Safe arrival in Dominican

Just arrived in the Dominican Republic.
I am excited to meet our hosts for the evening at the local Ywam base.
Thanks for your prayers.

Dominican Republic Quick Trip

Tomorrow I will fly to The Dominican Republic. For the next 5 days I look forward to finding the best outreach locations and opportunities for YWAM Orlando's Spring and Summer teams. We (two other YWAM Orlando staff and I) have meetings in the capital city of Santo Domingo and to the west near the Haitian boarder.

Please pray that I will:
-Meet the right people in The D.R.
-Find the right logistics (housing food and transport) for our upcoming teams
-Understand the needs of the people and how our teams can best share the Love of Jesus by meeting those needs.

Check back early next week for some photos and possibly a video from the trip!

Back in Orlando- first week back at a desk!

One week ago i took the early flight from PVR Mexico. (Took a photo of my view so you could enjoy it too!) Now back in
Orlando, I have hit the ground running, using my first week to plan
out the 10+ conferences I will be representing YWAM at. I am so
excited to meet thousands of potential missionaries!
Happy New Year!

Surfing at Sayulita Mexico

See the guy catching that sweet wave in the video, well that's me!..... (holding the camera filming him surfing like I wish I could).
Spent the day at a little surfing village north of PV. Tried to catch a few waves but I have come to the conclusion that computers fit me better! There is always nextime.

Am so thankful for Picasa for Mac...Finaly!

Picasa has always been my favorite photo editor and was one of the saddest things I left when I switched from PC. Now I dont have to be sad any more! If you have a mac give it a try and thank me later.

Picasa for Mac: Free download from Google

Spent Christmas Day with the Children of the Dump and shot this video to show you

Thank you for allowing me to spend Christmas sharing Jesus with some of the cutest children in the world--click here to watch the HD video and see for yourself! One of my sponsors gave us $100 for the Children of the Dump, so we gave them what they wanted -Candy!

If you would like to become a sponsor or give a special gift you can start by clicking here.

Wishing you a Merry Christmas from my family to yours!

Watching the Pacific Sunset!

Sunset near the Crystal in Puerto Vallarta.

On my way to Puerta Vallarta!

The mountains outside Mexico city are beautiful!

Next stop: Puerto Vallarta, Mexico

For the past two years the Muldoon family (Dad -Jim, Mom-Cynda, Sister- Kaitlin) and I have spent much of our Christmas vacation working with the Children of the Dump in Puerto Vallarta Mexico. I will be departing once again for PV on Thursday. Don't get me wrong, we find time for the sun and the beach, but this is one of our favorite ways to give back as a family. Checkout some photos from recent trips below and check back for new photos in the coming weeks!

April 4-11th I will be leading a team from Road to Life Church to Dominican Republic! Update: Team is full

Click play on the above video to view photos from YWAM's recent outreaches to Dominican Republic.

Trip Update:
Because of an amazing response with in the first week, all 25 seats on our airline reservations are taken. I am sorry to announce that our trip will not be taking additional applicants.

This spring I will spend my vacation focusing on the needs of others in the Dominican Republic.
Imagine the bright smiling faces, joyous laughter and loving embraces as we meet the Dominican people, amazed at the joy in which they embrace life, even though many are poverty stricken. How blessed they will truly be when they encounter the love of God.
Through my team of youth and adults, they will receive love, not just from us, but from the One Who gave it to them. Our first desire will be meeting their physical needs and providing them with some stability for the future through building homes, painting, food distribution, teaching children, providing water, etc. This will give each of us the opportunity to speak into their lives and share with them the love of Jesus Christ.
Last year, teams built a kitchen for a school so the students could receive the proper nutrition to stay awake in class. In this tangible way, over 160 students, as well as their families, felt the impact of Christ's love.
Through your support of my trip to the Dominican Republic, we together can have an eternal impact on these needy lives!

Trip Update: I am sorry to announce that our trip will not be taking additional applicants.

$100 Due before December 1st -
Application and Deposit*
$900, Jan. 19, 2009 -
1st Payment**
$300,March 2, 2009 -2nd Payment**

$1300
 = Total Trip Cost (reduced from $1400!)

*Due to limited airline availability only the fist 25 deposits of $100 were guarantee a spot on the trip at this price. Deposits have been processed in the order that they are turned into Deb, at the RTL church office. (standard office hours apply)

**All payments must be made to Road To Life Church, and clearly include the name of the participant and the designation of "Dominican Mission Trip"

Applications can be downloaded by clicking here.

Passports copies must be turned in with application or by Jan 19th.
If you don't have a passport you must start this immediately due to 6 week processing time! Start passport process by clicking here.

If I can answer any questions please call Creagon's Cell 407.492.0098


England to Michigan in 7 days!

