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I’m back in New Zealand (and new Address for Donations)

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Well, I left wintery Canada a couple days ago and arrived back into New Zealand after 2 months of travel around Turkey and Canada. I was overjoyed as New Zealand’s mild summer weather and fresh air breeze greeted me as I stepped out of the airport in Auckland, and headed down to Tauranga. Ah, I love this land. I will miss it when my time to leave comes… I will be writing a more detailed update in the near future (most likely in February/March) which will share what is around the corner, on the horizon. So stay tuned for that. Until then, here’s some information about some address changes for donations you send to me.

New Mailing Address for Financial Donations:

For those of you who are a part of my Financial Partnership team (or for those of you who would like to become a partner), please take note of the changed postal mailing address for the Project Funding office for YWAM that processes tax-deductible donations for me. This really only impacts you if you decide to mail in donations (ie: cheques, money orders). You can email the funding office (email below) if you want to ask about other options for payments or visit my website Support page to see step-by-step instructions.

Project Funding Office
PO Box 57100 RPO East Hastings
Vancouver, BC
V5K 5G6
Canada

Phone: 604.436.4433
Fax: 604.436.4466
E-mail: admin@projectfunding.ca

If you need to email the Project Funding office that processes all my ministry financial support, here is their new email address: admin@projectfunding.ca

Feel free to email me at hopejoyfaith@gmail.com if you would like to personally ask me any further questions. I’ll be more than happy to help answer your questions.

God bless you and hope 2012 is treating you well so far!

Alison

[Update] The Season of Singing

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A ROOM WITH A VIEW
I’m writing this in my new room! I’ve just moved into a Kiwi family’s home here, friends of mine whom I know through the House of Prayer. It’s a new season for me! I have inherited a lovely view from the second floor of this home. My full-wall length window overlooks a beautiful lush, green valley. God is good. Already my room feels like a refuge for God and Ali to chill out in. He can come into my room, kick up His feet and enjoy the view with me :)

I also have my very first desk in my bedroom (in my 5 years in New Zealand)! What a treat! I can write updates and compute from a desk, not a dining room table or a lap! I also have a full (huge) kitchen from which I can try out some new recipes. I’ve decided that I will be Intercessory Missionary by day, and Baking Extraordinaire Ninja by night :) We’ll see how this secondary calling goes!

THE SEASON OF SINGING
So all of you know that I minister in full-time prayer and worship in a community called the Tauranga House of Prayer linked with YWAM New Zealand. Most of the first 6 months of my time back in NZ (Sept 2010 to Feb 2011) were more about serving the House of Prayer in the background to keep the prayer room going daily.

Well, the season of being hidden is long since past, and the past couple months in 2011 have become a season of throwing Ali into the deep end of the vast ocean of mega doses of singing and speaking! They say, “When it rains, it pours” and that is certainly the case now. I’m singing on worship teams 5 days a week, 2 hours a day, in the prayer room (where we have a full worship team with singers and musicians that help to lead the prayer meetings). So, let’s just say that I can’t just go run and hide in the back corner of the prayer room and conduct my “prayer-meeting-for-one” anymore! Continue reading →

[Update] Speaking to the Around the World DTS on “The Cross”

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I’m writing from my home in Tauranga once again. I had the smoothest flight back from Christchurch to Tauranga last Friday night, only to find out upon my arrival, that Japan had been hit by a huge earthquake and tsunami around the time I was flying. So surreal, how we can have smooth sailing on one side of the planet, and then on another side, the whole world is getting rocked. We’re living in an intense season of history.

The view of the Southern Alps from the plane

Many of you wanted to hear how the whole week went at the YWAM Oxford base with the Around the World DTS school. So here’s a little recap! Continue reading →

[Update] Christchurch Earthquake Update

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Cathedral Before and After Earthquake

To my concerned friends and family,

Yesterday, Tuesday 22nd February 2011, at 12:51pm, Christchurch was hit with a 6.3 magnitude earthquake. The epicentre was just 10km south of the city in the town of Lyttelton, and was only 5km in depth, so it was shallower and felt with much more severity on the surface.

Many of you have contacted me to ask how we are doing. Continue reading →

[Update] Shaken up in snowy Oxford, New Zealand

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Hello from snowy, shaky Oxford, South Island of New Zealand!

To all of you who may be concerned… we are all fine in our neck o’ the woods, here in smalltown rural Oxford area. I drove down from the North Island a couple days ago, was greeted by a huge snowfall yesterday, and then earlier this morning around 4:30am, awoke to the house shaking like a rollercoaster! At first I thought that a transport truck was crashing into the house, then I wondered if it was a big storm, then it dawned on me that it was an earthquake. Continue reading →