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Happy New Year!

It's been a great holiday for us around here. The kids got to be in our church's Christmas play, which went very well. Everybody involved did such a great job, and the LORD blessed.

Christmas has come and gone, and we were able to give the kids some great things, thanks in no small part to the many extra gifts people gave us to help with that.

As I mentioned in our paper letter, the LORD has truly blessed us this year. Financially, it's night and day different from where we were this time in 2005. We're looking forward to what the LORD has in store for us in 2007, and to finally finishing deputation.

Last night, our church had a New Year's Eve service, which included a baptismal service. Our sons, James, John, and Ethan had been saved a while back, but we had held off on baptizing them until we were sure they understood. They wanted to be baptized, and went forward during the invitation a few weeks back to say as much publicly. It's great to see them take each new step of obedience to our LORD.

It's a new year, and with it a new schedule of meetings (I'll have those up on the internet soon). We'll be heading to Simpsonville, SC next weekend for a missions conference with Pastor Bill Cole in Bible Baptist Church. We're looking forward to hitting the road again and getting to minister in more churches in 2007. Pray for the meeting. Pray for our health this year. We tend to get sick and stay sick around this time of year, and would like to avoid five weeks of stomach flu this year if possible.

Just a quick note so you can be praying. St. Louis was hit with a major winter storm last night. The ice and snow combined has knocked out power to over 500,000 in Missouri and Illinois. The ice is making repair difficult for Ameren UE. With no power, and temperatures expected to be in the teens tonight, it is understandably cause for concern, especially for the elderly. It may be days before we get it back. We’re keeping warm ourselves, and thankfully, we have natural gas, so we can cook, and have hot showers, but we can’t run the furnace without power. The church has electricity, tho’, so services should proceed normally on Sunday.