Blessings and Love
Fire-thanks for the reminders of our oaths it was a needed and welcome reminder to connect with the promises we've made also thanks for the wise words a post or two ago.
Everyone-Sorry we didn't catch you guys on the phone the other day. I had a complete brain malfunction and spaced out on the 3 hour time difference. I hope that your guys night was a sweet time of fellowship though, we would have loved to have been with you guys.
How things have been-Things here are going well. Christmas was an incredible season of God pouring out some amazing blessings. Just before Christmas sometime in November I think, Jacqui and I finally decided to start tithing regularly. We thought it was important and just something we really wanted to be committed to. At the same time we were starting to struggle financially. Our apprentice stipends only take us so far each month and as we were planning a rough budget for the new year it became painfully obvious that important payments (goceries, car payments rent) would be in danger of not being paid. We prayed about it a lot. And the long and short of it is that God came through in some amazing ways. In ways that you can only shake your head at and smile. Random annonymous donations to support the apprentices from people in the Pacific Theatre community, friends offering groceries out of the blue (we hadn't really had a chance to tell anyone that we needed help yet-amazing!) cheques from family and friends for the holidays. It all added up to us being incredibly taken care of. We were completely overwhelmed each new blessing felt more amazing and more undeserved and we could only point to our Father. It was pretty great.
Other than that things here are going well. Right now we're right in the middle of working on our big artistic project for the theatre. It's the play we're writing compiled from interviews. It's tedious work at times but we're praying that end product will be something that the Lord is happy with and that people can connect with.
Prayer-Please pray for us in the middle of getting everything done. Specifically pray that we can use our time wisely and that we can find people to help with the technical aspects of the show (lights, sound, props, etc.) we need these people to make it happen and right now we don't have all of them.
Also please pray for Jacqui and my communication and relationship with each other while we're working on this. It can be a tense and frusterating process to create something with a definite deadline and we'll need all the prayers you can offer up for grace, forgivenss and understanding in our communication and time with each other as we press forward.
We love all you guys so much and we're going to try and get in touch with each of you by phone soon to talk more in depth. We long, no thirst...no HUNGER : ) for your presences and for words about where God is bringing and has brought you since we last talked. We look forward to it.
In the Spirit!
Barnabas
Everyone-Sorry we didn't catch you guys on the phone the other day. I had a complete brain malfunction and spaced out on the 3 hour time difference. I hope that your guys night was a sweet time of fellowship though, we would have loved to have been with you guys.
How things have been-Things here are going well. Christmas was an incredible season of God pouring out some amazing blessings. Just before Christmas sometime in November I think, Jacqui and I finally decided to start tithing regularly. We thought it was important and just something we really wanted to be committed to. At the same time we were starting to struggle financially. Our apprentice stipends only take us so far each month and as we were planning a rough budget for the new year it became painfully obvious that important payments (goceries, car payments rent) would be in danger of not being paid. We prayed about it a lot. And the long and short of it is that God came through in some amazing ways. In ways that you can only shake your head at and smile. Random annonymous donations to support the apprentices from people in the Pacific Theatre community, friends offering groceries out of the blue (we hadn't really had a chance to tell anyone that we needed help yet-amazing!) cheques from family and friends for the holidays. It all added up to us being incredibly taken care of. We were completely overwhelmed each new blessing felt more amazing and more undeserved and we could only point to our Father. It was pretty great.
Other than that things here are going well. Right now we're right in the middle of working on our big artistic project for the theatre. It's the play we're writing compiled from interviews. It's tedious work at times but we're praying that end product will be something that the Lord is happy with and that people can connect with.
Prayer-Please pray for us in the middle of getting everything done. Specifically pray that we can use our time wisely and that we can find people to help with the technical aspects of the show (lights, sound, props, etc.) we need these people to make it happen and right now we don't have all of them.
Also please pray for Jacqui and my communication and relationship with each other while we're working on this. It can be a tense and frusterating process to create something with a definite deadline and we'll need all the prayers you can offer up for grace, forgivenss and understanding in our communication and time with each other as we press forward.
We love all you guys so much and we're going to try and get in touch with each of you by phone soon to talk more in depth. We long, no thirst...no HUNGER : ) for your presences and for words about where God is bringing and has brought you since we last talked. We look forward to it.
In the Spirit!
Barnabas
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