As I am writing this I find myself hungry in two different ways. One, I am fasting in faith for God’s provision, so, my stomach is grumbling quite a bit. The other is due to my lack of prayer, scripture and teaching. I didn’t even know I was that kind of hungry two months ago. But, since being here and seeing both in the teaching and in the examples of the staff, I have realized what I need to fill my spiritual appetite. Throughout the past 4-5 weeks I have taken ideas, thoughts and theology that I knew and then deepened my understanding of it. I have learned the importance of forgiveness, reconciliation, fasting, prayer, scripture, and humbleness. Back home I knew I wanted something more but, until I started to take in the amazing teaching I had no clue as to how much I had been missing.
The other aspect that I love is the community here on base. While yes, we are YWAMER’s and yes some are even Ovalites, it is an extremely open community. A lot of the events done here on base are open to the public and they are active in the community. Part of that is the DTS’s outreach into Luton every Wednesday. What we do is set up a place for people to have coffee and tea. Then we go out on to the streets and invite people in. We just talk with them. It’s amazing how much an entire city can hurt in the same way. Most people are just lonely and can’t believe that someone wants to pray for them or even just talk. I’m am unbelievably excited to take what I have been learning to outreach in Tanzania in April and look forward to the blessings God will bring. Oh, and for the record, when I’m not fasting the food here is always good.

Jesus loves you,

James Tock