[James with the Johnson Family]
Charles was able to travel from Boise to Oregon to attend a Christmas gathering with the Bamfords. With James we were wondering if he would be going anywhere right up until the last moment and then his boss gave him 10 days off and we were able to find tickets for him to fly to Michigan and spend Christmas with the Johnson family who very generously opened their home to several missionary kids. Thank you Johnsons!!! Thank you Lord, for allowing the trip to happen!!!
Here in the Philippines, Carrie and Thomas started their vacation by inviting several friends over for a cookie decorating party.
Can you guess which one I did?
Heidi volunteered our family to watch the young children of families who are in the Tagalog language study program so that the parents could have a chance to finish Christmas shopping or spend time together.
Five families generously donated their children and we spent three days reading stories, playing with clay, and getting to know some very sweet children.
On Christmas Eve, our friends the Spicers invited us over for dinner and games. We have known the Spicers ever since we moved to the Philippines 16 years ago, so it is lots of fun to spend time with them.
Thank you Spicer Family!
On Christmas morning I took my post at the front door at 6:30 am and started handing out Christmas candy. On Christmas morning the neighborhood children hit the streets and yell “Mamasko Po!” at every house hoping for a coin or a piece of candy. We prepared 250 small bags of candy and could have used about 100 more. We are looking forward to 2011. Please pray that in January :
• the NTM helicopter will get its needed paperwork processed so that the flight program can open,
• the book of Mark will get its first check,
• two new families who will be working at Faith Academy find housing.
May God bless you and your family in the new year,
Jonathan and Heidi
3 comments:
Oh Bamfords, how we miss thee! Every single one of thee! :-) We pick the gingerbread man with the glasses...is that right??? So thankful that Charles and James had special Christmases in each their parts of the USA. And the cookie decorating party looked like so much fun! And what a blessing your family was to those 5 families who "generously donated their children" for the day. :-) Sending hugs from the freezing arctic circle to humid Manila, the 4 Røsviks
those cookies make me feel hungry
What a busy, and exciting Christmas!
Was your cookie missing an arm? =)
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