Dear Friends and Family,

We are back in South Carolina after an amazing trip through Alabama, Mississippi, and Tennessee. It was a great time of seeing friends again and being able to share the ministry with so many people and churches. We are so grateful for all of you that opened up your homes for us to share or made time in busy schedules to meet with us.

First of all we want to wish all of you a Merry Christmas. It is a great time of year to remember the beginning of our Savior on earth. The Creator coming down and living with us crazy people, most of which despised Him to the point of eventually killing Him and he allowed it all to happen because of His love for us. This is something Sylvia and I will never understand but are so humbled and grateful for it. Sylvia and I pray that you will enjoy your time with the Lord, family, and friends.

We are writing for prayer as we take a new step of faith in our Lord. As you know we have set a goal to get to Spain in May. Although most missionaries raising funds and prayer partners to go to Europe are taking between 2 and 3 years…some more to raise support, we are deeply concerned with the Spiritual state of Spain and the fact that we could be doing something about it if we were there.

So, since we only have about 6 months until the end of May we have set some specific faith goals out before us. Let me explain:

1. We are trusting that the Lord sell our house without too much loss. The general housing market here in Columbia is in the pits and the Townhouse market here is close to 250% oversaturated. In spite of this, and the fact that it is not in the best part of town we believe that the Lord can sell this place for us. As we have mentioned before in our letters the Lord asks us to take steps of faith that stretch us. We continue to take these steps.

2. The second faith goal is to continue to work hard at raising the lacking support. Under this area we have a number of things we want to communicate to you:

   a. We are deeply grateful for those of you have been standing with us through your monthly financial commitments and also those of you who are praying regularly for us. We are daily aware that the enemy has Europe in his grasp and is not wanting us over there. So, thank you so much for sticking it out with us in the war.

   b. The next part of our goal is to move forward with our support. Many of you have mentioned you are with us in prayer and at heart. We are so grateful for this effort on your part. We would like for you to take the challenge of supporting us for $20 or more monthly in order to get us to Spain and into the ministry there. If most of the people on our newsletter list committed to support us for this we would be at 100% of our support. Spain needs Jesus!!! . We ask that you pray about this.

3. The third part of the goal is to continue setting up appointments with churches and people in order to search out new opportunities for support. But meanwhile we want you to consider supporting us and not waiting for others to do it. Dive into the challenges with us of reaching the hearts and minds of the Spanish youth with the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ.