Wednesday, January 19, 2011

New Year, New Country


Hello friends! We trust you all enjoyed your Christmas and New Year's celebrations with friends and family. We were able to be home for the holidays, and thoroughly enjoyed the time we had with our family and our friends.

This new year brings with it a new season for our lives. We are now living in Stoke-on-Trent, England. We have been here for about a week and are still trying to learn the European way of life. We have met so many friendly people, and have settled in nicely to our new flat.

While here, we will be doing a lot of traveling to other Western European countries. Our goal while visiting these countries, is to find and establish new ministry partners with OneHope.

We are excited about the opportunities the Lord already has before us here. In just a few weeks, we plan on traveling to Albania to begin hosting focus groups to find out from the people what their needs are. The reason we do this is so we can be more relevent in our approach to ministry in that country. This also helps the local church as they plan outreaches in their communities.

Please continue to pray with us and for us as we will be traveling and meeting with community stakeholders. Pray that we will be full of God's wisdom and that we will be led by His Spirit as we enter new territory.

Peace and blessings,
Josh and Kelly