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Youth On Missions 2010 – Hong Kong Trip

Greetings from Home!

We have all arrived back safely and we thank God for another wonderful Youth ON Missions Trip! Certainly, we will never be the same, and we feel we’ve left a major impact on the churches and works in Hong Kong and Macau.

We rejoice for all that God has done and especially for 21 baptized and 15 filled with the Holy Ghost!

Thank you Pastors, Parents, Churches, Families for sending us your very best. Thank you Bro. & Sis. O’Donnell, our missionaries there, for all you have done to make this trip a wonderful experience.

As you can imagine, we’ve already been working on next year, it takes quite a while to organize and plan these type of trips. We are focusing on Central America as our destination for 2011. We hope you will get the word out and have many more join in with us.

God is a great God and we’re honored to be his ambassadors. God bless you all! Greetings to all the Chosen People!

Mark Hattabaugh

The bay is already bustling with much activity as boats and ferries are going back and forth from Hong Kong Island to Kowloon, then around the bay to the ports and other destinations, (a huge cruise ship is going by). I’m going to miss this incredible view from our hotel!

It’s early morning here on Friday, it’s Thursday evening for you. We had a late night, it was our final Awards Ceremony and Good Bye banquet.

First, a huge thanks to Bro. & Sis. O’Donnell, who not only are amazing, but know how to make everyone feel special! You are doing such a great job – our YOMers will be forever impacted by your love, dedication and spirit!

We had funny awards and others that were special and even awards that brought tears – The testimonies were the same. For the many of you who have been on our YOM trips, you know the final night meeting is always one of our greatest highlights of the trip.

To all the pastors: Thank you for sending us your best and brightest kids! As a Pastor, I can relate very well to your connections with these awesome young people!
To all parents: Thank you for trusting us and sending us your most precious possessions!!! Your “babies” have grown up over here, they have all made you very proud, if you could only hear them, see them, watch them in these past two weeks to grow as much as they did and to be used of God in so many ways.
To all the churches, families and friends that stood behind us in prayer, support and encouragement: THANK YOU! You came here by sending!!!
To the Florida District Board, to Bro. Nate Wells and Bro. Jason Varnum, our Youth Team President and Secretary, thank you for always standing behind YOM and keeping it such a special part of the Florida District, as we together affect the world!
To all our leaders on this Hong Kong 2010 YOM trip: You were a great support and wonderful to work with. Thank you for all the help in making this a special trip!

Please don’t let these YOM missionaries go back to being their “old self” again! They have reached God on totally new levels and dimensions – Help keep them there!

I’m sure you’ll get to hear some of the amazing stories that happened… They have many – Please don’t believe everything they say about me!!! I’m really not that crazy! LOL We’ve shared so many special moments together. There is a bond and connection between them all that will be lifelong friendships.

Their luggage will weigh a lot more, since I believe they are bringing back half of Hong Kong in their suitcases! It was fun watching them all get good deals.

Again, to all, thank you so much … for trusting your very special kids with Youth ON Missions. We hope to have them back again and again and again! I can only hope this trip will forever be a huge stepping stone in their lives and ministries.

To my dear wife, Esther, I’m so sad you could not come with us on this trip. At the last minute your mother going into the hospital changed all our plans. I’m thankful for such a great wife and what a great daughter you are and doing a great job of taking care of your mom and dad! I’m honored to be called your husband. I love you!

May God bless you all… We’re changing the world … together!!!!
Mark Hattabaugh
From Hong Kong –

Dear Parents, family, Pastors, friends and churches of YOM 2010 -

We had an amazing day yesterday… beginning with the Cable Car ride up to Ngong Ping.  The cable car ride was the longest cable car I think I’ve ever been on… Like 35 minutes long!  It goes up a mountain… way up into the clouds… crosses 2 rivers and over water falls… Amazing!!! Very – Very high up!!!  At the top of the hill we saw the Buddha statue and temple (see pictures in link below).

Then, we divided into 3 groups for services last night in 3 different Chinese churches.  We were able to sing, testify, preach, rejoice with them and minister to these precious people.

Today, we head to across Hong Kong island to Stanley Market, then we have our final night of awards and orientation for our trip home. We are beginning to prepare for departure.  Even though we don’t leave until midnight on Friday night… (Noon on Friday for you all) a total of almost 30 hours of travel home!!!  Enjoy your beds!

This has been such a fantastic trip… such a great group of young missionsries… Thank you for sending your very best kids!!!

Copy and paste this link in your browser for hundreds of more pictures – again, these have not been edited… it’s raw… but you’ll enjoy them I’m sure…

http://picasaweb.google.com/jhpnut/YOM2k103#

God bless you all and thank you so much for all your support, prayers, intercession and for standing with us while we’ve been here.

One amazing thing, we were able to be here when the missionary’s daughter, Kimberly O’Donnell, just came out of the hospital, had broke her foot, so we were all able to cheer her up some.  We wish she could have joined with us in our jaunts around town, but, at least we got to see her some.

God bless, we’ll keep you posted!!!  It’s morning here so, going to watch our services live online back home .

Mark Hattabaugh

To view the pictures: Copy the links and paste them in your browser to see the picture albums:

http://picasaweb.google.com/m/viewAlbum?uname=jhpnut&aid=5484503029653016897&start=64

http://picasaweb.google.com/jhpnut/Yom102#

Dear Parents, Prayer Partners, Family, Pastors, Church Famlies and Friends of Youth On Missions 2010 -Hong Kong:
Greetings on this Wednesday morning (Tuesday night for you). We had a fantastic day in Macau, China:

http://www.macautourism.gov.mo/

Today, we are headed out to Ngong Ping for some R&R before we all divide into 3 groups going to 3 difference services around the city of Hong Kong.
Here’s Ngong Ping: http://www.np360.com.hk/html/eng/front/index.asp

We’ve also uploaded over 1,000 pictures to quickly get them to you (they have not been edited, so you may have to scroll through them).
Click on these links:

http://picasaweb.google.com/jhpnut/Yom102#

http://picasaweb.google.com/m/viewAlbum?uname=jhpnut&aid=5484503029653016897&start=64

Thanks for all your prayers, all your support and for investing in these young people.

Mark Hattabaugh