January 2017 update

With each year that goes by in ministry Angel and I are finding that we have more and more opportunities to learn and to serve. This new year of 2016 is no different. We are looking forward to a great year.

In February we will be going to a workshop that Angel and I have been wanting to go to for two years now. This workshop is called love after marriage. I want to share with everyone an exciting opportunity that Angel and I have in February. For two years Angel and I have been wanting to attend a week long workshop called, Love After Marriage, given by Nothing Hidden Ministries. This is a unique workshop which has the goal to instruct and guide married couples into a relationship characterized by openness, vulnerability, and love. During the Love After Marriage (LAM) Workshop, couples have an opportunity through the working of Holy Spirit, to learn and practice how to bring spiritual, emotional, and intimate oneness into our relationship (nothinghiddenministries.com).

We are very excited and ready to learn all that God has for us in this workshop. We anticipate the breakthrough coming to our marriage through these teachings

In the way of announcements, Angel and I have a pretty big announcement. We’ve been at the Springs for three years now. We have served this last year knowing that we were entering a season of transition. At times it has been challenging. Usually when people find themselves in transition they know what the transition is into, this was not the case for Angel and I.  In late 2015 when Angel and I began filling a shift we were uncertain what it meant. We spent a lot of time asking the Lord what was on the horizon.

 At first it didn’t seem like he was answering, but as 2016 begin Angel and I found vision entering our heart. We have spent the year exploring what God placed in our hearts. By the end of 2016 we had discovered what God desires us to do.  Angel and I are excited to share with you that we believe that God has invited our family to pioneer a Youth With A Mission community in the Reno/Tahoe area.

Starting in March Angel and I will begin working within the Frontiers Discipleship Training School.  This is a five-month school, three months of training and a two-month mission in another country.  The focus of this school’s outreach is Asia; specifically, north eastern China.

For us this is a great opportunity to absorb as much as we can of the nuts and bolts of running as school as preparation for YWAM Reno. Angel will be working hand in hand with the staff member who oversees the development, and operation of all the schools of the base.  This is an area of prayer we need. Please pray for both me and Angel to understand and retain what we are presented with during these five months.  As of right now the family and I are not planning on going to Asia with the school.

While we do not plan on joining the DTS on outreach, we are planning to visit China this year.  My desire is take the family to Shanghai this May on a family outreach. There we will meet with Jerimiah, a friend and partner in ministry who serves in China. These past three years I have visited several fellowships in Shanghai, so I look forward to seeing my family in China again. I anticipate the works the Lord has planned for us this visit. 

  Over the new year Angel was in Athens, Greece serving the refugee crisis there. While Angel was in Greece she witnessed God; she returned home permanently marked. Angel burns to find ways to share what she witnessed and partnered in while in Greece. Angel has begun to unpack what God has done inside of her and she has a fire to share what she has discovered. Will you pray for God to connect us with the places and individuals who need to hear her message?    

Finally, I have great news to report. I finally asked Angel to marry me on December 14, 2016. Yup, you read it right; I never asked Angel to marry me all those many moons ago.  Good news…She said yes! With God’s provision I have been able to give Angel a new ring and are planning a ceremony in the beginning of July.  The details are coming soon.

Please remember us in your prayers for us as this year begins.

·        Love After Marriage Workshop

·        YWAM RENO: Pray for formation of a leadership team.

·        YWAM Reno: Property for the base. We have identified a place we would like to have.

·        YWAM Reno Leadership training. Pray for Angel and I as we undergo our final stages of training for pioneering this work.

·        Family mission to Shanghai.

·        Planning and provision for our vowel renewal.

Feel free to contact us if you have any prayer request.

May God Bless You,

Michael Sweazy

15850 Richardson Springs RD. Chico CA 95973

530-894-5447