State of Emergency

Weld County has declared a state of emergency.

A Denver news channel just showed some destroyed homes down the street from a house we stopped at yesterday.

The tornado was an F2 or F3. (Almost a mile wide.) It hit at 11:52 today. There were hail stones as big as baseballs!

The damage is amazing. It looks like a war zone.

This is the little town that I grew up in and where we are currently staying.

Please pray.
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Tornado in our town!!

We are hearing that some houses have been damaged and destroyed in our town of Windsor.

Please be praying.

We were from driving from Windsor to Fort Collins and at a certain point the hail stones were getting close to 1 inch and I felt that the Lord was telling me to turn around and go home. We did.

When we came back through that exact spot all of the power line poles were snapped, a barn roof was ripped off a silo was caved in, fences and trees were down and tractor implements were strewn about.

We can't get online to get news because we have no power.

Emergency vehicles are all over and I can hear sirens right now. All of the local schools are on lock down.

We are safe and oddly enough, the sun is shining right where we are, but the radio station says that another thunderstorm cell is headed this way.
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Smooth Move! Thanks!

Hello again!

"Thank you" to all of you who were praying for us during our move. Getting from Point A to Point B was smooth and uneventful. We arrived at my folks house just before midnight and were unloaded by the next afternoon.

On Monday we will be moving a smaller portion of our stuff to Point C. (We will be staying with my sister in Ft Collins for the summer while we look for definitive housing.)

Windsor
We have already looked at about 30 houses for sale in our price range in Windsor (a small town with better schools). We will start our hunt in Fort Collins next week.

El Sombrero!?
We found out this week that the house we had hoped to buy on Sombrero street (the 'smokehouse' across the street from Timberline Church) was purchased by someone from Timberline who was intending to 'fix and flip' it. We have been in contact and they are interested in working something out...

Please pray that we find the right place and that our transition will go well.

Fixin' to do some fixin'
We spent Sunday afternoon scraping and painting part of the church which my Dad is the Pastor of. This weekend we will be joining our friends from NINE70 in the mountains to help prepare a Christian youth camp for their summer season (cleaning, repairs, organizing, etc).

Please continue to pray for us.

In addition to a house we will need to find a fuel efficient vehicle so that our frequent trips to Colorado Springs will not break the bank.

Thanks so much for all your support in this new venture!

Blessings.

Dustin
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May Update

"What are you guys up to?"

When I am asked, sometimes I don't even know where to begin! When I'm tuned in, I see a million amazing things God is doing. Like the last half of last week...

Wednesday in L. A.
Wednesday started at 4:30am and ended at midnight! A friend had bought me a plane ticket and asked me to join him for a meeting in Los Angeles. I found out when I got there that the main point of the meeting was for me to share our vision for "Connecting People" with the two guys who developed most of the technical infrastructure for the Saddleback PEACE Plan!

In the discussion that followed they said that they have already had four meetings in which others have shared very similar ideas, but my approach was the most comprehensive and the most coherent. At one point the main IT guy asked, "why haven't you taken this to Google yet?" (He had met with the number 2 guy at Yahoo recently...) What an encouragement!

Thursday blown away!
Jessica and Rebecca spent months practicing for Thursday's Dance Recital. As soon as I figure out how to upload videos to 'youtube' you'll understand why I was blown away. Rebecca moved so gracefully that she looked like a professional! Jessie is made to be an entertainer. I was amazed. God has blessed us with awesome kids!

Friday $URPRI$E
As you all know, we are fundraising for our new work in Ft Collins. One of the common aspects of the miracles we have experienced is that we have continued to move forward in what we felt God was leading us to do, whether we had what we needed or not.

On Friday we got a call from the Pastor we will be working with at Timberline. There is a possibility of a PAID admin position in the College ministry department becoming available and Pr. Reza called Denise to ask her to apply! This would instantly take us to about 60% of our budget... unsolicited… one week before we move! We are excited to see if God will open this door and how He will provide for our financial needs.

Walking by Faith
The word used for "faith" in the New Testament actually expresses "trust 'into' a person." It isn't a simple "give this - take that" transaction, it is a deep confidence in the character of another based on a personal relationship. We have to know God is faithful in order to fully experience His faithfulness. We have. It is amazing!

Please continue to pray for us. We will be moving this weekend and there are still a number of details that need to come together.

God knows our needs before we even ask, but He wants to give us an opportunity to share the provision experience with Him. Don't miss out on walking with God through your daily life!

Dustin

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Awesome day in L.A.

I am getting ready to board a plane back to Denver. I have spent the day in Los Angeles, meeting with some special people about our "connecting people" initiative.

It went so well! I am very encouraged and I will be sharing more about how this will effect us once that becomes more clear.

I got excellent feedback from all involved and I think that this was an important day!

Thanks for praying for us!!
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The 1st of May

May Day! May Day!

In spite of April showers coming in the form of snow, rather than rain... the fearless flowers came up anyway.

Today is the first day of May...
You guessed it.

It is snowing again!
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