A Day in the Life of a YWAM Kona Crossroady

Several of you have asked us to do a "day in the life" kind of blog post.  I know I love to hear what a "normal" day looks like when I have friends doing different things, so I thought I'd oblige and write up what our typical day looks like.  So, here we go!
Our day starts early.  Jay and I get up at about 5:30 am so we can have some quiet time or exercise before the kids need to get up and breakfast arrives at our doorstep.  Oh, no wait...that's a dream.  We DO get up at 5:30ish, but we head down to breakfast at about 6:45-7am, no delivery.  All the meals are served cafeteria style and breakfast is the same each day--oatmeal, two other cereal choices (one is NOT Cocoa Krispies, in case you were wondering!), fruit, yogurt, granola, and hard boiled eggs.  Peanut butter and jelly are always available at each meal in case one has a problem with the food choices.  Nice touch if you ask me.

We eat all of our meals in this lovely open air
area.  We enjoy sitting with different people who are from all different cultures and classes.  Some are still learning English and it is fun helping them with some of our words and phrases.  One of the funniest times I've had so far was with a lovely young Mexican woman named Ana.  She is in our Crossroads DTS and I was walking by her one afternoon after lunch.  Her plate looked a bit uneaten and I asked her about it.  "Ana," I said. "Why haven't you eaten your lunch?  It's Mexican food!"  (We had enjoyed taco salad.)  She looked at me very surprised and said, "THIS is Mexican food?!"  Welcome to America, Ana! :)
After breakfast we all go to school...adults and kids.  Monday mornings are corporate worship at 8am, so everyone worships together before we all head our separate ways.  It's probably one of my favorite times!  The kids head to Foundations school and we head to our classroom.

We enjoy amazing teaching and discussion for the day with lunch in between.  Lunch is actually what we would call dinner...a bit heartier than our lunch fare.  We've had some good food, but for Jay and Luke it's usually not quite enough.  Hence the pb and j option.  Since Jay and peanut butter are not fond of each other, he just suffers quietly.  There's always dinner!  Dinner is lighter, kind of our lunch.  Sandwiches, soup, leftovers, that kind of stuff.  Whatever is good with me!  I'm not cooking it!  Hallelujah! :)

After classes, at about 3pm, kids are done and we head home to work on homey stuff (laundry, cleaning, whatever need to be done) and homework.  Jay heads to his work duty of washing and driving the vans to and from Walmart and Target.  He gets to work with some other Crossroaders, so it's been pretty fun for him.  The rest of our weekdays are spent working on our journals (all of us) and spending time building relationships with people around us.  We go to bed pretty early since the morning comes pretty quickly.  Weekends are free for exploring (mostly on foot) and resting/studying.  We've been to the beach a few times and have enjoyed trips to Kona downtown which is right on the beach.  Sunsets are amazing!
We are very busy with school and meetings and such, but we think of you and pray for you often!  Your prayers for us are so necessary as we move ahead with classes on our way to our outreach in Papua New Guinea.  We are still fundraising for that, so please remind God of that on our behalf, okay? :)  May God give you the desires of your heart as you walk closely with Him!

Our humble abode!

Here are some pictures we've taken of our time here.  Enjoy!

One specifically for Diana Mitchell!  Read the license plate! :)

Sea turtle on a black sand beach we found.  There we three turtles just laying around on the beach for us to see!

Aloha to all of you!  We love and miss you, but know God is doing His good work in our lives as well as yours!  Blessings on your week!
Love, The Timms

The Outreach Guess Winner!

I will post more later, but I wanted to get this out so people would know where we're headed for outreach..  We had to choose between Cambodia and Papua New Guinea.  We prayed as a family and came up with.....
PNG!  Woo Hoo!  Congratulations, Mari Anne Moyer!  You are the big winner!  Great job!  NO ONE guessed Cambodia, so that just shows how much of a God thing that was, right? :)
Our next post will be a "Day in the Life" kind of thing with pictures!  Stay tuned...Blessings and Aloha...

We're Here!

Thank you so  much for your patience as we acclimate ourselves into our new home!  We arrived safely Thursday late afternoon, registered, had a scare with Jesse as he was in the ER with some stomach thing (He's all better now!), got settled in our room, and had a wonderful taco salad dinner.  Each day so far has been filled to the brim!  We are busy with classes, with new friends, with walks to WalMart (woo hoo!), and with learning the rhythm of a new, beautiful place.
What has been the best thing so far, you ask?  Hmmm....that's a tough one.  The corporate worship times have been amazing as we sense God's presence moving throughout all the open hearts.  Meeting the oldest YWAM-er, Loren Cunningham's 98 year old mother-in-law, was a special treat.  Hearing a story (one of many)  from Loren of God's work and provision in his life was very encouraging.  Our Crossroads classes are getting more fun as we move from "what to expect" kinds of things to the "real" stuff.  Thursday and Friday we'll have our first speaker, Andy Byrd, who is a young, passionate man after God's heart.  We're excited and expectant!  The Easter Sonrise service, which was presented by the Kona Minister's Fellowship was the best one I've ever been to.  How can you go wrong with Jesus, hula dancers, super worship in song, a funny children's (keiki) message, and a moving big people's message?  I'm so thankful for all the experiences so far and can't wait to watch this whole adventure unfold...one step at a time.
Thank you to all who helped us get here in so many different ways!  Thank you, also, for those who prayed, stayed, and housed Jesse while he was in and out of the hospital and recuperating.  You all were Jesus' hands and feet!  Bless you!
Here are few pictures for you to gaze upon.  More coming later....   Aloha, our friends!

                                              Shaka!  Aren't they just the little Hawaiians?

                                           The view from our open air classroom....pray for the ability to concentrate!

                                        Our first beach day!  The water was pretty cool...as well as the swimmer! :)

                                        Plaza of the Nations where we met to start our time here.