Sunday, December 30, 2007

Play Time, in the Mountains




















After church we saw the beautiful snow on the mountains
and decided we had to go up there and play.















"Hello"

























































We lacked skis and snowboards so we decided to
roll down, down, down (that little speck is Noah,
after rolling down)


































By the end of the day we accomplished what we
needed to accomplish, which was "play"

Tuesday, November 27, 2007

"Oh Victoria,Victoria"


Our first major outreach happened this past weekend. For four days we were in Victoria on Vancouver Island, helping with Bruce Friessen's Church "Lion of Judah". The interns split up doing many different things. Some went to help at Heather Clarke's conference, while others helped at innercity ministries, and others help Bruce's son paint.


On our first ministry day we went to "Extreme Outreach" this ministry buses kids who live in troubled neighborhoods to church once a week to play games, sing songs, eat food and to be loved. The couple running the program wanted us to minister prophetically to these kids. This was a challenge for us, but very fun. Kids have no attention span so whatever we were hearing from God we had to say it in a way that they could understand. Most of what we got for them was simple, yet profoundly true. Later I realized that I needed to draw these kids pictures of what God wanted them to know on paper, so I did. They loved it. Afterward we found out that they were comparing pictures with each other.

The rest of the time we ministered at Lion of Judah hung out at Bill Steepers house (President of Streams Canada, an amazing man) and on Monday visited downtown Victoria.
Angela this is for you.

The locals were very nice.

Wednesday, November 07, 2007

John Thomas

John Thomas an amazing man of God from the Metrowest Bridge flew all the way over here to minister to the interns and to teach the 102: Advance Prophetic Ministry. Wednesday night John shared great wisdom with us. As we all crammed in the "Blue House"(girls house) living room, one of the things he said was,

"Fear and Faith are the same thing, the only difference is fear believes the negative to happen,but faith believes the positive to happen".

Also,"Anything you do that does not come out of Love is sin." these words pack a punch and hit home in us.

He brought a presence with him that touched us deeply. After John prayed for us all. His way of ministering is unique, not saying much, he touches us and basically the Holy Spirit does whatever. God came with much laughter for the rest of the night, we were filled with joy rolling on the ground. Which many people needed. It brought freedom.

For the weekend John taught the 102 at a hotel conference room to us interns as well as those outside the internship. For over twenty hours of teaching in one weekend we learned the 102:Advanced Prophetic Ministry.
This course does a great job of teaching with scripture about prophecy and revelatory gifts, imparting spiritual understanding, and exercises to practice these gifts. All this to help improve you and how you minister to people.

So I became very holy after the 102. But then I realize humility is part of being holy I'm not there yet. Thank God that He is Holy.

Thanks John Thomas for blessing us.

David Carpentier having a religious experience


photographs by Sharayah Quinn

Thursday, October 11, 2007

"Aslan is on the Move"

October 8th Canadian Thanksgiving or Columbus day for Americans. Most of the Canadians went home leaving the Americans and English (and a Swedish girl) home to fend for ourselves. But to the amazing grace of a few Canadians we had an excellent celebration. For those of you who don't know how a typical Canadian Thanksgiving goes its quite similar to the American way, turkey, mash potatoes, stuffing and pumpkin pie. Its just two months earlier.

Friday, we did our ISD (Institue for Spiritual Development) prophetic exercise at the mall. In groups at the food court we would observe people, hear what God is doing in that person's life and then compare what we heard within our group. Many times we heard the same thing. Next we would pray for them NOT approaching them but praying for them within our group. I love how a complete stranger is completely being pursued by God and that God is constantly speaking to them and we can ask the Holy Spirit what He's telling them.

Before going to the mall we stopped at three different churches either sitting in the car or literally touching the building to pray blessing over the church. After we prayed over this one Pentecostal church there was a hawk circling directly over the building as we started leaving. A sign of prophetic insight or in this case higher levels, or maybe there was just a juicy rat it was salivating over. We found out that their Senior pastor was leaving and they were celebrating their 65th anniversary.


So things here are moving a little differently now. Everyone is back from the holidays and now "Aslan is on the move". Everyone feels a shift in the atmosphere because God is doing a new thing. Exactly what, I do not know. But whatever He does I welcome it.

The one and only Claire Tatton (England) running the Streams Canada booth at the Unite Conference in Burnaby, BC.


Josh Hoffert (California) wearing official onion cutting glasses, proper protection for your onion cutting.

Ronny Bekdashe (Edmonton, Alberta) is also wearing proper protection for power washing the girls house. Here at Streams Canada Internship, we are equipping men and women to reach there destiny.

