5 Months of Faith! (Our Itinerary Below)
As most of you know we are about to embark on a year of faith, taking a huge leap in believing God for a huge evangelistic show coming out of Europe. This year is going to be filled with lots of unknowns and adventure as our family seeks to find what God has in store. About 2 years ago God started speaking a LOT to us about Europe and His heart for all the nations that are there. When you walk the streets of Europe you find every nation on earth there: Africa, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, South America, etc. Europe is the melting pot of the world right now and is so in need of Jesus Christ! When Luke and I traveled there with a DTS team in 2014, God began a journey in our hearts to come back to Barcelona, Spain and do a HUGE evangelistic show to touch the different nations of the world that travel there for tourism. The show will be nothing short of a miracle as we have no idea how this whole thing will get pulled off but we really feel like God is asking us to trust him.

The vision for the show: We envision it to be of the caliber of a Cirque Du Soleil show that is very high end and professional, explaining the gospel message in a very creative and captivating way. We feel like the show will come out of Barcelona, Spain touching the hearts of all the nations that travel there for tourism.

We have already drawn up a rough draft of the story line and had an artist sketch and storyboard the scenes.

So what's next?

We are coming back to America for an extended time and coupling it with a scouting trip to Spain to see what doors God might open.

We are packing up all of our stuff here in Australia and putting it in storage and getting rid of our apartment rental to save money and also because we don't know what the future holds as far as where we will be living after our travels. We trust God will show us by the end of our trip.

Our USA and Europe Itinerary:

June 1st-23rd - Rhode Island to visit Luke's family so they can meet Josiah. =) Yay!

June 23rd-July 25th - Santa Barbara to visit friends, supporters and our church Reality.

July 25-August 3rd - Vancouver to see my mom's side of the family. Josiah will meet his great grandmother for the first time. And we also will be going to a YWAM wedding of a couple we are close to and have discipled over the years.

August 3-7 - Chicago. We are marrying a YWAM couple who we have been very close to us and serving as staff here at YWAM Sunshine Coast.

August 7-29th - back to Santa Barbara

Aug 29-Sept 10 - Redding California to visit Bethel about possible connections for our show and to just get refreshed. And Santa Cruz for another YWAM wedding. (Yup lots of weddings... that's what happens when you disciple young people in their 20s lol =)

Sept 10-25th - back to Santa Barbara

Sept 25th- Oct25th - Barcelona, Spain to make connections for our show and visit the YWAM connections we made there last time we visited. And also to celebrate our 10 year wedding anniversary. We are hoping to take a short Mediterranean cruise as we've always wanted to do that since we first got married. And North Africa to visit some very dear friends who are reaching out to muslims there. We can't mention their names for security reasons.

Oct 25th - Nov 1st - back to Santa Barbara

Nov 1st - Back to Australia.

Pheeeew!! That was a lot.

We DON'T know exactly how this year will look but we just want to be obedient to what we feel God is saying. So we are just going to step off the cliff and see what happens.

PLEASE keep us in your prayers!

Can't wait to see you all and have you meet JOSIAH!!! YAY!!

Recently:

We visited Bethany's family in Hawaii. Josiah got to meet his grandparents for the first time!! We also used this trip as a trial run to see how Josiah did traveling. He did AMAZING!! The boy was meant for travel. It's a good thing too cuz this year will be full of it. =)

Got to visit the Kona YWAM base and meet up with an old friend Dan Baumann. While we were there we were so encouraged to believe for big things as we saw the Kona campus finally get their HUGE dining hall that they've been believing for for a long time. There was one student who donated 8 million dollars to help put it together. God can do anything!! =)

Luke turned 36 and got to take Josiah to the beach for the first time!

Well I think there is going to be a lot of airport packing and long flights ahead for the three of us! But we are so excited and can't wait for the journey ahead... whatever God may bring. Love you all!!

Luke, Bethany and Josiah