Boy has the time flown by!

Okay so it's been a while since we did an update...
I looked at our last post as was like, "Dang has it been that long!!"

So anyway time is flying.

We are super excited about Australia!!!
We are planning to leave the very beginning of January!

What have we been doing?
Resting
Reconnecting with Jesus
Reconnecting with each other. We have been making Wednesdays our Date Days!! Yay!
Reconnecting with friends and family
Serving at our church, going to Night For The Nations, and Prayer For The Nations
Helping lead worship from time to time with groups of friends and a church up north
Moving anyone and everyone! Since we've been back we've had like 5 people move!
Working on logistics: mainly VISA issues, stuff concerning moving, selling our car, figuring out taxes over seas, etc.
Raising Support

Raising Support.

We are a ALMOST at 1/2 way to our monthly goal of $3000/mo! YAY!! We are volunteers so we must cover all of our own expenses. It is a slow process but the Lord knows.

Our monthly bills in Australia will look something like this:

Rent $1,100
Food $500
Utilities $ 100
Internet $65
Car Insurance/Gas $200
Health Insurance $ 100
Cell Phone $100
Toiletries $50
Clothing $25
Extra Curricular Activities $60
Student Loans $90
Tithing $300
We also will have to purchase over seas tickets 2 or 3 times a year for taking students on outreach to Asia, which will be around $3500/year at least.
Divided by 12 months is about $300/mo

TOTAL: $2990/mo

This is a rough estimate but it's pretty accurate. If you or anyone you know would like to sponsor us monthly we would be so blessed to partner with you.


For those that are interested checks can be sent to:

YWAM MONTANA
501 Blacktail Rd
Lakeside, MT 59922

Make checks to YWAM MONTANA and please DO NOT put our names in the memo. Instead put our project number 3715 and attach a note with our names on it as well as mentioning that you are a monthly supporter. You will get a tax deductible receipt and a slip for your next donation. We also have Auto Withdrawal forms. If you would like one we can mail one to you.

Other than that we are loving being in Santa Barbara
and are excited to see how these next 2 1/2 months pan out.

Here are some fun pics:

Our date days have been very good for us. We are learning to make them a priority now so that when we get to the busyness of Australia and DTS that we will make sure to continue to do them. We have a hard time saying no so having boundaries over our time together is really healthy for us.

Moving Moving Moving!!!
So many of our friend have moved since we've been back.. it's like our little side ministry right now... We have another one on Friday! Good times!

Luke and Dale working in the yard!
It's been SUCH A BLESSING living at the Dellars. They have shown us so much generosity and kindness it's unbelievable. Thank you Julia and Dale!!

It's always nice to eat a little grub after a long day in the sun. And no one better to be at the grill than the man himself
Dale Dellar, Master Griller!!

Julia and Dale

CRAZY STORY..... Prostitutes?
Okay so this might sound crazy but I (bethany) have been asking the Lord to speak to me in dreams lately. So about a month ago God gave me a dream that Luke and I were on Milpas Street late at night ministering to the transvestites and prostitutes that work in that area. For those of you who don' t know Milpas it's the most ghetto part of Santa Barbara and has a large Hispanic population. In my dream I had roses and were handing them out and telling the transvestites that Jesus loved them!!
I woke up and began to pray, "Lord why did you give me this dream?" Well I could think of no other reason other than for us to go and do what the dream said! So we did! Our good friends Jason and Rachel came with us. We gathered people to pray for us and went to Milpas Street on a Friday night from 11pm-1pm. I made coffee to hand out to them thinking that maybe they'd be cold standing out there all night. We did a prayer walk around the area and found this one club where there was a huge prostitution circuit going on. We were kind of standing out as we walked around, seeing that we were the ONLY white people on the block, but we just prayed and prayed over the area. At one moment we went under this over hang to pray, then right when we finished a prostitute came out from a dark alley way behind us with a man. He went one way and she went the other right back to the dark corner of the back street to wait for another customer. My heart sank. I was so excited to walk up to her and give her a rose but by the time we got to where she was she was already gone with another man. Oh Lord I want to love her for you!! I pray we get another chance.
We felt that our first time down there was more of just seeing the scene and learning how to pray. The prostitutes were on such a tight circuit that it was hard to interrupt them. Pray that God opens more doors... After a couple hours we met some sweet homeless people and gave our coffee away to them. So ya that was our crazy night! Life is never boring when Jesus is in charge. I just pray we get another chance to love on those people.

It's been nice to catch up with old friends. This is Ben (Luke's old roommate) and his wonderful girlfriend Carrie.

We felt the Lord leading us to go visit our friend Austin. He used to be our neighbor when we lived in Santa Barbara. He moved down to San Diego to be with his lovely fiance Fiona so she can finish school. It was so good to see him. He took us to Sea World. Now who can hate that!

We got drenched!!

Ok so this is random but Luke and I have been addicted to these awesome veggie sandwiches we've been making like every day!! My friend Meg took this picture.. Isn't she a good photographer? It makes it look all professional.


We also got to see our friend Jevon and his family in Murietta. This is his cute daughter Brooklyn. It was a really good time of just hanging together and encouraging each other in the Lord! Pray for the Lord's provision in their lives as they have a big family with a lot of mouths to feed!
Okay ONE LAST THING....
Luke got a job! Yay... we have a friend who needed some help with construction so Luke is helping him when he can. I was all excited and got up early, packed his lunch and sent him off to school... oh wait.. work... okay so I was so excited I forgot what he was leaving for but I was just so excited to see him off ! =)
EWW! So he came home SO DIRTY... I was like, "I love you but do not step foot into this house..." =)
But then he brought me roses so that made everything better!! I'm such a girl!

Well that's it for now!! We love you more than you know!!

Bethany and Luke