This update shares blessings and sadness in our current season of life. Lots to be thankful for and our personal faith has stretched and grown through it all. On the side of celebration we rejoice in the marriage union of John Utz to our Kelsey! Penny and I are now empty nesters, which is a new season of life. We recently celebrated the birth of our second grandson Nico and that brings our total to three fabulous grandkids! Ministry has also been sweet, lots of discipleship happening with our airmen & spouses, but also bittersweet as they PCS and deploy. We also had opportunity this summer to visit many dear friends, some of which are partners with us in ministry. On the sad side of things, Todd lost his dad earlier this spring and Penny tragically lost both her parents recently.

We hope the pictures below share a more accurate description of life right now. Please pray for us this holiday season, we will be praying that your time with one another will be blessed. Thank you for your continued prayer and support, without you the discipleship and love displayed to our airmen wouldn’t happen!

Thanks for taking the time to view what we have been up to! We covet your prayers, as always, so please don’t stop praying for us and the ministry of Military Casa! With love, the Beaudin’s!

If a picture is worth a thousand words we have much to say, from the Holidays to Discipleship to Family! The Airmen involved with Casa are growing in their faith, evangelism, and discipleship. It’s our goal to train Airmen to reach the lost in the Military and then replicate using hospitality.

Penny and I will embark on a brief home assignment in the next couple months. We will be visiting different areas where our partners in ministry reside to share the exciting news of what God is doing in the hearts of our Airmen! We figure it will take us a few summers to visit everyone so if you don’t get a visit immediately, be patient, we will get to you!

Our service members have been attending our training sessions called DISCIPLE, to learn how to have a heart for the lost and the tools to share Christ with fellow Airmen and disciple them. Please continue to pray for us as we invest in them and for them as they scatter to the ends of the earth through the Military sharing the Gospel with the Military!

Enjoy our pictures of Military and Family! We appreciate all of you who pray for us and partner financially with us each month. Without you…these pictures and this ministry would not exist! Thank you for your faithfulness!

Thank you for believing in and praying for us! You are a vital and important part of this ministry! Blessings!

“We loved you so much that we shared with you not only the Gospel of God, but our own lives, too.” 1 Thessalonians 2:8

With the mess the world is in, it’s a pleasure to serve the Airmen of Ellsworth Air Force Base! Our fall has been full of activity, Bible Study, and Discipleship! We continue to support the Cadence missionaries here, Peter & Tanya Kinney and had a wonderful time with them at their first weekend retreat and studied the book of Ephesians and facilitated great discussion in application to our lives. Sharing the Gospel, outdoor activities, Baptisms, and lots of fellowship has encompassed our time! We will leave you with pictures to share our story…as usual!

Thanks for taking time to see our ministry to Ellsworth Air Force Base! As always, we covet your prayers as we continue to disciple Airmen so that they may reach the Military for the Lord! May your Christmas be blessed as you celebrate the true meaning of Christmas!

 “In him was life, and the life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.” – John 1: 4-5

Hello partners in ministry! We have lots of pictures to update you on our first year in ministry with Military Casa. For those of you who do not follow us on social media, we apologize this update has been long in the making, but we feel you will quickly see that the Lord is active in our endeavors and we are meeting our goals to reach the Airmen of Ellsworth AFB for Christ and teach them HOW to do the same to the Airmen they work around each day! We appreciate each of you who partner with us financially and pray for us and our Airmen.

We have set up ministry and the house in which we do ministry, obtained base passes, and are building good relationships with our Chaplains. There has been lots of projects and work and we’ve been blessed to have Airmen help. Penny has been faithfully investing into the ladies and Todd the men, discipling them in Bible study and theology so they may be equipped to do ministry! Currently, we have one Airmen who is leading a Bible Study on the book of Mark in his dorm on base! God is working in the lives of our Airmen and we rejoice as we see them grow. This growth produces missionaries who will travel all over the World through the military when they PCS proclaiming the Good News of Christ!

Thanks so much for taking the time to catch up with us and our Airmen at Ellsworth AFB! We appreciate each of you and your interest and investment into God’s ministry to these wonderful people!

It’s been a while since we updated you, our partners, in ministry on what’s going on here in Oahu. We promise you…we’ve not been taking a siesta on the beach lazing the days away! Covid restrictions are gone for good (we pray) as of March 25, 2022! That means no limitations on size of groups, masks, or travel! Praise the Lord! Our numbers are starting to pick back up at Home Port and we still have two other homes that are open alongside us in different places on the Island. Todd continues to teach via zoom from Home Port to the other houses and we all serve the same food. Ministry has been plentiful and our personal lives have been quite busy!

