It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!

THANK YOU Rich, Karen, Hez and Josiah~

FOR spending all day long wrapping presents for homeless Christmas Sunday! That was a fun time!
They turned out so cute!
Candy canes, ribbon and tags that say, "Merry Christmas! Just for You, Love, Jesus!"
So excited for Sunday!
Praise the Lord for a busy day yesterday!
(thanks for stopping in Deb and helping after a long night's work, too! And thanks Maddie for tying ribbons & making tags)~
thanks Gina for the ribbon~ and Karen for the candy canes and Dry Creek Band of Pomo Indians for the boots and socks and beanies and gloves and tshirts and jackets and jeans and so many other things!


Come join us this Sunday!
9:30-10:00 am meet at Gonzo's~
email Tonie for directions on where to meet in Gurneville (first stop) quiggstuff@comcast.net

Wear Santa hats and RAVEN black!
Bring hot chocolate, cookies, candy canes, music, WHATEVER!
Some pics of presents from yesterday~

go feed some people

THANK YOU MULLINS FAMILY and DONAGHY FAMILY and JACK and JACK'S FRIENDS who all contributed to today's outreach in Santa Rosa!
So far, we have 150 lbs of rice and 125 lbs of beans!
We have homemade soup!
We need hands and feet to come over today so the RAVEN team can leave by 4:30 to GO4GOD before it gets dark!
We need anyone willing to come bag up food the LORD provided!
We need some plastic or paper bowls to give away soup and plastic spoons~
Come on over and minister right here in downtown 11-4~
We'll have something to keep you busy!
It's so cold outside~
Today is the day to bring over your gently used clothing, household, blankets, toys for outreach tonight to Papago/Apple Valley, Roseland and West Ninth neighborhoods as well as the families that stop here on Thursdays who are hungry for food and prayers! Go look in your closets and clean 'em out and drop on by today!
815 Pacific Ave
Santa Rosa, CA 95404

"go feed people," from Rudy's friend who bought, shopped and dropped off bags and bags of rice and beans~
thanks, Mike... may GOD bless YOU and YOUR home abundantly~
thank you for being a part of filling up tummies across town tonight!

Good morning!

Will you pray with me?

Dear Jesus, THANK YOU for this day, Lord!

I love you LORD.

I thank you for health today, for children, for rice and beans all in my kitchen and toys in my living room and a garage full of presents for homeless.

YOU are a merciful GOD~

YOU bless us so much more than we can ever imagine and I THANK YOU!

I lift up to you all the men, women and children who are going through a battle with cancer~

Big John's brother and Nicolas~ Paul, all the children at St Judes~ Melanie's sister-friends,

LORD, thank YOU for being with them today~

for knowing every detail of them and for being the great healer YOU are.

I lift them up to YOU~

I rebuke the enemy of putting any stress on their bodies through complications from treatment, from their diagnosis,

Save them, Father God.

Heal them,

erradicate whatever was there~

YOU are bigger than cancer~

it is NOTHING to YOU.

I thank you for healing in my life~

I thank you for constant care and attention to us all~

even when we don' t seek you first you hold us in the palm of your hand~

help us all remember that~

help the families seeking to support their beloved~

give them the peace which transcends the world's understanding~

give them rest~

draw them close.

We believe in your miraculous hand and are expectant of your glory to be seen, heard, felt, spoken.

Holy Spirit fill us up and as we cast our burdens onto you of fear, of anxiety, of weakness~ we praise your holy name, JESUS.

AMEN.

REVOLVE TOUR!!! October 2007

COME JOIN THE CARRILLO GIRLS & GONZALEZ GIRLS AT REVOLVE 2007!
FIRST 40 ARE IN!


Payment will be due late summer~
but you must RSVP now!

So far, Gonzo's take 6 tickets~ Carrillos take 4~

Cathy, Deb and Shawna are in...
less than 30 seats left!
Can't wait!
Click here for more info!
RSVP to Maddielovesdogs@aol.com
if you want in
or call Gina at 576.1414

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Wednesday (today) Opportunity

Come help Karen and I wrap presents for the homeless Christmas!
Sorry so late to post but our internet isn't working again!!!!!
11-2 today~
Lori's house
815 Pacific Ave~
If you have Christmas ribbon please drop it on by!
If we don't finish then we will on Friday...!

Homeless Christmas!

Come out with us this Sunday to help celebrate an early Christmas with the homeless of Sonoma County and beyond.

The Lord has provided an enormous amount of wealth in the form of hygiene kits, boots, socks, sweat pants and jeans, tee shirts, jackets, gloves, blankets, tarps, tents, and sleeping bags!

WOW!! Can you imagine? Praise the Lord, God Almighty. He is such a big and wonderful God! His graciousness is beyond what I can imagine. Thank you Father!

Join us starting around 9:30-10:00 am at the Gonzalez Headquarters @ 815 Pacific Ave. to load cars and vans. We will then head to Guerneville to begin the celebration. From there we will turn around and head back to Santa Rosa. If we have anything left, we will decide what to do or where to head from there.

Bring anything you want to share: homemade cookies, hot chocolate, hot coffee, Christmas music, candy canes, prayers. Oh yes, don't forget your prayers. We can all use prayer.

Thank you everyone! Thank you Father! On towards Sunday, blessing Your lost sheep with the abundance You have provided!!

Email Tonie @ quigstuff@comcast.net or Lori @ gonzofamily5@aol.com if you have questions.

See you Sunday.

Tonie

OH YES IT'S RAVEN NIGHT!

Lots of kits to put together tonight while PT's preachin!
Girls night at Lori's house~
Come over!
6-8pm
Mariah & Katie, Tonie, Gina, Karen, Maddie, Cece... who else is in?

Back from Canada---live broadcast TONIGHT

Pastor Troy D. Bohn
Nov 28, 2006

11/28/2006

BACK FROM CANADA!

Dear Friends, Family & Partners,

I arrived back home late last night from a whirlwind six days of ministry in London, Ontario (Canada) and in Indiana—and its sure nice to be back home to Melanie and Kayla (and to some warm Florida weather too!)

I flew out of Daytona Beach last Wednesday and Pastor Terry & Eileen, and Pastor Lance & Leigh of Raven Midwest picked me up from the South Bend airport. I arrived fine…but my luggage decided that it wanted to take a side trip to Cincinnati, Ohio instead!

We were planning to leave Indiana the next morning early, but had to wa it till around 11:00 AM for my things to arrive in South Bend before heading across Michigan and into Canada.

We arrived in London, Ontario to speak at the “Accelerated Impact” conference on Evangelism later that afternoon. I ended up preaching (5) times over the course of the three days of the conference and we took a team to the streets of London following the Friday night service.

I shared the following messages that we’ll try to make available to anyone that would like to write and request a copy:

“Red Light Religion: Intimacy without Expectancy”

“The Bride of Christ: A Covenant without a Consequence”

“Explosive Christianity: Building Pathways into Eternity”

“Show Me Your Glory: Can We Afford to Sacrifice Another Generation?”

“Evangelistic or Altruistic: Moving From Passion to Compassion”

Just let me know if you want one or all of the titles and we’ll get them sent out to you as soon as we get the opportunity. If yo u want to help with postage, etc.. that is great, but definitely not required to get a copy (freely we have been given, freely we will give).

After the Saturday night service in Canada, Pastor Terry and I loaded up and headed back to the States at about 1:00 AM. Then on Sunday night, I was blessed to once again be with Pastor Mike Lechtlitner of the “Crossing” in Goshen, Indiana where we had a tremendous time of ministry and then I spoke at the “Crossing” in South Bend the next day before catching a flight out late yesterday.

