South Africa Conference 2010

It was a privilege for Michael and I to lead worship at the Calvary Chapel Pastors/Missions Conference in Capetown, South Africa. My Dad (he's the one playing bass in the above picture) and Mom accompanied us on the trip along with our precious 3-year-old son Jayden.

It was a God thing how this trip came about. Michael woke up the other morning and told me about a dream he'd had. In the dream he'd had some different ministry choices and he asked me, "What do you think we should do?"

In his dream I said, "I think we should go to South Africa!"

"What!" he said? "South Africa!?" Then he woke up.

After he told me the dream we laughed and he went to the computer to check messages and there before him was a message from a pastor friend and his wife from Capetown, South Africa asking if we'd consider coming to lead worship for their pastor/leadership conference. We were blown away how the Lord gave Michael the dream to prepare us and confirm to us that we should go.
There were pastors and missionaries from all over South Africa. It was such a blessing as we all praised the name of Jesus together adults and children alike.

Here's my mom talking with one of the South African pastors. We all enjoyed the diversity of the people and conversations we had as we fellowship with one another.

Our little Jayden also enjoyed all his new little South African friends as he was a part of the children's ministry there.

We also enjoyed leading worship at Calvary Chapel Capetown on both the Sundays we were there.

Our flight home was quite eventful. During the trip Jayden and Michael caught a stomach virus. Jayden was not feeling well when we got on the 15 hour flight from Johannesburg to Atlanta. The captain tried to talk us out of taking the flight. In the middle of the flight, the head stewardess told us that if Jayden was sick when we got the U.S. she would have to report him to customs. Well, while the stewardess was telling us all this, my Mom was dealing with the stomach virus 5 rows over but she had to keep a low profile so she wouldn't be seen sick and get reported to customs herself. We were able to give Jayden some medication that made him feel better. In the end we all put on our best faces as we deplaned and went through U.S. customs.

Click here to see all the fun pictures we posted from this trip.

Here's fun video of my dad, Evan, and Calvary missionary in England, Rob Dingman, having a good 'ol fashion blues jam as members of Calvary Chapel Johannesburg and Calvary Chapel Capetown look on.

Europe and Beyond

The "Beyond" part of the title stands for South Africa. Michael, Jayden (our 3-year-old) and my (Golden's) parents will be going to South Africa from October 8-18. We will be leading worship at the Missions/Pastors Conference in Capetown. We're really looking forward to this trip. For more on this trip and how it happened that we're going, which is a really interesting and fun God story, please go to this link. www.togetherministries.com/missionltrs/southafrica.html

Here we are (Michael, Golden and our daughter, Avalon) leading worship at Creation Fest in England for the children's ministry. Avalon lead all the hand motions while Mommy and Daddy did most of the singing. During the week long event we saw about 200 kids a day come through the children's ministry tent. It was awesome to have the opportunity to share Christ and hang out with all of them. There were 9 kids who made decisions for Christ which is really exciting because Europe is a hard place to reach.

We just had to do this; get our picture on Abbey Road. There's this street cam above us that broadcasts to the internet. So I called my Dad in MO at 4am his time and woke him up so he could log into abbeyroad.com and watch the 3 of us do all our antics back and forth across Abbey Road. I was inspired so I rewrote the lyrics to the Beatles "Here Comes the Sun" to "Here Comes the SON."

Chorus:

Here comes the SON, doo doo doo doo

Here comes the SON, and I say, "Be Ready"

Verse 1:

Little children, in the twinkling of an eye He's coming

Little children, on a white horse Jesus will return (chorus)

Verse 2:

Little children, let's see those smiles on your faces

Little children, He's the reason we are singing here (chorus)

Verse 3:

Little children, can you see the moving of God's Spirit

Little children, the Word of God has made it clear (chorus)

Bridge:

Son, God's Son, Here he comes (4x)

Next, we headed off to the Calvary Chapel Castle in Milstat, Austria for the Calvary Chapel Missions Conference.

Here's a picture looking out the window of the main conference room. The scenery in Austria is breathtaking.

Our primary function at the Missions Conference was to serve the people attending. I worked full time in the children's ministry 0-3 year olds.

Michael worked with the grounds crew but often got pulled in to help with the children's minsitry.

Avalon attended the conference with the other children. She's made friends from all over the world. What an awesome opportunity for her.

What really made this trip special was that we got to serve with our little girl. We're hoping to be able to serve with our whole family with next year.

Please keep us in prayer and may God richly bless you like only He can do!

In His Grip,

Michael, Golden, Avalon, Micah, Zachary and Jayden

England, Austria, Here We Come!

Well, our daughter, Avalon, and Michael and I leave on August 4th at 4:30p for England for Creation Fest and then onto Austria for the Calvary Chapel Mission's Conference. Please keep us in prayer as we will be teaming up with the Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa's children's ministry. We invite you to hook up with us on FaceBook if you haven't already. We will be posting pictures from our mission trip as we go. www.facebook.com/michaelandgolden .

The following are pictures from our family ministry adventures this last month.

Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa's 4th of July Celebration.

The Preciado Family shares at the Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa's 4th of July Celebration.

Michael and Golden and kids sharing on a Sunday night at Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa.

At the last minute we got asked to fill in at Family Camp at the Twin Peaks Conference Center. What a total blessing for us! We had never been to family camp before.

Here we are teaching the campers the "Old Testament Books of the Bible" song.

Golden leads worship during the Baptism in Twin Peaks at Family Camp.

Our children, Avalon, Micah and Zachary, asked us if they could be baptized. Here's our little Avalon with Pastor John Chubik and Pastor Eric Tribble.

Michael, Golden, Avalon and Granpa Evan lead worship at Calvary Chapel Irvine.

Michael and band lead worship at a military installation.

Michael reading morning devotions with our 4 beautiful children.

Golden, Pastor Chuck and Kay at their Birthday Celebration!

Please keep us in your prayers. May God richly bless you like only He can do!

In His Grip,

Michael, Golden, Avalon, Micah, Zachary and Jayden

We are so excited to announce the release of our family CD project called,"The Family Room." This is a project we recorded with our children, Avalon, Micah, Zachary and Jayden. Here, take a listen!

If you can't be there you can still join us online as we will be streaming from the event on the TOGETHER MINISTRIES internet channel. Here's the link.

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/together-ministries

We will be giving away our new CD at CCCM Independence Day event. If God leads you to make a donation all those proceeds will go towards our mission trip in England and Austria this summer.

WOULD YOU LIKE A CD EVEN THOUGH YOU MIGHT NOT BE THERETOMORROW? Send us an email with your mailing address indicating that you would like one and we will send you one. We are hoping this CD will help raise the rest of the amount needed for our mission trip this summer. If youwould like to make a donation you you can donate online or send a check in the mail made payable to Together Ministries.

26100 Newport Rd. A12, #401
Menifee, CA 92584

As always your donations are tax deductible.

Here's a fun video of our family leading worship at Calvary Chapel Orange.



Please continue to keep us in prayer as our family ministers together. Write after the Independence Day event, it's off to Twin Peaks where we will be leading worshipfor the Calvary Costa Mesa Family Camp.

May God richly bless you!

In His Grip,
Michael, Golden, Avalon, Micah, Zachary and Jayden

The Family Room

This is the name of our new family CD project. The CD includes a bunch of popular praise songs and a few original tunes. The CD is in post production right now. Here's a fun video of the of our recording sessions at Heritage Hill Productions in Aulville, MO (which is really Granpa Evan and Grandma Sherry's ranch). The song in the video is one we recorded and will be on the CD.

Preciado Family singing at Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa on Easter evening.

Golden leading worship at Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa's Women's Retreat.

Don't forget to subscribe to the SCRIPTURE MEMORY MUSIC BOX podcast. Find it on iTunes. Let the treasures of the Bible sink into your heart and mind as you memorize scripture set to music. Find out more about this podcast on http://www.togetherministries.com/ .

Right now we have posted a fun blues song to help you memorize the Old Testament Books of the Bible. Coming soon we'll be posting an unforgetable flower child kinda song to memorize the New Testament Books of the Bible. After that we'll be posting Psalm 23 word for word from the New King James.

May God richly bless you like only He can do!

In His Grip,
Michael, Golden, Avalon, Micah, Zachary and Jayden

The Preciado Family Band Debut

Click on this link to see our first full performance together as a family (Avalon, 9-years-old, Michael and Zachary 8-years-old, Daddy Michael and Mamma Golden). http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/4586952

We played at Calvary Chapel Anaheim Christian School Assembly during their missions' emphasis week. We got to sing and share about our mission experiences around the world.

Thanks to technology we were able to stream this live to the internet from our iPhone. In fact, we are sending live streams for most of our worship and performance times. If you are on Face Book, we let you know when those times are coming so you can click in and join us live. Here is the link to the Together Ministries Channel. http://www.ustream.tv/channel/together-ministries

If you would like to find us on FaceBook our screen name is "MichaelandGolden Preciado" or you can follow this link. http://www.facebook.com/michaelandgolden

Mexico Mission-Sonrisa Orphanage

Here Michael and I and the kids are leading some Spanish worship before the Bible Study.

Michael comforts this boy who just got hurt during play time.

Here's our little Avalon playing with a bunch of the orphan girls.

Bill Evans from Calvary Chapel Irvine leads the kids in a Bible Study.

Michael plays ball with this little orphan boy.

Music Lessons By Donation

We've started teaching music lessons on a donation basis. This has been a blessing because it's opened the doors for adults and kids to have music lessons who couldn't otherwise afford them. We enjoy passing along to others what we have learned.

Coming Up-The Preciado Family CD Project

In the last week of March our family is heading off to Missouri where my Dad's recording studio is and we will record our first family CD. We're calling it "The Family Room." It will include popular praise and worship and songs that we have written. Please keep us in prayer as we take on this adventure.

In His Grip,
Michael, Golden, Avalon, Micah, Zachary and Jayden