Adventures with the Henrys

"If I could condense all the truths of Christmas into only three words, these would be the words: 'God with us.'

~John F. MacArthur, Jr.

Have you ever let your mind wander and imagined what it meant for Jesus to become “Emmanuel, God with us”? He left the vastness of heaven to come to our little planet. He left His home, His Father, His power, His divinity all to come and be with us. He gave up all that even though He knew that being with us would be costly. The kind of love would make you consider that is mind-boggling.

The Bible talks about God being with us through the Old and New testaments. “God with us” bookends the gospel story. It begins with proof in a manger that God is serious about being with us. The gospel continues full of stories about Jesus’ time with the people he meets. And the story ends with the Great commission to “go make disciples of all nations” and with Jesus’ promise “be sure of this: I am with you always”

We are holding on to His promise to never leave us as we continue to raise funds so that we can serve with YFC in Slovakia. We believe that God has created unique places at YFC’s ranch in Slovakia for both of us to serve and we are anxious be serving together in the place He has for us. God has blessed us by providing work for Micah the past 5 months, but that is coming to a close soon. During the early days of 2008 we will both be dedicating ourselves to full-time support raising efforts in an effort to make it to Slovakia as soon as we can. It is our hearts desire to make it to Slovakia early in 2008.

But we cannot do this all on our own. Will you prayerfully consider the part that God has for you to play in the ministry of YFC in Slovakia? Currently we have 32% of our support pledged. We need to have all of our support pledged before we can set a date to leave. If 20 people pledge to give $100 a month, or 40 people give $50 a month, all our needs would be met and we could leave for the field. Would you please pray about how God might use you to meet these needs through a pledge or one time gift.

If you plan to make a pledge or continue a pledge through 2008, would you please take the time now to fill out the form at the bottom of this letter with your intentions and send it back to YFC? We would love to have you join us in the work that God will do in Slovakia.

Trusting Him,

Stasi & Micah

P.S. All gifts through YFC are tax-deductible.