The CA Experience

Dear Family and Friends,


Last week was special for the Webb family as we flew to San Diego, CA for a 5-day visit with our friends at Las Flores Church of the Nazarene in Carlsbad, CA. Only David had ever visited CA before, so it was a first for three of us!

We enjoyed great food and lodging with our friends, Toby, Rhonda and Sammy. We appreciated the computer assistance from Phil and Stephanie (Congrats you two with baby on the way!). Kayley loved her sleepover with her pal Bonnie (Thanks May family!) and we had a blast reuniting with the two teams from their church that visited Costa Rica in the last two years. The teens are growing up!


We visited the beach, the San Diego zoo (lots of walking and a great elephant exhibit among others), Sea World (you gotta love Shamu and the dolphins!),
and rode our first combination roller coaster/water ride.

Joshua had his first surfing lesson and actually made it to his feet one time! His teacher was the youth pastor, Nate (standing next to Joshua in the photo), who is a semi-pro surfer - an expert! How fun for Joshua to try this new sport!


We spoke at the Las Flores church on Wednesday night.
Then Thursday evening we enjoyed a cookout with the teams and the local mission council. What fun!




We also visited Point Loma Nazarene University. It is an amazing campus with many ocean views! I think I would have a hard time studying there!!! Kayley has decided she IS going to college there and Joshua is strongly considering it. We’ll see!

We are preparing to leave for Tulsa, OK in the morning where we will speak Saturday night, Sunday morning and Sunday night. Then back to Iowa for a day of laundry and packing it all up! Next week we head off to Chicago, then Ohio, then West Virginia, then Maryland and the DC area. It will be a little crazy before we finally head back to Chicago and then HOME to Costa Rica!

Thanks for your prayers for our travel and church services. It has been a great summer filled with many blessings from God.

God bless you all,
The Webb Family

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July 2009

Trevecca Team to Nicaragua in May

A 14-member team from Trevecca Nazarene University in Nashville, TN arrived ready to work in May. The endured hard days of travel by bus, boat and bus again (14 hours in all) to reach the small town of El Rama in the Southeast District of Nicaragua.

The team assisted Nicaraguan leaders by digging a trench to supply water to the nearby elementary school, by replacing wood panels on a preschool building, enjoying VBS with the children of the school and showing the Jesus Film.






After three days of activities, more than 110 people had accepted the Lord. The DS announced,
“Today, we saw a church be born!”

The work continues there for the local leaders who are discipling those who made decisions for Christ during the Maximum Mission events.

Home Assignment Begins
On May 23rd, the Webb family said a sad goodbye to Costa Rica and climbed aboard a plane bound for Chicago by way of Miami. It has been a busy time for the Webbs as they have already put more than 7000 miles on the minivan making stops in Iowa, Tennessee, Georgia, Florida, Kansas and most recently, California.





The Webbs are currently in Carlsbad, CA spending time with the Las Flores church congregation who brought teams to the Costa Rica for the last two years.

Thanks to all who have let us stay in your homes as we have travelled. We are looking forward to future trips to Oklahoma, Illinois, Ohio, West Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania and Delaware.

The Webbs will return to Costa Rica at the end of August.


General Assembly in Orlando, Florida

In June, the General Assembly for the Church of the Nazarene was held in hot Orlando, Florida. The Webbs spoke at Apopka Calvary Church of the Nazarene while there but most of the time was spent working at the exhibit hall. A good time was had by all, roaming the huge facility meeting new people, learning about various ministries of the church, and running into old friends. Here you can see the Seminary exhibit booth where Shelley spent most of her time at the GA.




David spoke briefly at the Nazarene Missions International Convention sharing what God has been doing on the MAC South field. Good job, David!




New Deputation Site Released
There is a new way to be linked with the Webbs deputation site to read current news, see the latest photos and to give to the Webb deputation account or to special projects. This will be very convenient for those who like to use a credit card. Please know the site is secure and credit can be given to your local church.
See the site at web.nazarene.org/goto/davidwebb.

Thanks for your prayers and support.
You are a blessing!
The Webb Family David, Shelley, Joshua and Kayley

GA and Beyond

Hello Friends,

Our last blog left off with our time at General Assembly. We ended our time at the GA hearing great preaching on Sunday.
We kept up with the business parts of the meetings by Internet and watched the videos of the elections of the new General Superintendents. We are so pleased that one of the three elected is from Africa. This is the first GS from outside of the USA and it is high time for that since more than 50% of the church population is from outside the USA and Canada.

We enjoyed spending time with David's mom and sister who flew down from Iowa to help us at GA.
Our friend, Jim, was there as well and he helped us by sharing his condo with us for a few days. It was fun to see friends from Central America, for example, our friend Gerardo who is the District leader for Nicaragua South.











