Movie Screens Built and Bowling Strikes Fulfilled

We had an awesome outreach tonight! We were so encouraged to see open doors and open hearts. It seemed like most doors we knocked on were answered by friendly, open people. We are believing and trusting that, as we've done our part, God will meet us and we will see fruit tomorrow, Sunday, and many services to come.

After outreach tonight, the Mesa teens joined us for bowling, popcorn, and unlimited soda! Dangerous! One of the most rewarding aspects of coming here has been getting to know the Mesa teens and seeing them open up to us. This week has been an encouraging time for us as well as them.

Good luck to the rest of our teams out there tomorrow. We are praying for you and expecting good things and exciting reports.

Team Calieeeeeeeeeeeente!

The Latest and Greatest!

It's been a few days since I have really blogged so I'll just touch on the highlights of my last few days and then talk about today. We have outreached more than I have in my whole life, and I've been in this fellowship my whole life. I created strawberry waffles during breakfast and now people I don't know in the hotel are telling me they're trying it. The people in Farmington are really nice sinners. Me and nic talked to two guys outside the mall for like 15 minutes and they politely ignored us and said they are choosing to go to Hell, alrighty then. Even the apartment managers allow us to give out fliers as long as we don't leave them on doors. I always forget to put sunscreen on my feet when I wear flip-flops. If you want to know if you have a sunburn, hit the hot tub. Pool basketball is awesome. People put trailers in the weirdest places. Pastor Kyle is turning out just like his dad in every way. Natalie has a thing for cowboys. Richard takes the longest showers and is always late to the van. Breaking up with a girl at her house and then driving to the mall a block away to meet another chick that looks exactly the same is truly "Dirty." Turkey wraps are not that bad. Josh does not get along with the hotel employees.

That is all the things I learned before our outreach on Thursday night where 7 people got saved and I prayed with a guy for salvation that God really touched and it made me remember how much I love to serve God and take it to the devil. The teens did the everything skit for the first time and it was powerful. It's great to see the reaction of people seeing that skit for the first time. Even Pastor Bland said he cried during the skit even though no one can confirm it. I know that God is going to give us real fruit from these outreaches. Most of the people that came and got saved came because they GOT A FLIER, which was amazing to us and made all that outreaching worth it. One of the ladies that got saved said she prayed that God would lead her and that day she came out of Wal-Mart and there was a flier for our concert on her car, AWESOME! After the outreach we tried to go through the McDonalds drive-thru with a vanload and that is always a bad idea. Then we came back to the hotel and introduced UB, King Dirty, and Boxer Shoits. Oh, you'll see.

Let's continue doing what we can do and God will do what he can do!

-Brian Grise (Farmington Fanatic)

The Funnest Fun Day

This morning we got up later than usually and prayed and read on our own in our rooms. Then we all went to Donny and Tiffany's room to pray together, then ate breakfast before we headed out for our Fun Day. We drove to the mountains with Kaylee from the Farmington church in our van to meet the teens from Cortez. We hung out at the San Juan National Forest all day. First, we went on a short hike to a lookout with a fabulous view of the mountains. We had a barbecue, played volleyball, washers, and had a great time fellowshipping.

For the evening we travelled to Cortez for church service. Pastor Bland's church did song service and we did the "Everything" skit again, this time pummeling Kristin and Josh. This sounds wrong, but it was so funny beating up those two. Pastor Bland preached a short sermon about putting yourself in a place of need when you want to be used by God. After service, we went to Dairy Queen with the Cortez church. We finally got back at 10:30.

Goodnight!
~Natalie Trujillo

Kas Mas!

KAS MAS - THE BEST UNAMERICAN DRINK IN AMERICA!!!!!

(kinda like a mexican squirt. But THEY squirt it REAL good!)

Fav Catch Phrases!

It' been all day and not one blog from Farmington Fanatics because we were out of town and away from the hotel, but that doesn't mean we have a lack of material believe me. Get ready for a monsoon of blogs in the next day and the introduction of our favorite MC's.

Here are some of our favorite quotes from the trip so far

- "Fuddruckers"
- "Boxer shorts ain't lazy"
- "You woke me up to dance?"
- "Dirty Man"

- Josh: "Can we get some plastic plates?" Front Desk: "I'm sorry we only give out complimentery toiletries." Josh: "Ok, can we have some toilet plates?"

- "I wasn't planning on getting married until I saw you"
- "I'll just lay down and I'll be the cow"
- "A high five might help"

- "Love me, hold me, squeeze me...... are you kidding me or what?"
- "Woman, where my Rug-be?"
- "Not you girl, Dang"
- "You're going to get an orange bellybutton"
- "If I can't get a cowboy, I'll take the rodeo clown"
- "I thought I would get married before I had kids, now I'm a single father"

More on the way I promise.

