Friday, December 15, 2006

Christmas Greetings from Chmiel's

We hope you are all having a nice and peaceful Advent Season, preparing to celebrate the birth of our Savior. We too are enjoying this time before Christmas. We did our last presentation at the beginning of December so now we are enjoying couple of weeks at home (before we travel to a training in Colorado at the end of this month).

We hope all of you got our Christmas newsletter in the mail this month. If anyone did not and would like to, please let us know! We would love to send you one.

If you are praying for us this month, please pray for:

  • Time for us to really celebrate the true meaning of Christmas
  • Packing – energy, strength and wisdom (what to pack, what to leave behind, what else to purchase before we leave etc.)
  • Safe trip to our missionary training in Colorado Springs, CO (we will be driving)
  • The training – that we would learn a lot and that we would be able to apply all that into our ministry in Ukraine
  • Visa – we are still waiting for our new US visa
  • Praise God for the 89% we already have in pledges and please pray for the remaining 11%
  • And also pray that God would prepare us and our hearts for this trip back to Europe – it will be the first time we will be in Europe together as a couple. The last time we were in Europe was before we were even dating. We have not even met each other’s families yet (except for our parents). We are also sure that Czech will not feel the same for us since we will not be moving back into our parents’ houses. But at the same time we know that our home is wherever the two of us are – last year it was Wisconsin, this year it is Minneapolis – so we believe that next year Lviv, Ukraine will naturally become our home. And we are really looking forward to that!

If you are interested to read more about our preparations for Ukraine, visit our website at http://www.chmiels.com

Blessings,

Tomasz and Miriam