My niece Ari and my beautiful wife are pictured with me.

We had an incredible time with our family. It was a gift to be able to spend as much time as we did. Usually, we are rushed and have a couple of days together. This time, we were together for a week, and things were relaxed, and oh so great!!!

Celebrating our Savior and recognizing His clear direction and blessing in our lives was significant!

The time with Grandma, aunts, uncles, cousins and a few friends made things more awesome than we could have asked for. We are so very thankful for the blessing of this time together.

We got Whitney moved from Indy to Tulsa, and now we look to finish her move on to Dallas, soon. For now, we have a few coveted moments together as a family!

She will resume her nursing school at University of Texas, Arlington in a couple of weeks.

An added bonus to our time, was being able to pore over our book. We took turns and were blessed to be able to read the finished product! Those of you who ordered directly from Revell, have received yours copies. I think others are still waiting.

Upon our return home, we had the rest of our copies waiting.

We are just so thankful for an incredible year of blessing from our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ!

I trust you had a wonderful Christmas, and pray you will be safe over all of the New Year's celebrations that take place tonight and tomorrow.

We are praying for you, that you have an incredible year in Christ!

I have a team in Mexico as we speak, who have seen God's hand move in mighty ways! They have seen scores of people come to Christ! They have sacrificed their time with family to go and serve Jesus.

Please continue to lift them up. They return to Tulsa on January 2. You can see much about their journey if you go to www.awestar.org, click on trip updates, then click on Christmas 2008. You can also see pictures by doing the same thing.

Let us exalt Christ together in this coming year!!!

We are a blessed people in a blessed nation, and we need to demonstrate our love and concern for the lost by being found faithful in serving!

God Bless You!!!

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