On Monday and Tuesday we had fun visiting two of the Disney Parks – Epcot and Magic Kingdom. We would highly recommend Epcot to anyone with kids our ages – 11 and 14.
They loved it all! Magic Kingdom was geared more toward smaller kids and the biggest roller coaster was closed, then add in an entire day of rain, and we decided that Epcot was more our style.


After two days of walking and fun, we loaded up the car once again to head north and west to Iowa. Three long days later, we arrived in Iowa, watched the Ames, Iowa fireworks and then spoke at the Fort Dodge Church on Sunday morning. After a nice lunch with their prayer group, we were glad to arrive safe and sound in Leon (David’s mom’s home) once again.


In our 6 weeks in the USA we have put more than 5000 miles on the van and moved all our stuff in and out of homes/hotels etc… 15 times! We are glad for today – a day with no services and time to catch up on emails and daily work. The kids may even find time to swim at the local pool this afternoon.

We are gearing up for a trip to Olathe, KS on Wednesday and then off to northeast Iowa on Friday. It will be a busy weekend with services on Sunday morning in Cedar Falls and Sunday night in Burlington, IA.

God bless your week! See you down the road!
The Webbs

GENERAL ASSEMBLY 2009

Dear Friends and Family,
It has been a whirlwind of activity with a cyclone of services and camps in TN. But that is behind us now and we are now enjoying the HOT Orlando temperatures! With a heat index of 108 degrees on Monday, we are pleased to be in air conditioning most of the time.

On the way to Orlando we stopped in Atlanta to visit with David’s brother and wife, Larry and Cathy. It was fun to reconnect after much time. Our visit was short but we hope to make a stop there once again after the Conventions.

Our first stop in Orlando was just north of the city in Longwood with the Kersten family. Daron and Zoe are old friends from our days in Hinesville, GA. Their Dad, Myron Kersten, was our Pastor while we lived there and since we did not have family to spend holidays with in the local area, we often spent time with their family (8 children). Although we had been out of touch with Daron and Zoe for a number of years, we are thrilled to be connected again and know the friendship will last a lifetime.

We enjoyed Sunday morning at both services (English and Spanish) and then enjoyed a delicious lunch with the Kerson’s, Vivian (the NMI President at the church), and the Eurasia Regional Director and his family, Dr. Gustavo Crocker, his wife Rachel and their two beautiful girls, Beth and Raquel. To spend time with one of the six Regional Directors is a privilege and we were excited to hear what God is doing in Europe and parts of Asia. The "kids" had a great time too!


The Orange County Convention Center is the location for the Nazarene General Assembly. Shelley is working at the SENDAS booth and David is at the MAC Region talking to people about what God is doing in the Seminary and in the MAC Region. The days have been going by quickly as we see many new friends and make many new ones.

David presented a 3 minute summary of MAC South activities in the NMI Convention. He did a great job and from all I heard, the entire presentation was a hit!



You can’t be in Florida and not take in some pool time. We look forward to more rest and fun this weekend as our shifts are over with working the booths and now we can enjoy the Convention and play a bit. Disney is on the calendar for Monday and Tuesday.

We have enjoyed having David’s Mom and sister (Virginia and Tina) here with us in Orlando. They have been a blessing to help us with the kids. Another blessing is our friends Jim Barnett, who has been so kind to share his condo with us which has been a huge blessing with the expenses for this trip along with helping Kayley with her crawl stroke and breathing for swimming. Thanks, Brother Jim.

Thanks for your prayers as we minister and play here in Orlando. May God bless you this week!

The Webb Family

Hello Everyone!

It has been a whirlwind of activity since arriving in Tennessee! It has been so wonderful to see our old Woodlawn gang but also great to meet new friends too! Here is a quick rundown of the week….
Last Sunday – Great morning at our home church of Woodlawn, TN! Sorry, no pics from that day since we left the camera behind by accident. But here are few of the teens (they were just kids when we left TN in 2005 – all grown up now!).

Other services this week included Ashland City Faith Community,
Griffin’s Chapel (outside of Erin, TN), a service at the TN Campmeeting at Camp Garner Creek in Dickson, Cross Roads Community in Munford (just north of Memphis), and a kids Jamboree event at the campgrounds.

All the services were filled with wonderful people. It was so nice to meet them early in the week and then see them again at the campgrounds later in the week too!
Joshua and a large group of teens (including one older teen named David) enjoyed the rock concert by the Christian band Building 429. We think it is great that the camp had a special event just for teens!

Yesterday (Sunday) we returned to the church where we had our very first deputation service in August of 2005! It was fun to see some familiar faces after four years and to update the congregation on the happenings in MAC South.
Thanks to all the TN Churches for their support and prayers. This week has been a blessing to us spiritually as well as we have enjoyed hearing great preaching and teaching in our heart language.

This week looks busy with services Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday (Goodlettsville, Dover and Waverly) along with a middler (3rd and 4th grade) camp on Wednesday before traveling on to Atlanta on Thursday!

God is blessing us with great times of fellowship and fun. Pray for us as we continue the trek!

God bless you all,
The Webb Family