I’ll have more details and pictures at www.ravenoutreach.blogspot.com in the next day or so. Check it out!

DO NOT FORGET and PASS THE WORD!!!

Tonight we will have our very first Raven International LIVE WEBCAST originating from right here in Daytona Beach, Florida. The webcast will last an hour and will start broadcasting at 9:00 PM EST (8:00 PM Central).

Go to the above web location (www.ravenoutreach.blogspot.com) and you will see a small screen on the right hand side marked “STICKAM.&rdqu o; If you will double click on it, then the screen will be enlarged and you can hear and see tonight’s broadcast. We will be broadcasting every Tuesday evening at the same time and would be blessed to have you join us!

Also, I will be flying out to Austin, Texas on Saturday to minister at New Horizon’s Church on Sunday Morning and Sunday evening, we are checking to see the availability of high-speed internet service and will be attempting to broadcast the services live from there as well this week! (Modern Technology is so cool!)

NEWS FLASH

While in South Bend the other night, I spent about 45 minutes taking and witnessing to a member of the Hell’s Angeles Motorcycle club outside of a local strip club.

I was able to share my testimony and the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ with “Stevie” and he told me of his family, etc.. and his involvement with the group. I told him that I looked forward to meeting up with him again and talking further---later that SAME NIGHT he was involved in a shooting.

Here is the article taken from the South Bend Tribune

South Bend Tribune November 28, 2006

Hell's Angels member charged in shooting

A member of the Hell's Angels motorcycle club was charged with felony battery Monday after he allegedly shot another man in the hip last week outside a south-side strip club, authorities said.

Steve Dowling, 44, was upset with the 31-year-old victim because the man was trying to leave the motorcycle club, according to court documents.

The two began arguing about 2:45 a.m. Thursday outside the Torch Lounge, 1817 S. Michigan St., and Dowling allegedly pulled out a gun and fired several shots into the parking lot pavement, court documents show.

The victim was hit by a bullet when he tried to grab the gun away from Dowling, according to the charges.

Dowling's bond is set at $5,000. He will be arraigned at 1 p.m. today.

I PRAISE GOD for the opportunity to speak into this man’s life and am believing the it was no accident and that it was instead a appointment with destiny fo r him. Pray that this will be the catalyst for him coming to Christ.

We love you and thank you for your love, prayers and support!

Blessings,

Pastor Troy D. Bohn

Raven International

P.O. Box 1897

Daytona Beach, Florida 32115

pastor troy live broadcast tonight

www.ravenoutreach.blogspot.com
tonight~ 9pm Eastern
pt's preachin' online!
tune in~
weekly broadcast!
c'ya online!

UGO4GOD SCHEDULE THIS WEEK

MONDAY~ We need someone to go shopping at Costco for rice and beans for outreach this Thursday. Please go! We will reimburse your receipt on Thursday night with cash! We need lots of bags of rice and lots of bags of beans! THANK YOU!

TUESDAY NIGHT~ GIRLS NIGHT! GO4GOD! We'll be making hygiene kits for the homeless! Come eat rigatonis and salad and get your hands busy! 6:00 pm with Gina at "Lori's house" (not Rudy's)... 815 Pacific Ave, Santa Rosa. RSVP to Gina Carrillo 576.1414

WEDNESDAY~ If someone didn't shop on Monday, we need someone to go shopping at Costco for rice and beans for outreach this Thursday. Please go! We will reimburse your receipt on Thursday night with cash! We need lots of rice and lots of beans!

THURSDAY 11am-4pm Come minister outside the Gonzalez Home and Downtown SR to the homeless! If you know how to make soup please come make some and we'll pop the tent up and serve hot soup and coffee~ and PRAY with so many. We'll also get the rice and beans divided up for evening outreach!

THURSDAY 4:30 leave sharp (I know we always say that but for real this week) to Papago/Apple Valley, West Ninth and Roseland. Hopefully you will come so we can split up into separate teams! Anthony has a bball tourney this week~ we need your help! Please RSVP to Lori 360.0155 if you're not a "regular" RAVEN (!) so we don't leave without you!

SUNDAY 12:30~ outreach to the homeless! Santa Rosa, Guerneville, San Francisco? Who's in? We've got $5,000 worth of "stuff" and we need teams to take it and take pictures! Deb's up for SF! RSVP to her at 292.4506~ Guerneville and Santa Rosa teams, anyone? Please contact gonzofamily5@aol.com if you are up to leading a team so we can distribute! Please email if you are up to be on a team! BABY, IT'S COLD OUTSIDE!

TOYS!!!!!

Hey!
Just so you guys know, we still need 1,100 toys!!!! We only have 3 weeks! PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE start shopping!!! My school's drive starts next week, and I hope that they bring a lot of toys! But please oh please start shopping! Please come to my house on December 10th, to pray with us, and to drop off toys, if you're going come and hear the agenda.... LOVE YOU ALL!
~Missionary Maddie~
Oh yeah, if you don't want to shop, you can write a check to Raven Ministries, and then i'll go shop with it!!! THANKS SO MUCH TO EVERYONE WHO HAS PARTICIPATED IN THE TIJUANA TOY DRIVE!

CHRIST IS COMING

Wow, the Christ-mas season is here and shoppers are all hurriedly scurrying about looking for that one perfect gift for each person on their list. The urgency will increase as we get closer to the 25th of December. Time is short.

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May i offer that the one perfect gift is Jesus and the urgency will increase as we march on to the end of this world as we know it. Time is short.

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As Thanksgiving has just passed a few days ago i am filled with many emotions of the season. Love being the most forefront and how to bring that in action to all i meet these coming weeks of Advent. I am truly thankful for our God who is in the many details of our lives and in control of this huge universe we live in. i can't let that be forgotten in my heart or the way i live my life.

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My family got together for thanksgiving. My mom, sister, brother-in-law, brother (who is divorcing his second wife in ten years) and my nephew Myles. My grown niece came by,(25) my brothers daughter, on her way to San Francisco to see her mom. Her mom and my brother divorced over 10 years ago. She was arrested and is in jail in SF for drunk driving, child endangerment and hitting a car. She had my two great nephews in the car, Anthony 6, and Lamar Jr. 5. My heart breaks for them. Their father, Lamar, is already in San Quentin and now Mom is in jail in SF. The family will be there for these two innocents and we will help them through the holidays, and i know God is in control and has a plan for them all. Only God gives me peace in my heart for a family that is so lost and far away from Him. Only God can bring the joy that lives in my heart, the hope of their salvation. If i did not have Him, i could not make it in this dark and dying world. Please pray for Monica, Lamar, Anthony, Lamar Jr. and my brother John. Pray for their salvation. Time is so short.

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This brought me to this scripture. "However if you suffer as a Christian do not be ashamed, but praise God that you bear that name. For it is time for judgement to begin with the family of God, and if it begins with us, what will the outcome be for those who do not obey the Gospel of God? And, If it is hard for the righteous to be saved, what will become of the ungodly and the sinner?" 1 Peter 4:16-18

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This time of joy in the Lord, the preparing of our hearts for Christmas day, of thanksgiving and of love is a beautiful time of year. Many hearts want to believe, need to believe in God, and we can help them. My prayer is for all of us, each Christian in God's family to reach out to their families however hard that may be. Time is short, there is an urgency to bring Jesus salvation message to our families and beyond. God bless each of you and your families this holiday season and always, i pray we are all in His kingdom for eternity together. Amen.

TJ UPDATE

If you are planning to GO4GOD to TJ Mexico for the Happy Birthday JESUS Party please RSVP to gonzofamily5@aol.com AND streetwise today!

