http://shawnsummey.myadventures.org The Summeys - The Pilgrims Journey en-us Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:01:05 GMT 30 http://shawnsummey.myadventures.org/?filename=last-days http://shawnsummey.myadventures.org/?filename=last-days Hey All, So I am feeling a lot better, I believe that Sarah and I had Food poisioning (im sure thats not how you spell it but I dont have spell check here). Sarah is getting better too but a lot slower than I did.  Anyway we finished up our last two days of ministry but haveing 50 more people come to Christ. It was truly awesome.   Pray for us over the next two days. Our plane leaves the DR on Sunday at 8:30 so we must leave San Juan 8 hours before. Sso pleae pray for Fri, 11 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://shawnsummey.myadventures.org/?filename=quick-update1 http://shawnsummey.myadventures.org/?filename=quick-update1 So Things are going well here in the DR. We saw 14 more saved on sunday, so thats a total of over 80. Man thats awesome.  We are finishing our last VBS tomorrow so pray that more come to know him.  Sarah has been doing well really nothing has changed, but today neither of us have bene feeling very well so please pray for our health.   We cant wait to see you all, Shawn Tue, 8 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://shawnsummey.myadventures.org/?filename=update-on-sarah http://shawnsummey.myadventures.org/?filename=update-on-sarah Hi Family,   To inform you a little bit more about sarah, she is sitting here with me so I can tell you more about whats going on.   "I had a good day yesterday, no sickness. It was nice to be able to minister and be myself. The reason that im having trouble eating is that the smell of the cultural food makes me extremely nauseous (I think thats spelled right) and I am craving all this food that is not available so Im hungry a lot which also makes me nauseous. Im feeling OK Thu, 3 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://shawnsummey.myadventures.org/?filename=back-in-san-juan-de-la-maguana http://shawnsummey.myadventures.org/?filename=back-in-san-juan-de-la-maguana So things have been pretty tought for our team over the last few days, and we as a leaders ship team had to make some very difficult decisions. We are confident that the deisions were from the lord. Our team has been under a lot of spritual attack so please help us go to war against the enemy. At the church service on sunday night we saw 20 more people come to know Jesus, and the devil is mad.   Sarah has not been doing so well the last few days, She was running a low feav Tue, 1 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://shawnsummey.myadventures.org/?filename=mountains-here-we-come http://shawnsummey.myadventures.org/?filename=mountains-here-we-come Hey Family, Things are going well. We finished  the week very strong we had 58 accept christ through VBS and door to door ministry. So we are very excited. Please pray for our team they are all getting very homesick.   Sarah is doing well. She has been feeling some morning sickness but no throwing up.   Continue Praying for us.   Love, Shawn Sun, 29 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://shawnsummey.myadventures.org/?filename=checking-in http://shawnsummey.myadventures.org/?filename=checking-in So rejoice with us because we saw 4 people saved yesterday on house visits. How exciting is that? We are doing well here in the DR. Please Keep Praying for us. We still dont have phones so sorry to everyone for not calling. Nancy please let my mom know that we are good (423-802-5179). We really miss everyone, but our ministry has been really dynamic here we have a great group of girls. Please check the Dr team blog the link is under the OUR FRIENDS section on the left tool bar for stor Wed, 25 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://shawnsummey.myadventures.org/?filename=hey-friends http://shawnsummey.myadventures.org/?filename=hey-friends Hey friends, please check the DR team blog. We have updated it and put some pictures of training camp on there. Please continue your prayers and thank you so much for the ones that have been sent up already for us. The team is doing great. Last night was awesome. I (Sarah) had been fairly sick all day and just stressed about my role. I was feeling pretty inadequate for the task at hand when we went into our leader meeting. We were able to spend a lot of time in prayer in which I was reminded tha Wed, 18 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://shawnsummey.myadventures.org/?filename=the-team-arrived http://shawnsummey.myadventures.org/?filename=the-team-arrived Hey Family, Just wanted to take a few minutes to update you on training camp. Our students arrived today and officially our first day of training is complete. The students are currently in their cabin getting ready for their first night of missionary life.   