HAPPY NEW YEAR!

We are concluding the year with hearts full of praise and thanks to God.  You are one of the reasons our hearts are rejoicing, because you have partnered with us.  Thank-you for your encouragement and for your part in taking the gospel to those living in Baozhong Township.

Our Christmas outreach happened early, before Christmas this year because that was when believers could come and help us.  God answered your prayers and we had great weather for those days.  We distributed more than 450 bags of candy with a small simple tract.  If we had prepared more, we probably could have given away a couple hundred more.  We will need to remember that for next year.

We were able to tell the true story of Christmas to many elementary school students.  It was fun to tell the story in an interactive way with them.  In one class, Lorne had to go back the next week and answer the question: “If Christmas is about Jesus, why is there Santa Claus?”  That was a special privilege!

As we begin the New Year, we will have only a couple of weeks of volunteering in the schools before the winter vacation that includes the Lunar New Year.  We have been invited to continue volunteering next semester (February 18 until the end of June).  We are sensing that we need people praying for individual classes and even for individual students.  If you would like to commit to pray weekly for some of our students, please send us an email.  We will be glad to send you information about who to pray for and some ideas of how to pray for them.  We would love to have all of our students prayed for on a regular basis during this six-month time period.

We have written a 2012 Year-End Ministry Report.  We will be sending it to our Seamless Link Church Partners.  If you would like to receive a copy, please let us know.

God bless you all!  We look forward to continuing to partner with you in 2013.