Our family did our annual family year in review reflection time last night (see above).  It’s become a tradition for us to reflect together on the highlights and lowlights of the year through drawing. It’s a time to practice thankfulness to the Lord for the good and hard of the year. 2016 was not a graceful or smooth year for our family. Between Brian’s new role, PhD studies, and losing our carpool for the kids – it has been a physically and emotionally demanding year. It was a great encouragement to see God’s hand in some many things.

And you made our year in review! We took some special time as a family to pray for you and your family.  We could not sustain our life or ministry here without the generous giving and faithful prayer of people like you.  It was a good way to help our children understand the great privilege of being sent to Asia by you among others.

We took some time to name our biggest challenges in 2016 and thank God for how He was at work through them and also shared some of our worries going into 2017 and prayed for them too. With kids – it’s amazing what you learn when you create the space. Here’s some of what was shared.

 KK shared many highlights, but one of the things she shared as pictured below is that the hardest thing about her year was being separated from Colin and Morgan all day during school. She misses being together with everyone now that she’s in kindergarten all day.

  Colin’s biggest struggle of 2016 was finding it hard to balance social groups – he wants to be friends and spent time with everyone and finds it hard to choose who to spend time with at times. That’s about right for him.

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Morgan expressed how much she’s been stretched by a particularly challenging person in her grade at school and how it’s helped her grow. She also expressed anxiety about going on her 6th-grade outdoor education trip in 6 weeks, where she will be climbing a volcano with her class and roughing it outside.

2016 wasn’t our favorite year as a family, but we see God’s hand at work in each person’s life and in our family as a whole. We were taken deeper in our character and spiritually through the challenges faced.   Thank you for your prayers and support of us as a family and our ministry. We are consistently mindful of how important you are to us and to our ministry here and how wonderful it is that God brings people together to accomplish His purposes.

Thank you so much and Happy New Year!