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December 27, 2007

Christmas Family Photo

Here is our family:

Left to right:
Berta, Sarah, Deborah, Asetu, Monique, Naomi, Lanssala, Denise, Samuel, Olivia, Timotee, Obil the Camel, Pierre, Keith, Seydou.

It has been great to be able to welcome Pierre and his wife and children into our family, and to celebrate Christmas together. I will introduce them to you in the next few days.

Christmas went well. We found a sheep, which gave its life (although, like many of us, not exactly willingly) for the proceedings. Apart from the various church services and family celebrations, we also managed to squeeze in a baptism service on the 24th and a wedding on the 25th. We had several visitors, all of whom received food and the good news of Christmas. Yesterday we relaxed together and finished the day with an hour of frisbee. Pierre turns out to be a bit of a natural frisbee-thrower.

Now Christmas is over, we are thinking about how we can live and work together for God’s purposes in the coming year. At 6am this morning, we started a short daily family worship time, to worship, pray, and read God’s word. It was great. There is an excitement about this coming year and about what God is doing. This afternoon two Fulani came round to ask for the Scriptures in Fulfulde. They had both bought gospels years ago, when I had my market stall, and after years of reading have decided to go against the ridicule of their friends and find out more.

Posted by Keith at December 27, 2007 07:50 PM