We had a special New Year's Eve last night with the other missionaries here! Everyone made Chinese food, and we had a Chinese buffet! We had homemade egg rolls, sweet and sour chicken, chow mien, broccoli beef, and a lot more! It was so special just to have Chinese food and to be together! No one made it anywhere close to midnight, but it was fun to talk about what we had done for New Year's in previous years.
We don't usually commit to lists of New Year's Resolutions, but as we start this new year in Haiti, we want to become healthier people. We want to re-commit to having a healthy marriage with Christ at the center, want to strive after HIS ministry here, not our own. We want to not let the fear of what people might think dictate our actions, and we want to focus on loving the missionaries and nationals around us more than ourselves. Most of all, we want to bring His health, transformation and hope to this sick and weary land.
As parties rage long and loud tonight, tomorrow and Wednesday (New Year and Haiti's Independence Day), please pray with us that Haiti would realize that it has only traded one kind of slavery for another...There is no freedom here! The vast majority of people on this island are slave to their own desires and wills, and live in fear of superstitions, curses and threatenings. Pray with us that we might be blazing lights of freedom in this dark enslaved land for 2008!
HAPPY NEW YEAR...we would be such very small lights without you!
God's blessings to Matt and you as you enter this New Year in Haiti. I am so glad you had some family time at Christmas. My love and prayers follow you close. Yes we are to get 5 inches of snow today and it it howling!!
ReplyDeleteLove, Lori
Hey, Those are resolutions that I need to make as well! Thanks for your heart of love towards God, each other and the lost.
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We love you all,
Charlie
Like Lori we are snow & ice covered hovering at a whopping 2 degrees!