Nepali Christmas

Hello everyone...it's hard to believe we're already in January of 2009! We are officially in our NEW home! A beautiful cozy studio apartment in the lower Nob Hill neighborhood of SF. It's nice because we're just a 10 minute walk to and from work, near lots of shops and restaurants...our apartment is in a building built in 1915, and it is kept in wonderful shape! We have cute little built in cabinets and wainscotting (I believe that's the spelling?) on our kitchen walls. We're slowly unpacking, settling, and furnishing our new place. I'll get pictures up of it as soon as possible!

We were very business all throughout the month of December! We were busy looking for an apartment, getting ready to go to Oklahoma to visit Justine's family for Christmas, and busy at work! One of the highlights of December for us was the Christmas party that we helped throw for the Nepali community. Partnering with another couple that is in the city with a heart for the people of Nepal, our party consisted of delicious Nepali food, games, donated items for families to take home, and Christmas songs and the Christmas story shared in the Nepali language! It was wonderful to connect with this community, as there are about 5,000 Nepalis settled in the Bay Area. They are lovely people and we look forward to continuing to build relationships with them. Jason has also started playing volleyball on Tuesday mornings with a group of young Nepali men every week.

Here are some photos of the Nepali Christmas party! One lady in particular, her name is Gita, has been also volunteering with us on our weekly food pantry. Justine and a few other women at the YWAM base have been befriending her. She works as a nanny in the city and helps to support her two grown daughters. Please be praying for Gita, that our friendship with her would be an encouragement to her and that she would know God's love for her and her family.

Please be praying for us as we continue to settle into our new home! Pray that our finances will remain stable. We are both taking a few college classes this semester, which is exciting! Justine is taking a class on Photoshop, so that she can help out with the ministry and their advertising, fundraising, etc. The other class we are both taking and it's US History of Immigrants.

Thanks for listening! Pictures of the apartment will be up soon. Hope you all had a great Christmas and New Years. We had a wonderful time with Justine's family!