Christmas 2009

Thanks to Vickie Long and the Walnut church of Christ, Lee and I had another cart and luggage full of Christmas gifts for the kids on Christmas day. We had a great lunch of turkey, ham, dressing, rice, BBQed chicken legs, cold slaw salad, rolls, and all the trimmings. Heity put up a Christmas tree. We had the boys cloths on one table and the girls clothes on another. School supplies, coloring books, crayons, shoes and personal products around the tree. The kids were so excited to get all the gifts. Times are really hard everywhere. It was a real blessing to have so many give. Thanks to you and your generosity, we had a great Christmas. God's Blessings on you all.

Santa & Gifts

We carried the biggest part of the Christmas gifts so generously sent to the kids to the church building on Sunday. We filled our cart and luggage and pulled them over. The boxes kept falling off the cart. We could not tie them down because each box had to go through the security xray machine. We pulled the cart and filled two pieces of luggage. We took the luggage last week too. When we made it to the Ebeye dock, both of our taxi's were not there to pick us up. Lee had to walk down town (a block) and try to flag a taxi. There wasn't too much room in our truck for the kids. Most of them had to ride in the other taxi. When the taxi's came back to pick us up after church, one of them had a flat tire. You have to learn to roll with the tide around here. Later that night they had Scuba Santa on Kwaj where Santa Clause comes out of the ocean with his scuba tank. Santa's helpers drag a chemically lit Christmas tree out of the ocean behind him. The kids always enjoy it. Thank you for Christmas boxes from Monica Wiggins who has generously sent supplies since we first started our work on Gugeegue. Thank you also to Audry Mauck and the Edmond Young Marrieds Class and Vickie Long and the Walnut church of Christ who sent many boxes of Christmas goodies for the children. God Bless everyone for making Christmas possible for the children from Ebeye and Gugeegue.

Christmas Prep

Lee and I filled our luggage full of Christmas gifts for the kids Sunday on our trip to Gugeegue for worship. The kids are getting excited. I bought a huge turkey and ham. We have many generous angles helping us with Christmas for the kids this year. Thank you to Douglas & Amber Joy for the big box of boys clothes and games. The Marshallese people have a huge Community Christmas celebration every year. We are hoping we can find a taxi to get to Gugeegue on Christmas day.

Tooting His Horn

Lee played in the Community Band at the Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony. I thought he did really well. He has struggled to get good enough to play with the band. He took the horn to his warehouse office over the summer to try and make up for 40 years of not playing. He improved over the summer but only gets to practice once a week since school started. I took a short video but our dial up connection isn't going to let me attach it. The guy playing the other tuba used to play for OU. He is really good. The Tree lighting went dim when the lights on the Christmas tree would not light. There is nothing like cotton candy at a Christmas celebration. We received several boxes this week. Thank you and God's Blessings to Dean & Becky Lightfoot, Joel & Sarah Schoop, the Mills Family, the Waldrum Family and Wayne & Yvonne Hinds. We are going to go to Gugeegue on Christmas day to pass out the toys for the kids. We will then have a Christmas Feast with our Brothers and Sisters in Christ. All packages must be mailed no later than this week. We are in the middle of the Pacific and the amount of packages at Christmas is tremendous. We only get our mail on Tues. & Thurs. The sooner you get it in the mail the better our chance of getting it before Christmas. Of course, the kids will be grateful no matter when it comes.

Signed

Lee signed a new contract at work today. He has to give a 90 notice when he wants to quit his job. There is not a certain number of years attached. Please pray God will show us the way he wants us to help the church grow on Gugeegue. We pray God will send more Christians to help soon.