We are planning final count for bus, t-shirt sizes (need to order asap) and logistics. So, you need to email both of us by the end of this weekend!
This is who I know is for sure in from Northen Ca~

Gonzalez Family (4) we need XL, L, M, M
Chris/Shawna Schu's (4)
Katie Schu (1)
Bennett Family (4)
Carrillo Family (4)
Blondina Family (6)
Gandy Family (#?)
Deb Waddell (1)
Donaghy Family (4)
Gloria (2)
Hope Chapel Youth Group (?) Pastor Mike can you email sizes and # to Dot & I?
Nick Paff (1)
Shayne (1)
Hope Windsor... Shawna, can you find out # and sizes and email to Dot & I?

Dot asked if we could get a final count~ please email her if your name doesn't appear on this list with your t shirt size~

and if your name does appear on this list but no tshirt size you need to email her your sizes ASAP!


Tshirts are White this year with RED lettering, TEAM JESUS and you'll need to bring $10 for each shirt made payable to Streetwise.

Also, you need to make your own hotel reservations (I think Dot posted in earlier blog entry, scroll down) and wear a santa hat!

We will be hosting soon the Gonzalez Family's Annual Christmas Open House and collecting toys on that day~ all toys that come in will be taken to TJ!

Christmas Open House will be on Sunday, December 10th from 12-4.
815 Pacific Avenue
Santa Rosa, CA 95404

Come and bring all your toys you've been gathering (!) and storing for us so we can get them all into one place!

Also, come get last minute details of the trip and pray with us!
Can't wait!

Here's Dot's email: streetwise@earthlink.net
Here's my email: gonzofamily5@aol.com

GO4GOD! Go shopping! We need 1100 more toys! Time is short!
Drop them off anytime 24/7 at our house and bring some on the 10th!
FELIZ NAVIDAD

PLEASE PRAY A LOT TODAY

Message from John Leinen
RE: His brother
Raven Ministries InternationalNov 23, 2006

Sorry I have not had time to personally keep you informed.

There is so much info its hard to get it intact by the time it makes it down the chain lol.

So I wanted to give you the 411 from the source of the info.

My brother Stephen is 16, and on the day before the RAVEN banquette he was admitted to BSA hospital for a 7 hour nose bleed.
The Monday after our awesome time together with the Lord and his doctors diagnosed him with the rarest form of leukemia.
A few days after that diagnosis they told us about his enlarged heart. They said "we will treat the cancer then worry about his heart". Well weeks and weeks went by and finally the let him come home for a week.

Then on his third day home he had another nose bleed and went back to the hospital. They treated it and sent him home.
The whole time he had been home from the first day the company for his meds had been saying that without $1600 per month they would stop his meds.

The insurance only covers what is done at the hospital. well he had his check up on the Monday following his week home and they admitted him for two blood transfusions and he was supposed to go home right after.
That Tuesday they found he had a infection in his blood and kept him. Wed they tell Pastor Mark and my family that Stephens leukemia in starting to go into remission. Thursday 4:00 am he starts having trouble.

Thursday 10:00am they call me and tell me he is going back to ICU. By 11:00am his heart quits the first time I get to hear them screaming for crash carts and 20 doctors surrounding him. Turns out he has a second heart problem that can kill him with athletic type activity (Indiana basketball player died on the court playing ball had the same condition) they say it is hereditary and had to come from one of my parents and there is a 1 in 4 chance both me and my sister have it too.

Later on he is stable and me and his nurse pick him up to help him use the bathroom and after we get him situated on the bedside toilette and step out the machines go crazy his heart had dropped again. I had to dead lift him (290pounds) and hold him up while the nurse cleaned him off. You know PT I thought someday I would have to maybe do that for my parents but not my little brother.

Since then and before then many many things happened that were just as bad but for times sake..........He stayed pretty stable through the weekend little episodes hear and there but they got him stable everytime.

They were waiting for his infection to go away before they could send him to Houston.

It was gone as of this Tuesday but then Wednesday I get that call I hate getting and they say get your mom from work your brother cant breathe because of fluid trapped between his lungs and his ribcage, and they needed my mom to sign the papers before they could put a tube through his ribcage to let out the fluid.
They did it and as soon as they stuck it in they got 27 ounces of fluid and mo re came out all night.

Around 10:30pm they woke him up to give him pills and he had been asleep every since the operation.
As soon as he woke up he felt pain so bad that his body convulsed and he stopped breathing.

They got O2 and got him breathing and he was begging for pain meds. I held his and and rubbed his head and some of what little of the hair on his head fell out into my fingers.

He was in so much pain then that he could not talk i told him i was there and if he could hear me squeeze my hand and he did. I prayed for his pain to go away as i laid hands on him then told him i was going to call some prayer warriors he shook his head yes.

He is stable for now but actually hurting so bad that he groans in his sleep.

On that one Thursday when his heart tried to quit on him he was awak e and aware of it all especially the pain they let me talk to him wile they were operating cuz i said "I'm sorry I know y'all are doing your job but i need to talk with him about are primary physician. the doctor, a Hindu man said "who is this doctor?" I said Jesus and his words were "proceed".

I talked with my brother and he said "don't bother i already asked Jesus to forgive me".
He is in great depression and doesn't care about much most of the depression is also from the meds they give him. But if you can do nothing else in life but ask Jesus to forgive u and u will go to heaven then my brother is saved.

But if there is more to it than that like so many of us believe then I don't know if he is saved i really don't.

He knows that Jesus did not make him sick, and we all keep telling him Jesus is the healer, and he says "If Jesus is letting me go through this and not healing me for a reason, I'm fine with that but why does He have to let it hurt so much?"

Love, Big John
RAVEN MINISTRIES AMARILLO

BLESSED THANKSGIVING

Do you just love Jesus so so much?? Amen. Today, this week, this hour has been so full of God that i do not know where to begin. My heart is overflowing and so blessed by our awesome God and all the loved ones in my life. Thanksgiving for me is an action word, giving thanks by serving God out of love and giving away what God gives us. When i see the sons and daughters of God coming together to serve the poorest of the poor, being His hands and feet, my heart is full to overflowing. We are one. One body, many parts. All of us belonging to God. How awesome is that. How awesome is our God. Amen.

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"For i say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith. For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office. So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one, members one of another."

Romans 12:3-5

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Thank you God for being in control, for trusing us with your bounty, for passing it to us, and from us into the exact hands you want it in. Thank you Jesus for leaving us your Holy Ghost to fill us and lead us to God's will. Keep us tuned in to you constantly, let us never loose sight of you. Keep us humbly seeking your face, constantly lifting you up and keeping our hearts pure. Thank you Lord God, i love you more than words can say and i know you love me more than i can ever imagine.

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Thank you for Lori's Dad, for his fire for you Lord, for his willingness to go. Thank you for my family,Lord God, the one i was born into and my extended family. Whether you consider yourself RAVEN, Hope Chapel, Hope Windsor or any other label, i love you all and i love serving God with each of you. God bless you. Lets keep praying for one another and lifting each other up. Let us keep serving the Lord in these urgent times. Let us keep bringing the light of Jesus to the lost in this dark and dying world.

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BLESSED THANKSGIVING TO ALL

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love,

Deb and Myles ><>

shopping the day BEFORE Thanksgiving!

