Merry Christmas everyone.  We hope you are captivated in a fresh way by the wonderful mystery of God becoming man and the special celebration we have in this season.  Praise God for His great love.

We want to thank you for your prayers in the past couple of weeks.  We have seen several answers to the requests we shared in the last post.  One of the biggest is that World Relief learned from the proper government authorities what was required for us to be considered the full category of office, and has fulfilled those requirements.  So we are now in the final stages of transitioning the office status.  Praise God!

There are a couple of quick requests we’d like to share with you:

  • Most of the refugees who are being resettled have church partners who are assisting them.  Please pray that especially through this season they will see, perhaps for the first time, how great God’s love for them is.
  • Please pray for strengthening and growing unity among the staff within our office, as we’ve had some changes among staff in the past several weeks and a couple of additional changes upcoming.
  • We are very thankful for the volunteers who work with our refugees, but an essential part of their involvement that the big majority of them forget is the filling out of their volunteer logs.  While we have had all of the volunteer involvement we need and more, our funding requires us to receive volunteer logs from each volunteer, documenting their time spent with refugees.  Because we have received so few logs back from our volunteers, we currently owe a considerable amount of money back to one of the grant programs we participate in.  We do still have several more months to get all of these logs in, so we are communicating the urgency to the volunteers.  But please pray that they will follow through and submit their logs.
  • A final prayer request is that the many churches who partner with us in so many wonderful ways will also recognize the opportunities to invest into our work through regular financial partnership.  Not only does this bless our refugees through continually strengthened service, but it blesses the churches involved.

Thanks so much for your prayers for us and your encouragement.  It means a lot…

And Merry Christmas!

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