We spend most of December in California. We spent most of the month staying at my in-laws house in Tehachapi. Tehachapi is located in the mountains north east of Los Angeles. We attended a few services at Lancaster Baptist Church and a few at Mojave Baptist Chapel. It has been great to see what God is doing.
We were able to visit a few new churches and even had to cancel a meeting because of Highway 58 closing due to snow. That was frustrating for us, but our kids loved it. This was the first time they had seen snow and we got about 4 inches of it. They built snowmen and made snow angels and even had a snowball fight. We were so thankful to everyone at Faith Baptist Church in Ontario who had given our kids coats, boots, hats, gloves, ect. We had a great time in the snow.
Tonight we had our New Years service at church. We were so glad to be in our home church to partake of this special event. Pastor Smith unveiled the new theme for this year as well as gave out Bible reading schedules, Prayer stickers, and church calendars for the next year. We are looking forward to going "Henceforth Unto Him" this year. I am especially looking forward to the Bible reading schedule this year. It will be great to be reading my Bible with everyone else this year. What a great thing to have several people on the same page with their Bible reading as you are.
I am also looking forward to being at our home church for a few weeks.
Audrey got a bunch of letters today from Shadow Mountain Baptist Church in Morgan Hill, CA. It is always a blessing for us to know that there are other people praying for and thinking about us. Just a simple little note means so much to a missionary. Thank you all so very much who write to us and let us know you are praying for us. We greatly appreciate it.
We look forward to serving the Lord in this present year. God has blessed us so much this past year. We can't wait to see what he has in store for us this next year. We pray that we will be able to lead many more souls to a saving knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
