Journal

Cheryl Bear and Randy Barnetson

Evangelism

January 2010 Newsletter

Southern USA

Thailand, Laos, Myanmar

Crow Reservation

In December we traveled in the southern states of the U.S. visiting many First Nations communities where we had been invited in Virginia, Louisiana, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and California.

It was wonderful to work along side of dedicated workers like the Baisley's (Cherokee), Chiasson's (Houma) Deer's (Seminole), Church's (Potawatami/Navajo), Running Hawk's, and Derek Myers and Dee Toney.

In January, Randy spent 2 weeks taking courses with his grad studies in Missiology, and visited tribal groups in Thailand, Laos, and Myanmar before returning to Canada.

Meanwhile, Cheryl ministered at a Missions conference in Portland, OR and spent 5 days ministering on the Crow Reservation in Montana.

This next month we will be ministering in the Pacific Northwest and at the Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver.

December 2009 Newsletter

Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia,

Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland

We returned from Russia to Montreal, and continued our ministry in Canada by visiting many First Nations communities in each of the Atlantic Provinces. It has been our joy over the past many months to re-tell the Good Story of Jesus to thousands of Native people all across the country. We have visited more than half of Canada’s 700 Reserves.

Recently, in Burnt Church Reserve in New Brunswick, we were able to share songs and words of hope and comfort with the parents and family members of Hillary Bonnell, the 16 year old girl who was missing for several weeks and then found murdered.

This winter we plan on going south for a few weeks during the harshest part of Canada’s winter and will be ministering on several Reservations in the USA. (Last winter in Canada we almost froze a couple of times up north in December/January) Living full time in our RV is challenging at times! But we plan on being back in Canada toward the end of January in time for participating in the Winter Olympics outreach in Vancouver.

For details of our schedule visit www.RandyBarnetson.com or www.CherylBear.com

Thank you for your prayers and support.

If you would like to help us in our work of visiting every First Nation in Canada & the USA re-telling the Good Story about Creator's Son, Jesus, and taking teams of First Nations people to other countries (31 nations so far) in culture evangelism - support can be sent directly to:
Cheryl Bear and Randy Barnetson,

PO Box 78029, Vancouver, BC V5N 5W1 Canada

But if you need a receipt for tax purposes please send your check to:
USA.........

Free at Last Foursquare Church, 13850 SE 142nd St., Renton. WA 98059
CANADA....

Kingsway Foursquare Church, 4061 Kingsway, Burnaby, BC V5H 1Z1

Please write on your check "For Randy & Cheryl Barnetson" and they will pass your gift along to us.
If you are a Pastor - would you please print out this newsletter and post it on your Missions bulletin board? and/or consider having your church help support our work on a regular basis.

Musi Cho "Thank you" in the Yinka Dene language

November 2009

We are writing from RUSSIA where we are working this month with Foursquare missionaries Michael and Karen McDonald. They serve with an indigenous Russian church planting movement called Cornerstone. Cornerstone targets the marginalized of Russian society, drug addicts, homeless, street youth 14 - 25 years of age. By radical love, communal living and intense discipleship hundreds of young people are getting saved, trained and sent out to start new churches in new areas. Things are multiplying so fast that in some cases people who have been saved for 9 months are now pastors. Try and hold them back!
Our small role in all of this is to go into a new area where Cornerstone has a rehab/discipleship home recently opened and is about to go public with a new church plant for the community. A few days before their first sunday service we hold free public concert/evangelistic events where the whole town is invited to come and hear the "Indians" perform. Our team (Barnetson family plus Tawnia Carriere from Kitimaat, BC and Rose Lowell from Atlanta, Georgia) sing, share testimonies, drum, dance and preach. At the end of the concert the pastor of the new church plant gives an invitation to come to Christ and for the audience to come to the new church.
On Sundays, Randy has been preaching in some of the older established Russian evangelical churches. In one church Randy shared a fun story (complete with dramatic effects) of the "Russian Rocket" Pavel Bure's exciting hockey playing for the Vancouver Canucks. The congregation loved it, and we were later told by the pastor that a member of the Bure family has attended the church.
Next month we will be travelling in the Maritime provinces of Eastern Canada holding meetings in many First Nations communities.