It's hard to believe January the 1st has come and gone once again. In many ways 2008 seems like a foggy memory. The last half of the year we were in the biggest transition our family has seen. Jess resigned from First Baptist Church in July and immediately began looking for work to help support the family financially. We were faced with needing a place to live since our time in the parsonage was limited. God worked it all our and Jess found work and some friends were moving out of their house and offered to rent it to us. All in all things have settled in to somewhat of a routine finally even though we continue to adjust to our new life.
January begins the third month of us having church in our home. For sometime several families asked us to have a Bible study in our home and we finally decided it was what God was leading us to do. In reality it is far more than a Bible Study--it's church! We meet and fellowship, worship and pray together. The best I can tell that's what a church does. We are not officially organized or anything but we are growing together and doing life together. Our aim is to love God supremely and love others sacrificially. This little group of people have help our family though this transition time and reminded us of what church should and can be. We are so thankful to God for all of them.
The girls are out on Christmas break and go back to school on Monday. We are enjoying the time together as a family. Christmas was a great time of counting our blessings and thanking God for Jesus and one another.
As the new year unfolds we are confident that God will provide us with all we need to live for His glory and minister for Him. We don't know what this coming year holds but we are confident God will provide the grace to embrace it and be glad in it.
We trust all of you had a great CHRISTmas and will strive to live for God's glory in 2009!
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