Merry Christmas and Happy New Year James 1:2-4 " My brethren, count it all as joy when you fall into various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience. But let patience have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing." This wonderful word has meant so much to our Kenyan family these last few weeks of 2016 and into the beginning of 2017. We have struggled through some trials but God is so faithful! His presence brings our joy, no matter what is happening around us! He is here!!!!! At the beginning of 2016 we were told it would be a year of great progress and abundance! It was definitely that and so many reading this blog were God's great instruments of this abundance and progress through finances, encouraging visits and words and most of all the prayers that you have surrounded us with! Thank you from the bottom of our hearts. We have counted it all as such joy! November brought us to