We’re here, and online again. We apologize for the past 2 weeks’ lack of updates. One week we were ‘out of town’; this week we’ve been in the middle of a network upgrade that turned out to be a nightmare. Right now, we’re praising the Lord that things are up and running again, although we weren’t able to perform the upgrade due to equipment failure. We can’t run out to CompUSA and get a new part; we have to wait for one to come from the states with someone returning from their Christmas break.
While I’ve been ‘locked in the server room’ this week, Bob has been out with the staff men and boys from ICA on a building outreach project in a nearby village. Tomorrow, we all join these local believers for the 1st service in their newly-roofed church building. (It had been sitting unfinished for several years.) It’s our ‘Christmas present’ to the community, and it has been a special time of bonding with these believers and with each other for all involved.
As I thought about you all this week, I was blessed to know that since you hadn’t heard from us in our weekly updates, you were probably praying, knowing that something must be ‘wrong’. What an encouragement you have been to us by being faithful in your prayer support! Won’t it be interesting some day in heaven to find out about all the times you prayed for others, and all the ways God answered those prayers!
We want to wish you a very special Christmas. Give all those you love an extra hug, remembering us as we do our ‘Christmas’ loving by long distance this year. Enjoy your time together, building memories that are priceless.