Lukes newest words!

Hello everyone back home!! Thank you for all the feed back from my last update and all your letters!! It is so good to hear from you all! As of June 27th, I have officially completed lecture phase of DTS and am starting outreach phase. Our DTS has split into 2 teams for outreach. The team I am on is going to be running a kid’s camp where we will play soccer and short teachings for 3 hours each weekday with 20-30 kids. This YWAM base has worked with these kids for the last couple years and they are getting closer and closer to receiving God. It will be really cool to see what God does. Last week we had a youth group from California come and help for 4 days. It was awesome to just get to work with some Americans! LOL They was a great help and it was fun to talk in English and have a lot of people understand you. The other part of the DTS team is going to go live in a village outside of Lutsk and do ministry with the kid’s there. Even though we have not gone to a different country yet, we are still in outreach mode. This last Sunday, our team preached, did a song, and gave testimonies at a church here in Lutsk. They did awesome! The pastor asked if we could come back and lead the whole service next week so I most likely will be preaching or giving my testimony. (Maybe you could pray for me on that. ☺) It’s a very conservative church. You can’t clap, you have to dress nice, there is usually only hymns sung, and the women’s heads have to be covered. Also, most of the people are older. But it is cool because even though physically they are very conservative they are a lot freer with their services. The people were very warm and open to us and it is not often that a pastor is willing to give up the preaching to others for 2 weeks in a row. Let alone to a bunch young people. I don’t know exactly when we will be going to Israel but we are trying to leave as soon as we can. God blessed us with 2 contacts! Before no one could work with us but now we have 2 different ministries! One guy is in Beersheba and would like our help. (Its cool to actually go were you are needed.) Then after that it looks like we are going to go work with some anther ministry (the one the Moores are doing) so that should be cool! The Moores are good friends with my family and me so it’s pretty sweet that my DTS team is actually going to go work with them! Please pray that the Ukrainians can get their visas for Israel. I guess it’s pretty hard and expensive to get visas for them. So prayer would be great! Thanks! Alighty, well this update was some what short and im sure you are rejoicing that it didn’t take you all day to read. ;-) This is basically what is going on right now. I had actually written an update about 3 weeks ago but never got a chance to send it. ☹ That’s my lame excuse for not sending more updates. I hope all is still going well back home. I can’t wait to see you all again!!! Seriously!!! I miss you guys and America SO SO bad!! I’m only 4/6 of the way done with school, but I think this outreach part is going to go real fast. Especially when we leave for Israel. So… I guess I might be able to wait until these next 2 months are over and not go insane before I go home. ;-) Love you all,Luke PS: thank you all who wrote B-day letters!!!!! It was an interesting birthday. LOL I got a flue and a fever the night and the morning of so I was kind of a hardly walking zombie for my B-day. :-P But it was still good. God taught me some stuff through the flue and we went out to the village and had a big BBQ and fireworks so it was still good. (a lot of people on the dts team have birthdays around that time). So thanks again y’all and I am looking forward to reading all the letters!!