Just went to Costco~
Praise the LORD they gave us about $700 worth of cheesecake, pastries and bread!
WOW!
Thank you so much!
Pastor Rudy and Maddie and Cece and I were able to pick them up in the RAVEN box truck and Deb and Pastor Mike met us there~
we then went to the Bennett's home and Brian and Marc, Gina and Faith joined us to take the REALLY good food to Roseland.
It was late and drizzly outside~
but the LORD stopped the rain and reigned down blessings on so many homes!
Thank you JESUS!
I have to admit, that was a hard one, giving out those cheesecakes~ phew... my favorite!
Praise God that was the hardest part of today, not eating cheesecake!
It was really fun seeing everyone tonight~
how fun it is to be serving alongside so many RAVENS who just are ready to go4GOD at a moment's notice. Phew!
Really tired tonight~
tomorrow we will give thanks to the LORD with my family over a bbq turkey and ravioli. Have fun everyone~
be blessed!
Can't end tonight without a thank you for this week alone from RAVEN WEST COAST:
A HUGE THANK YOU AGAIN TO MY DAD!
And so many others this week~
Kelly Marshall and Judy who came to pick up hundreds of teddy bears and toys that came last week to put into storage for Christmas~
Bobby and Dot Chance for endless encouragement and prayer and inspiration~
Jimmy & Katie for a check for toys and for setting up all the sound equipment for Streetwise!
Blondina family for worship last Friday night, help w/ Monday's outreach and support in so many ways~
Bennett family for modeling what a servant of Christ looks like~
Campisano family for toy money~
August family for toy money~
Cathy my best friend when Teri doesn't steal her away (!) for toys~
Mc Kay family for toys~
Schumachers for 200 teddy bears and letting Jenna come be a light in our lives~
My mom for toys and her praise to JESUS~
Donaghy family for praying and loving us in so many ways and inspiring us~
Nancy who emailed me yesterday about toys and cookies~
Megan's mom who emailed me today about toys~
Jon Moore for using his truck, time and hands for JESUS Monday~
Someone who left a bag of toiletries and toilet paper on my porch today and I don't know who~
Pastor Troy and Melanie and Kayla for prayers and encouragement~
Carrillo family for just being there and available for the LORD and for their support~
Gandy family who I swear the enemy has been trying to keep us separate from for years 'cuz it's just too crazy how we get along after all these years of not really spending time together~ thanks for your willingness to GO and support RAVEN~
Hope Windsor for showing the video of the girls and reminding me about how "church" can be~ and for the encouragement from so many there in person and in emails and phone calls~
Nick Paff who invited the girls to share testimonies about TJ at his school and who inspires us to be more like Christ~ not afraid, just willing and able to be used in a mighty way~
Broyles family for calling to lift up another in need and trusting JESUS for food for their friend~
Korie for her smile and laughter~ her integrity~
Katie for her heart of love from above~ her wisdom, her love for so many~
Liz for her email about 200 magazines and her joy in the Lord~
Shayne for her texts and trust in the Lord~
Ron, Jerry, Susan, Irene and others at Wal Mart in Windsor who were so helpful today~
Clifford family for believing in miracles~
RAVENS across the world~ how good it is to not have to explain to a sister or brother why we do what the bible says~
Garrison family for encouragement, prayers, hugs~
Fannin family for loving us through and lifting us up~
Gloria for emails and prayers and just getting it~
Tonie for being out there ministering, trusting YOU Jesus~
Dry Creek Band of Pomo Indians for purchasing $5,000 worth of food & $5,000 for the homeless~
Ritz Foods for donating A $5,000 worth of food for Monday's outreach~
Deb, for every morning phone calls~ I love you and I thank you for loving JESUS even more than me :)
Rudy, Anthony, Maddie, Cece~ for loving me and loving JESUS~
I could go on and on~
there have been so many things delivered to this house this week~
from so many people~
and it really is overwhelming. Clothes, toys, shoes...
JESUS, I lift up all these families to you~ all these friends to you who love you, Lord. I beg you to keep them close~ there are so many I mentioned and so many I didn't~ I thank you that you know all of them~ and I ask forgiveness if I have left someone out tonight~ I thank you for my family, Lord~ I thank you for healing me of so much~ I thank you for healing 16 year old Nick~ I thank you for miracles that come by way of things seen and unseen. I thank you for dying on that cross so many years ago and still being mindful of me so many years later. I don't understand why you have done all that you have for me as I am not worthy to receive so many blessings~ but I give thanks to YOU. Holy are YOU, mighty, merciful, constant. JESUS, Amen.

From Bobby & Dot Chance

Hey RAVENS,

We have rescheduled the next Skid Row outreach
 for Saturday, January 27th.
 There will be no Skid Row outreach this Dec. 9th.

Tons of groups who only do a once a year "holiday feeding"
will be on Skid Row from today, through Thanksgiving
and beyond Christmas.

We want to go back out there when the people need us most...
after everyone is gone, the holidays are over
and they are still hungry and homeless.

So, let's have a huge blitz on January 27th
and see Jesus touch and heal the hurting.

I heard a statistic on LA news radio last night
that says there are 10,000 available beds in shelters
 in LA county, but there is an estimated 48,000
homeless people.

So if someone without a clue asks,
 "Why don't these people just go into shelters
and spend the night?,"
here is the answer:
48,000 homeless people ...
10,000beds... hmmm...
 my math says 38,000 with no bed but the street.

You might say it was like in baby Jesus' case,
"There was no room at the Inn."

Let's get out there and keep lovin' on them in Jesus' Name.

Happy Thanksgiving everybody.
See you for Mexico Outreach in December
and on Skid Row in January.

Going For Jesus,
Bobby and Dot  <>< 

From Pastor Troy

15 Yr Old Scheduled for Heart Surgery
Pastor Troy D. Bohn
Nov 22, 2006

November 22, 2006 (10:49 AM EST)

Steven Leinen, the fifteen year old brother or Raven member “Big John” Leinen, is being flown from Amarillo, Texas to Houston to undergo heart surgery. The reason for the surgery is because of a thickening of the heart wall that inh ibits its ability to beat and function properly.

They will be going in and “burning away” part of the wall of the heart to ease the stress that has been put upon it. PLEASE continue to pray for this young man.

“Big John” reports that his brother feels like giving up because of all of the things that he has gone through in the past weeks: chemotherapy for the leukemia, extended hospital stay (ICU) and now the heat surgery.

This concerns “Big John” the most because of the fact that His brother is not saved. Please, please pray for this young man’s healing and especially for his salvation.

Also---I will be flying out to speak at the “Accelerated Impact” Conference on Evangelism in Ontario, Canada this afternoon. I’ll be picked up by Raven Midwest’s, Pastor Terry Shuff and then we’ll make the six hour drive into Canada together in the morning.

Please pray for God’s grace and anointing to be upon this strategic time of ministry, that (in the words of Paul the Apostle) “He might give me utterance to open my mouth boldly to make known the mystery of the Gospel.”

I’ll be speaking five times in three days at the conference before heading to Indiana on Sunday where I’ll speak at the Crossing in Goshen on Sunday nght.

Also, keep Melanie and Kayla in your prayers as well as they “hold down the fort” while I am gone. They are such a blessing!

When I was first invited to participate in this conference I was somewhat reluctant to accept the invitation because it was scheduled during the Thanksgiving holiday (in the USA), but they both insisted that I go because of the seriousness of the hour and the need to teach and impart a desperation to win souls to Jesus in this day.

I praise God for a wife (of twenty years!) and a daughter (of fifteen years!) that are so tuned into the task at hand and the dire need to raise up a whole new generation of “Soul Winners” that they too would mak e the sacrifice for this cause.


They are awesome!

ALSO---we want to invite you to our first LIVE WEBCAST to be held on Tuesday November 28^th at 9:00 PM (EST).

This will be a weekly broadcast lasting approximately one hour that will be “live” from here in Daytona Beach (or wherever I happen to be on Tuesdays!) and will feature announcements, testimonies and a time for ministry in the Word.

We’ll also feature answers to questions and comments sent to us via email each week too.

