Departure! Saturday Dec 31st 2011

Hello All,

Today our team is working on our final English teaching preparations and going through our last Thai language lesson! Tomorrow we will be finalizing our packing and last minute details and then we are OFF to Chicago to fly to Thailand on Saturday morning!!

Thank you SO much for all your prayers and support. I will update as soon as I can once we get to Thailand and continue to update you guys during the trip.
Our immediate prayer needs would be for safe travel. For myself, I have lower back problems so just pray that the 20+ hours of sitting on a plane is bearable.
Again, thank you so much for your prayers and your role in our mission to Thailand.

In Christ,
Lucas Neraasen

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Here we are in the first week of December and I don't see much snow outside. Now I know that for some of you this is a major blessing. I see you all giddy about the fact that while it is still FREEZING out, at least the landscape is dead, brown and ugly. Instead of what one might call a "wonderland". Why this is, I don't understand but I am glad you are happy. However, I am waiting and hoping for snow very soon.

The fact that there COULD be snow outside, means that the departure date for Thailand must be closer! That is correct. We will be leaving in just a few short weeks to do ministry in a remote village in Northern Thailand and I am STOKED. It will be great to be there and hopefully to be used by God to bring about His kingdom on earth!

Cheyenne and I along with another Discipleship Training School staff member spent the week in Minneapolis Minnesota. We joined our DTS class with theirs and we shared the Speaker Troy Sherman. The topic of the week was entitled "Identity and Destiny". The week went extremely well for our students who are now all back at YWAM Northwoods. Troy works with Youth With A Mission and among other things is focused on changing the world in sex trafficking and fresh clean water world wide. Troy's teaching for me personally, changed my life. God used him in my life to speak truth into my life and change my world. I was extremely blessed this week. God is good. http://www.troyandalisa.org/troyandalisa.com/INFUSION.html

We just sent in all of our Thailand Visa applications in on Wednesday! Please pray with us that everything goes smoothly with the Thai consulate.

On Saturday December 10th we will be having a Na Hong prayer summit at YWAM Northwoods. We will be praying and interceding for the village of Na Hong and the summit will end with a Thai meal. If you would like more information please facebook or email me. You can pray from where ever you are at!

God bless

Lucas N