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1. THE McCREA NEWS
www.ourlovingfather.com June 2012
The Force
Dear Friends, The title of the following testimony may be a little corny, but
when I received this letter from Lucas (Luke) I remembered
Maybe it is because our family is in “Birthday Season” bugging him with that famous line from Star Wars.
(Darren March 9th, Patty April 1st, James May 30th), but the
three months since our last newsletter have flown past! Lucas was one of the 30 youth that we brought to Canada for
five weeks of outreach in 2007. At age 13, he was able to see
Much of this time we have God work through him in a strange land and do many new
been up to our ears in the things. As it happens, his first time roasting marshmallows
paperwork and planning that seemed strangely like a light saber battle.
any ministry requires. We
have been involved in some Patty and I are thrilled to have been a small part in him
church events (Patty is finding the right path to “The Force” and entering missions.
teaching Sunday School and I
am leading Men’s Ministry) James & I
and organizing a couple of Luke learns to use “The Force.”
secret (really wish we could talk about them here) projects.
Dear Darren
Over 400 000 Served! It has been a long time since
Part of planning for the future involves looking back and we have spoken, but I want
evaluating the past. In the last ten years we have been a part to share a little about my life
of presenting the Gospel to some 400,000 people. Many of since we went on the
these have been in the last few years through community outreach to Canada.
events and outreach teams. So the plan?
Over the next few years I distanced myself from God. I
Well, we feel that God is challenging us to triple the number rebelled against my parents and I started to go to parties,
of people that we are reaching in the next five years by drink, smoke and do things that I shouldn’t have. I tried
expanding our emphasis on international teams. to find a balance in my life between Jesus and the world,
but evidently there is no halfway point.
As part of that we will be looking to connect with new
churches and promote the HUGE opportunities in Colombia. One night in a disco God showed me a vision of the
spirits behind the people that I was with; He let me see
June & July Outreaches the emptiness and sadness of their lives. He told me that
I would end up the same way if I didn’t change.
Our next big outreaches are in Bogota. On June 11th Mobile
Teams will be holding a Community and Medical Outreach. Since that night I experienced genuine repentance and my
This is a three day event, where we will present the gospel life has turned around 180E. After I finished my studies
through service based evangelism. With just one lunch we last December, I came to the USA for vacation and it was
hope to feed 1500 people and there will be many activities! there that God showed me clearly that I should join
YWAM and do a DTS (Discipleship Training School),
On July 14th I will be packing my bags for a three week trip to something that I never imagined. But I remembered the
host an outreach team from Metro South Church in Detroit. things that God did on our outreach in Canada and I
We will be ministering in Schools and shopping centres in and decided that I wanted to experience more.
around Bogota.

2. From page 1... Patty Receives Ministry Credentials
I checked out a YWAM Although Patty and I work through YWAM, we have been
base close to where I was missionaries recognized by the PAOC (Assemblies of God in
in North Carolina and Canada) all of these years and I have ministry papers with
was accepted to the next them. As part of that relationship and wanting to Patty to be
school. It has been a recognized and honoured as the minister that she is, we
marvellous time and I am recently applied for ministry credentials for Patty.
grateful to God for
having used you and We are not too concerned about titles
07 Outreach, Lucas right centre.
Joshua; inviting me to be ourselves, but in Latin America it is
part of the outreach where this fire for Missions was kindled. especially difficult for women to
minister sometimes. There are doubts
Our DTS outreach will be in Cambodia. We leave in June for about their qualifications and being
2 months and I am so excited! We have been praying for this recognized as a minister will open new
country with so many problems like child sex trafficking, doors for her.
extreme poverty, poor education, etc. Cambodia is in God’s
heart, so we will go trusting in Him to do something great for In her credential interview Patty was praised for the
this nation. theological answers she gave on her application and was told
that she did better than some Bible College graduates!
Lucas Suárez lucassr_18@hotmail.com
Pleased to be Published
Got Miles? Last September we shared a story about “Cristina” a young
girl that had been affected by gang violence and found Christ
75% of Airline Reward Miles through one of our outreaches.
are never redeemed. We are honoured that this same story will be published in the
Canadian Evangelical newspaper “Change,” this month.
We can help with that!
www.watch4change.com
Patty and I have Frequent Flyer accounts with
American Airlines, United, Air Canada and others.
Prayer Points
If you have miles that you are not using, they would - for our next outreaches.
aid our travels and allow us to teach in places where
they cannot afford to help with travel costs. - for our ongoing personal needs.
If you would like to donate your miles, Until next time, hug some children and let them know
please e-mail us. that God loves them. You are His arms.
Æ Darren, Patty , James & Darien Æ
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