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