oosterhouse adventures
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An update of what is happening with the Oosterhouse family at YWAM Chico.TRANSCRIPT
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Oosterhouse
Adventures Youth With A Mission - Chico, California Spring 2014
Our YWAM Chico aquaponics project has been pro-
gressing steadily. Weve got a holding tank installed on the
hill to gravity feed our system with creek water. Dan had to
dig a trench to run a pipe bring-
ing creek water from an existing
pipe along the road, up the hill,
and across the work site to the
tank.
One Friday morning all
the staff, students and volun-
teers gathered in the aquaponics
area for an hour of prayer. We
prayed for further vision for the
fenced in area such as fruit trees
and water purification systems.
We also prayed for finances for
an aquaponics training class for
Dan. Wed like to install a system in another country after we
learn more about how it all works and become more comfort-
able with it. We asked God where we should be focusing for
our first installa-
tion.
Dan has
been getting IBC
containers lined up
to use as fish
tanks. We plan to
build the grow
beds and do the
plumbing this
week. Well need
to use solar power
to run the air and water pumps and currently we know almost
nothing about solar. We are praying for guidance in this area
to find an af-
fordable way to
install solar
panels and
hook them into
the system.
In December our whole fam-
ily helped build an aquaponics
system at the YWAM base in
Creel, Mexico. Some local
Tarahumara Indians are pic-
tured with us. We drove 7,000
miles round trip and enjoyed a
wonderful, and snowy, Christ-
mas in Michigan.
Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord.
Hosanna! Hosanna! Hosanna! We pray that you are experi-
encing the joy of a risen Savior during this Easter season. We
have a hope and peace that nothing else in this world can offer
and our hearts are overflowing with thankfulness for Gods
free gift of salvation.
A lot has happened since our last newsletter and we
thought wed tell the stories with photos. Enjoy the ride!
In January one of our board
members graciously spent a
day clearing and leveling the
land in preparation for us to
start aquaponics here. It was
a blank canvas without water
or electricity.
In February we invited all of
our volunteers over to celebrate
Gods provision. These folks
helped lighten our load and do
some professional projects.
They are from Canada, Minne-
sota, Montana, California and
Utah.
In March Dan went to Mexico
again to help build an aquaponics
system in a Tarahumaran village
near YWAM Creel. He worked
with our YWAM Amarillo
friend, Jimmy, and a team from
Texas.
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In March we hosted 2 Butte Country Reach for the Future confer-
ences. One was a Jr High group and one was Senior High, both
groups had about 350 students! These are powerful retreats for pub-
lic school kids
to heal from
past hurts and
learn about
their destiny
and how to be
a positive in-
fluence on
their genera-
tion.
Stay in Touch
Dan and Robin Oosterhouse
15850 Richardson Springs Rd
Chico, Ca 95973
(530)342-3713
Robin - [email protected]
Dan - [email protected]
On facebook, find our
Oosterhouse Adventures page.
Also find our new blog:
oosterhouseadventures.blogspot.com
Our base is planning to offer
a secondary school in the fall
called the School of Worship.
As a precursor to this school,
we hosted a Worship Seminar
in February that Robin was
able to attend. Our worship
of God is proportionate to our
revelation of who God is.
The youth above (with 4 of our staff) are from a nearby town called
Hamilton City. Its 95% percent Hispanic and has a high rate of
crime, drugs and gangs. Our base hosted a free skate night with hot-
dogs in February to start to build relationships. Every week since
then weve gone there on Friday afternoon and let this group of boys
play soccer at a sports complex. This past week we started doing
short, small groups with the kids and were telling them that they
have a future and a hope. We pray that with Gods help they will
transform their city.
One Saturday in March we
drove up to Mount Lassen to
play in the snow. We took
along a couple of gals that
work in housekeeping with
Robin. One of them is from
Brazil and this was her first
time to see snow. It was a
beautiful and fun day!
In April our family participated in a
fundraiser at a local park called the Walk
for Water. This was to raise money and
awareness of all those around the world
that lack clean, safe water. We walked
over a mile then filled our buckets with
water from the creek and walked back carrying the water just like
many women do in Africa. Wed love to learn more about water pu-
rification so we can bring clean water methods to villages along with
aquaponics.
Caleb helped cut up fire-
wood with some teens and
Josh and Nate have loads
of adventures with friends
around here.
So now you know what weve been up to for the past few months. Dan is planning to attend a 5 day training program in May for aquaponics and in June we are both planning to go to Tijuana, Mexico for a YWAM workshop. God is so faithful, last year was challenging but this year weve really settled into our niche here. Thank you so much for your financial support and prayers. When you support us you also support all of the ministries youve just read about! Please pray for us as we move forward with aquapon-ics. Its exciting but challenging. Please pray for our cur-rent DTS, theyll be going to Brazil for outreach in June. If youd like to contribute towards Dans training, please send a check to YWAM (or us) at the address below. Please leave the memo line blank and put our name on a sticky note on the check. Thanks so much and God bless you!
Love, Dan and Robin, Caleb, Joshua and Nathaniel