Thailand English Update

Hello all,

Today I found out that I will be teaching the 4th grade English class in Nahong Thailand. This year we have been blessed with new course curriculum that will make lesson planning easier. But if you remember last year, yes I

am still the same person. I need a lot of help from God to be able to effectively plan out a lesson to teach non-English speaking students, our wonderful language. The main focus of doing this is obviously to spread the gospel. But a lot of that rests on how we teach. For the students it's that I teach in the right way and love on them in the right way while also teaching at a high level. It's very important to be a good teacher that isn't just getting by in the teaching aspect and doing really good at loving students. The main way that we are able to get through to teachers in the village is their respect for our teaching ability! So just please be in prayer for that.

Again, we will be leaving on New Years eve. It's fast in coming. First we fly MSP to Seattle to Tokyo then to Bangkok. Once we land in Bangkok we are there for 2 days before taking an 11hour night bus to Chaing Mai and then from there 3 hours by truck to Nahong.

Should be a party!!

I love you guys. Thanks so much for being a part of what we're doing in Thailand. Please join with our team in Prayer for the travel, English teaching and spreading of the gospel.

If you would like to come and join the team for a day of prayer on December 4th (Saturday) we are having a prayer summit for Nahong and northern Thailand here at the YWAM Northwoods campus. It's from 10am-3pm and

a light lunch will be provided.

God bless,

Lucas

Woot Woot!

Hello all friends and family

Well, it is that time again. I will be leaving at the end of December through end of February, to go back to the mission field in Thailand. Last year during my Discipleship Training School, we went to Nahong Thailand. A small village in the Northern part of Thailand. Our main ministry is teaching English in the public schools.

After my DTS outreach my heart ached for the people of Thailand and of Nahong. They are an amazing people and culture that sadly lives with no hope. They believe in Buddhism. If you are Thai that means you are Buddhist. They believe in reincarnation and there is a great deal of idolatry. The people of low class (small village people) live with no hope. There are whole families all the way back to great grandparents still living in the same small house in the village. Their hope is that they will live a good enough life to be reincarnated in a better city in Thailand. That is as far as their vision goes. These are amazing people that our friends and I desire so much to see them come to Christ. That they can have the joy and hope and love that I have come to find in Jesus Christ.

Our Mission: To plant a culturally relevant Thai church in Nahong that worships Jesus Christ.

We will be teaching K-6^th grade in the schools. It also gives us great involvement with the teachers and village leaders in Nahong that we have built a friendship with. Last year they even offered to build us a house if we would stay long term. We are hoping that someone will be able to move there in the next few years.

We also do after school ministry with the kids and teach them stories from the Bible and really love on them. This year we are hoping to have some kind of music/performance ministry as well. I am trying to see what that would look like and get things set up. Please be praying for myself and our team as we go.

Me personally: Well starting in August I came on staff here at YWAM NorthWoods and I am staffing the discipleship training school.

I have loved it so far and God is doing so much in the lives of the students. I do many things around here with the school. I am in charge of the guys dorms and also lead the classroom. Making sure the classes run smoothly and that the students are growing and benefiting from the classes. I do a lot of 'one on one' counseling with some of the guy students. I am also the worship and arts director. Once a week I help lead a weekly bible study in which we study the Bible together using what I learned in the School of Biblical Foundations. I coordinate the worship for the study as well.

Shortly after coming on staff here a church in the area asked me to fill in on a Sunday for their morning worship. The following week they hired me as their worship and arts director for their contemporary service on Sunday mornings.

Working for Youth With A Mission carries no salary/income. Which means I am “self employed” and run on outside supporters to continue the ministry here. While at the same time being under the covering of Youth With A Mission's name and on a 2 year contract with them. So, it is living by faith everyday and gets difficult but love my work-there is nothing I would rather do. I want to see the Awesome name of Christ be spread throughout the world and even in our community.

Please keep me in your prayers as I prepare for the task ahead

If you feel you could support me financially or could like to be on my prayer support team, let me know!

We will be flying out- 5 staff and 5 students- on Dec 31^st and returning the last weekend in February.

My e-mail is: lukieneraasen@yahoo.com or check out my blog @ lifethroughhisscars.blogspot.com

My # here at Campus is: 715-353-2280

Feel free to contact me on Facebook as well.

Thank you all and God bless!

Lucas

Thailand Outreach Time

Hello all,
Most of you know that I will be traveling to Thailand once again this winter. I am going back to the village of Na Hong with hopes of planting a church in the village. Our main ministry will be teaching English in the public school.
A couple things:
First I am extremely excited. I love the people of Na Hong and of Thailand so this is my heart. For me it is not a vacation in any sense of the word. My heart aches to see these amazing people come to Christ.
So please keep our team in your prayers

For me personally this is going to be a ton of work. Setting up and coordinating things that'll happen around the world is a chore.
Please keep me in your prayers.

Also, please pray about my finances. We just found out that we will need to order our plane tickets this Tuesday. The flights have gone up at least $400 from last year and we'll need to fly into Bangkok rather then Chaing Mai. What that means is after 30 hrs of flight travel we are going to take an 11hr double decker night bus to Chaing Mai.

So I am faced with the requirement of getting $1600 by Tuesday. Please pray about supporting me financially if able. I have never particularly enjoyed asking others for help because I've always been a hard worker that supplies for myself but times have changed and I must rely on God to provide. Every little bit helps. Really every small bit helps me out. I value you and praise God for your prayers and support.

This is going to be an adventure that's for sure, but one that God has called me to and I anticipate Him doing great things in Thailand.

Please pray for our students as well. Many of them need passports and finances in record time. Their names are: Michael Knight, Sarah Egge, Dorothy Taylor, Kelsy Hultberg and Josiah Merrill.

One of the main purposes of this letter is to ask you if you would like to receive email updates from our Thailand team while on outreach. If so please give me your email so I can create an email list for outreach updates. Thank you so much for your prayers and support. God bless you and your families
Lucas