John is International President of Youth With a Mission, www.ywam.org. Which has 20,000 missionaries in 144 countries around the world. He is also president of the International Reconciliation Coalition, www.reconcile.org/. Which ministers and advocates reconcilation around the globe. Newest update Here.

May 2012 Newest Update

Dear South Coast Family,

Thank you Southcoast Fellowship for your generosity, prayers, and support over these many years.  We continue to be grateful for our relationship with you.

John and I continue to be full time missionaries.  Two of our sons are missionaries as well, one in Brazil and one in New Zealand.  They have growing families and have many financial needs.  They need the sustaining grace and strength of God to help them lead in their communities.  David is a pastor of a church and Matthew is a leader in YWAM’s community development and ship ministries in the South Pacific.  I know they would appreciate prayer for wisdom, finances, health, and favor with God and man.

John continues to travel much of the time fulfilling his call as a leader in the body of Christ with YWAM and the IRC.  We have never received a salary, so we would appreciate prayer for God to provide our needs as well as for the needs of our International Office which is located here on the church properties.  We need grace for difficulties, wisdom for decisions and health and strength as we are getting older!

Our daughter, Rachel, is 15 and in High School.  Our schedules create the need for flexibility and a yielding of her “rights” as a teenager attached to missionary parents.  We would appreciate prayer for good friends and grace to be separated from her brothers, and nieces and nephew.
We have office staff who need prayer.  Beth Finsaas, assistant to Andy Zimmermann in the YWAM and IRC office, has a heart for France and leads outreach teams a couple of times a year to France.  Please pray for continued favor and that more and more people will come to know Jesus in France.

April De Pretis, our administrator for the YWAM and IRC office, continues her work in justice issues.  She is working to expose human trafficking in the city and surrounding areas.  Please pray for safety and that what is “hidden” would be exposed, all for the glory of God.

Julie and John Dawson

Birthdays

John 11/19

Julie 5/29

Rachel 10/10

 Contact Info

PO Box 3278
Ventura, CA 93006

History

Missionaries since 2003