I just got off a 10 hour flight from London last Friday, and now, one week later, I will be flying to Michigan (Nov. 7-17). I look forward to spending a week thanking all the people who have been so committed in supporting what God is doing through me. As well, I see this week as a chance to invite new people to join my support team. If you would like to be a part of this team please let me know. (Phone 407.492.0098)

Communicating With Future Leaders

Every month thousands of people come to ywam.com looking to find their way into world missions. It is my privilege to help these people find the answers to their questions.
Every so often I get a letter from someone thanking me for the role I have played in their life. Many of these people are from various places around the world serving full-time in missions.
While I was in England (click to see video slide show) attending meetings about this very type of communication, one of the leaders I met showed me such a letter:

"I was 18 years old, ready to go full-time with another mission organization and then found out God had other plans for me... I was crushed and lost. A friend told me to check out YWAM... so I found ywam.com, wrote them and asked them [for a YWAM location] in the Czech Republic. Right away, they got back to me, told me they [had] just heard about the first DTS in Czech and gave me their contacts- I wrote them, applied, and was accepted as the first student ever in Czech.
This was all from ywam.com. They responded and helped where they could... it was absolutely life-changing for me... I would not be where I am today, doing what I am doing, if it was not for those guys and how they took the time to help me in my time of wondering!!!"

Today, she is an international leader focusing on communicating the Gospel in some of the least reached parts of the world. Thank you for helping me mobilize the next generation of leaders!

Creagon in England via Video

Fairwell to England

The last sight of Brittish shores

At YWAM Harpenden England (just north of London)

Flying to London England

Last spring the international chairman of YWAM, Lynn Green, asked me to join a meeting of minds in Kona Hawaii. Today, I depart for the YWAM base in Harpenden England (just north of London) to continue the conversation we started six months ago. I look forward to sharing in more depth all we do at YWAM Orlando to draw this next generation into missions with the team assembled there. As always I appreciate your prayers, especially as the issues discussed may effect literally hundreds of thousands of potential missionaries. (Photo: Creagon and Lynn this spring at the YWAM base in Kona Hawaii)

Guess who made the front page of the newspaper

To read the article from the Samford Crimson Follow the link below.

UMin calls Samford students to go global - News
-Junior international relations and Spanish double major Hannah Joiner visits with representatives from Youth With A Mission at the Go Global Missions Emphasis fair held yesterday.

Finding God's Messengers on University Campuses

"I want to get in to missions, but I just don't know how"
"YWAM goes to South Africa? I want to go to South Africa and work with children. Can I do that?"
"Thanks for sharing your story. It helps me know that this (Missions) is really possible"

Today I got to meet and chat with the students of Samford University. Each student that stopped buy our display for the missions emphasis week wanted to make a difference in their generation, but many needed to understand what their first step would look like. I trust that with their drive to impact our world and the information I got to share today they will take action. I got to meet one student who met our YWAM team last year at this event. She will be departing for training in a few months before she spends time reaching out to the least reached people of South Asia. She is proof and encouragement that I must continue to search and find God's next generation of messengers among our university campuses.

Effective Funding for Experinced Misisonaries

Imagine being told that with in the next 3 months you would be overseeing a budget ten times greater than what you are currently operating on. To most of us this sounds too good to be true or the work of a freak chance like finding the winning the lottery ticket on a sidewalk, but for one team of dedicated missionaries this may be their new reality.

Last week I traveled to a YWAM center in an urban community to teach biblical principals of raising financial sponsorship and support to the local staff team. Many of this team have been struggling to get buy on only enough income to pay for very simplistic community style housing and donated food.

Many of God's dreams and visions for this team were consistently dismissed and thought impossible because nearly all of their funding was being absorbed by the most basic needs of life and so little was left for reaching out effectively with the Gospel.

It was my goal in a 5 day visit to help these dreams become possible again. I challenged each of the full time volunteers to create a budget based on the amount needed to be effective, not on the amount currently available. Only then was the true disparity between a mindset of Effectiveness and Poverty revealed.

By the end of last week I was amazed to see a visible glow in the eyes of each team member. God given inspiration that was once abandoned, now filled the spirits and minds of a revitalized team. Unique ways to reach out to the most oppressed of our nation with the love of Jesus once again filled the hopes of these experienced missionaries.

To be sure, there is still much work to be done before each of these visions are fully funded by committed sponsors, but a new paradigm has been discovered and a shift in thinking. There is now a marked feeling of measured optimism leading to the setting of achievable goals. I am quite certain that I will get to see astounding growth during future visits as the experience of these dedicated workers and the freedom of effective funding now will combine to share the truth of Christ in a very needy urban neighborhood.

Thank you, For your help allows me to experience the freedom of effective funding!