Family Reunion

Welcome to Belize my beloved family!

We stand amazed at the goodness of our God, for His leading and continued faithfulness to us. We pray all is going well with you all. These are exciting days we are living in and it is a blessing to know the Holy Spirit is always present to lead and guide us as we remain in loving fellowship with Him.
I flew out to Hawaii on Friday, and am attending the Prayer Strategy conference with the Global Leadership Team for YWAM. This is a new and exciting step for me but I am assured this is the Lord's doing, so that brings a sense of peace and confidence. Please be praying for me that the word of the Lord will be clear to me and that I would be granted boldness to speak when I should. I will be rooming with our director for the Caribbean so I am looking forward to special times of fellowship and for what God wants to do in our region and globally in our mission. Please visit www.ywam.org for daily reports of our meetings in Kona.
Thank you all for your prayers for our family in this time. We appreciate each one of you and thank God for your friendship.
With Love,
Jason & Sara

SURGERY on my baby?!

Thank you SO much for your prayers for Keilah and all of us the past day or so. We all HONESTLY felt your prayer covering in this really challenging situation. Keilah is home now recovering from the minor surgery performed at a Seventh Day Adventist hospital about 30 minutes from our house.

Friday night the Pediatrician met us there and confirmed our suspicions of appendicitis. By 9:00pm we were in our scrubs in the surgical room with one of the best surgeons in the country beginning the procedure. (For "some reason" he was the one they called that night!) Keilah was asleep for the entire procedure and doesn't remember a thing. God's hand was evident for the 45 minutes as I physically felt the "peace that passes all understanding" and was almost able to smile while I watched the doctors perform the meticulous maneuvers on Keilah.

We were informed that patients who undergo surgery are normally monitored for 48 hours after the surgery. Keilah and I (and many of you) prayed that we would be released early and recover in the comfort of our own home. Only 12 hours after the surgery the doctor examined Keilah and asked if she would like to go home immediately! We were overjoyed and thankful beyond belief for God's merciful hand on the entire event. Thank you to friends and family who dropped by the hospital with words of encouragement and gifts of love, emails and phone calls that poured in confirmed the love of God to us. We appreciate what all of you have done to help us through this.

We ask that you would continue to pray for Keilah as she recovers and tries to take it easy for the next few days! We also ask that you pray with us for the unexpected costs of this surgery. The total cost for the procedure was over $2600 and if you are able to help please click the donate button to the right with PayPal or send gifts of any amount to:

YWAM Accounting Dept.
Box 3000
Garden Valley, TX 75771
* Please make checks payable to "Youth with a Mission" and enclose a note specifying for "Jason & Sara Andrews"

Thank you again so much. Friends like you all make terribly difficult times easier to walk through. We love you all and thank God for each of you.

Love,
The Andrews and Gramma Sally!

Helping Clear the Land

Here's a quick update to keep you in the loop. Things are going well down here in Belize and we continue to seek God for His purposes as a family and for our nation. Thank you so much for your friendship, we are always so excited to share of God's faithfulness to us and to Belize.

HAWAII On August 29th I will travel to Hawaii to attend the YWAM Prayer and Strategy Conference in Kona. This is a very exciting opportunity and I are honored by the invitation to represent the Caribbean alongside our regional director Bill Landis. Spending time with him and other YWAM leaders is always a joy, and I am especially eager to sit before the Lord with these leaders and ask for God's vision and heart as we plan and strategize for the future of YWAM internationally.
Please continue to pray for this trip and our family, as the Lord leads you. We are still in need of some finances to cover the hotel and food expenses for this trip and ask if you would join your faith with ours in this time. Sara and the children will stay in Belize and welcome her mom who arrives the day I leave.

GEORGETOWN Jason is in Georgetown this week, with the DTS on a local outreach/lecture phase week. (Georgetown is a small Garifuna village in southern Belize). The guest speaker, Larry Allen from the School of the Bible in Tyler, Texas is sharing with our students AND some young people from Georgetown, whom we know through Legacy. It's a beautiful moment of time with the blend of cultures coming together at the feet of Jesus to learn of the Fathers love. The group will return to YWAM on Friday.

UNIVERSITY On Monday morning Jason went to the University of Belize to register for his first semester of "official" classes. He is enrolled part time, and we thank God for the opportunity to "get a foot in the door" at that institution, even as the new YWAM Belmopan campus is taking shape. Our heart continues to grow in passion and vision for the UB students as we recognize the future leaders of this nation are currently being educated at this school. The cover of the orientation packet, handed to me Monday morning, confirmed these exact thoughts, it reads: "Poised for New Horizons: Empowering Tomorrow's Leaders".

Thank you so much for your prayers for our family in this time. Again we love you all and pray that you are blessed and encouraged by what the Lord is doing among us. We look forward to hearing what the Lord is doing in YOUR life, as together we seek to make His love known on the earth.

Blessings and love,
The Andrews

Prophetic Arts during Worship at Legacy