This looks to be an awesome opportunity to “Network the Nation…and Beyond” with a strategic plan and message to bring people to Jesus in this hour.

You can “tune in” by going to www.ravenoutreach.blogspot.com where you will see a small “screen” marked by the STICKAM.COM logo, if you will double-click the image of myself once we are live, it will bring up a larger screen (turn off your pop-up blocker).

You can then watch and listen to the weekly broadcast from your home computer! Invite your friends and pass the word, we would love to have to have you with us!

(The best part about this is that it is FREE).

Blessings,

Pastor Troy D. Bohn

Raven Ministries International

P.O. Box 1897

Daytona Beach, FL 32115

HOW GREAT IS OUR GOD?

This morning my dad comes by~
I am barely awake~
oops~
and he says to me that we need to go to Wal Mart and shop for the homeless because it's cold outside.
I make him some hotcakes and perk right up.
He says that the tribe may, MAY be willing to give us some money towards the homeless.
K....
So, after taking Jenna Schu home (Maddie and Cece's best friend) I head across the freeway to the Windsor Wal Mart.
I go inside and there's my dad with a big grin on his face.
He says that we need to go and "shop" for $5,000 worth of "stuff" for the homeless. !!!!!!!
(I know, can you imagine?)
Has anyone ever dreamed of being able to go on a $5,000 shopping spree?
Here's the catch.
There must be a catch (?)
Dad says that we'll make a "mock" receipt of the items needed and then take it up the tribe to see if and when they could fund it, if possible.
k, still pretty exciting!

So, Dad and I and Maddie and Cece are off!
We've got ideas~ we pack everything we can think of~
I call Deb and Gina and Rudy and ask them for ideas~
I don't have Brian's phone # or Tonie's (I have a new phone) so I'm not feeling adequate of what to get~
I get over that feeling and keep throwing things into the cart.
There.
That MUST be enough.
I add it all up....
Only $1700~ huh?
C'mon, it's got to be more than that!
NOPE!
So, we figure on just getting 175 beanies instead of 75 beanies and 75 packs of socks instead of 5 packs of 15 per pack socks, etc.... there....
To make this long testimony -shopping-day short~
Advance forward a couple hours from shopping and phone calls to Deb (did I say callS...and Gina... and Rudy....)
Dad says, okay!
I'm off to the tribe and he's got the "mock" receipt~
nothing promised but could I follow him up there to pick up bags of groceries left over from their distribution last Monday night?
Sure.
We go to the tribal office.
It's all the way in Healdsburg.
There are dozens of grocery bags (!) and again, I make my phone callS to Deb, Gina, Rudy....
If I pick these up is there anyone who will go take them out?
We tried to get in touch w/ Hope Windsor's Pastor Dennis because he is ON FIRE for Christ and I thought that would be the easiest person to not have to explain that I had groceries ready to go that he could just hand out to the Milky Way Outreach~
but I didn't have his number and I knew Shawna was out of town....
so who stepped up?
Deb and Pastor Mike!
PHEW!
They'll take them out!
Gina lets me know of others who need food.
The Broyles called yesterday needing food for someone~
so, thank YOU JESUS for providing again.
THANK YOU JESUS.
We finish loading the groceries into the car.
Maddie, Cece, my dad and I.
Dad says, "Hey, the tribal board is meeting would you come speak to them?"
GULP.
No, make that a DOUBLE GULP.
Sure.
Maddie and Cece and I pray.
I call Rudy.
Rudy's prays.
Deb and Gina have been home prayin all day~
so I decided to just GO and not call them again.
Isn't it a good feeling to know you have friends who are lifting you up in prayer?
K.
Donaghys are in Colorado... keep praying~
can't call them~
but figure Rich would say, "GO" if I did call him~
no backing down.
We go in to the board room.
Dad starts talking~
Cece chimes in.
She tells them about how the outreach started w/ the bags last year.
Maddie tells them THANK YOU SO MUCH.
Dad handed out the receipts to the board of the things we wanted to pass out to the homeless.
They're sitting around this huge, long table~
LORD, are you sure you made my mouth?
I thanked them again~
They ask some questions about the homeless outreach.
Maddie, Cece and I all chime in and answer their questions~
We tell them about Daddy's friend Brian who goes under the bridges to visit his friends who live there and we talk about the Tenderloin in San Francisco and Skid Row in Los Angeles~
we mention Gurneville and how much they could help us put a dent into the great need for those that are homeless here.
More questions.
More answers.
THANK YOU JESUS.
What seemed like a long time only took minutes~
Approved.
GULP 3 TIMES.
We hug some of the ladies.
They said please bring us pictures.
AMEN.
I invite them out.
One member says, "I'd rather write you the check."
I said, "That works too! Thank you, because I really can't write the check!"
We walk out.
Dad is grinning.
Maddie and Cece~ just another day serving the Lord for them.
Me?
I still can't get over yesterday, or the day before, or the week before...
What is today?
Dad says, let's go meet at Wal-Mart, they are sending someone down right now to charge it all and then you can shop.
GULP, GULP, GULP, GULP, OKAY.
We get in the car.
More phone callS.
Gina! Deb! Rudy! Can you believe this?
(Rudy by the way I forget is working so he didn't pick up!)
We go to Wal Mart, back in Windsor~
Teri Bennett calls me~ she helps me with sizes~
Lord, please help me, I'm not a shopper and I don 't want to let anyone down with these choices, but it's got to be purchased...
it's cold outside~
Jump ahead~
from 10am to 5:15 we shop 'til we drop.
We have a dozen carts and a roller thing filled.
Sleeping bags, jackets, rain coats, cold weather coats, socks, underwear, beanies, gloves, tents, tarps, boots, sanitizers, tampons, bags, crackers, blankets, sweat pants, jeans, tshirts, outdoor blankets...
all sorts of things (!)
Deb and Mike and Myles show up to help us with the grocery bags~
Anthony and Rudy and my Dad and Bryce and Brett and Davis (nephews) show up~
and there's Pastor Russ and Ter~
ah, thanks for the divine appointment JESUS because the girls and I are pooped out from shopping and it's starting to look like it's going to rain~
and we've got to get all this "stuff" into the cars~
We get home and JESUS sends Marc (thanks) and he helps us all load it into the garage.

JESUS, THANK YOU.

Will you pray with me?
You see, I only have 12 more minutes before we are heading out to pick up the RAVEN Box Truck and go to Costco~ another miracle I haven't even told you about~ by 8:00 pm.

LORD, Father God~ your plan is perfect! I am amazed by YOU. I thank YOU JESUS for what you have stirred up~ so many, LORD. I LOVE YOU JESUS! I ask tonight that you would pour out your blessings upon my dad and my girls~ and I ask that YOU would pour out your blessings upon the Dry Creek Band of Pomo Indians who have contributed $10,000 of food and $5,000 worth of "stuff" in the past week alone. Let that casino money be used for YOUR GLORY to help others be reminded that YOU are faithful in providing clothes and food and shelter to the least of your brethren. I love YOU JESUS. I thank YOU that my dad is being used by YOU~ my children~ my nephews, my husband, my friends~ ALL 4 U JESUS. I thank you that you answer prayers. Lord, I ask that the HOLY SPIRIT fills up others to come and see and be a part of what YOU are doing! Send the laborers LORD, please! Go before us tonight as we head over to Costco. Thank YOU for dying so I can live. I love YOU. In the name of the Father, Son, Holy Spirit, in the name of JESUS CHRIST, AMEN.

RAVEN INTERNATIONAL

Thanks from Streetwise

for feeding those with "very low food security"   READ THIS:

http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/11/20/061120233728.nxqedf25.html

STREETWISE UPDATE!

