Earth Day!

Earth Day was a pretty good success. For those of you following let me fill you in. At Lake Eola here in Orlando FL my friend and I (Elise Dressler) set up a booth to sell our recycled/re-used handmade crafts to raise money for our journey to Youth With A Mission in Lakeside, Montana. Youth With A Mission is a not-for-profit organization that does domestic and foreign aide work (all over the planet...woot!) Elise is joining this organization to do a Discipleship Training School that will cost her nearly $6,000.00 This upcoming September (2010)!! A Discipleship Training School (DTS) is a 6 month program that allow 3 months in Montana to learn about yourself, your gifts and talents and how they can be used around the world to save lives, and end social injustices all for the sake of Love. The last three months she will travel abroad and live overseas to put this into practice. I attended a DTS in January of 2006 and it changed my life forever. It ruined my old life, tore it apart, and gave me something new, something real. I am so excited for her to have this opportunity, but she can't do it without your prayer and financial support. All workers for Youth With A Mission (YWAM) are volunteers and greatly depend on God and others who see the needs our world has, the needs that have to be met.
My husband and I, Ellison, will also be going back into YWAM. As I said previously, I have already done a DTS in Montana, an my husband did his in Germany (there are bases all over the world). And we are going back to join staff. I was on DTS Staff just over a year in Germany, and I loved it. But I feel it necessary to be based out of America, where there is so much pain and blindness. We will be joining Base Staff and Music Company.
Base Staff gives us the opportunity to live in America and serve the base as needed, to establish community and to make the base more self sustaining (project number one, start a green house!!) Music Company gives us the resources necessary to write and record our music, and to then tour around the world to bring awareness to social injustices, and to the never ending need for love.
If you're interested in supporting Ellison and myself, or Elise Dressler, feel free to contact us at anytime www.elisedress.blogspot.com and raeannmason@gmail.com You can also check out Youth With A Mission Montana's website at www.ywammt.org

Oh yea, and keep your eye out for new crafts by Avos Creations (handmade by Elise and myself)!