2012!! It's here, AHH! How do you feel, futuristic and robot-like? Yeah...me either. hehe! Oh well, moving on:
Jared and I cannot even begin to tell you how excited we are that the new year has started. 2011 ended well for us with seeing all our families on Christmas. It's always awesome to see family over the holidays and be able to catch up with them about life and the such.
One of the many things that God has blessed Jared and I with is the church we are currently attending, Glad Tidings Church. Being able to attend this church and know how God works in this place has been amazing for us and our own spiritual growth. It has been amazing to be around a church family who places a strong emphasis on prayer and the way our God works through this powerful tool He blessed us with. Glad Tidings is doing a month long devotion to prayer challenge called The Live Dead Challenge. They offered devotional books to everyone who wanted to be part of this challenge. In these books are given thoughts and things to pray for that particular day for every day in January. And it has been great to be part of this and learn new ways that we can connect to God and challenge ourselves to be more intentional and intimate with our time with God.
Our cool news for the new year...brace yourselves...: We've found our next place to live!! YAY! I cannot even begin to tell you just HOW excited we are! I mean, we've loved living in the house we're subleasing, but we're ready to have our own place and decorate with our own stuff. Er..well, I am. I guess that's not really his cup of tea. :) I would also like it to be known that our new place allows DOGS!! GAH! We're currently in the process of having our application to be adopters of a dog from The Nebraska Border Collie Rescue. So exciting!
As many of you know, I (Anna) am committed to going overseas to Beijing, China this year in April. I am looking forward to this trip, and hoping that all goes well as I prepare for it...especially hoping that my passport can get here in time for the tickets to be ordered! Jared and I have also decided that we would like to save money over the course of the next year or two to go overseas again and visit my older sister and her family in Central Asia. We've always wanted to visit friends and/or family who are servants of Jesus and wanting to spread the word across all of the world and we want to be a source of encouragement as well as just simply love on them!
Jared and I have been through some of the hardest time in our lives in 2011, and at times thought we'd never come back and be as strong as we are. But here we are, stronger than we've ever been and pushing on to what other things may come. Each of us has a life story, and experiences are always being added into the pages of our lives. Some being harder than others, but still being part of who we are. I hope you, reader, have been able to look at the many things that have happened in your life and see them as part of your story. And you have no idea how your story may touch other lives and the impact you have, it's truly amazing to be touched by another's life story. So we encourage you to embrace the things that have happened in life because they made up who you are and the person God has made you to be. Seriously, you are SO cool!
Well, I think that about covers everything that has happened since we last talked...er, since you last read. Whatever. We hope the new year has found you well and that God blesses you in every way possible. Please know how much you mean to us and how much your support means as well! Stay tuned for our next update...life is always transforming when you've got Jesus involved!
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