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The Cry for Submission: Letter from the Editor by Emily Fales
Hope. This is the baby Jesus.
"The days get darker and darker, and then Jesus is born."Wendell Berry It truly is hard to see darkness fall over the city earlier and earlier each day, urging us into hibernation. But it's also during this darkest time of the year that the brightest Light shines. I had the privilege of joining my group…
December 2008
Merry Christmas We pray you’re doing well and enjoying all that Christmas offers. We’ve had a full year, enjoying lots of bike rides, evening living-room wrestling matches, singing at church and learning to live our faith from ever-increasing depths. Here’s a quick countdown of our 12 Days of Christmas! 12 Visitors Hosted (at least!) With…
December 1, 2008
Threads of Grace I don’t think I live a day here and not think to myself that suffering is everywhere. In every crevice and crack, in every place in the world and in every person, suffering is in all and shows its effects through all. In all of us, in each heart, each mind, each…
April Folkertsma – Dec. 1, 2008
Dear Friends and Family: ‘Tis the season…it’s cold outside and my thoughts turn toward warm homes, warm drinks, and the warmth of friends and family. How grateful I am to have the security of such as these on cold days and nights. I think of the families still living on the street in front…
December Prayer Letter
Dear Friends, As the Christmas season approaches, I want to thank you for the gift that you are to us. You take our hurts and joys and make them your own. You carry us before the Father. We are grateful for your constant commitment to our lives and to the ministry that we are blessed…
December 2008 Prayer Letter
December 2009Beloved Friends and Family, We've just returned from our South America staff retreat in Peru. It was amazing. The sleepy beach town of Huanchaco welcomed 38 of us and our 9 children and provided a great setting in which to retreat. As we studied the Scriptures together, we kept in mind the context of…
Waiting. Longing. Hoping. Believing.
18 November 2008 Dear Friends and Family, I am making my peace with the cold. I generally despise the chill that comes with the end of summertime. When the temperature dips below 35 degrees (in the Midwest that’s sometime in October or November) I’m ready to go from house to car to destination and back…
Coffee and Christmas.
My Prayer Letter!
December 2008
Dear Friends and Family, “Your throne, O God, will last for ever and ever; a scepter of justice will be the scepter of your kingdom. You love righteousness and hate wickedness…” (Psalm 45:6-7, NIV). As we read these verses in chapel this morning, I was reminded of their New Testament quotation in Hebrews 1:8-9 where…
2008-12-01
Your wound is as deep as the sea. Who can heal you? Lamentations 2:13 Our wounds are deep, as deep as the sea. They cut through my own heart. I see them everywhere in this city that I live in. You must have them too. Who can heal us? In…