We so appreciate each of you that pray for the ministry here and/or support it financially. We feel it and appreciate your faithfulness to uplift us and our service members to the Lord! They have had difficult times, sometimes dealing with toxic leadership, covid restrictions, and most of the Pearl Harbor Joint Base Housing suffered a jet fuel leak into their water system. This has caused most of them to evacuate base in search for alternate housing where it is already in such short supply and very expensive. Well over 60K people are affected. Please keep them in your prayers. Also, as tensions rise in the world between Ukraine and Russia many feel the weight of this. Join us in keeping our warriors in prayer.

There are a lot of photos below, but I wanted to bring you up to speed, so enjoy seeing our military Ohana and us do life together as we share the gospel and teach them to do the same!

Thanks for taking the time to catch up on all that is happened in the last several months! We love you all and anticipate the day we get to see you in the future, either here or there or in the air! May God get all the praise for what He is doing in our lives and the lives of our service members!

Blessings from the Beaudin’s!

Much has changed in our world in 6 months and it has certainly changed the ministry of Home Port! Hawaii has become a very difficult place to live and work because of the excessive measures of quarantine and lockdown. We were slowly opening up in June but by August we were back to where much of America was in March and April. From March through May we could only do Zoom as any visitors or gathering were forbidden. In June and July we could meet in groups of 10 but no larger. Now we are back to where we were from March to April with a lot of hope that things will eventually change. Pray for us! We desperately want to meet face to face again and we continually look for any work around! Before Covid we would average between 20 to 50 service members on a Friday night for a home cooked meal and Bible Study. From March through May we changed and met via Zoom. When Hawaii opened to only 10 people we changed again and met as a group of 10 at Home Port and also a group of 10 at another Military family’s house as a Home Port extension with more homes coming on board so that we could all fellowship in person. We ate the same food and did the same Bible study via Zoom, Todd teaching from the Home Port living room. It was great! Then the State decided 10 people was too much and we went to 5 people. So we quickly changed once again and asked multiple family’s to open their homes on Friday night to serve the same food and same Bible study via Zoom as Todd would teach from Home Port. But that never happened as the state changed the ordinance back to no visitors and no groups. So we are back to just Zoom as of the writing of this Blog post.

No matter, life goes on and we continue to be present in peoples lives via phone, text, zoom and in emergencies we connect to help someone. We’ve monopolized on an empty house to update and paint! We are still working with our Chaplains to figure out how to serve them in this difficult time the best we can. Yet, the chapel we attended and served alongside the chaplains down on Pearl Harbor has remained shut since March. We know it’s not only us that Covid has affected but we still covet your prayers. On a positive note, God has kept us all healthy!

Well, as usual, I’ll let the pictures tell the story. Enjoy!

We wish you all the best and miss you! Hang in there and keep smiling with us! God is Sovereign and in control of this crazy world! We really appreciate the time you take to catch up with us and what God continues to do with our Military. Thank you so much for your support and prayers!

With Love,

-The Beaudin’s

Have you ever wondered what goes through a dog’s mind?  I have.  Nori doesn’t seem too phased or concerned by this pandemic that has caused major unrest around the world.  She bides her time daily laying in the sun… it’s a dog’s life!  She knows she will be fed and loved and she doesn’t worry about her day.  She lives it one moment at at time.  Oh! To live a dog’s life!  And yet, I’ve been reminded of some great truths watching her.

“Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life?

“And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith? So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.”  – Matthew 6: 25-34

We know life has been complex for many of you and some have lost loved ones, we are deeply sorry and in prayer with and for you.  As I found myself worrying about what might become of our future and ministry here back in March, God reminded me it’s not for me to worry about.  Much like Nori, my obedience is to trust Him more than I trust myself.  Easier said than done some days but I am resolved to live my days the way my pooch does.  Trusting my master that He will take care of the heavy lifting in life.

We have been on lock down since mid-March and only time will tell how we open back up.  As for now, we are not able to have service members over for a home cooked meal and Bible study yet, but we are praying this changes soon!  Will you pray with us!

Pictures always tell better stories than words so here is our contribution for this blog post.

Thank you for taking the time to catch up with us as we continue to serve the military the best we can.  We so appreciate your partnership in financial support and prayer.  It’s awesome knowing we have all of you behind us supporting and encouraging us to reach our military with the Gospel of Jesus Christ!  Continue to pray for our brave warriors as they serve us in these difficult times!

Remember!  Live life like Nori and trust your Master!