Starting 2009

I'm back on the road and we are headed to our first Thirst Conference in Sulphur, LA. It's been nice to catch up with some of our team members during our three days of traveling. Half of the team will meet up with the rest of us in LA. 

The next two months will be spent mostly in Texas in Denison, Ennis, Brenham, San Saba,  Lubbock, and Graham. I'm hoping that I'll be able to keep up my blogspot during the year. 

Please let me know if you are keeping up with my blogspot because it will help me to be motivated to update it frequently.

My October Update

October 2008

Dear Prayer and Financial Supporters,

Life Action Ministries has three road teams. My team specializes in the 4-day THIRST Conferences and the other teams specialize in the 11-day Summit and 2-week Summit. My team consists of 3 families and 17 other single aged team members. We travel around America with three trucks w/ 50+ ft. trailers, a semi, and people mover (a.k.a. a bus). We have meetings scheduled in Georgia, Mississippi, Indiana, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Tennessee, North Carolina, Louisiana, Texas, Oklahoma, Maryland, Illinois, and Virginia.

We have just completed our 5th THIRST Conference and our team is exhausted. We will be running an 11-day summit in Pennsylvania, so we will be able to recuperate a little. We usually arrive at a church on Friday and unload the semi. On Saturday I help Christi with cleaning and setting up their trailer; while the rest of the team sets up all the sound equipment, children’s clubs, and team office. On Sunday, we arrive at the church 2 hours before Sunday School and the Evening Service. On Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday I spend most of my afternoon helping Christi with the kids and spend the evening in Base Camp (our children’s club for 2nd to 6th graders). Wednesday Evening is our last service and ends between 8:30 and 9:30. Then we spend the rest of the night packing everything into the semi; usually we get back to our host home after midnight.

Please pray that we would be wise in getting the rest that we need and God would give us the strength that we need to accomplish each task set before us. These conferences have been emotionally draining but it’s worth it to be able to see lives changed and God glorified.

In addition to our ministry in America, I will have the opportunity to go to El Salvador. In November, our team will fly to El Salvador to build a well for clean water, to teach hygiene to women, and to run our children's clubs for the orphanage. The orphanage currently has over 60 children and the number one cause of death in the country is contaminated water.

My ministry expense for 2008-2009 is $2995 plus an addition $1000 for El Salvador. Currently I have less than 50% of what I need.

To God be all the glory and praise,
Shawntay Celestino

If you'd like to support me financially please send a check to:
Life Action Ministries
PO Box 31
Buchanan, MI 49107

Funds need to be designated to Shawntay Celestino or they will go to Life Action Ministries instead. Also note if you'd like it to be for my Ministry Expense which is tax deductible or my Personal Expense with is not tax deductible.

10 days till Christmas?

So I was listening to the radio and they said there was 10 shopping days till Christmas. And I haven't bought a thing and I'm not even a Scrooge. Life truly is flying by rapidly. My days are busy working and going through my things that are being stored in a friend's basement. But it's nice to be able to fill my time with productive things to do instead of wasting it in front of the tv or computer for hours on end. Before I know it Christmas will have come and gone and I'll be visiting with my family! Yippee!

Quick update

For the past 4 months I've been a part of Life Action Ministries. Its a Revival Ministry based out of Buchanan, Michigan. I've spent 3 months traveling on the road. We've been to 8 different states and then to El Salvador. Right now I'm back in Wisconsin on Christmas break. But will join the team in Michigan in January.

Spring Break and Spring Program Pics

Spring Break (March) pictures and Spring Program (April).

Not really back to blogging

Sorry. I guess I wasn't really back to blogging. I'm on facebook now and it's much easier. Anyways for spring break I was super busy. Even though I don't go back til Monday I'm starting up the working part already. I've got till Tuesday morning to grade my hundreds of assignments...no joke....enter the grades in the gradebook and computer and then get them onto the report cards. Oh yeah lesson plans too. It's a good thing I bought a computer back in October.

As for Spring Break, my friend's parents, uncles, and aunt were here so I had a fun time with them. We went to Pearl Harbor (Arizona Memorial, Battleship USS Missouri, Bowfin Submarine, and the Aviation museum), Waimea Bay, Paradise Cove Luau and I can't remember what else but it was a good time. I even got a lot of sun. I'm way darker than what I was a few days ago. Two days at the beach really did it for me.

New update!

Hi Everyone! I'm back to blogging, I think. Our internet was down for a while but now it's up and running. I'm also on facebook and that's a little easier to keep up.

As for an update...we had my grandma's funeral last week and all my cousins were there, 18 of us and 13 great grandchildren. Although it was grandma's funeral, I haven't seen some of my cousin in years and one came all the way from Germany. Also in the past month I have driven two different cars...the first was a great old '86 GMC Sierra pickup! It's great to drive even though it was humungous and now the new car...it's a '96 Ford Tarus. God's been good to me. Anyways...I know that this is short but I got to go to my student's basketball game.