-Brian Grise

We've discovered.....

-Team scorpion's new favorite show is phineas and ferb
-Tony looks like Woody from toy story
-Rachel is the grumpiest morning person any of us have ever met
-Tanya tunes everybody with out knowing it
-There is a mystery farter in every van trip. (I'm super mad about that)
-Gloria purposely matches with Stephen everyday
-Stephen secretly likes matching with Gloria everyday
- Turray sleeps like he has 3 jobs
-Shyy closes her eyes when we take pictures
-Jeremy's all up in the koolaid and doesn't even know the flavor
-Alexis is a closet smack talker


We've really become one big happy family, and the best of friends! Well almost....We've learn to love eachother unconditionally no matter how annoying we are and how bad the next person stinks. It's been such a great week =D

Right now we're fixin' to go on an outreach. Yay! =D Then have dinner. Afterwards Pastor Kirk is taking us to the lake to hang out. WOOO HOOO hope everyone is making the most of this wonderful experience and serving God with all thier heart, soul, mind, and especially thier strength

SPF 45 has failed Team Caliente

What you have here is a picture of us (Joel and Chad) building our amazing movie screen for our movie outreach. Hopefully, the next time you look, we will have it all finished. Today we have been preparing for our outreach. Soon we will go pass out flyers and withness and give the devil some more black eyes (see picture above). And the last picture is abstract art from one of our team members (guess who). Thank you Jesus for the opportunity to be out here. For such a time as this...

HOOOOOOOOOOO Are You?!

Good afternoon all! We are cranking along over here in the northwest part of Phoenix. We have already been out in the neighborhoods passing flyers and tracks out. Aaron prayed with an older man, YESS!! Even at 90 degrees it is muggy. We plan o get more flyers printed and we will go back out later. We headed back to the church and practiced our set and skits for tomorrow. We are excited.

This is a photog of Collins eyeballing a protective owl (fake owl).

Chuck E in Farmington

Look who we found!!!

look at all the people we got!


Pastor Bland doing alter call

reaching out

Testimony time!

Nick giving his testimony

Cortez praise band

Pastor doin keyboard

GO! GO! GO!

Got in trouble passing out fliers at the mall.

So it's 12:33 Friday morning. I'm still buzzed off of Thursday. It's been a sun shiny day and a wonderful night. The spirit of God is stirring and hearts are ripe. Today (in, like, 5 hours) is going to be busy!! But we'll be ready.
My room is finally quiet so I'm getting to bed. Pioneer Boot Camp, thus far, is proving a more influencial event than, I feel, anyone anticipated. God never fails, we are fortunate for that.
Lala salama.

-JB-

We had fellowship at Peter Piper Pizza after our Rally. These are two amazing shots by Blake n Aaron. Enjoy.

Thursday...

Barbie- Needed some rest, you know beauty sleep and all. so thought I would fill you in on our happenings in Phoenix with Pastor Kirk and Vania. We started the morning off with prayer and hitting a bunch of apartments complexes. We knocked on doors and talked to people about our outreach on Saturday. Our first sentence after HOLA OR HELLO is usually Habla espanol or ingelase (sorry can't spell in espanol either). After about 4 hours in the blazing sun and no I am not exaggerating it was blazing. Our fearless leader (Tony) kept asking for 10 more minutes. Our faces were as bright as tomatoes, well mine, Short Bus, Molasses, The Good One, and (I am still working on Stephens nickname had to change it after today) was red. Hyena, Singsperation, and Old Man. They just looked like (to use the words of Des Williams) a HOT MESS okay okay we were all a hot mess. We were able to stop right before lunch.

We needed our strength for paint ball. To be honest I was not going to play after our orientation, it was scary. But I sucked it up and went and played and actually loved it. I really think the entire team loved it. But we did have some injuries, Tony got shot and was walking off the playing field and got hit in the back side, his re-enactment was priceless, Rachel was hit by a pro-paint baller, in the neck and yes Sharon it left a mark. Oh and one more but you will have to ask Tony and Alexis about it. After paintball we headed back to the hotel to clean up and to get ready for church.

Stephen lead songs and took an offering. Stephen did great watch the video and Tony preached to the youth about Decisions Determine your Destiny. We really had a great time and many of Pastor Kirks teens answered the alter call. Again another productive day. We ended the day with dinner with Pastor Kirk and Vania, fellowship, food, and fun..

Goodnight Just T.

P.S. KR in NM is there nuffs down there??