TeamWynn

2009-06-14T17:58:00.001-06:00

Setting off for a project in China. I'll be there a couple weeks, missing my crew the entire time. I'll post pictures when I get back.

2009-05-20T19:59:00.001-06:00

We are looking into tickets for South Africa. It looks like after a long wait, God has connected us with a ministry that might fit both Kara and I. Beautiful Gate is a ministry in Cape Town, SA that reached out to the marginal, poor communities and helps with children at risk. Media Village is a media ministry also in Cape Town that does media work all over the world from that location, as well as does training and mentoring of future media professionals. We are very excited.

Some Mason eating photos from our Phoenix vacation

2009-05-06T18:08:00.000-06:00

Mason Eating

2009-02-07T21:40:00.001-07:00

Kara and I are enjoying a weekend at home ... a "stay-cation" they call it.

I am constantly amazed at how much time this little guy requires. Our entire life revolves around his sleep schedule. Two grown adults ... one little 20 lb kid ... sheesh. It's everything we can do to keep up.

I know. I know. Welcome to parenting. Right. I've heard it before.

2009-01-24T18:41:00.002-07:00

Here is a link to download the full resolution version of Mason's First Swim Lesson. It's big. 500mgs. But it looks better than the YouTube.

http://teamwynn.com/Downloads/First Swim Lesson.mov.zip

Mason laughing

2009-01-10T11:18:00.002-07:00

Mason laughing at peek-a-boo. This was new as of the last day. Changing all the time this kid.

Mason's Late Christmas Card

2009-01-02T20:58:00.001-07:00

Mason and Kara series of photos

2008-11-15T16:15:00.000-07:00

We were goofing off with the camera. We love weekends.

Halloween Pictures

2008-11-01T09:32:00.001-06:00

Check out our new photo album. Mason was in rare form for the camera.

From Mason_Halloween_2008

Mason smilling at 4 am

2008-09-25T09:36:00.002-06:00

4 am is no problem for the dude. He could do 3 am ... heck 2 am, bring it on.

Check the photo gallery for new photos, too.

Just over one month

2008-08-23T09:59:00.002-06:00

The dude is a healthy 1 month plus. It's a lot of feeding, sleeping, crying and diapers ... but we were shocked at how quickly he learned how to ride a bike. We thought it would take at least two months before we got the training wheels off.

Either way. We are enjoying getting this family into the next stage. We're learning things about Mason all the time.

He has sorted out the difference between night time and day time quite well. Thank God for that.

Connie and Denise are jumping in and helping with Mason and loving it.

The Young MC

2008-07-23T16:38:00.001-06:00

Complements of Grant Talkington.

Large Photo Gallery of Mason

2008-07-22T22:13:00.001-06:00

New, larger photo gallery of Mason. Enjoy.

MasonBirthPhotos Large Album

Birth of Mason Christopher

2008-07-21T16:11:00.004-06:00

Announcing Mason Christopher Wynn.

We'll be posting photos on our Picasa Web account and our Facebook accounts.

See Mason Photos

Preggy Pictures

2008-06-30T17:52:00.001-06:00

My Life

2008-02-07T14:13:00.000-07:00

This is my life.

Romantic Weekend Getaway

2007-12-02T09:24:00.000-07:00

Kara on our romantic weekend getaway. She got all dressed up for me.

Full photo slideshow of the trip.

Terrific Uganda Video

2007-09-19T09:04:00.000-06:00

This was shot by a young guy from Chicago. Very nice work on telling the story of the mission in Uganda.

Cool new Missionary Info Tool

2007-09-18T12:34:00.000-06:00

I'm just getting a cool new tool out to missionaries that will allow them to distribute their personal ministry page on the WorldVenture website to virtually anywhere. This could mean that they could have their personal ministry page posted to all their supporting church websites.

I don't know anyone else doing this kind of church support for missionaries. Very cool.

Here's an example below of Rodger and Lynne Schmidt

Incredible Guitar

2007-08-25T10:53:00.000-06:00

What was the world like without YouTube? Just kidding. It was fine. But we wouldn't have found this.

We're Back in the States

2007-08-15T22:27:00.001-06:00

Hey, just letting everyone know we're back in the states. We arrived late last night. Travel was no problem. The one bag we lost has already been dropped off.

I nearly got the entire way through the last Harry Potter; and we officially voted against using Dutch airlines again due to raw fish salads and, Kara's favorite, water chestnut salads. (Water chestnuts are about the only food Kara can't stand. We never imagined you could make an entire salad out of them.)

Word from the church plant team in Mozambique is that by Sunday
morning after continued house visits and open air preaching, they had
around 60 adults and children on Sunday morning for the first service.
Please, pray for Sambo because the hard work of pastoring is just
beginning for him.

We have tons to think through. No lights breaking through the clouds
and issuing a quest for the holy grail or anything, but I think Kara
and I both walk away with some seed ideas of what we could contribute
to in Africa. Thanks for traveling with us.

