thank you JESUS!!!

For Monday's outreach to fifteen families with gourmet food boxes filled with meat, cheese, produce across east side santa rosa~

For Tuesday's outreach with thousands of pounds of food across the west side of santa rosa~

For visits and prayers with dozens of families each day since Christmas in our home~

For worship on Sunday with the Chock family~

For visit with Naomi on Saturday~

For the raven team that assembled last night and for the flowers, pies and broccoli and the trucks to take it all~

For an email yesterday morning which led to twelve hours in the hospital alongside Erika and Karen to be a part of baby Francisco being born.

How, why, when do we do these things?

Because we live from one miracle to the next because of JESUS.

All glory and honor to YOU oh God, AMEN.

This is not a joke.

Ok at first I thought this was a joke and someone had to be kidding, but no, it's for real.

We received this email last night.

Mercy.

Please don't forget to send your tithe to the church office

3300 Sonoma Ave.

Santa Rosa, CA  95405

or

visit our website

www.newvintage.org

and click on give to learn how to give online!

THE WORK OF CHRISTMAS BEGINS!

When the song of the ANGEL is stilled,
When the STAR in the sky is gone,
When the KINGS and princes are home,
When the SHEPHERDS are back with their flock,
The work of CHRISTMAS begins:
To FIND the lost
To HEAL the broken
To FEED the hungry
To RELEASE the prisoner
To REBUILD the nations
To BRING PEACE among brothers and sisters
To make music in the HEART.

~Howard Thurman

See you all soon!
ugo4god schedule this week:

Friday: Cousins are up visiting from newport celebrating Christmas with us!
Saturday: Cal versus some team david likes :) 5pm tacos and football, keepin the sabbath at the gonzo home!
Sunday: Worship! Join Pastor Brian Chock at Foundation Christian Fellowship at 10:30am in Santa Rosa.
Monday: PRAY! Join the monday through friday revelation study online on this blog with Pastor Troy Bohn of RAVEN international!
Tuesday: RAVEN reaching out to Rosleand, Quail Run and Kenton Court, 5pm from our home.


Calling ALL quilt makers!!! BABY blankets! We need warm baby blankets to send to Mexico the first week of January! We also need adult sized diapers, and some hooded sweatshirts to go with Dayna and Sierra to the streets of Mexico to give away, PLEASE! Bring them to our home on Thursday and they will take them!

LOVE to ALL!!!

GIVING AN OFFERING TO OUR LORD

Last night's message that pastor rudy preached in our home and in two neighborhoods kept me awake all night. It was a good sort of keep me awake all night.
It was about giving an offering but not the type you are thinking, or maybe so.
He preached about whatever it is that is keeping you from God, your sin, your wealth, your poverty, your circumstance, your addiction, whatever it is, give it as an offering to the LORD... so that it will be gone that you may find HIM.
I prayed a lot last night and made the following video i just posted.
This has not been the easiest twelve months for our family, personally.
From losing jobs and friends, our son moving away and becoming new parents and grandparents, and rudy getting hit by a bus a few weeks back... there has been a lot of change.
The LORD has been faithful and I have nothing, NO THING to complain about.
His mercy and sovereignty is abounding in our lives and I am blessed.
My offering to the LORD are my excuses that keep me away from HIM day to day, moment by moment.
Please join our family in thanksgiving for God is good and today and tomorrow may you find time to be still, know God is God and praise HIM for everything, EVERY THING.
Get rid of whatever it is that keeps you from HIM and offer it up.
He's waiting.
A very special thank you to every home that is represented in the Christmas pictures and to my dad Reg, Naomi, Emily's family, Dolan and Dolori who supported this past weeks outreach with gifts. The amount of food was amazing, nearly 10,000lbs distributed in six days to hundreds of people across the city, hundreds of dolls, beanie babies and giftbags and beanies, blankets and boxes of hams for Christmas dinner. Most of all, we thank God for sending HIS Son, JESUS, and HIM being preached, the best gift of all.
Every good and perfect gift is from above!

