It's Been a Busy Month! So many changes!

We have put quite a few of these pictures on face book and we told you a bit on our Christmas update but here are a few more pics for those who don't do facebook. 

We got back from outreach Nov 18th and graduated the students. 

Then Luke and I celebrated our 5 year Anniversary

Then we drove 11 hours south to New Castle to do a gov course called Cert 4 (it was two weeks)

Then drove 20 more hours down to the bottom of Australia - to Melbourne for Christmas

We are now back up in the Sunshine Coast planning everyday for the Feb DTS

We are so excited for what God will do- It starts FEB 13!

We have 15 staff and 32ish students

Pray God gives us the wisdom and stamina to run this entire operation! Love you

Bethany and Luke

I always enjoy a good detox after coming back from outreach!! YUMMY!!

Luke loves Caprese

Thanksgiving all together as a YWAM base... well some of us Americans that is..

We had our 5 Year Wedding Anniversary!! It was so great. I can't believe 5 years have gone by. We feel so blessed by God that we've been able to do so much in those years! He continues to blow us away. We are so excited for the next 5 years... I bet a lot will be changing.. We'll keep you updated...

Okay so we took a road trip down the coast for Christmas and we came across THE BIG BANANA!! Ha! And we HAD to stop. They had a whole plantation and store and food court with EVERYTHING banana.. and if you know the history of the past year here in OZ they had a huge flood and almost all the banana crops were wiped out! So this was a big moment for us.  haha..

It was really nice to just relax after 10 MONTHS of back to back DTS and outreach etc..

We had to do this 2 Week intensive government course (required for DTS Staff) down in Newcastle. We met some really cool people from other YWAM bases. There were people from Fiji, Tahiti, Ireland, Switzerland there.

On the weekend after a LONG 10 hour a day study week we took a trip into the city of Sydney!! SOOOO AMAZING!! I loved this city! Would go there again in a heart beat!

The famous Sydney Opera House

We even went to Hillsong while we were there! This is where they meet for church! Pretty crazy...

 

 

 

 

We had a Christmas Party at our Cert 4 Course. It was nice to get a break from working online for 10 hours that day..No joke!!

We love the different cultures God makes. Our Fijian brothers did a fun dance for us.. and if you look closely you will see that they roped Luke into the dance... haha so funny..

Down in Melbourne there was some pretty fun surf for Luke..

We had such a fun crew to hang with. Friends from our church GoodLife.

We drove to Philip Island and on the way is this cool structure.. We couldn't resist..

Christmas Day was fun.. The family we were with decorated the back yard and we all ate together and opened presents!

We traveled into the city of Melbourne.. it was a bit of a gloomy day but still fun!

Our good friends Richie and Antje

This is on The Great Ocean Road... (which is located on the bottom of Australia near Melbourne..

The famous Twelve Apostles!

And of course I have to put a food picture in there.. I had the most amazing veggie burger...

And we even got to see wild Koalas, which you'd think would be a normal thing here in Australia but in fact it's quite rare.

Well it's Jan now and we have been tirelessly working on preparing for the FEB DTS!! And we are so excited! PLEASE PRAY FOR US as this is the first school we've ever lead on our own so we just want to be so reliant on the Holy Spirit! Bless you guys!!! Talk to you soon! Thank you for loving us from afar!