tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-370678422009-06-09T10:21:23.917-06:00This is a place to find out what's taking place with us. We hope to give you a picture of God's faithfulness, as you read and enter into a bit of our lives.Michael & Lesahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00205034640224322629michael.lesa@gmail.comBlogger26125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37067842.post-86667550387130639592009-04-22T11:52:00.004-06:002009-04-24T17:23:38.507-06:00

Around the world In January we began our winter quarter and welcomed over 55 students combined for 2 schools. One school was the Boarders DTS and the other a WISE School.After 3 months of lecture we sent 3 teams into the world to share the hope and love of Jesus with the people of Thailand, Mexico and Panama. They are currently in week 4 of the 7 week outreach and God has been using them to

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Well it has been a year now since God provided a buyer for our home in Georgia and we started on our journey back to Denver and YWAM. Over this past year, we have once again experienced His faithfulness in every aspect of our lives. Though we are still in need of a house and space of our own (which we continue to trust and ask God for) we have seen God provide for all of our needs and look

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Hello to you all,Well it has been a few weeks now and I am finally getting back to the musings! We are back in Denver and hit the ground running pretty hard. We are trying to catch up on things and get a few new things started so our days are full.Things are going well and God is bringing more healing into our hearts since the loss of Lesa's mom. It has been just over a month now but it still

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This is our last night together as a team in Hawaii, so we decided to hang out for dinner. The place was Kona Brewery and the menu for the night; pizza. After dinner we enjoyed a walk back to our housing along the sea line.We have had a wonderful time of learning and look forward to how God will use our professional training in the future to help others, as well as work in areas we have yet to

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These picture were snapped during an afternoon workout with one of the YWAM leadership conferences which we assisted in training. We as a team worked alongside of Coach Tim in leading the participants in a short workout and understand mechanics. The calisthenics strength and elasticity workout has been a big portion of our training and is great for the individual as well as group fitness. If

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Hello everyone,Well, part of our training here in Hawaii consist of Sports Adventure Days where we take time to go on an outing of some type and do physical activities in order to learn techniques for group training. Today we drove about 1/2 hour away to kayak and snorkel as a group, while working on the premise of setting up outings with groups while concentrating on safety and how we would

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Yesterday, we had the opportunity to spend most of the afternoon with some really good friends. They had been here for some of the conferences which had been running in conjunction with our school so we met up with them for an afternoon at one of the little beaches close by. They took care of boogie boards so he and I could hit some waves and in essence have the waves hit us back.We don't have

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The incredible thing about training in Physical Fitness, is the fact that so many things constitute exercise. You can increase your workout mowing your lawn by walking faster or with some sort of a power walk, raking yards is great for burning off calories and toning your obliques (love handles as they tend to be called) and then in Hawaii you have the classic snorkeling. That's right, this

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Well after a good night rests Tuesday night, we spent yesterday relaxing and getting to see a bit of the area of Kona we are in. Lesa and I walked several miles to Safeway(grocery store) and the natural food store in the area to explore the prices of food and get a few things we were in need of. After getting back and resting in the afternoon, I (Michael) joined Tim (Coach) as well as another

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Well if you have been following our newsletters and updates, you know we are scheduled to be in Hawaii for the month of September. Our travels bring us here for continued eduction in the field of Physical Fitness. We are attending 100 hours of training, to obtain certification as Physical Fitness Instructors and upon completion of this course will have several different certifications available

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As we walk through our lives, we here so much about death and yet most of what we hear has a negative ring to it. Point being, without a proper perspective on life and how we should be living, it's hard to see death in any other way besides negative. Though death was not the way God had planned in the beginning, we must suffer it now due to the sin of man which separated us from real life in the

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Though this is a life Lesa and I have chosen to live and we feel we are being obedient to what God has been asking us sometimes the days are still hard. Jesus never told us it would always be easy, in fact He said we would never be given more than we could handle. This essentially says we will go through the hard stuff but it will not be too much to walk as long as we walk with Him. This being

