December and January have simply flown by… It seems like Christmas was yesterday and we were preparing
for the New Year. The reality is that a month has indeed gone by and we are
nearing the completion the first month of 2015. I do not want to leave a huge
gap in the updates so I will attempt to piece together updates from memory and
my calendar to bring anyone up to speed that is taking this journey with us
through the updates. It is always a great mental exercise for me to go back and
relive in some ways the events as I am writing. Of course the details will not
be as deep and I will try to put in lots of pictures.
I
think to myself sometimes that maybe these updates have already served
their purpose and I should just discontinue them but I really do enjoy writing
them and having a written record of all that the Lord has done. I must admit it
adds a pressure because I want to write them but many days I simply do not have
the mental capacity to write and rehash the events. I am not complaining just
sharing the journey with those of you who read. By the way, thank you for
reading and praying…. Well lets get started with installment one of the
Catch-up.
December 19-26
We finished up the round robin to all
the churches in December with a four location weekend December 19-21. We went
to Mjomboni on Friday 19th to show the cinema and pass out tracts. Brother
John did some teaching before the cinema and the choir from Magangani LBC sang
some songs. We showed the Jesus film rather than the Nativity at this location
since it was our first time to do a cinema.
Saturday we were with the Mangangani
Church for cinema, then on Sunday we showed the Nativity in Malindi in the
morning and in Jimba in the afternoon. It was a busy weekend but we all had a
great time fellowshiping and celebrating the birth of Christ. It was a great
chance for all of us to go out as a team and be with the churches.
Once the
weekend was over it was time for us to take a breather and celebrate Christmas
as a team and as families. We did squeeze in a trip to Mombasa to go to the
newly opened Dominoes Pizza and Cold Stone Creamery. Yes you read right
DOMINOES! We had our doubts if it would be legit but it is!
After an
awesome day at Dominoes we had a birthday party for Ellanora at Clayton and
Lindsey’s house. Lindsey and Clayton had their house decorated and a cake made
when we got back from Mombasa so we could celebrate Ellanora turning 2.
Ellanora is so cute and we loved sharing her birthday together.
We had a great Christmas week. We
had our Team Christmas dinner and gift exchange on Christmas Eve. The food was
amazing. We even had Ham! Ashley got everyone matching Christmas Pajamas for
our Christmas Day Brunch.
On Christmas day we all got together after having time with our families and had a brunch followed by some pool time. Oh wonderful Tropical Christmas traditions!
It was great to take some time to
laugh, play, and rest during Christmas week knowing that starting immediately
after Christmas we would be plunged into the Eyes on Christ campaign and Fisher
family survey trip.
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