Returning to YWAM Tyler!

Boy we have done a terrible job of updating this page! But to make it just a little up to date, we are moving from Minneapolis to YWAM Tyler! We are excited to return to YWAM and we miss all that God is doing there. We will be moving later this summer.

Judah, our new daughter, is now 3 months old and growing fast. She is currently falling asleep in her daddy's arms for the night. If it's a good night she'll sleep til 5 am. If not, it could be 2 or 3 am.

It's a girl!, 24/7 Prayer trip to Spain, We need your help!

It's a girl!!
That's right, people, after 4 years we were ready again to take the plunge into the world of pregnancy and infant raising! Lacy is 6 months pregnant now and looking forward to our upcoming ultrasound! Jeremiah is excited about our new baby growing in Mommy's belly, too! The first few months of pregnancy were pretty tough for Lacy physically; she was sick quite a bit every day. This pregnancy has been harder on her even in the second trimester than her first pregnancy was. Pray for her strength and physical comfort. The baby should be arriving sometime in January, part way into the frigid Minnesota winter! Pray for us as we bring a new life into this world. The task is monumental and just beginning!
(here's an ultrasound photo of our baby girl at 23 weeks)

Meet 24/7
Source Ministries is planning to start a Boiler Room here in Minneapolis. Peter, the director, has asked Keith to be a part with him of the training and learning from other Boiler Rooms. Peter could see that Keith has a passion for prayer and intercession, and Keith is very excited to help start this new branch of ministry with Source. Keith will be attending a conference in Seville, Spain to learn, network, and help establish this new ministry in mid October . We are excited for Keith to get to be a part of this and we ask for your prayers as he learns and then helps lead the way into what God is doing here.

Fall Focus:

We work for a non-profit ministry called Source Ministries and live solely by the financial support of friends, family, and churches who join with us in ministry through their support. This fall we are focusing on raising support for the ministry we do. Being fully supported in prayer and finances is a vital part of effectiveness in ministry. We are looking for 20 new individuals, families or small groups who will partner with us at $100 per month to help support our ministry. We have seen God do it before and we are trusting Him to do it again! Thank you ahead of time for being a part of God's provision for us! If you would like to send support, here are the details:

If you do not need a tax-deductible receipt, send it to:

(Unless you have total deductions of more than $5150 for singles or $10,300 for marrieds per year, you may not need a receipt. Most people deduct only this standard deduction amount. The reason we share this is that we only receive 100% of each financial gift when support is mailed directly to us).

Keith and Lacy Haugan
email us for address
Minneapolis, MN

If you do need a tax receipt, make checks payable to Source Mn and include a note designating the support for us. Source has pre-addressed envelopes that will be sent to you for added convenience. Mail to:

SOURCE MN, INC.
P.O. Box 8212
Minneapolis, MN 55408

Taiwan Story

We wanted to write a letter to you all to tell you more about Taiwan and the factors that effected our decision to leave. We have been reflecting on the things we learned from our experience in Taiwan. To avoid blame-casting and presenting a one-sided argument, we won’t say much about the specifics of the struggles we had involving other people. We can say that we have learned that we will not “mesh” well with every team of missionaries and that we need to spend a trial period with any team before deciding to join them long term. We have learned that we need to better understand what a team of missionaries would expect from our involvement and if there is opportunity to be involved doing things that God has specifically placed in our hearts to do. We have learned that being a family living overseas is a completely different situation than being a single. We also learned that we need friends and support on the field; people that will help us transition into a new culture and care about us.

We have reflected in these past months to understand how our experience was a part of God’s bigger picture. We do not believe that our time in Taiwan was wasted. We have learned valuable lessons that will, no doubt, help us make decisions in the future. We will be better prepared next time. Though we left tired and burned out, we are not giving up! We can’t stop trying. We must keep looking for a ministry opportunity that will fit us. Our hearts long to be a part of seeing lost people come to know the Lord. And, in the midst of our struggle, we were able to share about the Lord with the Taiwanese and reach out to the lost there. That is always a good thing!

We continue to process and heal from our time in and depart from Taiwan. One of my mentors related to me that a friend of theirs had also had a similar experience over-seas, but when they moved to a new team and location they really found a good fit and place for their family. We were relieved to hear this, as our experience was disheartening and it was good to hear that we were not alone in our experience.

We thank God for His faithfulness to us in each season in life, and in this new season of life and ministry. We are looking forward to what God has for us in these next years ahead! Be sure, you’ll get word of our intent to cross the ocean again at some time or another. We’re still YWAMers at heart and may join up with them again sometime.

Jeremiah's summertime fun 2007!

Below Bottom Basement Price - FREE!

One fun thing about the Twin Cities is that on craigslist.org there is a free section where people post stuff they are giving away. We just email the people, pick it up, and it's ours. I just wanted to show you a few things we've gotten for free so far. It's fun to be resourceful! :)

Here we have a free recliner, in decent condition. My legs are so happy.









Next we have a free kiddie pool, free gas grill with full tank (are these people crazy?), free plastic chairs and side table.

















Next we have the free kiddie kitchen, which Jeremiah really likes. Also we got two bikes with child seats already attached... for free. Also, just thought I'd mention that that is
Grandpa's car in the garage... not ours. ;) Aww... shucks. Also one nice thing to notice... the snow is gone!! We were outside with no coats!!






