Christmas Letter

I realize it is past Christmas, but I hadn't posted my Christmas letter on my blog...
Dear Friends,
Merry Christmas! I love this time of year! I have spent some of the time leading up to Thanksgiving looking back over this past year and how much has happened. Much of my year has been focused on mission preparations and learning a new job (I received a promotion at work early in January). I have moved through much of the process and many of the preparation steps moving toward serving in Europe. In February, I attended the EuroQuest Orientation at the Greater Europe Mission International Headquarters in Monument, Colorado. Attending helped me to feel more like a team member in a larger mission than the EuroTeam ministry that I will be joining. It has been a year where my faith has been stretched in many ways. While pondering some of the growth I have experienced by moving forward in this step of faith, my thoughts turned to my grandpa who was one of the examples that I learned from while I was growing up. I decided to look back through some notes he wrote after he had a stroke that made if hard for him to talk and found this:
"We were working on a project at ---- dairy when the Lord asked me to give $100 a month to the Gideon work. On Monday night at the camp meeting we did it. On Wednesday a guy came by the job, and wanted us to build a complete dairy for him."

I find encouragement from the examples God provided all of us in His Word, and also that me with a rich heritage of faith. There are so many things I have learned through the examples lived before me by members of my family.
Merry Christmas!