Tammy's Chile/New Zealand/Australia Trip

  My intentions for this trip are: To serve with the CSUS Surf & Serve team at Youth With A Mission YWAM Pichilemu in Chile, doing construction work; to build relationships with fellow team members; to rekindle and deepen friendships with Chileans. (We lived in Chile from 1989 to 1996. I visited in 2005 for 3 weeks, and last December my family was there for 8 days.)                                                 To connect and build friendships with Christian Surfers (CS) leaders, members & missions near Auckland, New Zealand and as I travel up the coast of Australia from Sydney to Brisbane (and stay with some of them to maximize our time together and minimize my time alone)  To learn more about how CS New Zealand and CS Australia oper...

Trip Itinerary (subject to change) April 1 - Fly to Los Angeles alone, then to Santiago, Chile with the Christian Surfers United States (CSUS) Surf & Serve team. Travel to Pichilemu, Chile. Serve doing construction work at Youth With A Mission YWAM Pichilemu April 11 - CSUS Team leaves Pichilemu. I stay to visit and serve friends in Pichilemu, Rancagua, and Santiago before leaving Chile ____________________ April 22 - Fly from Santiago to Auckland, New Zealand April 23-30 - New Zealand Waiheke Island - 40-minute ferry trip from Aukland Mount Maunganui - Christian Surfers NZ hub Stunning beaches Rotorua?: Geothermal, Cultural, indigenous possibly visit Gisborne __________________________ April 30 - Fly from Auckland to Sydney, Australia. Travel up the coast, staying with Christian Surfers Australia families Cronulla - Kurnell 30 mins South of the airport Wamberal - about 1.5 hours north of the airport CS drop-in house in Forster Bonny Hills NSW Australia - close to halfway between S...

  Photo from 1994? (Before Lisa was born)      Joe and I (and our daughter Joy) were missionaries in Chile from 1989 to 1996. We lived mostly in Pichilemu and worked on establishing a Christian Surfers ministry there. Our two younger children were born in Chile (Silas in 1992 and Lisa - a.k.a Asa - in 1995).      Sadly, Joe died of a brain tumor on October 31, 2023, after having been ill for only 6 months.      In December, my family and I visited Chile, where we rekindled relationships with those we had known and loved, enjoyed seeing all that God has done through the seeds we planted, and celebrated the life of my husband and their father with the people of Santiago, Rancagua, and Pichilemu. We were only in Pichilemu for 5 days, though, and I left with the desire to return and stay longer. in the airport in front of the house we lived in for several years Parque Ross (This bridge is on the cover of our "Sing for Joy" cassette) https:...