Mike & Jackie Hall

We finished our outreach in Kansas City with some fun events seeing many young people come to know Jesus in different venues across the Grandview/Kansas City area!  We also completed our time at YWAM Heartland with the amazing team and 6 fiery women students.  It was such a reminder of why God asked our family to go into a DTS for 6 months…reigniting the passion to teach and train!  With Mike taking the lead on teaching, it was easy to see how God desires him to teach, train and disciple young leaders of this next generation, not only that, but what it looks like to teach/train/disciple as a couple and a family.  One of the days, Peyton, myself (Jackie) and our friend Kelly had a powerful time of teaching, prayer and healing with the women and can’t wait to hear how all of them are walking in new freedom and confidence as they continue in their DTS and outreach. 

Our family has experienced the faithfulness of God in plenty and in want!  We are grateful for the obedience to God’s voice and grace given to our family through the generosity of many friends ~old and new~ in Kansas City.  We have grown so close to each other and not just because we all lived in the same room for many months!!!  Our faith, trust and love with the Lord and one another grew through victories and trials. Times of struggle always seemed to bring greater understanding, forgiveness and greater vision for God’s plan, not our own!

Unplanned events can always add a little fun to your already unorthidox outreach!  We drove to Colorado for a long weekend to help with a Southwest leadership retreat for YWAM at the Colorado Springs base. It was such an honor and joy for Mike and I to meet and pray for so many incredible, devoted leaders with great hearts and God’s vision for the youth in missions in the United States!  We believe God is opening many new places for us to run alongside great leaders and see thousands of youth saved and sent into the mission field! 

 A new adventure was about to unfold as we drove that ‘99 Honda back toward California on Route 66, road trips are always so much fun but can be a little more challenges when you are fasting…no burgers, fries and shakes on this trip…what!?  Mike, Peyton and I had new strength, endurance, a grace and health as we began the long (treat-less) drive westward…not always easy for Elijah either as he was consuming much less sugar than a rode trip ususally allowed!  This brought much humor into our trip…not to mention a little crying  

With all that being said…we had a mission in mind: Going to California to meet Mike’s brother, David! Without all the details… last January, Mike found out he had a half brother living in Oceanside, California. We had been praying about making the trip to meet him and his wife, Robin, their daughter, Taylor, two step-daughters, Vanessa (her husband Matt, daughter Meadow) Victoria (and her friend, Taz).  We had an amazing week getting to know our new found family and it was like the two brothers had known each other their entire lives!  We shared stories over meals, beach time, football games, and shopping.  One afternoon we had the opportunity to meet several of David’s amazing co-workers and learn about the great company that he works for, many of these friends had follow David’s search for his family and even our missionary journey the past 6 months…as a matter of fact, this update was prompted by our new found friend, Bonnie!

In all the excitement of meeting our new family, it further prompted us to look at some YWAM bases in California and even Mexico while we were in the San Diego area.  We believe this won’t be the last trip to California for missions!  We had an opportunity to see God’s hand in giving homes to the homeless in TJ, Mexico through YWAM and Homes of Hope.  Wow… so incredible God started us in Kona, sent us to Asia, then Kansas City to finish our outreach  and yet the week after outreach, we were touring Mexico! 

But wait that’s not all…we had extra surprises during this post-outreach trip…we met up with a good friend of ours for lunch and her and her family blessed us with 4 Disneyland Park-Hopper tickets for my Birthday!!! Elijah had been praying about this for weeks because we told him to pray that if we were supposed to go, God would provide a way, and we would have to trust Him for the tickets!  Sometimes blessings are so much more treasured when we wait for them…

Our hearts are so full of expectancy over the next season…it has been such a faith journey and now we are spending a week enjoying  time in Tacoma with family and friends which was kicked off by the beautiful Roley wedding.  We arrived to a great family celebration and generous friends to host us and provide transportion during our visit, an added blessing to be in the Northwest while its still sunny!  Next week we fly to Kona to teach in a Korean DTS and spend a few weeks transitioning the kids into school and praying about where God wants us to plant our feet.  We take in each moment as we await our next assignment with great anticipation and trust in God’s faithfulness for direction, provision, and joy!  Thank you for coming with us on this journey, please continue to check our website and see where we are landing next! 

We Overflow with Hope…

Mike, Jackie, Peyton and Elijah