RAVEN San Francisco Outreach

RAVEN MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL

San Francisco, California

Outreach Team

"Otis" in San Francisco

(Above L-R) Rudy Gonzales, "Otis" and Pastor Troy. We had the blessing to witness and minister at length to Otis who was not only homeless, but also bound by alcohol and drug addiction. He was convicted by the Word of God and the moving of the Holy Sprit and knelt down in the street and cried out to Jesus to save and deliver him during our San Francisco Outreach.

(Below) This is the "Audio" of part of the ministry time with Otis. You will hear him praying and then Rudy and Pastor Troy ministering to him as well.

San Francisco Outreach

(Above) Pastor Troy & Rudy Gonzales (Raven West Coast Director) walk along Golden Gate Dr. in San Francisco's "Tenderloin District" which is the home to rampant drug abuse, prostitution, and homelessness.
(Above) Gloria, Pastor Troy and Lori stand with two homeless men that they were able to minister to during the street ministry outreach in San Francisco.

(Above) Pastor Troy prays with a homeless drug addicted man. This man had a Bible College degree and had once been in the ministry before falling away from the Lord Jesus.

(Above) Pastor Troy lays hand on the man and prays that God would break the bondage of sin and restore his mind to him.

(Above) Pastor Troy embraces the former minister after ministering to him on the street.

(Above) Debbie (Raven West Coast) prays with a young homeless man in San Francisco.

(Above) Anthony Gonzales (Raven West Coast) with a homeless man "Rawsheekie" in San Fran

(Above) Brian Bennet (Hope Chapel) out in the "Tenderloin." Brian has such a heart for the homeless, hurting and downcast.

(Above) John (Hope Chapel) sits with a homeless man during the outreach.

(Above) the team was able to bring food and drinks to the homeless out for the San Fran outreach.

Ocean Baptism!

One of the highlights of my recent trip to the San Francisco area was having the privilege of water baptizing Rudy Gonzales (Director of Raven West Coast) and another young lady named Katie.

Rudy's local pastor had mentioned baptizing Rudy there at their church on several occassions, but Rudy continued to tell him, "No, Pastor Troy is coming out and I want him to baptize me in the ocean!"

Well we did just that! Now, this is the Northern Pacific ocean (North of San Francisco) and it circulates from the coasts of Alaska. The area that we were at has a stream feeding into it call "Salmon Creek" where the salmon go to spawn! This is COLD WATER! PTL

(Above) The Gonzales Family (L-R) Maddie, Rudy, Lori, Anthony, and CeCe
(Above) The team prays for Katie before we entered the water to baptize her.
(Above) Pastor Troy and the team lay hands on Rudy and pray for him prior to the baptism.

(Above L-R) Pastor Russ Clifford (The Living Well Church of Santa Rosa, Calf.), Brian Bennett (Hope Chapel of Santa Rosa), Rudy and Pastor Troy make their way into the choppy waters.
(Above) Rudy rejoices as Pastor Troy grabs ahold of Katie as they are all slammed by a wave.
(Above) Pastor Troy and Rudy embrace on the beach following the baptism.
(Above) Pastor Troy, Rudy and Katie...there is ONE WAY and that way is JESUS!

(Above) Rudy kneels to worship the Lord Jesus as he rejoices in what God has done for him.
(Above) The "Team" on the beach!

STREETWISE-RAVEN NYC OUTREACH

The NYC Outreach held May 18-22 was BEYOND BELIEF and the men of God that gathered from across this nation were primed and ready to "Go for Jesus." The outreach, termed the "Boot Camp in the Big Apple" and themed after the words to the old 70's hit "The Boys are Back in Town" was the first of what Street Wise Ministry (Hollywood) and Raven Ministries International hopes to be an annual event.

(Above L-R) Steve Ignowski and Terry Shuff of Raven Midwest are joined by Thomas Derrick (far right - of Raven New Orleans) with their "friend" they met while we ministered in Tompkins Square Park on the Lower East Side of Manhattan one evening. The man was the "heavy" in a drug infested park, yet the guys were able to minister to him at length.

(Above) Terry Shuff stands in th shadow of the steel beams that formed the shape of a cross at "Ground Zero" in New York City. This was the site of the 9/11 terrorist attack which was the single deadliest terror attack in US History. THIS DAY we took the SINGLE GREATEST HOPE into this area: JESUS

(Above)I was blessed to have two of my nephews with me during this outreach. Justin Bohn (far left) is a full time volunteer for the Celebration Relief Center in New Orleans and Brandon Romero (far right) is the new director of Raven Southwest based in Albuquerque, NM.

(Above) My brother, Bradley Perez (Post, Texas) stands with "Nick" who we ministered to at the "Cube" in NYC as he and his friends were headed out to party.

(Above) Brandon Romero serves refills to those joining us for dinner at the Homeless Cafe' on Saturday night of the outreach at Abounding Grace Church.

(Above) Anthony LeBlanc ministers JESUS to a young man out on the streets during the outreach.