Merry Christmas

ugo4God schedule this week!

friday night:  walking the railroad tracks w/ blankets and beanies, after pastor rudy's holiday work party, please join him! call 707.206.7208 please drop off ANYTHING warm!  sleeping bags, tarps, beanies, socks, sweatshirts, jackets 24/7 at the foot of the cross in our front yard!

saturday:  gonzalez family keeping the sabbath!

sunday:  raven gathering 5:30, our home, please bring a salad/dessert to share, friend, testimony and guitar, rsvp to lori gonzofamily5@aol.com

monday:  celebrating CHRISTmas with pastor rudy's mom and dad!

tuesday:  5:00 outreach to apple valley and west ninth with raven team, meet at our home for pasta dinner starting at 4:30

wednesday:  celebrating CHRISTmas with lori's mom and dad!

thursday:  family's coming to town, merry CHRISTMAS!

Somewhere in between this 'schedule' we may be given toys, turkeys, blessings to take out, so if you want to be on standby to GO4GOD at a moments notice, please let us know and  and we'll text or call you!  you can reach pastor rudy at:  707.206.7208 or the donaghys at proudparentsof6@gmail.com

A HUGE thank you to JESUS for the thousands of pounds of cabbages, potatoes, onions last night!  For the truck and Donaghys for loading it all,  bags, provision for the outreach, pizza, newborn diapers, clothes from G and so many baby kits, Naomi for the eggs and potataoes, Emily's family for the essentials,  and Dolan and Dolori for blessing the hundred children with beanie babies!  They were SOOOOOO happy!  We are blessed for the raven team that assembled last night:  Cecily, G, Maddie, Cece, Gracie, Will, Ari, Julie, Giovan and friend, Zulla, David, Rich, Josiah, John, Izaya and Ava Nicole.  We give thanks for the message preached to so many last night and to the youth who listened and were led to Christ in Roseland by pastors rudy and zulla.  We thank you LORD for the little girl who boldly translated the word preached by rich.  We give thanks, oh GOD, it was a night to remember!  JESUS be magnified!

Hallelujah!

go tell it!

IT IS 22 degrees

PLEASE DROP OFF BLANKETS 

ASAP

JACKETS BEANIES

ASAP

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE

FOR MEN, WOMEN, CHILDREN

THEY WILL GO IMMEDIATELY OUT!

815  PACIFIC AVENUE

SANTA ROSA, CA 95404

PLEASE NO SUMMER CLOTHES, WE DON'T HAVE ANYWHERE TO STORE ANYTHING

THANK YOU FOR GIVING!

ugo4God schedule this week!

monday:  please pray for baby kate mackura!

tuesday:  bible study and pasta dinner 5:30 pm

wednesday:  packing up gifts (thanks dolan and emily's family for outreach tomorrow)

thursday: 5pm  reaching out to roseland, kenton court and quail run

cece's winter concert and anthony's coming to town!

friday: finals for maddie, pastor rudy's work party

saturday/sunday:  keeping the sabbath and worshipping our LORD!

thank you everyone for not growing weary and keeping close to JESUS!

thank you JESUS!!!

for the raven team that assembled throughout yesterday!

for the families that dropped off food, clothes, hygiene items and toys and baby blankets!

for the families that gathered with us last night across the city and in our front yard!

for the vehicles and provision for dinner and hands and feet, voices that came out to share the gospel on the cold, dark night, we give glory to GOD!

Lord, we lift up:  rose, rich, josiah, karen, naomi, david, emily's family, lilly, zulla, erika and baby anthony, maddie, cece, savannah, paul, john, ari, julie and giovan, samuel and adriana and baby samuel and carlos~

we give thanks to YOU oh  God for the dozens of children's gifts, toothpastes, toothbrushes, tampons, blankets, clothes, towels, sourdough bread,  thousands of pounds of pears and potatoes.  Most of all oh LORD, we thank YOU for laying down your life so that we could live.

Bless our friends, let no weapon formed against them prosper, be magnified oh GOD, let your mercy reign, JESUS name, AMEN.

Please continue to do the work of the LORD,

set free those in bondage

preach the word

feed the hungry

give shelter to the shivering

preach the gospel!

