de Haas family adventures

Hello, A huge part of our school year is Missions trips and in 2nd year we are also blessed to have the opportunity to go on Ministry trips as well. This year we are staying close to home but are so excited about the opportunity to be a part of a tent revival in Stockton, California. Stockton is about 2hrs south from Redding and is a community in great need of the love of Jesus!  On a mission trip or main priority is evangelism. So our trip will be focused around loving on the people of Stockton. We will do this through handing out food parcels, street evangelism and culminating in night time tent revival services. We are on a small team of 20 people and we will be the first team of 5 to head down and start the ministry. We are so excited about this opportunity and what we will learn and how we will see God move over the course of the 3 days. This opportunity will give us a chance to see how revival can hit a city when we just come to love on people,...

Hello! Wow, how did we get to the end of October already? We have been so flat out since our last blog it has been tough to get time to write to you all. our home from the street. Great news, we found a home to live in! It was such a blessing from God and we can really see his hand on the whole process. We so appreciate those who financially assisted us to get into a home it really means the world to us! This home is such a blessing for the family and it is in an incredible location so close to all the buildings we have to get to for school!  God lined up a student to share our home with. It has been such a blessing and he is adding so much value to our home and family. The kids absolutely love Drew and we love having him around. He is also a 2nd year student at BSSM. He is from South Carolina and so we are navigating explaining the Australian way to him but he seems to be getting it!  The friday after we moved in we were off to Chico YWAM base on our retreat...

Hello! We just wanted to quickly drop by and give an update on what's been happening since our last post. We have started our 2nd year of BSSM! It's been an incredible week, already learning and absorbing so much! We are absolutely convinced that God has us here for this time and this year, it's so exciting! Praise God Chris's tuition is fully paid off!! Thank you so much if you sowed into that, we bless you in return. We moved out of our original home that we had moved into. We are staying with some beautiful friends while we continue to search for a new place. It has proved very difficult in our circumstances to rent and sign a lease. It's complicated but let's just say the US is different to Australia and when you are not allowed to work while you are here it can be hard to prove how you will pay your rent. We have had some incredible offers from people however there always seems to be a hurdle we can't get over. So please continue to pray for...

Hello and blessings to you all. We pray that you are well and surviving the last of the cold winter! We are here in Redding safe and sound. It has been a tough 10 days though and we can by no means see the end in sight. Let me explain a little.  Firstly if you have contacted us on an individual level and not recieved a response we apologise, as you will see it has been very difficult to be in contact with anyone. We knew it was going to be a tougher transition than last year but we never thought it would be like this! After arriving at 1am in the morning I (Elle) came down with a tummy bug the rest of the family had just gotten over in time to fly the day before. It wiped me out for a few days, a few very important days. We had a mountain of things to do which was impossible for just Chris and so we got behind! Everything just seemed so huge. We eventually got the keys to our new place, found a fridge and some beds for the kids and so we moved in. A couple of days late...

5 days to go! In 5 days time we will complete our 5 mile walk through Mount Barker. We are are looking forward to this time, it's not a difficult walk but a very important one in our view. God has an incredible plan for Mt Barker and as it is shaping up to be the secomd biggest city in South Australia it really is ripe for the harvest!  We have had a few people ask where and when we'll be walking. We will be leaving the Wetlands carpark on Bald Hills road Mt Barker at 10:30am on Saturday the 11th August (this Saturday!) and walking the Linear trail to Kay Rd and back to the Wetlands carpark. If you would like to walk and pray with us we would love to have you along use the email link and let us know!  If you have a prayer request or something on your heart for God to do in the Mt Barker area please drop us an  email here . It's not too late to donate you can follow this link to support our BSSM 2nd year tuition!  Go fund me - 5 mile walk for ministry sc...

We are so excited to announce that mid next month we are heading back to Redding California to be part of Second year of Bethel School of Supernatural Ministry! The first year was a beautiful roller coaster of adventure. It stretched us, molded us, challenged us and changed us. Most importantly,it lead us deeper into the heart of Jesus. We learned that He is truly good, loves us abundantly and never leaves or forsakes us.  The first year of the program was a lot about personal transformation (learning to lead ourselves) but this second year will be more about learning how to take what we gained and creating a culture or atmosphere that brings this to our sphere of influence (learning to lead others). Second year is set up very differently to first year. There are a lot more electives we can choose from. This means we can personalise our program to match areas that we feel we need to grow in/develop, to springboard into future life and ministry. Charlee and Declan are...

