Hi praying friends!

I have a couple of exciting things to share with you.

1. Our Kickstarter is 124% funded, which means we hit not only our initial goal but also our stretch goal to include more illustrations in the book. Thank you to those of you who prayed and supported this project! There is still time tonight for people to get some of the Kickstarter rewards.
2. The Living Advents Calendar event at our home went really well! Elissa and one of our interns, Austin, sang; our son Caleb, staff member Justin, and I played instruments (I occasionally sang as well) - and lots of people came and listened to the music and enjoyed our homemade Christmas cookies. It was so sweet - many people came because they had been to one of our events previously! We had great conversations with people. You can see some pictures on our neighborhood's Facebook page.

Some prayer requests:

1. We have a couple visiting our site who are seeing if God might be calling them to serve long-term.
2. Several people from our last short-term team came down with Covid, as did one of our staff members. Pray for health for the rest of their team and ours!
3. Our residents will be traveling in the coming weeks. Pray for safe travels!
4. Our house church network will be meeting on Sunday. Pray for our regulars and guests!

Thanks so much for your faithful prayers! What are some exciting things happening in your life that you would like to share with us?

Blessings,

mike