Guam Snapshots

From June 14th to June 22nd I embarked on my first journey to preach at a camp for a whole week. It has always been a dream of mine to travel and speak and I had a great time. We were actually the first group to visit this church with the sole purpose of ministering to them. It was an incredible honor and there was great unity! The power of God and His presence were so powerful at the camp. We saw kids who didn't want to be there the 1st day, crying out for more of God the last. I am still getting messages for the students about what God did and is doing in their life. It was an amazing trip with too many stories to tell. With that in mind here are some photos, videos and snapshots from each day.

Saturday June 14th

• Fell asleep at 2am
• Woke up at 4:30am, grabbed my stuff and met Terryl, Kat, and Tim at the church.
• Drove to the airport
• Boarded flight to Hawaii at 8pm.. 5 hr flight
• Slept for a couple of hours
• Met a Christian couple celebrating their 25th anniversary. They own a huge onion farm in Quincy, WA and supply Fred Meyer with onions. Pretty cool!
  
• Landed at 11am Hawaiian time
• Grabbed some Chinese food and Starbucks
• Boarded Flight to Guam at 2. 7 hr flight no sleep.
  
• Crossed the international date line it's now Sunday.

Sunday June 15th

• Landed in Guam at 5:40pm (12:40 am at home).
• We were met by a huge reception of people (see pic).

• Drove to hotel, changed, checked out their church, went to dinner.
• Fell asleep at 10:30pm (5:30 am Sunday Morning at home)
  

Monday June 16th

• Woke up at 8! (3pm Sunday at home)
• No jet lag yet!
  
• Packed up our hotel to prepare for camp.
• Picked up at noon to head to lunch then camp.
• 3pm drove into camp. It was on an airforce base so we had to pass security. Jets flying overhead all the time.
  
• Drove towards camp and saw the most breath taking view! See video.

• Helped set up sound and put my stuff in my tent.

• Ate the best dinner that night! Sashimi (raw fish) and a whole host of other Guam and Yap dishes. It was awesome!
• Service began at 8pm (3am Monday morning at home), helped with worship and shared my testimony that night.
• Took a shower because it is so hot and muggy.
• Fell asleep around 12:30 (7:30am at home) missed my wife like crazy!

Tuesday June 17th

• Woke up at 6am to this:

• Showered and had my quiet time down this path:

• Eggs and rice for breakfast. I was allergic to eggs as a kid and I still hate them, so rice for breakfast with finadeni (Guam's special sauce pronounced fin-a-denny and its awesome).
• Small group time at camp.

• Played a team game.
• Ate at Burger King for lunch, jets flying overhead... Crazy cool!
• Went to the beach to swim and play a little of this:
  

• Great dinner again! More Sashimi and finadeni!
• Service at 8pm! Felt a little tired before because of the sun. As soon as I took the stage to preach I was totally rejuvinated by the Holy Spirit.
• Spoke on making adjustments in your life. Great alter and prayer time. Lots of tears and decisions were made.
• Shower then bed around 1am (8am Tuesday morning at home)

Wednesday June 18th

• Woke up around 7am. Here is the view from my tent window:

• Shower and breakfast. Bacon, rice and... finadeni.
• Small group time!
• Another team game!
• Lunch
• Bowling - see pic

James and Paul - My friends from Guam

• By the way I bowled the highest score for the camp. Had to represent for Washington State!
• Dinner - one of my favorite times of the day ;-).
• Service at 8! Preached about having an encounter with God and the need for the baptism of the Holy Spirit because of the fire or boldness that comes with it.
  
• 8-10 kids got baptized in the Holy Spirit. Andrew was one of them then he began to pray for others to receive the same. It was incredibly awesome.
• Great alter time!
• Witnessed someone not with the camp nearly drown, but was saved by Paul the guy above on the right.
• Fell asleep around 2:30am.

Thursday June 19th

• Last full day of camp
• Great Quiet time and breakfast... rice and finadeni.
• Small groups
• Tropical storm rains.
• Students played a game in the rain and I took a nap for an hour.
• Played Volleyball after the nap in the pouring down rain... very cool!
• Had lunch
• Went to the beach and swam
• Dinner - Pizza, but I had fried fish that Paul caught, super tasty.
• Service at 8pm
• Tons of students gave testimonies of what God had done in their life - Highlight of the trip!
  
• Preached a message that God wants you to go from island to island on your journey and at each island you arrive at you have got to burn your canoe. Told the students it will be easy to go back to who you were before camp (the island you just left), so you have to burn your canoe.

