Foster Worship Team!

Well this is Walt Culbertson....he is my bass player, but also he is in the youth group with me, he's a koo kid....Lord willing he will be able to take over the worship for me on a youth groups....Rock on for Jesus buddy...




Well this is the whole team that I play with on Monday practices and then Sunday morning. They are a great and talented team! God has truly blessed them with great voices and hands that play instruments very well. I blessed to be able to worship with them.
Here are there names: Backleft: Daniel (ME!), Matt Culbertson (Vocals/Guitar), Jake Brezillac (Drummer), Melinda Morton (Vocals), Walt (Bass/Vocals), Amy Culbertson (Vocals), Charlie "Chuck" Culbertson (maybe on worship team when he grows up!), Maddie Culbertson (vocals), Ashely Capps (Vocals...Denise Yates' daughter). Great team! Love ya'll!

And here is Chaplain Charlie Owens, he leads Foster Protestant Chapel service. He's a great guy....I'm really like his new church attendant, and he is my new pastor for a season! He was actually pastoring at Horizon Fellowship (San Diego...Mike Macintosh) when he decided to serve the Lord in the Navy Chaplain program. I know he loves it, but it comes with alot of responsibility! God bless Charlie!

Well this is my normal sunday morning, first service....ill put up some second service kid's ministry up a little later....keep posted!

Flashback

Here are some pictures of what I did while I was home....yeh I also got a new camera, so these are dem pictures....I love my new camera!

Here is me and Paco....we were chillin out playing some pool at Jesse's house for New Years Eve....good times...love ya cisco!





Juankeen....dont know how to spell....but he's cho かわいい　でしょ？ Cute huh? Me not the baby...じょどん。j/k







I think that this is the best picture I have taken on accident...ever. My camera takes really good close ups...and Asa and me were fighting with his toys at Red Robin....he lost. He is slowly slipping away......
awhh.....





Yeh...I got to hang out with my cuz's at El Torito...our favorite place for really good steak salad...mmm...good times cuz's.





Me and the sosinator at church....it looks like he is ready to spit or something.....hmmm....well I am really glad because he is gonna come back to Okinawa and come for one more semester...yay! Most likely he'll be able to help me with Foster youth group! Cant wait for you bro!






This is my grandma and grandpa (mom's parents)! They are awesome....they invited my family over for dinner...but it wasnt just any dinner....it was like thanksgiving/christmas dinner! Turkey, stuffing and all! So great....im sorry but no body makes stuffing like grandma! Thanks for everything guys, your prayers and support are blessing many different parts of the world! Love you both!


Well thats it for now! Come back! きて下さい。

Im back!

Well....despite the fact that I haven't written in about 3 months...Im back....sorry for the faithful few that do check this...I will definitely try harder to keep up with it. Here are some things that happened in those months....

November:
- Went to South Korea on a missions trip for 6 days. Sweet trip...fell in love....with kimchi
- Passed midterms.
- Had a retreat for the Foster Youth Group...we went to Okuma...people fell in love with Jesus!
- We had a great Thanksgiving! And of course we did play some football.

December:
- We started to have some Christmas parties!
- We had to stay up(Sosi and me) til 4 am studying for tests...which we did do well on..uh finals!
- Had last youth group at foster for a month or so.
- Left Okinawa on the 17th
- Got home the 17th (strange phenomenon of time travel...you get to live the same day over....gabe....any comments...lol)
- Got to have Christmas dinners....mmm....prime rib....
- Great New years eve!

January:
- Took down Christmas lights on new years day....almost fell off the roof, but instead some tiles did.
- Got to teach at E3G Youth Group at CCLW....thanks Jon!
- Got to lead worship for the congregation at CCLW....thanks Jerry and Royce!
- Went to a sweet missions conference at the Bible college in murrieta...great times...
- Hung out with all my family one last time for 10 months....
- Flew back out to Okinawa on the 11th

So I am now back! I will be here, serving the Lord and His people at the Bible College and at the Foster marine base youth group until October, when I will come back to Cali for my newly engaged sister's wedding. Then I will come back to Okinawa and serve the rest of the year with all my peoples out here! I am so blessed....please pray for me if you get a chance! Love ya'll lots! Im praying for you all too!

MIDTERMS! PRAYER!

Hey well.....wow midterms stink....they bring a lot of unwanted stress! I still have just one more to go....I gotten A's on all 4 i've taken so far....Just got Revelation to take. A lot of other things are due, including responsibilities with youth groups, worship teams, and ministry! Just pray God would continue to bless each and every step and day! I need to rely upon His strength, because even though I am workin out, my muscles cant handle what the Lord's give me....but God is faithful working through out weaknesses....

One last thing....please pray for everyone around here in the Bible college. A cold or something is floatin around, making it worse to do our little routine...also it causes some tension and impatience....blessings to you guys!

Miss you guys....leave a little comment of things you need prayer for! grace...Daniel

uh oh!

Well I forgot to put up this little nugget of awesomeness....this is the night where about 6 people got ear piercings. This is a little video of Zachy gettin pinched with the earring gun! He was so funny....the first one was better....but if you can catch it at the end.....he probably really wants to yell! hahaha

Here is a picture of after I got mine done too.....sorry to disappoint all you guys...but i like em'!

Cape Hedo!