We Need A Bus...or two!
Dot Chance
Nov 21, 2006

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, JESUS - OUTREACH TO TIJUANA CHILDREN

Last year we were able to use a bus to take the team across the border for our outreach and to go to the garbage dump to reach out to the children there. Unfortunately, that same bus is no longer available.


In just a few short weeks we will have around 85 people on our team to take the love of Jesus and toys that He has provided to two places in Tijuana. We will be hosting our annual HAPPY BIRTHDAY, JESUS party at the church in TJ for about 600 children and around 200 adults. We will be blocking off the street (with the City's permission), setting up a bounce house, painting precious little faces, ministering the Gospel, feeding about 800 people (plus our team) and giving away toys to children who have nothing! The toy (value around $10) that we present to them will be the ONLY toy most of them receive all year...

Then we will be taking most of the team to the garbage dump in TIjuana where we will be giving away 500 teddy bears and 500 hot dogs to children who LITERALLY live in the garbage dump! Last year we only had about 35 "left over" toys and not nearly enough peanut butter and jelly sandwiches to give to them. The team had to begin tearing the sandwiches in half in order to feed more hungry children - it was heartbreaking - children were chasing the bus and literally begging for a toy or some food. WE HAVE TO DO SOMETHING!

Thanks to Lori and Rudy Gonzales of Raven West Coast (ugo4God) for coming up with the idea of 500 teddy bears and getting them donated! Their children are amazing, Anthony, Maddie and Cece. They have worked hard to gather toys for this outreach.

A 6 year old little boy in San Angelo, Texas, is doing a fundraiser and toy drive every Sunday after church at Christian Faith Center (Pastors Tod and Shelly Nelson). His first Sunday he sold hot chocolate and brownies and raised $70 to help the children in Tijuana.

We need you to begin to pray right now for us to be able to cross the border with the toys and supplies needed for the outreach - please pray without ceasing. Please pray that above all these children receive Jesus and know that the blessing is from Him!

We also need to raise the funds to pay for all the food needed for the outreach, for all the toys and childrens underwear, toothbrushes and school supplies (crayolas, pencils, markers) to come in. We do not want even one child to leave our ou treach with nothing!

Also needed: beans, rice and onions to give to the families that attend (large zip loc bags are also needed)

A big need is transportation. Do you have a bus that you would like to drive to the border and help us cross and also drive us to the garbage dump? We could use 2 buses to take us to the dump. Do you know of a church in LA or San Diego that would want to help with this need?

If you would like to attend the outreach please contact us right away. You will need to pay for you own hotel room ($59.95/night - sleeps 4) and for you own food for most meals. You will need to purchase a TEAM JESUS t-shirt for $10 (please let us know your size).

The youth group from Hope Chapel in Santa Rosa is coming and each participant has been asked to bring 10 toys - what a great idea!

Please let us know how you can help:
1) Through prayer
2) Financial contribution
3) Send a $10 toy (there's no maximum - send as many as you can!)
4) Provide a bus or buses
5) $100 needed for Sowers of Seed scripture booklets in Spanish

Going with the Gospel,
Bobby & Dot Chance
Streetwise Ministry
www.StreetwiseMinistry.com
1-877-570-2745 (voicemail and info line)

FOR UPDATES please go to our website and click on BLOG

(I TRIED TO INSERT A PHOTO IN HERE BUT HAD PROBLEMS - if you would like to see some photos from past TJ outreaches please email us and we will email photos to you)

Give us a God we can follow

In Exodus 32 the people asked this of their pastor and he complied for fear of what they would do if he didn’t.

Let’s look at scripture-

1 When the people saw that Moses was so long in coming down from the mountain, they gathered around Aaron and said, "Come, make us gods [a] who will go before us. As for this fellow Moses who brought us up out of Egypt, we don't know what has happened to him."

I have heard this story before and read it several times but this past week it really hit me. Why would they do this? First they say make us a gods who will go before us. What they were saying is that we can follow. Something easier than what Moses and the true God was requiring already. Look at how they refer to Moses “this fellow” what had he done for them….. Brought them out of Egypt? How about rescued them! They were all slaves. No life of their own, beaten abused taken advantage of. But now free. I think all of us that have been set free from what ever it was that kept us in bondage thought our life with Christ would be easier. But we need to look and realize that it takes work.

So instead of doing the work let’s create our own gods? That we can control? That requires only what we are willing to offer?

2 Aaron answered them, "Take off the gold earrings that your wives, your sons and your daughters are wearing, and bring them to me." 3 So all the people took off their earrings and brought them to Aaron. 4 He took what they handed him and made it into an idol cast in the shape of a calf, fashioning it with a tool. Then they said, "These are your gods, [b] O Israel, who brought you up out of Egypt."

So they took of their gold….. They gave there money…. Their status…. They even required their family to do the same. Once they fashioned it with a tool (this means it was made with their own hands) they said that this was the god that saved them. Do we do this today? Do we require our pastors to build golden calves and justify it by saying that the churches that we build are saving us? Do we ask each other to sacrifice…. To throw our gold into the fire?

5 When Aaron saw this, he built an altar in front of the calf and announced, "Tomorrow there will be a festival to the LORD." 6 So the next day the people rose early and sacrificed burnt offerings and presented fellowship offerings. [c] Afterward they sat down to eat and drink and got up to indulge in revelry.

I think we can find the above on any given Sunday across America.

7 Then the LORD said to Moses, "Go down, because your people, whom you brought up out of Egypt, have become corrupt. 8 They have been quick to turn away from what I commanded them and have made themselves an idol cast in the shape of a calf. They have bowed down to it and sacrificed to it and have said, 'These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of Egypt.'

Can’t run from God…….

9 "I have seen these people," the LORD said to Moses, "and they are a stiff-necked people. 10 Now leave me alone so that my anger may burn against them and that I may destroy them. Then I will make you into a great nation."

Would God ever do this to HIS PEOPLE?

11 But Moses sought the favor of the LORD his God. "O LORD," he said, "why should your anger burn against your people, whom you brought out of Egypt with great power and a mighty hand? 12 Why should the Egyptians say, 'It was with evil intent that he brought them out, to kill them in the mountains and to wipe them off the face of the earth'? Turn from your fierce anger; relent and do not bring disaster on your people. 13 Remember your servants Abraham, Isaac and Israel, to whom you swore by your own self: 'I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and I will give your descendants all this land I promised them, and it will be their inheritance forever.' “14 Then the LORD relented and did not bring on his people the disaster he had threatened.

How many times have we heard people defend what the church is doing because they are the Body of Christ?

15 Moses turned and went down the mountain with the two tablets of the Testimony in his hands. They were inscribed on both sides, front and back. 16 The tablets were the work of God; the writing was the writing of God, engraved on the tablets.
17 When Joshua heard the noise of the people shouting, he said to Moses, "There is the sound of war in the camp."
18 Moses replied:
"It is not the sound of victory,
it is not the sound of defeat;
it is the sound of singing that I hear."

It is often stated “I love that church they have great worship” or “I only go for the worship” but Moses said, "It is not the sound of victory, it is not the sound of defeat; it is the sound of singing that I hear." The Message version says…

But Moses said,
Those aren't songs of victory,
And those aren't songs of defeat,
I hear songs of people throwing a party.

I wonder if to God our worship sounds like us just throwing a party every Sunday. I found this definition of worship on the internet.

Worship - "Worship is honor and adoration directed to God. The New Testament uses several words for worship. Two of them particularly are noteworthy. The first is proskuneo, a commonly used term that literally means "to kiss toward," "to kiss the hand," or "to bow down." It is the word for worship used to signify humble adoration. The second word is latreuo, which suggests rendering honor, or paying homage. Both terms carry the idea of giving, because worship is giving something to God. The Anglo-Saxon word from which our English word is weorthscipe, which is tied to the concept of worthiness. Worship is ascribing to God His worth, or stating and affirming His supreme value.