• Had a burn barrel and a power time at the alter again.
• Andrew and Tim got rocked by prayer - Another huge highlight for me from the trip. I wanted these guys to have fun and get rocked by God.
  
• I got rocked by prayer
• I had the opportunity to prophesy into the lives of Pastor Kenny's leaders.
• I got to share some words of encouragement withe Pastor Kenny and Carmen.
• Couple of guys heard I liked fire, so they did a fire dance for me. I also tried it, but the video failed, so no footage. Here is a clip of one of them perfoming:

• That night was prank night and one of the kids was going to prank me with my arch nemesis, pictured below, but they announced no pranking Pastor Travis... Thank God!

Banana Spider! Super creepy.

• Fell asleep around 2:30... Still no jet lag. It was totally a God thing!
• The kids pranked each other all night. I don't think Andrew even went to bed.

Friday June 20th

• Up at 7:30am.
• Shower, Quiet time, breakfast... :-) rice and finadeni.
• Mad dash to break down camp.
• One last meeting and prayer.
• Group photo:

• Headed to church office to put stuff away.
• Grabbed lunch at Denny's? In Guam its actually edible and is in fact very good!
• Checked into our hotel. Pastor Kenny and Carmen put us up and the Hilton right on the beach! Thank PK and Carmen!
• Watched a lady run into Kenny's truck. No damage done and very funny!
  
• Hot Shower! All the showers at camp were cold
• Coffee for the first time in several days!
• 20 minute nap - I was exhausted, but couldn't sleep because I drank the coffee :-)
• Watched ninja warrior with Andrew. Very cool and funny show.
• At 7pm they picked us up for an after camp party with some of the leaders.
• Ate Lasagna, very, very good!
• Hung out with my peeps from Guam!
• Went spear fishing that night! - From a fun perspective this was the highlight of the trip.
• Shot a couple of fish, one was a parrot fish and they cleaned it, chopped it up and we ate it right on the beach Sashimi style!
• Andrew shot a blow fish. Here is a pic of the hunters and the blow fish:

• God to our Hotel around 4:30am

Saturday June 21st

• Up at 11am (6pm Friday night at home), great quiet time with God
• Filmed a video for the interns that graduated and couldn't get it posted online... grrr!
• Packed up our stuff and checked out of our room.
• Went to their church for a birthday party for one of their church members.
  
• Back to the hotel, we swam in the pool for awhile.
• Tiff and Kat took us to some cool places around the island. Sat on a cannon rodeo style:

• Went shopping at their mall
• Dropped by one of their elders house to pick up some stuff.
• Arrived at PK's house.
• Stayed up till 1:30am packing and getting ready to go home, then fell asleep.

Sunday June 22nd

• Woke up at 3:30 am to go to the airport.
• Tons of people saw us off at the airport. Gifts and hugs galore, oh and pictures too.
• Andrew got stopped at security for about 10 minutes :-).
• Flight left at 6:25 am (1:25 pm Saturday afternoon at home).
• Slept half the ride, watched movies the other half.
• Landed in Hawaii 5:40 pm Saturday June 21st... weird huh?
• Flight left 9:20 pm.
  
• Got a middle seat... lame... still i slept the whole way home, waking up to shift or move.
• Landed in Seattle at 5:50 am Sunday morning.
• Grabbed a grande soy caramel latte while I waited for my bags.
• Andrew's mom picked us up and drove us to the church.
• Went home, showered, unpacked a little, got dressed and went to church.
• Two great services that day! Dan Hudson spoke for GRID:

• CORRECTION: Forgot to mention I went to a local business that is owned by some incredible people in the church and dedicated it. It's called Angels among us! It's a dog grooming place in Monroe. Check it out if you have a dog, they do awesome work. Here is a pic of the ice sculpture at the grand opening.

• Went home and slept for about 20 minutes
• Hung out with my wife and my dogs.
• Headed to the church for the 93 days of Summer.
• Great service that night!
• Red Robin afterwards with a bunch of people.
• Home, bed, and sleep around 1am!

Monday June 23rd

• Day off!
• My Dad's birthday
  

PHEW! What an incredible week. It was so God ordained and powerful. I had an incredible time! No jet lag or anything there or back. Thank you Pastor Kenny and Carmen for making me and my team feel right at home. You guys are awesome.

It was a power packed and fun filled trip and hope to do it again someday. Next time I'm taking my wife for sure! Here's some more pictures of the incredible people I met: