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Dear Friends,
Canada started into a mail strike in November. Post Offices in the States were not accepting mail to Canada during this strike, and if letters were dropped off they were returned to sender marked as undeliverable. The strike has ended for now, or at least put on hold for a few months because the union didn't get a settlement. It will take time to clear the backlog of mail, and we haven't even found our local Post Office open for business yet, except that we were able to have access to our P.O. box. Anyway, you can send mail now. It will take a while, but we should be able to receive letters eventually.
Last month we asked prayer for the house building plans. So far there hasn't been any meetings held or progress made, so we continue to pray for God's will in this.
Plans continue to be finalized for next summer's VBS camps, so pray for the dates that will work out best and the teams to be organized with the right workers.
A major prayer request is for volunteers that can stay here at the mission so Karen & I can get away for the VBS's or to go somewhere, or someone can stay with Karen when I have to be gone on outreach. If you have any ideas or want to know more, please call and talk to us about this.
Each year we get to celebrate two Thanksgiving days. Canada celebrates Thanksgiving in October, and then in November we also celebrate American Thanksgiving. This year we had Thanksgiving with the pastor of the Nazarene Church in Rocky Mt. House, and his wife, Dale & Marlene Hanson.
Obviously, November has been a crucial time for the country, to say the least! We continue to pray God continues to answer prayer and leads in all these events.
We are always glad to hear from you. We are especially concerned if you are able to access all the information and everything works as it should so we know we have programmed it correctly. If you have any comments or suggestions, or just want to let us know you were here, please contact us and let us know.
The Ladies from the Caroline, Alberta Nazarene Church returned to help Karen with Sunday School in November. They made these beautiful quilts and pillows and gave one to each of the Sunday School students .....I missed getting a group pictue of everyone with their quilts & pillows, so I missed one of our best pictures ever!
I did get pictures of the ladies working with their classes. The crafts are always the most work for the helpers.
This is another class the ladies worked with.
Grandma came to pick up her grandchildren in this picture below. She is soon to have birthday #80, so that will be a special birthday party! We will have pictues of that next month.
I got this picture of one girl going out the door with her quilt.
In November we got this team (below) from the Clearwater Bible College at Caroline that stayed for two days and helped out. Actually, a 5th member is hiding because he or she is not yet born!
Here the fellows are helping split wood. Again, I forgot to take pictures until after the wood was unloaded and split, so they are posing for the picture here.
The team from the Bible School held a youth group in these next two pictures.
This will probably be our last campfire because it snowed after this.
Our neighbor girls came over and made banana bread.
We had another team from the Caroline, Alberta Nazarene Church come back to hold a youth group. They were also here last month and wanted to come again.
They had a special time with the kids and we are so grateful for their help. They had a really good devotional message that the kids could all relate to.
The Korean Gospel Dispersers come every month to work with the youth on both Reserves and this is a picture of the team members that came in November.
This is a picture of them working with some of our youth.
We are starting a class to teach ladies how make moccasins from moose hides. We are having a friend of ours teach the class, and here she is going over the hides to plan the class.
We decided to make some sauerkraut this fall. Here we are mashing it up in the crock. We have a big 5 gallon crock, but we didn't have enough cabbage for that one.
Karen spoke in chapel at the Christian School in Rocky Mountain House. These are students that wrote letters to some of our Sunday School kids with the letters they got back in answer to them.
This is our other family member you see poking her head around in some of the pictures from time to time. She looks tired so I'll let her say, "Good Night"
