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 - oostfam@gmail.com

Dan - drcj13@gmail.com

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