When we talk about worship, we are talking about something we give to God. Modern Christianity seems committed instead to the idea that God should be giving to us. God does give to us abundantly, but we need to understand the balance of that truth - we are to render honor and adoration to God. That consuming, selfless desire to give to God is the essence and the heart of worship. It begins with the giving first of ourselves, and then of our attitudes, and then of our possessions - until worship is a way of life." (from John MacArthur, Jr. "The Unltimate Priority")

"Worship is to the Christian life what the mainspring is to a watch, what the engine is to a car. It is the very core, the most essential element. Worship cannot be isolated or relegated to just one place, time, or segment of our lives." (from John MacArthur, Jr. "The Unltimate Priority")

"Worship is the only gift we can bring to God that He Himself has not first given to us."
We need to ask ourselves does our worship look like this?

More to come.................................


Pastor Rudy

Last Sunday

Thank you, Jesus. Teri, Cathy, Kelly, Judy, Carrillos prepared a Thanksgiving FEAST on Sunday to be shared at the Bennett home. Brian brought the word! Jesus we love YOU! Here are some pics! The message will be posted soon for those who weren't able to be there~ praise God through whom all blessings flow! Happy Thanksgiving!

We need a bus

Help. So there are about 80 people who are heading to TJ for this year's Christmas party. But we need to get them across the border. The only solution I can think of is a bus. Last year we had one but this year it is missing in action. So, rack your brains, pray, look on ebay, look on the side of the road, ask your local churches, anything (!) but time is a runnin' out.

I love it. Believe it or not this is a great problem to have. Too many people want to go and serve the Lord! Praise God. I will take this problem any time of the week. God is bigger! I can't wait to see what happens. Who's gonna step up and help us get a bus to bring this little guy toys?

Last night

THANK YOU Jesus for sending MEN to be your hands and feet!
For so long it's been the girls out there on the streets~
Women have outnumbered the men most outreaches for the past year!
Not last night!
The RAVEN team that assembled to take the food began with: my dad Reg, Henry, Luis, Brian, Marc, Pastor Rudy, Pastor Mike, Cole, Jon, Frank, Samuel, Rich, Josiah, Hez, Nick ... Sofia, Maddie, Cece, Deb and I got to go too~
Thank you to Pam, Gina, Karen, Teri for prayin us through last night!

Because there were so many men willing to GO last night I believe it wasn't a coincidence that there were more men receiving the food alongside and without their wives, children. I really think that the men we are ministering too want to see all you men minister (not only the girls!). It's so important! I can't tell you how much I appreciate you all! You are an answer to a prayer!

Dear Jesus,
I lift up all these men to you that are without excuse. Yesterday was a full day of ministry. I am so grateful JESUS that you spoke to my dad and all these men to serve the little children of Roseland, Papago Ct, Apple Valley, West Ninth neighborhoods. I know they worked hard for their families by day~ but you wouldn't have known it by the joy on their faces serving YOU last night. Please Lord pour out renewal and blessings upon them this week as we give thanks to you for their willingness to go and be used to glorify you! In the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, in the name of JESUS CHRIST, AMEN.
Matthew 10:42
And if anyone gives even a cup of cold water to one of these little ones because he is my disciple, I tell you the truth, he will certainly not lose his reward."

ROMANS 8:37-39

In all these things we are more than conquerors through HIM who loved us. For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalitiese nor powers, nor thngs present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

From our morning devotional today~ it read: "When you're faced with hard times, it won't be your intelligence, your talents, or your perseverance that will eventually ensure your victory. It will be God's love, working through you to keep you close to God's side and to help you rise above whatever has you down."

Praise God!
Pastor Rudy, I agree, no matter what, 'it's a fixed fight!'

Beloved, know that NOTHING can separate you from the love of CHRIST!
Not your past, nor your finances, not your circumstances, nothing (!)~ CLAIM IT, RECEIVE IT, RETRIEVE IT AND GIVE IT!

JESUS DIED FOR YOU!!!!
TAKE THE FREE GIFT!
DON'T LET ANYONE OR ANYTHING KEEP YOU DOWN~
NOTHING! NO ONE! NADA!
Seek GOD in every situation~ wherever you are~ on the street, in church, at work, at home, at school~ wherever (!)
amen.

RAVEN INTERNATIONAL 11/20/06

Report on 15 yr old with leukemia and Quick Update

Pastor Troy D. Bohn

Nov 20, 2006

Quick Updates & Prayer Reports

RAVEN AMARILLO:
Steven Leinen, the fifteen year old brother of Raven Amarillo’s Big John Leinen, is doing much better. While he is still in ICU, they have stabilized him and have found out the source problem of his failing heart.

The leukemia is in remission and he is starting to bounce back—Praise the Lord and thank you all for you continued prayers. They found that his heart condition was related to a congenital matter that was aggravated as a result of the chemotherapy that he was undergoing for the leukemia. It weakened him physically, thus stressing his already weak heart.

While still needing much in the way of prayer for his complete healing and recovery, it is a far cry from the initial report that he could possibly only have hours to live. Go Jesus!

RAVEN WEST COAST:
Will be part of taking $10,000 worth of Thanksgiving Food across neighborhoods in Sonoma Country tonight! Go Jesus! Pray that this will be an effective tool in taking the REAL FOOD—which is the Gospel of Jesus Christ---into many of the homes in the surrounding area. They are expecting to provide food for over 600 FAMILIES—that is an estimated 3,000 people having groceries provided for them tonight---and 3,000 testimonies being made in the process! Go Jesus!

Acts 2:41 “Those who accepted his message were baptized, and about three thousand were added to their number that day.”

RAVEN MIDWEST:
Pastor Lance & Leigh Prathaftakis will be leading the team into the Washington Garden’s Housing Project this week to serve food and JESUS to the many that come out to the regular events in this very at-risk neighborhood. Pray for a breakthrough into the many who are involved in the local drug and gang activities that they might be changed and transformed by the love and Word of Jesus. Hey, if God can take and use a murderer (Saul) and make him into an Apostle (Paul) then nothing is impossible! Go Jesus!

RAVEN GULF COAST:
Pastor Don Eskine and Pastor Thomas Derrick will once again be leading their team into New Orleans’ “French Quarter” this weekend. They have been seeing a great harvest as they continue to feed and minis ter to the increasing homeless population and witness to the many that are once again flocking to Bourbon Street and the French Quarter. Go Jesus!

RAVEN AUSTIN:
Pastor Alex & Holly Hill will be taking a team from New Horizon’s Church to the infamous “Sixth Street” in Austin, Texas this weekend. This is a TOUGH area that is inundated with the New Age, Secular Humanism and a general disinterest in the things of God. Pray for them as they toil in the soil of souls this weekend. Go Jesus!

RAVEN FAIRFIELD, & RAVEN EAST COAST:
Are headed to NYC this weekend to witness and hand out a couple of thousand Bible to the “Black Friday” shoppers in Times Square. Pastor Meredith Lindsey will be making the flight in with a team from Fairfield and Pastor Sam Croghan will be bringing a team of 19-20 in for this tremendous ministry time in this Nations most populated city! Go Jesus!

RAVEN INTERNATIONAL:
Pastor Terry Shuff (Raven Midwest) will be joining me in London, Ontario Canada this Thursday –Saturday for the “Accelerated Impact Conference on Evangelism” as we look to impart and impact a whole new army of believers to take the Gospel to the Nations. Then we will be in Indiana on Sunday Night to minister at the “Crossings” in Goshen before returning back home on Monday. Go Jesus!

