Hey there just wanted to say Happy Christmas to you all. We hope you have an incredible time of relaxation, family, reflection and peace : ) May God guide you all in the New Year and may He continue to grow us more and more in Him. That is our prayer for ourselves for now and the new year to come.
Life as we had known it since we moved to Cork had been thrown upside down just before we were to fly off to India last October. We went on an incredible journey with some great people and saw amazing stuff in Delhi and Ludhiana. It's still hard to believe we were in India a couple of months ago but we are still so grateful for the opportunity and all that we learned on that trip. Since we came back we have really felt to put a lot of stuff on hold, we learned so much about prayer from our time in India that we were really convicted about not doing anything else until we spoke and confirmed everything with God, we felt he was telling us to hit the brakes for awhile and perhaps pull back from a few things. It has been so humbling, painful and great all at the same time. We have had the strangest few months since we got back and at times it has been really hurtful and then other times it has been so nice just to enjoy this time of rest. We do ask for your prayers as there is lots going on right now and a few decisions need to be made on the direction of a certain thing that we are involved in. We just really need to get God's leading on something so we do it in His way not or own. Sorry I can't give any more details but it's all quite confusing at the moment.
In the meantime we are officially finished with Grace and they have put into place two leaders that we have been training since last September so Praise God for that, he has totally brought forward His fruit. It will be announced to the church on the 4th of Jan that these two leaders, 1 female and 1 male will be taking over the two different groups and they will be helped by the other leaders that we also worked alongside of. It has been encouraging to see more teens come along for discipleship on Sunday mornings and we just pray that this continues and that the leaders will pull together as a team and really lead this young people into a closer and a full relationship in God, by of course first doing that themselves ; ) So as of last Sunday we are no longer officially involved in Grace so this has opened some space so to speak for us to look into where we go now. Alex is still working in the Haven part time during the week and loves it there and for myself, I am working as an on-line travel agent for a Christian company in Australia. So praise God for that, he has provided us with jobs and finances to keep us going. Especially when this can be an uncertain time for many during this current climate.
So this is a little up date which has been way overdue, mainly as we've had problems with the internet but more recently just down to the busyness of life. We really value your prayers for us at this time and we would love to hear how we can be praying for you as well. Do let us know how you're doing. We want to wish you all a very Happy Christmas and blessed New Year.
In Him,
Alex & Linda Xo