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Hey everyone. I just wanted to update those of you who read our page on the house situation. We are still looking at and praying for the house we checked out about 2 Mondays ago where we would be able to stay for 11 months. It would be temporary, however we would have some room of our own and breathing room giving us time to settle and discover what God is wanting us to do for the future. The

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For those who read this and are married you will understand the need for space of your own; not away from your spouse necessarily, but away from everyone else so you have alone time. Also if you read this as a single person you may need space away from roommates our whom ever. This is the place where we find ourselves these days and we have been praying for several months for God's provision.

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Well spring has sprung and the snow is gone (as for right now at least). We actually had some falling 2 days ago after having had 82 degrees the day before. Anyway welcome to Colorado weather. We are really enjoying being back in what we both consider home. We live and work within a ten mile drive to Downtown Denver and about 20 mins into the hills. We love the sunshine which brightens our

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As we travel on, the journey continues! Having been back in Denver for about a month now, we are still acclimating to community life and adjusting to living in someone's basement and not our own place. There is an excitement in our hearts and we are expectant of the things God wants to do in our lives as we continue to follow in HIs steps.We will try to keep this updated for the purpose of

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Well if you are actually reading this, you have probably been following our steps in the sell of the house and move back to Colorado. As of Wednesday of this week, we closed on the house in Georgia and are now back in Arvada (which is indeed home for us).We spent several days in Estes Park with all the staff and this was a great retreat for Lesa and Me. As we sat in our meeting room, we could

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Stand still and see what I will do! Many months back, we felt God sharing these words with us and just about a month ago Lesa and I found ourselves asking once again for what we saw as a miracle. After having lost the sell of our home at the end of January, I asked God one day to provide a buyer within the next three weeks. People had shared with us, from the very beginning of putting a for

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Grace and Peace to you! These are the words which Paul, the writer in the New Testament so often started or concluded his messages. Grace and Peace?This morning, I heard a definition of this word grace which seems to convey the heart of God best (in my opinion); absolutely free expression of the love of God; finding its only motive, in the bounty and benevolence of God.This is good right? We

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Give thanks to the Lord, for He is good; His love endures forever. Let the redeemed of the Lord say this- those He redeemed from the hand of the foe, those He gathered from the lands, from the east and west, from north and south. Some wandered in desert wastelands, finding no way to a city where they could settle. They were hungry and thirsty, and their lives ebbed away. Then they cried out to

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As we sit here on January 30, 2008 we are fighting many feelings. We are having to fight against the feelings of anger towards the situation we now find ourselves in. Just last week at this time, we were finalizing the date of closing for our home and less than 48 hours later the buyer reneged on the contract. We were shocked and overwhelmed with the fact he has done this and it was not until

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Since returning from Denver back in late December, we have spoken with many of you concerning the shooting which took place at the YWAM Denver base where we had spent many years and are now preparing to return to. After getting to Dublin where we currently live, we realized hardly anyone seemed to even know the shooting took place. This being the case, we wanted to post the press release which

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Well hello once again. If you are reading this, you know we have been in much transition over the last several months; really the transition has been for a few years but who's counting.Anyway with this current transition, we are waiting for a closing date to come in from the lawyer. We have been in contact with him, as well as the buyer and everything is being sent where it needs to go, but now

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Here we are in 2008! Can you even believe how time seems to fly? Another year also brings many changes for us as we have said in the past muse and as of now we are in the middle of getting things together for the change.As we look outside from our windows, we see dead grass and dying flowers; yet in the back of our minds we know it's only a matter of months when spring will come and life

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As many of you know, the last many months have brought many changes in the McCant household. Since the middle of the summer having felt we were to start preparing for some new directions, we have gone through many different adjustments. After feeling we needed to simplify and start to prepare for the next step God would have us walk in, Lesa and I started seeking God on what this may look like.

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