As always, your prayers and your prayers and support for the work of taking the life-transforming message of Jesus Christ to the lost and dying is highly appreciated.

Blessings,

Pastor Troy D. Bohn

Raven International

P.O. Box 1897

Daytona Beach, FL 32115

(386)682-4141

FOOD GLORIOUS FOOD!

THANK YOU REG ELGIN! (My dad)
THANK YOU DRY CREEK BAND OF POMO INDIANS!
THANK YOU RIVER ROCK CASINO!
THANK YOU RITZ FOODS!

Today there will be 600 families across Sonoma County getting groceries of quality food!
The RAVEN truck is full, from floor to ceiling!
Praise the LORD!

We will be going4GOD to the neighborhoods tonight~
4:00 sharp!

And, we need people with trucks to separate the food!
There are peaches, apple juice, baguettes, gravy, potatoes, all sorts of food!

Heavenly Father, I am amazed by you! Thank you for your provisions! It never ceases to amaze me how these tummies across town get filled up with food and the word week after week. I love you JESUS! I am so happy that there is $10,000 worth of food going out in Healdsburg and across Santa Rosa tonight for Thanksgiving! To be a part of your will~ that no one should go hungry is a blessing. I love you JESUS and I ask that every home is blessed and gives thank in your name today~ AMEN.

hi guys

Hi everyone. It was really good to see you all at the Bobby Chance fundraiser. I love you guys. I wanted to let you know about a killer message I heard at church last weekend. I think it was the best message I’ve ever heard pastor Dan deliver. He talked about how the church does not exist for its own benefit, and how the people of the church are all called to GO!!! It was so great. If you guys want to hear the message for free online go here:

http://www.hopechapel-sr.org/sermons/dan-boyd-love-that-loves-11-12-06.mp3

grace and peace, jimmy

FOOD TOMORROW! WOOT WOOT!

Thanksgiving FOOD OUTREACH tomorrow!
Monday!
4:00 meet at the Gonzalez Home!
We're going4GOD to Apple Valley, Papago Ct, West Ninth, Roseland~ 'til the food is gone!
THANK U JESUS!

DRY BONES

In Ezekiel 37:1-14 God, by the spirit of the Lord, takes Ezekiel to the middle of a valley full of very dry bones. He had Ezekiel prophesy over the bones and they came together, bone to bone and tendon and flesh was on them, God breathed life into them and they stood up.

This is liken unto people without hope, cut off from God. When the living God is brought to people who have no hope and they put their hope in Him, when they accept the Son into their hearts and make Him Lord of their lives, they will have the Spirit of the Lord and they will live. God breathes life into them and they will live. How awesome is our God, and how awesome that He can use us, a sinful people, as His hands and feet to Go for Him to the lost in this dark and dying world. Amen and praise His holy name forever and ever. God bless you.

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Last night we gathered for Bobby and Dot Chance's 25 year anniversary in ministry. It was a great time of fellowship and love between members of the body of Christ. We worshipped and visited, we prayed and filled up. Thank you God for the hearts of Bobby and Dot who have given their lives to God so others will know Him. Thank you for putting them in my life and the lives of so many other believers as examples and mentors for us. God bless you Bobby and Dot, may grace ever fall in your lives for Him. i love you, Amen.

SUPER SATURDAY W/ STREETWISE DEC 9TH

Hospital charged in alleged patient dumping on Skid Row

POSTED: 5:49 a.m. EST, November 17, 2006

LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- In an unprecedented crackdown on a practice experts say is shamefully common around the country, a major hospital chain was accused by prosecutors Thursday of ridding itself of a homeless patient by dumping her on crime-plagued Skid Row.

A surveillance camera at a rescue mission recorded the demented 63-year-old woman wandering around the streets in a hospital gown and slippers last March.

In announcing the criminal and civil charges, City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo said a Kaiser Permanente hospital put the woman in a taxi and sent her to the neighborhood even though she had serious, untreated health problems.

"Kaiser Foundation Hospitals, part of Kaiser Permanente, the largest HMO in the nation, will be held accountable for violating state law, its commitment to its patients, its obligations under the Hippocratic oath, and perhaps most importantly, principles of common decency," Delgadillo said.

No U.S. hospital has ever been prosecuted on criminal charges of patient dumping, said President Bush's homelessness czar, Philip F. Mangano.

Mangano, executive director of the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness, said patient dumping is a widespread practice. "We need to hold hospitals accountable, but also work with them to resolve these issues," he said.

Kaiser's Bellflower hospital, which discharged the woman, is among 10 Los Angeles-area hospitals under investigation on suspicion of discharging homeless patients onto the streets instead of into the custody of a relative or shelter. (Watch the surveillance camera footage -- 1:04 )

The legal actions filed against Kaiser late Wednesday included criminal charges of false imprisonment and dependent adult endangerment, and civil claims involving the treatment of patients and laws on discharging them.

"They have violated every ethical obligation under which they operate and they have also broken the law," Delgadillo said.

Diana Bonta, vice president of public affairs for Kaiser Southern California, said the legal action unfairly demonizes Kaiser, which she said has taken steps to see that no more of its patients are left on Skid Row.

"It's a big disappointment," she said. "They're taking one isolated case and saying, 'This is what hospitals do.' In reality, hospitals are trying our best to take care of all people, including and especially the most vulnerable."

Kaiser could be fined in the civil case and see penalties including restrictions on its practices if convicted of the criminal charges.

Police have long suspected that medical centers and outside law enforcement agencies were using Skid Row as a dumping ground for the homeless. Skid Row already has one of the nation's largest concentrations of homeless people, in part because of its cluster of shelters and services to help them.

The woman found wandering on the street, Carol Ann Reyes, was taken in at the Union Rescue Mission. Its director, Andy Bales, said she continues to receive care.

for so many years...

I only thought about myself.
The lie was that I thought I was thinking about others~~
But in reality, I wasn't.

I was a really nice girl who lived in a really nice home and had a really nice family and went to really nice parties and dressed really nice and had a really nice church and really nice friends and a really nice education.

And all my really niceness has caused thousands of people to know nothing about JESUS.

Because I didn't think it was really nice of me to tell them about him because it was up to them to figure out and because I had enough to take care of for myself and my family to stay really nice.

Hmmm.

The trick of the enemy.

All this time I thought I was a really nice person... and to the little kids living 5 minutes drive away from my house who are hungry and cold and scared I in a really nice way did NOTHING.

And for my friends who were just like me living a really nice lifestyle I said NOTHING.

And now that I know better, I ask forgiveness JESUS because I realize I wasn't really nice allowing so many for so long to not know YOU.

And it's not a really nice feeling to know that there are so many really nice people going to hell.

And it's not a really nice feeling to know that there are so many really nice people who have watched me be really nice but are still hungry, cold, alone and desperate.

Please forgive me really nice people.

My really nice smiles aren't what are going to get you to say the words "JESUS, forgive me, come into my heart, I believe in YOU, thank YOU for what YOU did for me, let my life be used by YOU, thank you for forgiving my sins, AMEN."

And in a really nice way I ask you all to do better for the ONE who died for you in a not really nice death.

PLEASE don't waste 36 years like I did!

Nice doesn't even describe the feeling of being used by the LORD and an answer to a lonely, hungry child's prayer.

My niceness didn't get me a ticket to heaven or another person's to heaven. And being nice to so many but doing and saying NOTHING wasn't very Christian of me knowing so many people are going to hell... even the nice ones.

Don't let satan tell you otherwise.
IT'S NOT ABOUT JUST BEING NICE and HAVING A REALLY NICE TIME!