"This is how
God showed His love among us: He sent His one and only Son into the world that
we might live through Him." 1 John 4:9
We send you our
warmest wishes for God's blessings and for a very blessed Christmas and New
Year! May you have a joyous celebration of our Lord's birth!
Our family is currently
in New Zealand enjoying a wonderfully relaxing break as we celebrate Deb's 50th
birthday, the huge year God has given us on the translation work and also the
end of a big year for Jubab in school.
We are VERY proud
of Jubab as he won the Rueben F. Scarf award at school which is a big honour,
and he also came first in two subjects: English Extension 1 and English Advanced!
Tears came to our eyes as we watched our son receiving his award. God has
blessed us greatly!
Later
on this month we will be getting together at Dad and Mom's together with Deb's
brother and sister and their families. It will be the first time that we will
all be together with all our children - ever! So we are looking forward VERY
much to this special time with Dad and Mom.
Here's a funny little Christmas 'selfie' of
ourselves taken a couple of days ago under a beautiful NZ tree. J
Paul and Deb are just learning how to do 'selfies' so we're not very good at it (Jubab asked me why I was holding the phone down so low) but this comes with our smiles, our love and Christmas blessings!
XOXOXOXOXOXO
