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The Cry for Submission: Letter from the Editor by Emily Fales
January 2008 Prayer Letter
Hi everybody! Greetings from a VERY, VERY COLD Omaha. I don't know about Chris, but I am very excited about living somewhere a bit warmer 🙂 We hope that you and your family had a wonderful Christmas and New Year. We pray that it was filled with laughter, memories, and hope. As we write this…
January 2008
My dear friends and family, Thanks for the hand cramp. I got my November support update, which details who sent in a check of support for me. I scrolled down the list of names. And scrolled. My eyes watered as I looked over these precious names – 39 of them. And then I got to…
what a day that will be!
January 2008 Good news! This month I'm moving into an apartment with Ana. The McAvaddy family returned to the States on December 23 and kindly left us all their furniture and household appliances. We plan to move in on January 7, when I get back from New Hampshire and Ana returns from visiting her sister…
Cords of Hope
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, friends. By the time you get this, Christmas will be over. Pine needles will be sifting deeper into the carpet, you'll be guiltily eating the last of the stocking candy and trying to adjust New Year's Resolutions accordingly, and even those pretty white lights will have begun to…
December 2007
Dear Family and Friends, As the New Year approaches I am reminded of how God has blessed our family through out the year. Our greatest gift this year was given to us on March 16th of 2007 when Ella was born. I am happy to announce that in 2008 God will once again bless…
Advent
Dear Family and Friends, Greetings of peace, joy and hope to you. Happy new year! I always love new beginnings: the clean slate, ‘His mercy is new every morning’ sort of thing. Help us to actually rest in THAT Lord. Your grace IS sufficient. Your power IS made perfect in weakness. You ARE finishing the…
Beggars Society: December 9, 2007: Father Thelen – a Christmas Homily
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Andrew Ulasich – Dec. 1, 2007
Dear friends, You did it to me…You did not do it to me. These are the words Jesus spoke to his disciples as he explained to them who they were ministering to when they fed the hungry, clothed the naked, accepted the stranger, and visited the sick and imprisoned. They did it (or failed to…
April Folkertsma – Dec. 1, 2007
Dear Friends and Family: Almost 3 years ago I began one of the most important journeys of my life by traveling to Kolkata, India for 4 months with Word Made Flesh (WMF), an organization that works around the world serving Jesus among the poorest of the poor. Many of you supported me on that journey…
2007-12-01
Dearest Friends, As the end of the year approaches, we always take time to look back and see how God has been moving in our own lives and in that of our community here in Rio de Janeiro. This has been an incredible year for many of our projects and…