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   Well in our last update we left you with wishes of a Happy New Year! To say the least our New Year has been off to an interesting start.

   So far this has been a crazy month. The new semester for the Missionary Training Course was to start up last week but we were hit with a severe winter storm which froze everything in its track. They hadn’t seen a storm here like this in 20 years! Our power was out for two days (50 hours to be exact), and during that time we were hold up at our place in "survival mode". It got pretty cold but thankfully no pipes and more importantly no people froze . A fellow staff neighbor came by and loaned us a propane heater to take the chill out of the air, for which we were very thankful. Believe it or not, even after a week’s time some folks in other parts of Missouri are still waiting to get their power on. We can’t imagine what that would be like.

   Town looked like a war zone with trees all over the place. Many had lost branches, some even split and snapped in half with the weight of the ice that had accumulated on their branches. It was almost surreal in some places. Just as we were starting to see the "light at the end of the tunnel" we were told another storm was coming and so were ready to "batten down the hatches" again. Thankfully, we had a good day of thawing before six inches of snow hit and we didn’t get all the sleet they were forecasting, otherwise we surly would have experienced more downed trees and power outages.

   Anyway, all that to say that this new year is off to quite a start. Classes for the new semester have officially started back up again this morning. Please be praying for all the staff and students here as we get back into the routine of things after being gone a while and after having come through this time. Thankfully all 120 students made it back safely from their Christmas/New Years break. Some were able to get in before the first storm hit and others made it in before the second one. It is good to have things starting to return to some sense of normalcy although there are still a lot of residual effects all around us. We sure do appreciate your continued prayers during this time and that we will have seen the worst of it for this winter season.

   Thanks much for your supportiveness in every way as it is much needed and appreciated. Have a great day in Christ!!!

In His Love, Jay, Lisa & Anthony

P.S.  Thinking about getting one of these for next winter

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