A time of blessings...and reflections.

The blessings are family and friends who you get to spend time with over the holiday season. Whether it is sitting around a table for a big holiday feast or playing a board game that makes you laugh so hard your ribs hurt! Or just sitting down with friends for a night of eating and laughing over Christmases past. The reflecting comes in the story that started over 2000 years ago in the town of Bethlehem were a teenage girl gave birth to a child in a manger who she and her betrothed would name Jesus. The amazing thing about this story is over the last few weeks this same story was reflected on by thousands if not millions of people! I was on of them and I count that as a blessing. Merry Christmas!

Let it snow...let it snow...(you know the rest).

...We are guaranteed a "White Christmas" this year due to the shellacking we took last week! With 17 inches on the ground and more predicted for this coming Monday I don't think we'll have anything to worry about. We are thankful for Gods timing (and humor) because with the cold and snow it just makes it all the more urgent on our part to want to go! We are in the throws of getting Christmas letters and prayer letters sent out, and praying that those who receive them will hear our heart and know how much we long to be working with our Italian friends and co-workers at the Il Faro church outside of Naples. We roughly need about thirty more people who are willing to sacrifice just $30 to $50 a month so we can go. Any takers... ; )