Visa and Cell Christmas Party

Santa Roger handed out gifts to children and adults. The adults did an ornament exchange.

Prayer for our meal and welcome to all (my head is behind the pine decoration on the right).

Fireworks are a regular part of Christmas here and sparklers are a norm for children. Lizzie loved it!

Children enjoying the sparklers. (The white specks in the photo are snow flakes.)

Everyone eating and enjoying the feast we had. Majority of the people in this photo are guests!

Above you see some pictures from our cell Christmas party. We're so proud of our cell! There are about 8-10 of us (adults) in our cell group and we had about 30 people at our party plus children! We were amazed at how we gave our cell vision to invite their friends in hopes that they would see Jesus in our group and they completely latched on to the idea and succeeded. Now comes time to pray that we will see some of those faces in our cell group on Thursday nights. Above are a few images from that night. Please pray with us for:

• Growth in our cell - spiritual and numerical
  
• New leaders - faithfulness and maturity
• Renewed vision for the cell group
  

Visa Situation:

Some of you have asked about our visa situation. You haven't heard anything new because we don't have anything new to report unfortunately. We currently have a 6-month visa that gets us to May 4th, 2009. After that, it is still unknown. The rumor is that parliament has an amendment in process right now to the law and that this amendment would resolve our problems...however, it is unclear how long this will take to pass all the way through the proper channels. So, we wait and trust that God will have us stay here exactly as long as we're supposed to.