It was really awesome to see God begin to work in their lives. He is already starting to break down the barriers in their life so that he can make them a new creation.   We have a great team. Please pray for a good nights r Sat, 14 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://shawnsummey.myadventures.org/?filename=training-update http://shawnsummey.myadventures.org/?filename=training-update   Hey Guys,  Just a quick update. Things are going well here in Gainesville. A lot of our prayers have been answered. Sarah is doing very well with the baby so far. Right now she is taking a nap, she woke up this morning not feeling very well so please keep praying for her.   Last night God spoke some things over us through some very close friends, and we just need a little clarity. Please pray for that clarity in the messages that God has for us.    We are Fri, 13 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://shawnsummey.myadventures.org/?filename=baby-alert http://shawnsummey.myadventures.org/?filename=baby-alert So last week we found out that we are having a baby. Sarah is almost 7 Weeks.  We are very excited. We leave on wedenesday for training camp in Gainesville ga. We fly out of Atlanta next week headed to the Dominican Republic for a month. We will be back in Chattanooga on the week of July 16. Please keep us in your prayers. Pray that God will use us to advance his kingdom.  Fund raising is beginning to pick up, we need $4,000.00 for this trip to the DR and we are cur Mon, 9 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://shawnsummey.myadventures.org/?filename=etch-asketch-theology http://shawnsummey.myadventures.org/?filename=etch-asketch-theology Etch -A-Sketch Theology         Seeing that doesn't it bring back memories of sitting in the floor creating a "picture of a dog" that looks like a bunch of scribbles on a grey background? I guess we can call it abstract Art. Maybe if you turn your head slightly to the right, and squint your eyes the dog might be there then. For me seeing this image, reminds me of the time that I  sat down  with my etch-a-sketch and drew all of the magic powder off in order to s Mon, 5 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://shawnsummey.myadventures.org/?filename=god-is-so-good http://shawnsummey.myadventures.org/?filename=god-is-so-good       God has been so good to us. In the last few weeks we have seen his hand of provision in our lives. We have been looking for hiking back packs for a while but they are so expensive. So for my birthday last week we were planning on buying me one because it will be great for traveling.  We decided to go look at Rock Creek Down Under hoping to find a deal, and the guy at the counter told us about a gear swap in the park so we thought we would take a look. We found Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://shawnsummey.myadventures.org/?filename=training-camp http://shawnsummey.myadventures.org/?filename=training-camp       So we went to training camp this week. It was a great time of community. We were able to learn a great deal about the specifics of our ministry foe the summer. we now have the names and information of the students that we will be living with for four weeks this june. We are excited to make contact with them. One of the best parts of training camp was our listening prayer activity better known as ask the Lord (ATL). as soon as the session started, I began to pr Mon, 7 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://shawnsummey.myadventures.org/?filename=time-for-the-update http://shawnsummey.myadventures.org/?filename=time-for-the-update I know that most of you want to hear about our trip, so I thought I would use this blog to accomplish that.  I am sorry if this one is not nearly as exciting as the last one.   We were in South Africa for a very short time, but it was truly amazing. We were in Jeffrey's Bay for 6 days we spent the rest of the time traveling. The first day we spent recovering from the flight. We went to a lion park, and the beach. It was a lot of fun getting to catch up with our friends Tag and Holly Mon, 17 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://shawnsummey.myadventures.org/?filename=safely-home http://shawnsummey.myadventures.org/?filename=safely-home "3 We can rejoice, too, when we run into problems and trials, for we know that they help us develop endurance. 4 And endurance develops strength of character, and character strengthens our confident hope of salvation." Romans 5:3-4               This area of scripture gives me great comfort as I look back on our vision trip last week. We definitely encountered problems and trials of all shapes and sizes. It has been a growi Sat, 8 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT