Sorry so long!! Quick update!!! :D

Like in the last month!

Sorry it has been so long, I am really trying to do two of these a month but it is not really working it is kind of hard to do one a month. I am going to try to make it short and sweet because if it is to long no one would want to read it! LOL :)(:
Any was!! :D
We(Students and I at Bethany College of Missions) are still in school, we will be in school for about 7 to 8 weeks left. Man it has flown by. Sense the blog we done an out Out-Reach ministry week! It was a lot of fun. We hook up with an organization call "Good in the Hood" and did evangelism in downtown Minneapolis. We first did cardboard ministry. "What is that?" Great question, I did not know what it was either. We put in short amount of letter as we could, our testimonies. Testimonies of what God did through and how He brought us out of the darkness of our sins and into His glorious light! It was awesome standing on the ground knowing that God is the reason that I am here were I am at right now! :D
We went into different parts of the city and fellowship with people and shared the Love of Christ. Some rejected some loved the attention and love.
The last day we had a cook out with hot dogs in the church parking lot that was hosting us. We invited people at the beginning of the day telling them that we are having a cook out (free food)and prizes. We had games for kids, free Bibles and free stuff to hand out. We had a time that one of our students shared what God has done in His life and what He is still doing in His life.
It was so amazing how many people showed up! We had around 700 hot dogs and they were all gone, with one pack left over and people were full. WOW! God provided big time!
The coolest part about this week was after we down cleaning up some people were still hanging around and we were playing soccer in the parking lot. In that time a man wattled up that was pretty drunk. You could smell the alcohol on his breath. I could go on about what he looked like but the greatest thing was that we(Two girls name Naomi, and Aly, one other dude named Nate) were able to witness to him for about an hour or so. But it was kind of different and hard in a way cuz he was drunk. But we really got to pray for him and really listened to his heart and what he is dealing with in life! (if you want to see more pictures for this week you can go to my facebook link for the pictures is,
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/album.php?aid=97447&id=662361105)

That was last month so, what is happening now is I am taking a class called "God heart for Israel and the Jewish people". It is really an amazing class. I have not noticed how much the Jews and Jewish culture has influenced the Christian world also our beliefs. (All biblical of cource)
I do not know what else to say about that its is just an awesome class. It has hit deep.

The team(People that are going to Kenya with me) and I are starting to hang out and getting to know one another better. Last weekend we went to Aly's house for the whole weekend. Which was so much fun we got to know kind of what it is going to be like when we live for with each other. (if you want to see pictures you can go to my facebook)
This weekend we are going to Nate's house to have an another awesome opportunity to get to know one another and how it it to live together. (do not worry we sleep in different rooms)
I am really excited for this coming up weekend is that we get to slaughter chickens. I have always wanted to kill my dinner. LOL :D
Do not worry Ill take pictures.:)(:

I Hope ALL of y'all have an AWESOME week and may it be blessed by the Almighty God in a way that is out of this world!!!
:()))((():
*Peace Love and Jesus*
Drew Powell

Romans 12:9-10

Don’t just pretend to love others. Really love them. Hate what is wrong. Hold tightly to what is good. Love each other with genuine affection, and take delight in honoring each other.

Filling Peoples Drinks!!!

Aly, Naomi, John(the guy talk about in upper blog), & I

Some guys playing ball!

Autumn painting kid :D

There and Back agian, A Nicaragua tail by Drew Powell!

Hay people of the world :D

So sorry I have not blogged in a very long time. I am not going to give an excuses cause there really is not any :D

I thought I would tell ya about the trip to Nicaragua that I went on in April. :)(:

Okay!! We (meaning around 16 students from my college and 5 adults from the church that is connected to the school) went to Nicaragua Friday April 10th and we stayed there through April 19th. We went to a city called Managua, and we were on the shore of Lake Nicaragua, and about 7 miles form Volcano Island. It was sooo00OO BEAUTIFUL, to see God's glory every minute of the day.

While there we went to the dump were the kids live that we witnessed to during the camp we had for them. It was such an eye opener to see what are people live. It was funny you would think that it would be a gloomy and depressing there. But it really is not God is there and you could see it. Kids were smiling when you played and gave the attention. A man was reading the Bible on the side of the "road"(a dirt pathway). We talked to him and learned his dally schedule. He was telling us how God placed him in the dump for a reason and that is his mission field. He told us "if you cannot witness in your own backyard then, you cannot do it in different countries." :D Every encouraging guy, he also prayed over some of our team.

After the dump we went to a volcano. A real active one, it was so much fun and beautiful like no other!!

Then the next day we prepared that camp for the kids who were going to show up on Monday. :D
The kids were around 6-12 years of age. When they got there to the camp they looked tough and acted like it. By the end of the 3 days we spent with them they did not want to leave and we did not want to live. The reason is of what they were going back to. Most of the girls by the age of 13-16 are sold into prostitution. The reason is there parents either do not want them or they sell them so there family can eat. The guys will probably live in the dump the rest of there lives or die of overdose, by sniffing glue. They might get a job in the dump by separating the plastic from metal.

In light of that, God did a lot through those 3 days with those kids. Some kids started to take other peoples tray and wiping off the tables that were dirty. :D

These kids have touched my life and has made me a look at life in a totally different way.
After the 3 days of camp we helped around the camp, doing what they do when no kids are there. :D We painted fence pots, moved stones, cleaned sorted closes and such, painted a roof, and scooped manure for fertilizer.

