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The Dean Team
To Disciple and Serve
Welcome to our online space! Here we post updates, thoughts, testimonies and stories about our ministry, family and faith.
A little family with big dreams and a big God on our side.
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A New Year is Here
2025 welcomes us with a strange familiarity. Like a friend that you thought was coming over that day but you forgot exactly what time...
Gillian Dean
Jan 206 min read
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A year on the Island
The summer has ended and I find myself bewildered that it is almost Winter! Where did the days go! But here we are in November as our...
Gillian Dean
Dec 16, 20243 min read
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Spring on the Island - An Update
Spring has been good to us on the island so far and I hope that the sun is shining brightly on you too, whether literally or...
Gillian Dean
May 13, 20244 min read
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So No One can Boast
It was the first week of January when I got the call from our base leader saying, “Our Outreach Leader is not coming back with the team....
Gillian Dean
Mar 7, 20243 min read
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What is Happening?
If you have been following along even vaguely with the story of my family's life, you will know that the last years have held a lot of...
Gillian Dean
Jan 5, 20244 min read
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Life in a Rainforest (Dirty Seeds)
These days I wake up within a mist. A literal mist that washes through the forest like a visitor reluctant to leave. The campground we...
Gillian Dean
Dec 11, 20236 min read
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The End of a Decade
Today is July 8th and we are officially not staff at YWAM Herrnhut. I (Gillian) once went cliff jumping with friends. An old quarry was...
Gillian Dean
Jul 8, 20234 min read
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Peace in the Year to Come
A shorter update for those that missed that last long one Ukrainians Today I am happy to report that all the refugees that we took in...
Gillian Dean
Feb 7, 20233 min read
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The Lost Months
Hello Dear friends and supporters, family and churches. I want to start with something that I have been wanting to say for months: I’m so...
Gillian Dean
Feb 2, 20236 min read
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Walking in 2022
Hello Friends and Family, Its been a long time since I sent one of these out, not since the summer and we were still adjusting to life...
Gillian Dean
Mar 5, 20225 min read
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Take Off
(July 21, 2021) Today I sit on an airplane. For some, this is a very extraordinary thing as they have never been on a plane in their...
Gillian Dean
Sep 8, 20212 min read
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Rerouting...
(April 21, 2021) I seem to write these posts on road trips. Those long spaces of time where you have nothing to do and am just waiting to...
Gillian Dean
Sep 8, 20212 min read
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Back in Germany
Simple title for a very big event in our lives. After a year and 4 months of being away from our home, we have finally made it back to...
Gillian Dean
Sep 7, 20213 min read
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Ready for Take Off
Here we are, maybe making our last update from this side of the the Atlantic. Borders are open to Germany and we only need our second...
Gillian Dean
Jun 22, 20212 min read
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The Encore
It seems a very long time since we sent out a newsletter. Probably because it has been, also so much has happened. As I recall, last time...
Gillian Dean
Jun 9, 20214 min read
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M I C H I G A N
It’s been quite a while since our last update and a lot has happened. Many things have changed in the last couple months but our goal is...
Gillian Dean
Jan 29, 20213 min read
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2020: Never the Same
As the calendar turns you can almost hear on the breeze, the collective sigh of relief as we leave 2020 behind a move on to, hopefully,...
Gillian Dean
Jan 29, 20213 min read
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Finding Rhythms in Change
Life is defined by change. We know that someone is alive by their motion. And so I comfort myself that this would suggest that our family...
Gillian Dean
Nov 14, 20202 min read
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Road Trip to Missions
Hey Everyone, The last month has been pretty busy and lacking in internet so we apologize for the lack of updates. We just finished our...
Gillian Dean
Sep 23, 20203 min read
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Family, Campers, and Borders ~ Summer 2020
F A M I L Y I never imagined that all my siblings and their families would once again be under one roof! But that is where we find...
Gillian Dean
Jul 29, 20203 min read
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