What's going on in LA

We spent the last couple of months visiting home...healing, working and spending time with family and friends.
We are now up in the office, back in the heat of things. Literally.

Here's what's coming up for our department:
GO Camp-Ventura July 5-13

NIKO's end of July, end of Aug

SOUTH AFRICA
Aug 4- 19th

Our new projects....
Human Trafficking/Injustice
Begining a new project, using art from here and there, making change, learning from them, looking for truth in the midst of hurt, bringing beauty, funds, education and awareness.

Coffee Shop/New building....
Clint has signed on as a new contractor for the base. He'll be helping with finishing up the coffee shop and begining the work for the new building.

Thanks for being a part of our lives. We are excited to be here, starting new things, as well as retouching some of the old.
Come visit anytime....

Dance from MOSAIC church

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=1884592630

dancing on the street

http://www.vimeo.com/clip:141569

worth a thousand words

these are from our weekend at a youth retreat speaking and teambuilding in Big Bear. What a cool group of youth.

Finally an update...

Peter’s Post: March 07

Hello! A long awaited update is finally here!

We are so grateful to everyone who has been supporting us and praying for us during our stay here in LA. Over the past couple of months we have had amazing opportunities to speak and challenge almost 600 youth and adults from 5 nations. From NIKO’s to speaking at pastor’s conferences, we have been amazed at how God is choosing to use us to challenge the church to rise up in missions. We want to share with you a few stories of how God is moving and encourage you that you are a part of what is happening here in LA and in the rest of the world.

NIKO: Outdoor Adventure designed to empower, train, and disciple youth

15 exhausted dirty and smelly students returned from the wilderness. After a warm shower, the group came for dinner. Stories of their hikes, the blisters on their feet, the rain soaking their sleeping bags, and what God taught them, filled the air. This DTS returned from a few nights in the wilderness with an understanding of what to expect on outreach, and amazed at the strength they found in God. Clint is now leaving for another adventure like this in Mexico, and loves leading NIKO’s because God is always faithful in how he helps the students overcome, learn to lead, and live without the comforts for a few days.

MISSIONS: Speaking & encouraging churches to do missions around the world

Two weekends ago we drove up to the mountains and spoke and led team building for a Phillipino church retreat. We spoke for 3 hours on Phil 2:5-14 about having the attitude of Christ. It was a great time sharing how we can become like Christ and serve one another, and then follow that with teambuilding.

The next day we were at the biggest Korean church in North America speaking on missions to 400 4^th, 5^th & 6^th graders. It was a fun experience sharing the trips we’ve been on and then sharing how God would want them to be involved. We will continue to partner with them in local outreaches and help connect them to supporting kids with AIDS in S. Africa.

Last weekend we spoke at a missions conference for Pastors from LA. We shared how to get youth involved in missions, spiritual capacity of children and family in ministry.

This upcoming weekend Nicole is leading a Urban youth workers forum in how to deal with issues that youth face today. Clint will be leading a NIKO in Mexico. Please pray for us as we continue to have many opportunities to share with the church about missions. We feel honored to be able to speak into so many lives and see churches really excited about missions and serving Christ in the nations.

Thank you so much for your prayers and support. We really could not do any of these things without you. Please know that through your support Christ is reaching the nations!

Blesssings,

Clint & Nicole Peters

Bigfoot and the Tree lot...

HI,
today was the 1st episode of this year's tree lot experience. We sell Christmas trees to make some money for the base so this morning at 7:30 we hauled around 1000 trees into the lot.
Clint & I wore our sod shirts (for advertisement purposes of course) and we matched. Christmas is almost here. Dublin was sad he couldn't come. Also sad he doesn't have a shirt.

Washington

2 weekends ago we went to Seattle for a King's Kids conference. It was a good time of refreshing and getting more knowledge of the program. We also got to see some family.

Coach Peters

Clint is coaching Varsity b-ball...Here's some pictures from the alumni game. The boys lost by one and Adah wanted to play with them.

It's a small world after all

This week our family the Smaill's came to visit. We had so much fun dancing, singing, drinking coffee, seeing the beach, not liking the waves, relaxing, building a floor, cooking a turkey and just enjoying being with family.
We hope after seeing the smog and the traffic they'll want to move here and never leave. Wishful thinking.
Here's some pics of the time.

when grandma turned 80...

One day, eighty years ago, a young woman entered the world. Her name: Florence Mae Zurcher-Carlson-Zang. Her legacy: the crazy people in the photos below. This is a one of a kind family.

