A few Christmas pics of the boys enjoying the festive period.

Isaac indulges in too much chocolate!

Several games of table football were won and lost. (Emily and Paul lost 2 games, got a bit better then lost the third, oh well)

Christmas was busy; we managed to juggle friends and family and had great fun with all. We really enjoyed catching up with family we'd not seen for a while. The boys enjoyed themselves, especially the food and present (Luke's still thanking God for presents and chocolates at prayer time).

Christmas will be like no other next year, we're looking forward to it, especially the snow (only joking).

Happy new year('s resolutions)

Well, I was thinking about my new year's resolutions - I usually make some - but i kinda get the feeling that there is just not going to be time this year. Maybe I'll settle for learning a bit of Indonesian, raising some ridiculous sum of money and settling our family into life on the other side of the world. Hmmm...that sounds a little more ambitious than shifting that last 7 lbs...
Good thing that God has a vested interest in this year's plan.
Well, since the last post...
1. Our church have got excited (hurrah) about our plans.
2. We're planning a whistle stop tour of java in February - check out where we're going, see some friends, meet some new ones, and get a feel for the culture.

Pray
1. life is getting busy juggling home, work, fundraising, writing prayer letters and keeping it all normal for the boys. pray for extra time in the day and for efficient use of the time we have (resist ER on dvd...resist!).
2. thank you to all those who are supporting us, but we're still some way off our target. We need to have 90% pledged by June. Pray that God will prompt those who he wants to be involved in his work in Indonesia.
3. The boys - big change is a'coming - for wisdom to help them prepare and adjust.
4. For the provision of money for our reconnaisance trip. We need a further £400 to make it happen. Thank you to all who have supported the trip so far.
5. that the cat is let out of the bag at work at the right time and in the right way...

for now...until then

So it's almost Christmas and like you we've been busy, mostly with Christmas preparations, but also with preparing material to present to churches, house/home groups and individuals. Our fundraising campaign should take off in mid January, we've received some support already and that is a fantastic blessing, thank you.

If you've told us already or are thinking about supporting us then make it your new years resolution to do so, we've got a lot of money to raise. Pray about us over Christmas, about God's calling on our lives and the opportunity for you to be a part of this journey, then come and support us either financially, in prayer or by emails and visiting this blog (post your comments).

Enjoy your Christmas, look out for some photo's of us enjoying ours and we'll catch up again soon. God bless, the nobles.