We are finishing up summer and students are arriving to start off a great new year here at YWAM Montana!

We had the privilege this summer of heading out to California and seeing a lot of great friends and family. Thank you so much to each of you that welcomed us into your home! We were so blessed!

This nice sandy pic is a taste of what happens when crazy people from Montana come to visit the beach!

Here's a picture of Jess and Jonny with their favorite Santa Cruz cousins...


I wanted to show you a picture of our class from last year. There were 43 students that graduated from the School of Biblical Studies. A good portion of them are going into various countries to teach the Bible to those that don't have access to decent Bible teaching. It was an awesome year and a privilege to teach and befriend each one of them.

In only a week we will have 51 new students come here to learn God's Word and let it change their lives! I can't wait to meet them all, but right now I am busy trying to study and prepare for them. I am teaching the book of Luke in just over a month and it is a LOT to study! Please pray that God prepares me for it.
Here is a picture Jessika took of the rest of us at a theme park in Idaho....on the way to California.

The kids have started school just over a week ago. Below is a picture of them on their first day. ("thanks Grandma for the new outfits!") Jess is now in 4th grade and Jonny is in 2nd. Lots of attitude!

I had a fun time golfing in the YWAM scramble a few weeks ago. Together we raised nearly $20,000 for the building projects here on the missions base. I would include some pictures but it was raining so hard that there were whitecaps on our lake. Luckily it wasn't stormy like that all day. We had a lot of fun. Thank you to those of you that generously supported YWAM.


Prayer Requests:
---Ruth and I have an opportunity to go to Thailand for 6 weeks in February! Ruth would teach with the Health Care school in Thailand and most likely I would be able to teach in the Bible School there. We are very excited about the idea of taking the family to Thailand but we are praying to make sure that it is God's will. It would cost over $5,000 just to get there for all four of us. So please pray with us. If you feel led to partner financially with us that'd be amazing as well.

--Also pray for our family in this next month. We are very excited to have students show up, but the first month of class requires more than 60 hours a week from me (Dave). Pray for balance with time and family and school. As well as relationship with students.

--Pray for Dave's teaching (early October) on the book of Luke.

--Praise God! We were given all the parts to install a wood stove in our house. It was amazing as the total cost is easily a couple thousand dollars. We just had 3 random friends that had the stove, the chimney and the hearth lying around! So after a bit of work we will be able to save over $100/month on heat during this winter! God is good! We weren't even looking for a wood stove and He just provided it!

Thank you each for your support and prayers and just for being friends. We feel so blessed to have the friends and family that we have. We are constantly overwhelmed by God's blessing through each of you.

PS. Tonite we had Indian food with our new friends from India. The smell was so powerful that an hour later a friend came into our house and her eyes were watering from the air. But it tasted great and we had a great time with Raju, Grace, Anmol and Finny. God is good.