Come ride powder with us in Mammoth this season!! If you apply for MLSSM Ministry School between now and September 20th, you'll receive your choice of a $100. discount on your tuition, or a single day lift ticket for Mammoth Mountain. Spread the word and come join us!!
It was amazing to have Danny Silk (http://lovingonpurpose.com and Bethel Church Redding Sr. Staff) share at our school this year!! Such good talks on leadership, managing your life---or it will manage you, and other great stuff!
His new book: Keep Your Love On (KYLO) is blowing up and people are getting really rocked and inspired. Check it out here.
Here's a picture from when he came to visit!!
The LAAX Lighthouse recently hosted a croquet tournament which just so happened to be filled with folks who've previously graduated from our Ministry School, as well as one applicant for this upcoming school year! Also, there were a few leaders from Lighthouses in Europe, which is a pretty decent crew.
Melissa, Zach - Mammoth Lighthouse, California
Dave, Poudy, Willy, Tim, Bene - Laax Lighthouse / Chur Crew / Zurich Crew, Switzerland
Bjorn + Debbie, Saas Fee Lighthouse, Switzerland
Matthew Thomas and his sister Lauren have been hanging with us the last few days and sharing ideas and answers to some of the biggest topics in Christian faith and theology!! From humility and pride, to the early church fathers and their understanding of the Old Testament, to the Rapture and discussion of end times, to C.S. Lewis's Mere Christianity.
Matt and Lauren are from San Leandro, California. Matt has been working on his master's degree at Regent College in Vancouver, B.C. for the last few years, and he's been accepted into a doctoral program at Oxford University in England, beginning this fall. So we are mighty stoked to snag a couple days with him, before he heads across the Atlantic for the next 3 years!!
And happy birthday Lauren!!
It was amazing to go from visiting/playing in a kindergarten class with the 5 year olds, to driving into the lower east side of Vancouver and spending some time with the community at Jacob's Well. We had some incredible opportunities to connect with and serve the folks down there including working in their gardens. We setup tomato plant supports, churned up the soil, planted corn, and planted watermelon. Such an amazing day. Then we popped by La Casa Gelato for a scoop of ice cream---no big deal, just 218 flavours to choose from:)
Felicia with Kindergarten Children
Tim + Natalie at Jacob's Well Garden
The Crew at the Garden
Gelato festival at La Casa Gelato
photo credz: felicia prado
Here's a couple pics from our 1x class's trip to Vancouver Island to speak + minister + hangout at Camp Bob on Robert's Lake. This place is definitely paradise on earth! It was amazing to connect with our family up in Canada (Graeme + Ross + Maddy + Chris Harder + more).
view from the deck overlooking Roberts Lake
Jeff + Graeme Ellis
Felicia + Rachel + Maddy + Ross @ Dick's Fish n Chips
Jeff + Jamie + Nat + Graeme + Harder @ Dick's Fish n Chips
After the most epic and snowy Easter Egg Hunt in the Val d'Isere community playground---all the children (and their parents) marched down the street to the VSpot bar, which kindly opened their doors for the kids party and part 2 of the Easter Fun Day.
Our MLSSM team (under the direction of Tanja Perch) set up 5 different stations for the kids to do different Easter activities including: facepainting, basket-making, egg-coloring, decorating cookies, and play-doh!! The parents loved the party and it was without a doubt the biggest children's event of the year for Val d'Isere.
We love Zurich !!
Zurich loved us so well!! We enjoyed hanging with the crew at the 331 community!! BBQ,worship, classy tour around the city and wonderful new friends!!
Hanging out with Vince and Jenn !! Their babies are so incredible and beautiful .. This group of families are so powerful and moving in organic faith!! Crazy people doing crazy things!! We love them!!!!
After several days of travel, delays, and miracles---we finally ended up in Geneva Switzerland. From there, Andreas Perch of the Val d'Isere Lighthouse picked us up and drove us straight to Val d'Isere France. Tanja and Andreas had planned and promoted a children's Easter Fun Day for the community. This type thing does not exist in their community, so they felt like it would be an amazing way to connect people and serve the families.
Our team--straight off the plane, filled the 500 eggs (we had brought from the USA) with all kinds of goodies and hid them in the snow and trees around the kids playground in the center of town. Then they gathered all the kids and set them loose on an epic Easter Egg hunt. It was amazing. We even had a dog find an egg that had been burried in the snow.
Some of the children and parents arrived a bit late, so we hid another round of eggs in a different section of the park and all these children were able to join in the fun!!
Such am amazing time of worship, sharing and prayer with the Val dIsere Lighthouse crew!! Justin rocked it and the rest of the team shared testimonies and encouraging words with everyone!!
Amy [1st yr student from Chicago] decided there was a better way to get to the gate!!
Pray big for Tania and Andreas in Val d'isere France!! We are praying for community to come and partner with them and build lighthouse community here!!
After several hours of weather delays in LA, we ended up missing our flight from New York to Geneva... and had to stay up all night riding the Subway into Times Square!!
Plus the best Italian sausage I've ever had!!
Up up and away
The cars are packed and we're ready to go!! Game on
Getting crazy with Danny and his team: "Boundaries communicate values"--- learning to define what we value, and to require respect!! [including a sidebar on how to love Charlie Sheen and Al Qaeda]
Love these guys!
check em out: lovingonpurpose.com
We had a little pit stop just below Dave's Wave on the back of Mammoth Mountain today---to snap a photo... just before trekking to Hole in the Wall. Pictures from Hole in the Wall coming soon! If you haven't seen the wave in person---you gotta check it out after fresh powder has fallen:)
Jamie + Natalie (MLSSM School Directors), Bene (1st Yr student from Switzerland), Ali Phillips (2010-2011 MLSSM Staff Extradornaire).
