Dean Sherman, Ensenada, photos and FOOD!

The San Diego DTS made the move down to Ensenada about a week ago for an action packed 9 days of activity. Our first stop was just across the border at one of our accountant's parent's home in Tijuana where we were blessed by a mouth watering smorgasbord of mexican food. This began the theme of the week for me... eat a lot of authentic Mexican food!
We then continued down to Ensenada arriving just to fall into bed after a long week of class. We were up early the next morning ready to build a house for the Ramirez family. We arrived at the build site and realized we were about to be the all time largest homes of hope team ever! A little side note here, more people does not translate into finishing the house faster. It usually means that there are a ton of people on top of each other, in the way and a generally slower house build. This time it ended up being the most wonderfully diverse group of people ever. We had our DTS which is mostly American with a token South Korean thrown in and a Mexican girl. Along side a few Mexican staff, I was the representative Canadian in the bunch. Then we had two family's from New Zealand one of which had about 8 children. Then there was a good sized handful of British to round us all off. What fun we had. We all walked away from the weekend richly blessed (especially by Blancas delicious empanadas) having made special new friendships.
Monday ushered in the legendary Dean Sherman. Spiritual warfare. Come on you guys! and a few arm jerks every now and again to encourage us to "think outside the box". Another thought provoking, life changing week of hearing from God through one of our speakers. Dean brought a message to our entire YWAM San Diego Baja family on wednesday night that I so wish we could have recorded. It was a milestone message for us I believe and completely prophetic. Dean called us out so to speak. He told us that at different times in the history of YWAM, certain bases have been in the spotlight. And that right now we are in that spotlight, so we had better be careful. What a huge thing to hear from Dean Sherman, what a humbling thing, and in a way, what a scary thing. It's true, if we are in the spotlight we had better be careful to make sure we are every day asking God's presence to go before us, every day be consciously clothed in the armor of God and looking to be in the center of His will. It's an exciting word too! I am extremely fired up over this and yes, humbled to be a part of one of God's movements, one of God's special projects.
We capped today off with some mandatory fun at a water park south of Ensenada and have some big things in store for the rest of the weekend. More to come later...