God taught a lot things to me and the group that we went down there!!
Praise God for His blessing on my life and the kids down there. :)(:
If would like to know more detail about the trip, you can respond to the message through another message or you can email me at drew.powell@bcom.org.

Have an awesomely blessed day in the Lord!! :D

"The rich and the poor have a common bond, The LORD is the maker of them all."

Proverbs 22:2The gang at a Volcano!!

Were the kids live

What the kids live in

Jaimmy and I, at camp (a boy that was in my group)
:D

The Beautiful site we woke up to every morning!

Going Places!!! :D

God is taking me places!!!

:)(:

Going down the path of His will :D

Hello everybody!!!!
(that includes people readying it off my blog and on facebook or if you are looking over someones shoulder:)

Your probably wondering what "Going Places" means from my stand point LOL!!! :D
This means that I am going to places in God's will for me and geographically in He's will. And I am super excited about it!!
God is taking into a place in Him were I have never dreamed of. He is show me sides of Him self that I would never of guess of and our relationship is getting hardcore deep.......... LOL!(the reason there are so many dots after that is because, there is more yet to come about that) He is taking me into a way deeper meaning of His name, His love and His power! MAN!! its AWESOME!
That is what I mean by "Going Places" and the other part is, when I said geographically that meant God has called me to do my internship in Kenya, Africa. Which I will be there for about 16 months starting in January 2010!!!! !!!WOW!!! Excitement is running through my body!!!

Then for this spring brake (which starts April 10th) God is wanting me to go to Nicaragua, to work with kids from the dump. YES!! I just said the dump, people down there live in dumps there houses are made out of garbage and they get food from there to eat. Gross isn't it, so we are going to be going down there to the dump and praying with them/for them and getting to know the people. Then later on that week we are going to take some kids out of the dump and going to put them in a day camp for a couple of days. We are going to be playing with them, do a little VBS (vacation bible school) and having lots of fun. We are going to present the Gospel, teaching them english and putting on skits/plays for them. We are going to go swimming with them and going down this kick butt water slide that pumps a lot of water. :D We are going to be doing this at a camp that is down there, that does things like this. :D

This week my parents are coming up from the ATL!!
I am so stoked about that they are going to coming on Wednesday and leaving Sunday.

Also happenin this week we are taking a class called Kingdom Like styles which is AMAZING! It talks about how we should live like we were in the Kingdom. It is soaked in God's knowledge, wisdom and love!!
It is such an amazing class and plus just for a little bonus Nita Styner is teaching it. MAN!!! Everybody should get to know her, she is full of wisdom and LOVES God to the utmost degree! :)(:

To night will be our next to last Out-Reach night at the University of Minnesota and God is doing so much through this Out-Reach! The reason I said that is two weeks ago 2-3 people got saved in the same night!!! Which is AMAZING!!! :)(:
I think that is it for now, from my neck of the woods!!!

Praying that every single person is having a fantastic week and may God reign down on y'all life like never before!!!

Dr.Eww

Peace Love and Jesus!!!!
2 Timothy 2:22
"Now flee from youthful lusts and pursue righteousness, faith, love and peace, with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart."

SPRING IS HERE!!!!!!!

Me, Amanda, Liesly, and Shelly
(Having a blast at Shelly's going away party)
:D
I will always miss you Amanda and Shelly!!!
:)(:

Drew's News
Hello awesome people of the world!!
Welcome to Drew's News.
This is my blog entries that you will be getting at a weekly basis, hopefully. :D

Thank you so much for choosing to be a part of the life of Drew. LOL!

I am currently at college called Bethany College of Mission in Bloomington Minnesota training to be a missionary. Besides of sitting in class and going to chapel, right now in life we as a student body are doing an out-reach at the University of Minnesota. During this time God laid on my heart to do a Bus ministry, talking to people about God's word and talking with them about what they believe in. It has been an awesome time doing this and God has taught me a lot from using know believers to people that do believe. Every week is a surprise on what I get on the bus from talking to people. There is never a week that repeats itself, you can read my former blogs to here some stories.
The main conversation that had this pass week on the Bus was so incredible, I talk to a girl about "why do we have to "force" (is the word she used) the gospel on people? and why can't we just leave everybody alone to worship there own God, in there own way"? (She believes in coexistence=Meaning living in one accord and having peace between each other. Also means leaving each other alone in there own way on living and through that there is peace.) Those are the type of conversation that I get to have and I love it because it makes me dig into the word more. It also makes turn God and His wisdom, not on man's wisdom.
I just stated a new class this week on 1 Corinthians, and it is going to be awesome!!
When that is over we have spring brake and during that time I am going to Nicaragua in South America to be a camp councilor for kids that live in a really poor part on town. Which hang out at the local dump for fun and the reason they hang out at the dump is that they do not have money to go to school because you have to closed toe shows to go.
So we "we meaning people from school and people from Bethany Church" are going down there to set up a camp for a week to get them out of the dumps, give them shoes and to have an opportunity to present the Gospel. :)(: We are leaving April 10 to go down there so be prayer for us and the kids down there.

Thank y'all so much for listening to Drew's New!! :D
May y'all all have an awesome and spectacular week!!!
:))(((:
Peace Love and Jesus Drew Powell

This is me and my bros chillin at the Mall of America !!