Greetings to you.  May this letter find the Lord Jesus filling your life with His very presence
and peace.  

We have officially arrived and gotten into our new home here in San Diego.  Believe it or not, we
have another wonderful GOD-story about how we got into our new home in Ocean Beach, SD.  We
absolutely love it, and feel so blessed.  Our landlord is a Christian, and was so happy to have us
move in, that he even dropped the rent by a good sum, making the place more affordable for us.
And guess what?  It’s even another ‘little yellow house’!!!  

GOD’s grace abounds, and if we ever see you in person, we would love to relay how miraculously
 we
ended up here.  But onto other things:  

It’s taken us awhile to get things settled and organized.  Every move does.  But as we have
 been,
and are doing that, we are beginning to look at ministry here.  We are sensing a 3-pronged
approach to our work here.  These three ‘branches’ would be:  

1.  helping the poor in this city and in Mexico (or wherever)
2.  helping those who are lacking community & fellowship in the Body of Christ.
3.  helping this city and the nations thru worship and intercession.  

There have been numerous times already, where both of us have said, ‘wow, there is so much we
could do to help, if we had more time’.   Wayne has  done some  work for a friends’ painting
company, and I have taken on 2 riding/training clients already.  For both of these things, we give
thanks.  But our heart to minister just means trying to juggle and balance income related work
with ministry, which is always frustrating.  

Wayne has begun going down to Mexico with a friend, taking food and prayer to the poorest of the
poor.  Please join us in prayer, as we seek GOD for guidance in several other potential areas of
ministry as well.  Among these possibilities are worship and prayer meetings devoted to Iraq and
Afghanistan, as well as working with a cancer clinic in the border area of Mexico, doing worship
and prayer ‘soaking’ times for the patients.  There are several other things we are
 considering
also, which we will mention at a later time.  And, as you will read, there is an almost unlimited
amount of work that could be done in feeding the poor.  We hope that the following stories will
inspire and encourage you.  

Also, we would just like to ask you briefly, if you would pray about joining Voice of the Bride on
a monthly support basis?  Several of you are already doing that, many for a long time! We are so,
so thankful for you and want you to know how much we appreciate your standing with us in both
prayer and giving.  We know that it is both of these things that are aids to furthering the
Kingdom of GOD.  Some of you dear friends in Kansas City are new to our mailing list & we welcome
you.  If you are new to our ‘team’, or have not been a regular supporter of VOB, we would just
 ask
you to pray about becoming a partner with us.  We would only want you to do so as the Lord leads.
Thank you for considering us!  
    "Three Shopping carts overflowing!!!" 
I really thought it must be some mistake: should I check with the store manager again?  It had
been several years before I picked up donated bread (or day old bread being thrown out that is). I
had forgotten what to expect when I told my friend Greg that I would be happy to stop by and pick
it up on our way to Mexico.  The pic attached gives some idea of how much bread I am
talking about.  But when I got to the ministry warehouse where other deliveries had been made, we
ended up with a truck bed full of bread that would have been thrown into a dumpster. As it turns
out this is a daily routine for many more truck loads of discarded food.   

 I wish I could somehow share the picture of the grateful, satisfied faces of those whom we shared
this bread with in Mexico.  And in addition to their thanks for the bread, they thank us for our
time spent and prayer for them as we asked the Lord to multiply provision for them beyond this
daily bread!  It really touched my heart and has continued to do so as I have been able to go many
more times a week since we returned.  I wish you could have seen the travels of one smashed &
melting chocolate cake, as it went from the discarded shopping cart, to the refrigerator of the
ministry warehouse, to our truck, and finally, to the Lily of the Valley Orphanage in Playa
Mexico.  All I could see on the many faces of scattered children were the chocolate lined outlines
of their little mouths.  The rather large cake was gone quickly (before we had even emptied the
truck) and it brought such delight to perhaps a less than exciting day for these 95 orphans.
Those children did not care where the smashed cake had been, only that it tasted good!!   

There are many more stories to save for another time.  But my face shines now thinking about them
and I pray that yours will too.  It just seems right to provide something I have, to someone who
has not.  This  includes of course, the grace and salvation of the Lord that we pray over each one
fed!

Spring has sprung . . . oops, it seems to have lost its 'spring', but surely it will come around 
again.  Unfortunately not before the tulips have bent over in submission to the unexpected 
freezing temperatures.  Isn’t it weird how, when things are out of order, they do not go right? 
  I 
think perhaps that is how I have felt these last few months.   