Note the gum trees in the background - proving we are actually here! We're back in Australia!!! Wow, what a whirlwind the last couple months have been. Packing up our unit in Redding and then picking up the kids from school on their last day, travelling to the airport and flying home! We arrived in Melbourne on Declan's 8th birthday and after I told the crew it was his birthday they went all out and made a big fuss of him! He was invited into the cockpit and the Captain showed him around the hundreds of dials and buttons! They also announced his birthday on the decent into Melbourne and gave him a card signed by the whole crew, a birthday for him to remember forever! We have been blessed to stay with some absolutely gorgeous ladies from our Church who have opened their homes to us for however long we need! We are so grateful for their kindness! Chris has been working casually at the RAH nursing to support us while were home, Elle and the kids have been e...

Wow, what a busy few weeks we have had since our last blog post! Thank you so much to those of you who got in touch with us after our last post it was so nice to hear from you! Charlee and Declan completed their first Color Run as a fundraiser for their school! It was a very warm but beautiful day and they had a lot of fun! They both raised enough money to receive rewards of t-shirts, sunglasses, no homework passes and also an Ice cream treat in a couple weeks! You can see them in action in the photos attached!  The whole event was a huge success for the school raising over $60 k in total. May 7th was a huge day for us with our graduation from 1st year BSSM. After 9 months of school, about 13+ books read, lots of homework and many many friends made we received our certificate! The actual ceremony was a bit of a crazy whirlwind! We were the first revival group to graduate, mostly I would think, thanks to our Pastors wife being a week overdue with their 2nd bab...

Hello everyone! We are really getting down to the last few weeks of school with only 5 school days until our graduation. It has been a whirlwind since we arrived back in Redding after our Mission trips (more on them later) and it has certainly made us miss Australia and are very much looking forward to heading home for a few months in June. Before we share about our mission trips we want to take a moment to let you know of our current need. We truly believe that God bought us here to BSSM for so many reasons and he has done so many incredible things in our hearts and lives! It has of course not been without it's challenges and one of our biggest has been our finances. We have done everything we possibly could to allow God to use our assets and what we have worked for to pay for this adventure but for whatever reason he has chosen not to.  God has been so faithful to us providing for us in so many different ways. We have a huge need right now to finish paying for Charlee and D...

Hello!!!  Well missions has arrived!  Chris departed for Santiago Chile on Wednesday and I for Tijuana Mexico on Friday of last week!  It has been an amazing time for both of us so far, seeing miracles and transformation wherever we go. God is on the move over the entire earth.  There have been incredible testimonies coming from all over the world while the teams are out! If you want to hear them I encourage you to look up and follow 'Increase' on Facebook or Instagram and look for the #BSTM2019!  Charlee and Declan are staying in Redding with some families from BSSM who kindly opened their homes to them.  We will send another blog when we get back and give you a run down of highlights!!!  I wanted to reach our because Charlee and Declan have something exciting coming up and they would love your support ! Their school is having a colour run!!! (or color run because we're in America!) This is a major fund-raiser for their school and there are ...

Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!!! Thank you so much to all of you who donated to our go fund me for us to move our flights! We have received more than enough to move our flights to June 6th for our return to Australia! We are moved by people's generosity and are truly grateful for every dollar that was given!  Bless you all and see you in June!!  Eloise and Chris xxx 

Hello!  Wow how is it almost March! The beginning of this year has flown by! We have had a cold wet and snowy start to 2019!  It was a bit strange heading back to normal so soon after Christmas and new years but it didn't take long to get back into the swing of things.  We have had a wild start to the year with an increased out pouring of Gods presence here. It has challenged us but also shown us what God is currently doing all over the world!  We had our Randy Clark Healing school for a week earlier this month, it was amazing and a huge week with extra sessions and longer school hours but so worth it all. We saw some incredible miracles and we're so blessed to recieve an impartation from both Randy Clark and Bill Johnson, such an honour and a special day at school for all 1st 2nd and 3rd year students!  Last week an amazing event happened here in Redding - it snowed!!! It snows here maybe every few years but usually just less than an inch and it lasts...