Then we have a fisher price table and chairs. For free. :) So all of that is really fun and helps us fill in the missing pieces pretty inexpensively. ;) REAL inexpensively.












Lastly, we found a couch at Goodwill for the basement bottom price of: $6. Cute, eh?

#2 On A Scale from 1-10...

I thought I would start off with a few more "on a scale from 1-10"s...
These are pretty fun and give you an idea of life here in an entertaining way!

On a scale from 1-10, with 1 being the worst or least, 10 being the best or most, I give:

Making Friends: 8. The people are pretty friendly here, and really nice. Keith went to the University today to take photos for a Christian book cover that's been translated into Chinese. He met these people there, had a fun time getting to know some of them, exchanged email addresses, and then took a few of them for a little photo shoot. Here is the big group of them. >>>>

Doctor Visit: 7 WOW, it was fast and oh so cheap. I only hope they had time to make the right diagnosis and that I didn’t catch anything else from the 30 people in that tiny waiting room!

November weather: 10. Does it get any better than this? We’re talking NOVEMBER here. Sunny warm days, cool beautiful evenings. December has started off nice, with highs in the 70s and lows in the 60s. But I hear the rain and cold gets worse. It has started to rain... a lot. Here's Jeremiah sporting a shirt & diaper on a warm November day.>>>

Convenience of City Freeways: 2. With too few on and off ramps, finding a way to get on the freeways is hard and then once you’re on it you can’t get off! Driving through the stoplights at least we seem to be going towards where we need to be, where as being on the freeway we’re like…. How far out of the way have we gone now?!

Grocery Stores: 7. Though there is a smaller selection of canned goods and prepared foods, there is a wide selection of fresh foods. However, including a monthly run to Costco, we are able to find most all of what we need. A few things we miss that are just too expensive here: strawberries, turkey lunch meat, roast, chicken fried steak (haven’t found these cuts of meat here yet). But we are thankful for instant oatmeal and scalloped potatoes from Costco. >>>>

Parking Spaces: 2. I guess it could be worse, but not much! Often we have to park the car a good 5 blocks away from our apartment because every space between here and there is packed with cars, mopeds, or buckets saving someone’s parking spot. Move them and risk damage to your car. People get very possessive about parking spaces here… it’s easy to see why! We have managed to park in the alley next to our building a few times. Also, there are MANY places (friend’s houses, stores, doctor’s office, the Rock coffee shop, etc etc etc) where you cannot drive to because there is truly NO WHERE to park. Do YOU see any where to park here? >>>>>>>>>>>>

Send me your ideas for the next "On A Scale from 1-10"!

A Doctor Visit: IN TAIWAN

We had a meeting with our base leaders today, and after being with me for a little bit, they told me that I should really go to the doctor. I have had a yucky cough for a few days, and it has gotten a lot worse today. It kept me up last night a lot. In the States, I would have put off going a bit longer... because the price of a doctor visit is so expensive in the States, PLUS the cost of expensive medicines. But they told me here that I only needed to take $12 (USD) with me (that's 400 NT- new taiwan dollars i think), and it would cover everything.

I walked over there, all 4 blocks away from our house, paid my 400 NT, got a number, and looked at a few shops next door while I waited. After 10 minutes my number was up on the board. I stepped in to the cubicle-like doctor's office. The doctor finished telling the last patient directions about medicines while me and the guy behind me waited on a few chais in front of his desk. After they left, I was motioned into the bigger patient chair. The nice doc spoke english to me, thankfully. He listened to my breathing, looked in my nose with a strange stainless steel instrument that he discarded then into the pile of used ones, looked into my mouth with the typical popsicle stick gagger, and said, "your throat is very infected." He grabbed a swabber, dunked it into some iodine looking stuff and brought it to my mouth. I pulled back, "What is that?" He grinned, "Medicine.. (swab)... you can swallow it." ????

Then he told me I have tonsilitis and a slight broncial infection. I asked if it was the kind I needed my tonsils out and he said no, just an infection. He rolled his chair back 2 feet to his desk, and clicked about 12 times on his computer. I could read it - he clicked the diagnosis, it brought up another screen that had medicine selections, which he chose a few more things from, then through a few more screens, click print... and it was done. "Take medicine 3 times a day, antibiotics. Take cough sypup 6 times a day or as needed." I clarafied it with him, he smiled, and I was out the door... 4 minutes flat. And I was one of the slower patients with my questions and all! I took my piece of paper printed with medicines he prescribed upstairs to the prescription counter. In 30 seconds or less, she handed me back 8 small baggies of pills, each one with 5 1/2 pills in it. ;) I was puzzled, and asked her what they were. One was antibiotic, one aspirin I think, 2 were for the coughing, and I don't know the other one. Maybe vitamins? $12, 10 minutes waiting, 7 minutes with doctor and getting prescriptions... and I was on my way back home. Amazing. The systems they have here to handle mass population are amazing. Our 'one patient at a time in each room for 30 minutes' would never work here. The amount of patients he saw in one hour would have taken all morning in an American doctor's office.

I took the pills when I got home, and I felt measurably better within a few hours. So praise God for that! Not bad for a first visit. I wouldn't be exited about this method of health care for more serious needs. Perhaps it is modified a bit in that case?

On the mend,
Lacy