Well, recently Bethany got an opportunity to sneak off to Colorado to hang with our friends Meehan and Dan. Since we have been married we have only taken 2 trips without each other -- but with this one, we prayed and felt like Bethany was supposed to go alone. Our friends actually only had enough frequent flyer miles to fly one of us out to Colorado. It turned out to be a total "God thing." Meehan just got married to Dan (who speaks all over the world in YWAM) and they are about to move to South Africa for a Church-planting school. And Dan was gonna be hanging with all his buddies for some of the time in Colorado. Meanwhile, Meehan would have a lot of time all by herself... so Bethany being there with her was just really sweet.
Meehan and Bethany
Dan cooking pancakes with the "boyz"
The view from the condo
It snowed almost the whole time they were there!
...and yes, of course there was some health food shopping...Surprise!
Back in Montana, this is the music track that Bethany helps lead with Wells (the broseph in the white T-shirt)
Jammin'
Kickin' it at a great local coffee shop that plays live music.
Ok, so these next few pics are some of the benefits of being married to a woman who can cook...really well. Let's just say I haven't been starving :)
Fresh baked bread
Salads w/green apples, candied walnuts, and goat cheese
I honestly don't know what this is BUT it was GOOD!
Pizza, obviously
Doing what I do best!
Tom-Kah soup (Thai coconut curry)
The rest of these shots are from a one week outreach to Portland, Oregon (an 11 hour drive west of Montana. At 5:30 AM one of our vans wouldn't start. JUMP IT!
We arrived in Portland just in time to pack into Rick's house for the Super Bowl! Rick is the pastor of the church we stayed at for the week.
Lots of shoes piled up at the door means lots of hungry mouths to feed -- Rick and his wife hooked it up!
We cooked food for a bunch of guys at a transitional housing shelter. We got to sit down and chat with them afterwards, it was so awesome!
Our friend Brian got a company to donate a slack line (kind of like a tight rope...but not tight) to YWAM for the purpose of meeting people and sharing the love of God. This is a bunch of us testing it out to see if we could do it. It was so much fun.
Playing the game "chubby bunny" where you have to stuff as many marshmallows into your mouth as possible. We lost... because of Bethany...
Cleaning at a women and children's shelter.
Bethany and some of our students leading worship for a high school group.
...and then playing basketball with them
This is the slackline in action in a park in downtown Portland. It was such an amazing way to talk to people. We shared Jesus with TONS of people!
Our time in Portland was INCREDIBLE!! My heart just felt like it got stirred up, in a good way. We got to pray and share with so many people and God really changed my view on homeless people. Before this trip, I just felt that homeless people were for the most part, mentally insane or addicted to drugs and I just had a hard time knowing what to do with them. But after meeting so many awesome people, I realized that even if my judgment was partially true (some are crazy and addicted to drugs)-- these people are valuable to God and they need love and a listening ear just like any of us. These are the people that Jesus would hang out with. Who am I to overlook them?
Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus:
Who, being in very nature God,
did not consider equality with God something to be grasped,
but made himself nothing,
taking the very nature of a servant,
being made in human likeness.
Philippians 2:5-7
We love you all, and hope this blog finds you well!
Much Love, Luke and Bethany
Who, being in very nature God,
did not consider equality with God something to be grasped,
but made himself nothing,
taking the very nature of a servant,
being made in human likeness.
Philippians 2:5-7
We love you all, and hope this blog finds you well!
Much Love, Luke and Bethany
4 comments:
Love seeing all the pics! Love you guys much! Praying for you! Thanks for being honest about how God has changed your heart towards the homeless. It shows your humble heart! And it is such an encouragement!
Thanks for the update. I am so blessed to hear what you are up to. Keep on rockin' in the free world.
YES!! What a post! LOVE every picture! And Bethany - I want to know what recipe you used for that bread! Luke - way to consume her yummy creations :)
And yes (like Shelly said) LOVE hearing your perspective and what God is teaching you guys. We can learn from it! Hope to talk to you both sometime soon!!
-Becky
You guys are awesome!! And yes, Bethany surely can cook!
I love your food Bethany! Yum and healthy. What a blessed man you are, Luke :)
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