Monday, October 01, 2007

Farewell Samuel

This past weekend we went to "Worship Invasion" an intense worship event that travels to different churches around Abbotsford. There I have never felt such freedom during worship, we were all dancing and singing all together. It was great seeing all the interns moving as one. Sunday nite we saw Graham Ord at church in Surrey. Graham is an amazing worship artist from the UK who lives in Kelowna, Canada. He would grab people out of the crowed who played instruments to perform. One man in the audience got on stage and started playing the the harmonica. It was awesome. Graham would give the microphone to people and walk away, He recognized that the worship was not his own, it wasn't about him at all.
But overall we have been trucking along with ISD classes, impartations, prayer, counseling, work, etc. I'm impressed with everyone. Today we had Spiritual Alignment, we did an excecise where we would look into everyones eyes individually for about a minute without saying anything. Since the eyes are the gateway to the soul we would look deeper into them, seeing their destiny, hearing what God is telling them. Afterwards you feel like you know everyone better and your not afraid to make eye contact because you spent the last 30 minutes looking into everyones eyes.

Samuel left here Sunday back to Kenya and we will miss him dearly.

Eric talking to us before we venture out to Stanley Park

Wednesday, September 19, 2007

"Crow-Kay"

The interns are now here. They all trickled in on Saturday, from all over. Many from Canada, then New Hampshire, California and Michigan. These people blow me away, they are quite mature in their character, great servants waiting at any moment to serve. Not having a dishwasher in the guys house, I've been very impressed with how clean our kitchen has been. They are also quick to pray for anyone and worship. Every morning around 6 am everyone is scattered around the house spending their time with Him. We already have had great worship time and great moments of laughter.

Tuesday was the start of the 101: "The Art of Hearing God". We also had the usual work around the offices and or houses and creative night, taught by Joni Cooper. Another thing that I'm greatly excited about is that Samuel, a pastor and principle from Kenya is staying with us for twelve days. He's staying in the leaders' room (my room) so we get to talk lots his experiences. Already we've asked many question about God moving in Africa and what its like there. Everynight there, the Holy Spirit wakes him up to pray, because there's many spiritual darkness hightened at night. Breaking through to heaven is harder in Africa because of so much witchcraft and negative spirituality. The Lord will give Samuel dreams of someone about to get hurt, or in an accident. His prayers will allow God to stop anyone from getting hurt.

I have to say Canada is a pretty cool place to be, where else can you say eh? after every question and say "paa-sta" instead of "pah-stah". They also have Loonies and Toonies which are $1 and $2 coins, no need for any paper bills below $5.00 here. But whats really crazy is that in Vancouver I have seen palm trees, yes, small short palm trees. How often do you see palm trees in Canada"?. I'll get a picture in for you guys next time.




Our offical sport here in Streams Canada Internship is the gentlemen game of croquet. The fad has grown rapidly.



Tuesday, September 11, 2007

Richmond?















Hello everyone I've been in Vancouver for over a week now. Upon arrival we hugged everyone, happy seeing interns from last year again. For a few days I felt very dissoriented being in a new country. My first time ever leaving America. Richmond is where we live, a suburb of Vancouver. Its a delta formed by the Fraser River, because of that we are six feet below sea level. The rest of vancouver is hilly surrounded by huge mountains.

A factor that makes Vancouver feel like a far away country and not just Canada is because 90% of Richmond's population is Chinese. After Hong Kong became an indendent from English rule many Chinese went to Vancouver. Most of them are very wealthy. All around they are tearing down most of the old houses here and making huge fancy houses in place of them. Many of the shop signs are in English and Mandarin.

We have gone nonstop all week with training and setting up a ministry from the ground up. I quite enjoy pioneering, though
many times it is scary. For half the day everyday we have teaching, planing and praying for the interns coming. We look at a picture of them and pray for each and everyone. The second half of the day we are working around the house from building, moving, maintinance and running errands.

Last weekend I was finally able to go toward downtown Vancouver. It is truly a beautiful place.

Saturday, September 01, 2007

"This land is your land, this land is my land"


We started in Washington, DC on the first day driving 19 hours through severe thunderstorms in Iowa to stay at Noah's brother's house in Omaha, Nebraska.






















After a day of rest we headed on toward our long trek towards Montana.














































The last day we struggled to get up, drove about 12 more hours, through Idaho, Seattle traffic and through an hour and a half wait at the border. We got our Visas in about thirty minutes and reached Canada about 11 o'clock Pacific time.

Adventures of Sailor Man