Upcoming adventures.

I thought a little update would do us all some good...even us...to understand and grasp what is coming in the remaining part of 2006. We want to make the most of every opportunity and live for things eternal. We are "booked" for the next few weekends, and am soooo excited to have some incredible visitors coming to visit.
Upcoming...
Grandma's 80th- whoo hoo! My beloved G-ma is turning 80, and so of course we are throwing a celebration. My family is famous for throwing a good bash. We love dressing up, and so it's a decade party. Clint and I are going as the 40's or cowfolk. My parents, the creative ones, are going as babies. How funny is that! Congrats G-ma, you have lived an incredible life and influenced so many.
Then the beginning of Nov we head up to the WA for a King's Kids conference. We will probably be the youngest there...but it will be a good chance to connect with others with the same heart. ALSO big bonus is getting to visit - a much needed visit- some of my family. Clint has never even met one whole family on my dad's side. And we love seattle. It will be our first time there as a married couple...and I think it's a pretty romantic city. And it smells like rain.
Once we get home, Mark, Renee and Adah are coming for a visit. We are excited. By then we will be moved into our new home. Trailer 7. We will all fit. Praise the Lord. We will get to explore Hollywood, LA, Santa Monica, Pasadena and watch Adah be cute, loveable and adorable.
Then we will have 2 more visitors- one who came last year and a new friend. They will come to have fun with us, rest and renew at YWAM, and experience our ministry here.

I'm sure in between all of these things we will be busy with YWAM, basketball games-watching Clint coach!!! and being married and in love.
We are getting ready for spring break. I know it is far away- but we have a few teams coming and our weeks are filling up. We will take them on NIKO's, to Catalina and LA for a week to know more about GOD and themselves, to serve and to experience and be changed.

This is an incredibly long post- but I feel better and can let all of this go, and know that God has a big plan and is in control. PS- if you have itunes you should check out mosaic/erwin mcmanus. His last series has opened up my heart and head to some of "life's toughest questions" and it is amazing.

Dublin joins the family

Here is our new doggie Dublin. We rescued him from the streets of scary LA and now he's a Christian! He likes us and we love him a lot. Come and visit anytime!

Mr. Chandler Bing

This is the dog that we thought was going to be ours. Now he is adopted, living with an incredible family....and it's not us. boo. we loved him a lot.

Memories of Clear Lake

home sweet home...

We are home! new couch, new window thingy and a lot of love. Friday nights staying at home, cleaning and moving furniture and sighing when its over, sinking into our couch....LOVE is grand.

pics from Africa

Africa

Africa. Dirty. Kind. Powerful, powerless. Beautiful. Challenging. Encouraging. Comfortable. Cold. There's a lot of words I could use to describe our experience...it's just that none seem to fully capture the two weeks we spent there, the faces we kissed, the hands we held, the lives we touched and the lives that impacted ours. The pictures bring back incredible memories.
I think that we learned a lot on this trip-
we can't change the world. we can pray. we can educate ourselves. we can tell others. we can believe for a difference.
africans are amazing. faced with hardship, death, struggle...they offer joy. they continue on-through it-with amazing faith and trust and belief that GOD exists, and that there will come a day...
people's relationshipl with god is not formed through others. you cannot create a personal relationship with GOD for someone else.
africa becomes a part of you-it stays with you when you leave.
So- we loved africa. here's some pics of our time there-our team and the friends we made.

Almost time to come home

Hello everyone!!!
This is a link to one of the ministries that we will be visiting this next week. http://www.beautifulgate.org/ We are taking a team of 10 youth to this ministry for one week and then serving a local church for the second week.
We have had an amazing time in Europe this summer and are serving in any way possible to the bases out here. We served YWAM Italy with maintanance-chopping down trees, and cleaning up the base. It was like a 3rd world country down in Sicily. We also led a GO Camp for youth in Italy, teaching them on the bible, relationships, and teaching dances. We served with an outreach in Paris, and saw the dances Nic taught in Swit. being performed on the streets. Each night the team went to a different location of the city and did a program including testimony, dance and music. They handed out thousands of bibles as well. In every country we have been to we have seen God at work in the lives of his people. We have been so encouraged and our eyes have been opened to the needs of these countries. In all the countries we have visited the rate of christianity has been less than 2%
Now we are on our last leg of the trip, heading to S. Africa to serve in a community affected by HIV/AIDS. We are looking forward to coming home and sharing with everyone all we have seen and experienced this summer.
Blessings, Clint & Nic