Greetings to all from both California, Chile, and Mexico. Our family is
really spread all over the place right now. These last couple of months
have been full of travel visiting friends, family, and churches
across California and Mexico.

Juliette and the girls are back home and really hit the ground running.
The girls continue with their home schooling and have jumped right back
into the ocean for some real big waves. Today is our first day of
Spring in Chile and we just celebrated our Bi-centenial on September
18th. She is busy as we have much to do in preparing for our upcoming Summer
outreach.



We are also celebrating YWAMs' 50th anniversary this year. Our founders
Loren and Darlene Cunningham have been traveling around the world this
year and celebrating with our YWAM family. Our mission is in over 220
nations with hundereds of ministry centers all over the world. We now
have over 20,000 full time workers from those 220 nations. So amazing
to see God raising up people from all over the world to preach His Good
News and disciple the nations.

Loren and darlene have chosen the 40 largest ministry centers in the
YWAM world to visit throught the year. They will visit our center in
Pichilemu on October 27-30! We are preparing for our celebration and
are really honored to have them come all the way down to be with us. When
Juliette and I pioneered YWAM Pichilemu over 17 years ago, we never
thought it would grow into one of the largest ministry centers in YWAM!
As I look around for reasons why we have been so successful, one truth
comes to mind. Our 'success' in life rests entirly on our dependence on
God. The more we lean upon him and seek to please him, the more we will
we will see his loving hand move on our behalf. That does not mean we
will get 'everything we think we want'. We are assured that all our
needs will be met as we seek first his kingdom and righteousness.

Julie and I (along with all our leadership and staff) have been far
from perfect in this pursuit. We are certainly surrounded by heroes of
the faith. Our leaders and staff are truly amazing in their sacrifice,
love and service to God. We are amazed at the quality of people God has
been faithful to send our way over the years. Put simply, God is
faithful and he is worthy of our praise and our service.

So much to do in this next season. Our community center is still down from the quake. We have so many challenges to overcome in order to get back on track. Our pool is empty and has some major leaks due to the quake. Please pray God gives me wisedom in finding the leaks and patching things up. Any plumbers out there?

I (Mitch) am still in California until Oct. 4. I am part of the committee for our College of Arts and Sports with our University of the Nations. I am meeting with some really brilliant people as we seek Gods heart for this College. Imagine a University truly based on first Character developement and humility! The aim is to raise up servant leaders in the upcoming generations.

Blessings to all and know you're in our prayers. Mitch, Juliette, Nathan, Consuelo, Jessica, Janelle, Michaela, and Katrina Anderson