that turned into a Christian Community then a Christian Retreat and now is a YWAM base. We will be down in that area the last two weeks of July and the first week of August.

Our last day is to be Aug. 6 and Sabina was to arrive on that day. Gary and Caren Linden, friends of ours, were trying to get us all together when she arrived, but God obviously has a different schedule. In his heart a man plans his course, but the LORD determines his steps. Proverbs 16:3

I am thankful for the times I had with Sabine. She and I had a different and special relationship. I used to make her laugh a lot. In Germany she was very highly esteemed so things were more formal for her there. When she would come to stay at the Lord’s Land she was able to relax and be herself.

At the age of 67, she moved from Northern California back to her homeland in Germany. When she arrived she saw many homeless and disenfranchised young people on the streets of Dresden. She prayed and told the Lord something must be done to help these children and asked God to raise up someone to help the kids. God’s reply was “How about you?” She gasped and said,” but Lord I’m an old woman, what could I possibly do?” After several “go-arounds,” with God, she took $1500, all the money she had left and rented a former liquor store turning it into the Martin Luther Street Café in 1993 as a gathering and contact place for children and young people. In addition she founded the metabolic eV, which helps more children and operates youth projects throughout Dresden.

This is a poster that was distributed in Germany this year concerning her work there. It is one of 6 or 8 posters the Germans are using to encourage social care.

She will be missed.

To learn more about Sabine you can go to:

http://www.sabine-ball-stiftung.de/index.php?id=5&L=1

None of us know how long we have on this earth… may we all serve the Lord with the time you have left.

Daniel

We are back in Oregon

Spring has sprung



Sunday April 26 - Hubbard, Oregon



Ministered at Solomon's Porch in Hubbard, Oregon.
Randy Conger the pastor and I have know one another for 27 years.
In addition to ministry he and I both do website development.



Val coming in out of the cold rain... one of the costs for the
beautiful Oregon greenery. We are staying with Marty and Tatyana Captez
in Woodburn, Oregon about 15 minutes north of Salem.







We have internet... yeah!

Back in Mendocino at Seafoam Lodge

The view from one of our rooms.



Shannon flying a kite.



We were in two rooms like the above photo overlooking the ocean...

Yesterday we upgraded one of the rooms to a two bedroom unit with a living room,
full kitchen and a deck. Daniel is making a website for Seafoam Lodge.
We still have the room with the computer in it. We'll be here for
another 7 days.







The town of Mendocino 3 miles away... where our phones work.
It's a very scenic area.

A week in O'Brien and Takilma Oregon

We have had a good week in Southern Oregon.
We spent the week house sitting, feeding dogs, a cat chickens
and quail in O'brien just south of Cave Junction, Oregon
just above the California border an HWY 199.



Shannon with Tiara the dog.



The chickens... I preached to these chickens (Mark 16:15)
I was curious if they would produce more eggs than the 4 per day
production they had been doing. The next day, when I checked,
there was only 1 egg. It must have been the fear of the Lord that
came upon them... either that or they all turned chicken.



For those interested in finding Waldo we may have found the road
he lives on in Southern Oregon.



Abigail and Suzanne. They were able to spend 3 days at a
Bible Camp together and a night sleep over at Abigail's and a
night where we were staying.




Our friend Aron visited us his drive up from L.A. to Portland...
here he is zonked out on the couch. He needed the R&R.



Shannon had a ball with Hope and Tiara two dogs on the property.
She could free range on several fenced in acres... great fun.



We were invited to a Mid week Home Bible study in Takilma Oregon.
Daniel sang and Dan Robinson conducted the Bible study.



Daniel Singing at the Takilma Bible Church Sunday morning.
The log cabin style building is in a community that was a hippie
center in the late 60's and early 70's. Many are still in the area
to this day. This church is a Christian center in these parts.