Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas! and Happy New Year! Our wish for you this Christmas season is that you feel "...wrapped in the love of God the Father and kept for Jesus Christ. May mercy, peace, and love be lavished on you!" (Jud 1:1-2 NET)  We are wrapped snug in HIS love on both the mountaintops and valleys of life. Thank you for your prayers and support over 2014! In HIS grip, Kevin & Kathy

How contagious is your gratitude?

GK Chesterton said: "I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder."
Watch the little boy in the following UPS commercial. His happiness doubled by wonder is contagious. Is yours toward our Savior this season just as contagious?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mQqOZkcA2Y

Bruce Brief - Happy Thanksgving

We hope you enjoyed a 
Happy Thanksgiving! 

We do have much to be thankful for:
•    Unpacked suitcases, and being able to settle into our cozy rental house for the winter!
•    A week with Kenny in October; both Keilah and Kimberly with us for these months
•    The joy of fellowshipping with so many different friends and churches
•    The great privilege of knowing and serving our Lord Jesus
•    Confidence that He who began a good work in us will be faithful to complete it!
•    The joy of seeing God at work in and through the Awa believers as they stand strong these months without us!


We travelled back to New England at the height of Fall, enjoying the beautiful colors of the foliage in Ohio, New York, and the New England states. We don't get to experience the change of seasons in Ecuador, so the beauty of God's creation amazed us anew! 

Then Winter welcomed us by coming a bit early this year! The cold temperatures had all of us scrambling to find long-johns, turtlenecks, mittens, and other warm gear! :-) The day before Thanksgiving the skies dumped about 13 inches of snow, enabling Kimberly and I to try out our (yet non-existent) snowboarding skills on Thanksgiving day. That was fun (and cold!) Kimberly and I are looking forward to taking snowboarding lessons starting in January through a local home-school program. Perhaps by Spring we will be more skillful at it!

Our return to Ecuador is scheduled for March 30th. These remaining winter months are finding us visiting and updating different supporting churches. It's a blessing for us to fellowship with family and friends here at our home church, Grace Evangelical Free Church in Spofford, and Kevin enjoys spending any free days helping his dad out at the welding shop. We've been eating a special diet, working to help our digestive systems continue to heal from our bout with parasites back in July in Ecuador. We are thankful to be doing much better and to feel our energy levels returning.

Again, we want to express our thankfulness for each one of you and your part in our lives!

In HIS grip,
Kevin & Kathy Bruce

 

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