Updates…

Christmas is a busier time for us. We got our newsletter finished and to the printer yesterday… We took some LLCCES students to an annual Deafie fellowship event sponsored by the Catholics… We have had the Christmas party for New Life Deaf Fellowship and will have a party with the LLCCES class this Friday. Lots of gift-buying for all the people we now know. Great news with the LLCCES class… the teacher asked us last Friday if we would tell the Christmas Story to the kids and parents! This from a teacher who is not a Christian! So we’re putting on a little play with the help of Barbara W., a friend and Baptist missionary interested in working with the Deaf. Yesterday, we had rehearsal and the students are having a great time and hearing the Christmas Story directly from the Bible (not some made up story).

Sterling’s making a manger for the play in the woodworking shop next to the class room. Never thought about it until making one, but the students kept coming up to Sterling picking up the manger support that’s in the shape of a St. Andrew’s Cross (an “x”) and carrying it like the suffering Christ. A wonderful opportunity taken to explain how Christ’s Saving Death was foreshadowed even in the bed that He laid in at His birth!

We’re still working on putting up the pictures… among a million things, we have a slideshow that we’d like to produce for the Deaf students tomorrow… so no time right now to breath hardly. We are certainly looking forward to a vacation starting next week… whew!

We WILL, however, make another post before Christmas Day… but we want to take a moment now to tell you that we hope all of you have a very MERRY CHRISTMAS!

PS…AND… we have to express our fullest thanksgiving to God for His healing of Sterling’s spiritual Dad and a great family friend, Colonel Jim P.!! From a PSA of 56 in September, to 1.4 in December (about 4 being normal)… HALLELUJAH AND PRAISES TO OUR BELOVED CHRIST!