Here's a new batch of photos covering Kenya.

http://picasaweb.google.com/chris.wynn/KenyaPhotos

Biggest Spider

2007-08-11T22:37:00.000-06:00

Okay, I have to say Kara and I had the biggest spider I've ever seen with my own eyes on the ceiling of our bedroom over the door. It would fill the palm of my hand. We laughed about it; one of the ladies came in with a broom handle, punched in in the back, and killed it. I was impressed.

The time at the children's home has been illuminating. We've watched what a truely well run and loving home can look like.

A team of doctors visited yesterday, whom Kara helped checkup the children and local villagers, remarked, "We've not seen such health children in all our visits here in Kenya." They have done clinics in the slums and the rural villages.

This testifies to the key leadership of Eunice, and the commitment of the staff.

We visit a few of the partnership of the children's home today: the church, the larger children's home that inspired Eunice, and the government home where Eunice has rescued many of the children.

It's still raining. Forecast is for partly cloudy tommorrow. I'm hoping to finish my inside shooting mostly today, and get outside tomorrow.

One thing I have learned from this is that running a media ministry from the U.S., though with it's benifits, would face this same prohibitation. Because of the cost of travel, you are at the mercy of factors like weather or health of key people (poor Eunice has been sick). There are arguments on both sides for where best to do the work I want to do.

I think the deciding factor for me is Kara. As I've listened to her process, it is her heart to be with the people she is helping at length. She sees the value of traveling clinics, but the inherant weakness she sees resides in the lack of ability to make a long term difference. She has said she prefers to come along side local visions for a clinic with local people committed to it, and help enable them to make it happen or happen the best it can.

In Kenya

2007-08-10T22:35:00.000-06:00

We've separated from our team in Mozambique, as they continue the church plant (I'll forward updates as they give them), and have come to Kenya.

We stayed the past two nights with Steven Mairori, the executive director of International Christian Ministries in Katale, a bible training school for rural pastors. I have to say, the ministry he showed us excited both Kara and I. We also saw the Circle of Light project both in the village and at the depot, also a very impressive an inspiring work.

Kenya road are terrible; the people are as friendly as they come.

We're at the Tumaini orphanage now. I'm scratching my head on how to shoot promotional video footage of children who want to crawl all over me and hold the camera. It's also raining on and off, which would be fine except for the grey cloud cover. I'm praying the clouds break tomorrow so that I can do justice to the beauty of this place and the people.

We met the two little children Kara and I sponsor. I've got pictures. Kara looks good with a baby on the lap. I just look nervous.

Kara gets to help a group of doctors tomorrow run a day health clinic for the community. It will be held at the local church ... a beautiful, half finished building.

Please, pray for our continued clarity. We're so happily consumed with all the relationships and traveling; we have only dialogued a little. I know one thing. I'm loving the chance to create something for this orphanage that might help them; please, pray the clouds part for me.

Also, it wouldn't hurt praying for safety. This camera, expectedly, draws a lot of attention. I'm doing my best not to be foolish, but I also want to walk away with the right shots. We were followed by a group fo guys in a back street of this village today. I put away my camera. White guy, big camera ... I might as well wear a day glow shirt with a dollar sign on it.

Starting the Church Plant

2007-08-07T02:26:00.000-06:00

We are beginning evangelism today in the community. The plan is to do this for the rest of the week culminating on Saturday with a church plant of which Sambo will be the pastor.

The days here become more scheduled. The El Shaddai team (YFC), with whom we've become friends over the last few years, are here with us now. Two good words to describe them are "always laughing."

Andrew Trawick, our evangelist, will be training us in the mornings for the evangelism project, and in the afternoons we will be going to visit people at their homes. We will be showing the Jesus Film at night and inviting everyone we can. We'll pause the Jesus Film at a point and Andrew will present the gospel. If this year is anything like the previous years, we will see a number of people receive Christ tonight and the following nights.

The main purpose for this email is to solicit prayer. A number of team members have been troubled by dreams, some clearly demonic. Sambo's wife, Ruth, lost here baby yesterday at the hospital. We are all very sad for the two of them.

Ancestor worship and appeasing spirits with sacrifices are a daily reality for the people here. We have been praying, but we want to invite more people to pray. I'm including here a very detailed Google map of the location we are planting the church.

As we walk and pray and make invitations on these dirt streets, would you consider using Google Earth to walk and pray with us over the next few days? Could someone at Lookout Mountain contact our prayer team with this as well?

Below you can see our lodge in the middle of a community to the north and south of us. Our preaching point is on the main road north of our lodge next to the community water pump. To the east (right on the map) is the main road running north and south (to Maputo). Please, pray over these dirt roads, more people that you can imagine live here. Some in brick houses, many in grass huts.

Click the markers to get descriptions.

Here other map links, if the one's above do not work for you:

Location of our Lodge
Location of Sambo's House
Location of the school and community pump where we will show the Jesus Film and present the gospel

Party at Boys Home and Umbeluezi

2007-08-05T15:55:00.000-06:00

We'll write an update tomorrow, because we expect to have some time. Yesterday, the party at the boys home went great. It was a privilege to see a well run street children ministry working for the city.

Today, Sunday, we split up as Josh, Rick, and Andrew preached in different churches.

These photos come from the Maputo market, the boy's home, Umbeluzi, and lunch together.

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