It is true, as Carol said in our last letter, we must be thankful and faithful with what is put 
before us, day by day.  If we try to go ahead of God’s order it may cause us to lose our 
steadfastness, just like the poor, limp tulips  

I am thankful for the places the Lord has sent me, to see what He sees. On a recent trip abroad, 
He did just that.  Let me take you back and explain: 

It’s Sunday morning at the Cebu City Vineyard Christian Fellowship.  We were there in the 
Philippines to minister at our friends' maternity clinic. I was so excited to be attending a local 
church in the heart of a busy Filipino neighborhood that I was not yet ready to enter all the way 
in the church when we arrived.  

I stood in the doorway so I could hear worship but also be able to watch the kids entertain 
themselves in the alley kicking a can, just under a lady hanging laundry on a line above.  

As I began to enter into worship, and as I heard these congregants sing “All I want is You”, 
  I 
was captured by the innocence in their uninhibited worship.  I found myself standing on a handmade 
small rug.  It was made out of bits of scrap cloth sown together.  

There I stood on this resourceful rug in this more than resourceful (by force not choice) country. 
 I was so moved by the humble worship.  There was such enthusiasm in their singing, and much 
thankfulness in their hearts. I remember thinking, how are they so content?  

It just seemed to click for me that I have too many things in my life in the western world, which 
cause me to be weighed down with concern.  Perhaps you may relate.  As I stood on that beautiful 
rug, I had some life reflection. 

I began to think of when we lived in San Diego and how I was always so busy.   I always desired to 
do more among the poor, specifically in Mexico.  I always longed to spend more time producing 
something that really seemed to matter - something that made a difference.    I told the Lord that 
I felt I took for granted living so close to the border of Mexico and the many opportunities 
there.  I thought to myself, here I am in a third world country where there is such great need and 
how a small effort on my part could go such a long way.   

I told the Lord that I was sorry I did not follow what I believed was His leading of me and how I 
was undisciplined with my time, following my own priorities.  I had such a wonderful repentance 
there on that rug as I found freedom to worship uninhibited with my Filipino brothers and sisters. 
 Afterwards I told Carol and our team members, Eric & Crystal, that I needed to make some changes 
in my life in order to regain perspective and follow what God called me to do. 

Since that day in Cebu, I have felt so many levels of the Lord's grace and His leading.  These 
have been so confirming.  Confirming what, you might say?  Well, confirming that the desires of 
our heart were meant to be followed and that those desires were put there by God.    

The Lord is granting this,  as we plan to once again shift our geographical location from Kansas 
City, returning to San Diego. Some of you are surprised!  Others just 'knew' it already.  

We are very excited!  Even though we don't have all the details as yet,  returning there will be 
very strategic.  I will be reconnecting with ministry in Mexico on a much more purposeful level. 
I have some connections already, and plan to survey and scout what the Lord would have me put my 
hands to.   

I also plan to apply with organizations which work with troubled youth.  I have realized that 
another deep desire of mine is to make a bigger difference in the lives of teens.   

Carol has many things brewing in her heart regarding worship.  Some of that,  she has already 
begun to do with intercessory worship on our Philippines trip, and some other things she has done 
for Desert Stream.   She anticipates stirring things with former worshipers among our San Diego 
tribe.  She feels San Diego will be a good base for launching out into something called 'WorldWide 
Intercession Plan’, a ministry the Lord has given her a vision of, which entails bringing 
 worship 
and intercession to the nations on an 'as needed' basis.   

Simply put, San Diego will become the 'base of operations' for Voice of the Bride.  And we believe 
it will be a launching pad for many things...... 

We definitely know we were to come to KC and work with Desert Stream.  We also have established a 
perfect peace over the fact that leaving San Diego only to return 3 years later is just a GOD 
THING!  We feel that we have been in God's will throughout this journey.  Carol and I have grown 
so much individually and are thankful for maturity in our marriage and ministry together. 

I have the blessing of the staff here at Desert Stream to go on and pursue a greater part of my 
calling.  They affirmed that I was instrumental, these 2 years,  in the transition of their 26 
year ministry, moving from California to Missouri.  I will continue to be involved with the 
ministry of Living Waters both locally and abroad just as I did before joining staff.   

We will be sad to leave our little yellow house the Lord provided for us during this season.  We 
have been so blessed by it.  He ordained many Divine appointments with so many while we were here 

More to come later.  We will keep you posted. 

By the way, I bought one of those rugs made of scraps and it blesses me each morning I sit over it 
and put my shoes on.   

I love those God changing moments, don't you?