Needs asked for last night:

a microwave

diapers, any sizes

water bill $168

ugo4God schedule this week!

monday:  praying!  lots of requests for provision, healing, deliverance, surrender to JESUS!

tuesday: spaghetti dinner and bible study early tonight 5:30-7:30 please rsvp

wed:  pastor rudy in santa cruz, maddie & cece's winter concert 7pm RVCS

thurs:  raven outreach to families in need, please GO!  5:00 meet at gonzalez home (cold and darker earlier)  cece in another winter concert tonight so we can only go to first neighborhood!

fri:  cece having her girlfriends over for a birthday celebration

sat:  pastor rudy in sacramento

sun:  keep the sabbath!

upcoming:

please pray for streetwise ministry team heading to skidrow and mexico this weekend!

please pray for raven guadalajara to continue to go unto the least of these and pray with families across their city!

please pray for hope for the homeless that they do not grow weary as they share a meal with the homeless in santa rosa this weekend!

please join our family and raven team as we gather in the streets across this city weekly to lift up JESUS and bring the message of the cross to others, feed the hungry and provide clothing for children, that they may find hope as we have in our LORD and SAVIOUR, JESUS!

we know A LOT of families who could use money for rent, pge, food, medicine and diapers and children who would love to have a toy or clothes.  If you are inclined to give during the holiday season, please consider giving directly to a family in need rather than to an organization.  go shopping, leave your gifts at the foot of the cross in our front yard and they will go out immediately.  for monetary gifts we can give you phone numbers and/or places to write checks directly to landlords.  thank you for giving!

we would like to host a gathering together this CHRISTmas season, Anthony's coming to town in a couple weeks, so let's celebrate together, let me know if you want to come!

memories from 2008 thank you everyone!

$895

a family of 5
trusting GOD for a miracle by the 5th
for rent
for something to eat rather than just beans
3 generations living together who we have known for years
if you would like to join us please pray for them
if you are able to give $89.50, ten of us can be part of the miracle
donate button on this blog
or call pastor rudy
707.206.7208
when i think about it, $89.50 is giving up
a night out at chevys or applebees
but giving towards a miracle.
thanks.
if you would like to give anonymously
please send a check/cash payable to:
RAVEN ministries
815 pacific ave
santa rosa ca 95404

ugo4god schedule this week!

monday: please pray for our maddie and mary donaghy as we celebrate who they are in CHRIST and give glory to GOD for them on this day, their birthday!!!

tuesday: bible study 7-8:30 pm w/ pastor rudy

wednesday: 9am making sandwiches at david and zulla's church with naomi, randy and tiffany
10 am homeless outreach with gloria and carmelina

thursday: outreach to families in roseland, kenton court and quail run 5:00 pm, spaghetti then GO!

friday: celebrating maddie's birthday at the lake with yaya and maddie's girlfriends

saturday: keepin the sabbath

sunday: 7pm celebrating Christmas season with ba and grandpa, going to see benny's mom lead the concert at redwood covenant church

please join the raven westcoast team in praise and prayer for:
praise for baby samuel solomon donaghy born to samuel and adriana!
praise for clear ct scan for pastor rudy!
praise for mercy and provision and family gathering all weekend with safe travels and time spent with our son, anthony!

praying this morning for healing for pastor rudy (lungs/chest),
juan jose fruasto (blood clot)
marilyn (stroke)
baby kate (seizures)
mrs donaghy (cancer)
dot chance (continued healing)
melanie bohn (continued healing)
baby anthony (flu or teething, not sure)
big anthony (cold, headache)
dan (continued healing)
nick (continued healing)
jake (continued healing)

praying this morning for the many families who knock on our front door, who come through our home, who we fellowship with on a regular basis across the city in the streets~ may the LORD be magnified, for HE is good!

in JESUS name, AMEN.

maddie's 14!

On this day oh GOD we rejoice!
We give thanks and praise for our daughter Maddie!
We shout with joy for the young lady she is in YOU!
We cry out that YOU would protect her all of her days
and that she would continue to walk in all of your ways!
We love YOU oh GOD and thank YOU for allowing us to
have been given the gift of Maddie as our daughter!
May she find abundant joy this day through YOU on her birthday,
we celebrate YOU oh GOD as we lift her up to YOU!
We love our Maddie so much!
In JESUS name, AMEN!!!!