Well we went all the way up to the top of the Okinawan Island....and the highest point is called Hedo Point or Cape Hedo...here we got some sweet pics of the great waters and huge cliffs....





Watch out sos....dont fall off....nice picture......the hills in the background are practically untouched by even the locals....God's creation is so pure and beautiful! Here at Hedo there are two major bodies of water connecting.....there is the Pacific Ocean....and then there is the South China Sea...so here on the 300ft cliffs there are like 10-15 foot waves that crash against each other creating a great sight for us spectators....again....awesome!



Yeh we got a little group picture with the gang.....Jayme "cool shades" Neumann on the far left....then Andrew "Hickory" Neely.....Jesse "Magic" Spencer hiding in the back....then Kayla "Green raindrop" Hennessey...and finally Tamiko "onaka sweeta" Murikami.


Wow....i think this is one of my favorite pictures of this place....the colors in the water are so clear and you can see all the coral and everything....As we were standing up on top we could see huge, bright teal blue "parrot fish"....sweet, i wanted to go down and spear them...even in the midst of crazy death sized waves...if you have a good eye....you might be able to see my little friend Aaron!
whoooo!

Banana Boat!

Zach, Sosi, and I paid like 7 dollars to go on a 25 minute banana boat ride, whooo was it fun! We had to get all dressed up in vests and helmets and stuff.....but little did we know we would actually really need them! I even thought...."Maybe I'll bring my camera!" But it was too crazy out there to do that....


Here is us gettin up on the raft......and we probably did this about ten times.....because the guy said......"Oh they think their tough huh?" and he worked us! He would go really fast and then break to give us huge waves, and it would be like riding a horse....I was riding on the front one time....and we literally caught like a 10ft. drop, and we lost it.....Then the guy would veer left and right sharply and the banana would just flip and roll.....and when you are in the front....people fall off and lunge forward, hitting you in the head...Zach hurt his knee a little hitting me in the head, and Sosi head butted and kicked me in the head with his foot.....yep im glad we had helmets....


We were so happy to get back.....our hands were so hard from getting up and down and holding on for our lives! Man we were like "isnt our time up yet...." But it was all well worth it.....good times! Thanks Lord for keeping us somewhat safe! No real injuries....whoooooo!

Up in Okuma!

Well this was one of the mornings that we were in Okuma.....it was a blessing going out and running around this beautiful little peninsula of Okuma, which a resort with an American side (needing military access) and a Japanese side (more expensive)...but we had a great time, oh man it was so beautiful. I thought the view was breathtaking, but then I forgot I was running....help pray for my heart, it hurts sometimes when I run, dont know what it is....Here is cool pic of Sosi tearin up the run!

Woooooohhhh.....sweet pic! This was on top of the hill called "lookout point". No car access though....shame....nah just kidding! Flesh!


Here are the two buddy boys running close to each otha.....Pastor Tommy and David Barrios (who sponsored us to get on Okuma....thanks Barrios!)....man they were like speed lightning...I had to catch up just to get it....





Here is right on top of the hill opposite "lookout point", and if you can look really closely you can see robbie Voonderlichy on top of the hill.....man these guys were beasts....tearing up the run....I havent run in about 2 months now, and then they have me go on this.....quite literally forced....nah but it was awesome, it was probably about 2, 3, 4 miles maybe....dont really know. Here is a little clip though of us back at the shores running .......

Day at Mihama

Now when I say day in Mihama.......I really mean a day in Mihama.....
This was one of those days where the ministry was great.....but the ministry jacked you up physically! whoooooweeeeee! I really did have a great day....because we had a Scavenger Hunt. Now, Mihama, if you have never been there, is a great area of shopping and fun, where lots of American name clothing and places like Starbucks, Movie theaters, and more Starbucks are rampant! We ran around this place for about an hour and a half in I think 4 different teams. We were blessed to get kids from New Life Academy, Foster Youth Group (who hosted the Event), and CC Ginowan youth. Check it out....

These are some of the New Life Academy kids that came out for our scavenger hunt......some of the guys got freaked out when there was this half solar eclipse......nooo i just messed around a little on the picture editor......hmmmmm......





yep.....we had to go take pictures "behind bars".....we found this one quick.....kind of reminds me of a bad Halloween "Haunted" set up with the witch next to us.....funny how the Japanese people will get into Halloween, cant wait to see what they will do for Christmas!








Now here is a closer look at my team of little guys..... I was set up with Ashley and Jordan Yates from Foster Youth Group and Kelly from New Life Academy.....we recruited Yoshi here from the A&W to help us out on a few items on our hit list....




Well we had a great time, and yes that lovely green shirt I was wearing was completely soaked after I had run with little Jordan on my back (when his ankles hurt of course!) for an hour or so.....whoooo!

After that we had some sweet lunch on base and a time of testimonies from Aaron and myself....sorry no pictures....and then we headed back to Mihama for a time of outreach with HakuGaijin and passing out books explaining the Gospel in Japanese....sorry no pictures of that though either....check up on www.e3missions.com for Pastor Tom's pictures of the night!
Great day Lord! Thanks!

TO-I-RE ---->

I just wanted to have a little fun with this picture....these little pieces of coral spell out TO-I-RE which is what it sounds like.....toilet. The big arrow showing the biggest TOIRE in the world.....the OCEAN!!! whooowhooo! I think Mrs. Ruth was a little embarrassed and had to swim away!