Merry Christmas!

I just wanted to update and ask for prayer for our holiday season. Please pray for our family's health, too; it seems like someone is always sniffling or coughing these days. And don't stop praying for Ukraine. This winter is a hard one for many people in this country.

Upcoming events:

• Christmas banquets for Tsyurupinsk orphanage workers.
• decorating cookies with Tsyurupinsk kids
• Agape Christmas orphanage visits
• and more!

Thank you for praying.

I thought of a few more things, more for other people, but closely tied in with us:

Our neighbors have been quite sick, too, and their little guys have been in and out of the hospital. Nothing serious, but hospital time is stressful for parents, even when it's just because the babies have colds, like they do now.

Alex and Vera Fedorchuk (Agape director), are headed back to Ukraine with their new baby and four older children. Pray for safe travel.

Our landlady and her helpers have been trying to get gas hot water put in here since May. (We do have an electric water heater for now, for baths. We're not suffering.) It has been a very long, frustrating process, even involving lots of tears. Please pray that they could finally finish!

Jaan just started at music school today. Thank God for His help in that process, and please keep praying that all the teachers Jaan ends up with will be just right for him (and that we might get a place for Raia, too, if that would be good for her).

Pray for our health! Everyone has been sick, and it's still lingering with some of us.

Tomorrow Will is leaving for a week in Kiev at a session of Agape's school for teachers. Please pray for a good trip and good studies for him, and for the rest of us here without him.