Happy New Year!

A new year has begun and we hope you are feeling encouraged.  If you're not, hang in there! We are into the month where students have a lengthy winter break. Just as college students back home are heading back to campus, ours are heading home.  This first semester has been such a challenge, but it has also been a season of growth and opportunities.  We can now get around via public transportation pretty well and we are always learning new bus routes and new places to find necessities. Meeting new people and building into friends continues to be a delight.

I feel like this past semester I did a huge belly flop into an ice cold pool. Oh how it stung! It was a shock! But now that I've sunk below the surface and have found my bearings, I'm ready to come up for a breath of fresh air. Now, what once stung feels refreshed, what once took me by surprise is a distant memory.

As I look at where we've been and where we are, I feel a sudden excitement.  Hope has been renewed and an eager anticipation of what is to come nearly has me giddy.  What will He do next in us and through us? While I don't feel like we are quite out of the dessert, the mirage is beautiful enough to keep us going and give us hope.  We hope that whatever season you are in, that you have hope. To be without hope is so devastating. We are thinking of you often and we know that our Father see's you and is caring for you.  We are excited to see what He will do next in you and through you!

Much Love,

Katie

My True Love with some local neighbors.