We pray you have had a nice holiday and are all geared up for the New Year!
2007 holds many promising things for us all. In our home church,
‘enthusiasm’ and ‘expectation’ were the two words the pastor gave for
the upcoming year. That is exciting! Our prayer for you is that Christ
would overtake you in every area of your life! We appreciate all your
interest and prayers for our lives.
TRANSITIONING HOME:
It has been quite a change and transition home here to Nova Scotia. We
arrived home October 3rd and had a nice month catching up with family and
friends. In November we started traveling to churches on weekends and
really experienced God’s blessing as we shared about Trinidad and Tobago
and our ministry there. It was a busy time as we were away Friday to Sunday
or Monday and then returned home to catch up on administration and get back
to school.
We have been doing Ok, but have had ups and downs as we adjust to being
home. We miss our friends in Tobago and our time there has impacted us
greatly. We have been reading a book called ‘Reentry’ for returning
missionaries and that has been helpful. Being in transition is an
exciting time, yet stressful too. We have full assurance that God
is with us and is guiding us each step. It is a daily walk of placing
our trust in Him and resting in God’s presence. It is definitely a huge
adjustment for us and will yet again be as more changes are in store!
It is funny to have quite a few adjustments to moving home, you may laugh
at these like: getting used to driving on the right hand side of the road,
learning how to sort our garbage as they have extensive recycling and
composting here and it all has to be bagged appropriately, taking such
a long time to bundle the kids up in snowsuits and mittens (longer than
sun screening them in Tobago!), self service gas stations, going for a
long cold walk on the beach rather than a nice ‘sea bath’, no goats or
chickens roaming our yard, no fresh fruit on the trees to pick (at least
not this time of year), long straight highways, lots of fast food drive
thrus, early dark evenings by 5pm because it is winter here ……… trying
to reconnect with friends who have very busy schedules and a faster
pace of life. It has been fun, a time of rediscovery and also overwhelming
at times.
ENJOYING SNOW:
The kids prayer daily has been to have some snow! They enjoyed the first
snow immensely! They were sad for a green Christmas but are geared up for
the first snow storm!
We appreciate your prayers for us as a family.
The kids enjoyed being a part of the Living Christmas Tree Presentations at Christian Fellowship Church. They played with the Bell Choir each night for 4 nights. It was a great time for us all!
