Support Raising & December Update…
We were blessed this year that my schedule worked out so that I was able to have Christmas day off – the first time in about two years. We celebrated together with our immediate family on Christmas and the kids had a great time enjoying time with some of our cousins and with Appachan and Ammachi. The kids of course were spoiled by the rest of the family and they were excited to receive the presents we had made for them which were books of pictures of their last year. We had noticed that the kids loved the books we had made for them in the past because whenever we have guests over they always want to bring out their books. They had lots of fun showing off their books to the rest of the family over Christmas. I’ve posted below the three books we made for them:
We are getting ready to drive up to visit Melissa’s family in Nebraska on December 30th. We’ll be there for several days as part of my week of vacation, celebrate Christmas with Melissa’s family and rejoice at Melissa’s grandparents 59th wedding anniversary! What a blessing and a testament to their love and commitment to one another.
We also wanted to give everyone a quick update about where we are in our support raising process for our upcoming trip to India (you can read more about our trip by clicking here: Medical Mission Trip to North India). We have received about 30% of the support we need to raise out of the $13,000 we need for our trip. It has been a slow and faith building process so far but we trust that God will provide the support we need to allow for us to go in a few more months. If you would like to partner with us as we prepare for this trip you can make a check out to “Crossroad Church” and write “India Medical Mission” in the memo line and send it to us and our church will send you back a tax deductible receipt. We are excited about our upcoming trip and pray that we would get a clearer sense of where God would have us serve long term in India and that it would be a time for us to continue to refine our vision of reaching India for Christ through medical missions.
I’ll try to get back to my series of blogs on different themes in medicine hopefully in the next couple of days. We wish everyone a blessed New Year!
