Elaine and I wish you and yours a wonderful Christ-filled Christmas celebration. May the promises of God be more real to you as you understand more fully the tremendous gift of God at Christmas.
- Praise God for the very wonderful visit in Chicago with Shohei Ueki last month.
- PTL! We had a great Thanksgiving celebration with our extended family of over 30 of us.
- Please pray blessings for our Christmas plans with everyone. We are basically planning to be close to home and may we all have time to reflect on the Christ child.
- Continue to pray for both of our teaching, mentoring, and meeting online with those in Asia and seemingly everywhere else. We have no trips in December but are instead filled with online connections on Zoom throughout the winter.
- Continue to ask God to bless each member of the Monday afternoon Life Group that meets in our home and the Tuesday evening Life Group that meets at the Winnebago public library.
- Thank God for the progress with John’s Kairos University Masters student where John leads the advisory team as a faculty mentor. Continue to pray for the student to learn content, character, and craft.
- On January 6-11, 2024, an All Asia Converge gathering will be held in the Philippines. John will not be attending this time. Ask God for special favor, wisdom, encouragement, and faith for the global staff from Asia and most of John’s Asia Impact Team (with some spouses) who will be attending.