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We'll be home for Christmas!

As many of you know and/or remember, we were not planning to return home to the states until Christmas of 2011. After prayer and discussion, Rebecca and I decided that we should spend Christmas with our family in So Cal. A couple of reasons for this decision:

-We are still needing to raise support. We feel it would be more beneficial for us to go "back" to raise support with positive motivations, rather than being "asked" to return by our school/sending agency.
-We really would like to see our friends and family! Although we really feel encouraged and validated in our call to serve here in Vienna, we miss our loved ones.

We will be arriving at LAX at 6:15 PM on December 23rd. We will return to Vienna on the 9:15 flight out of LAX on January 5th.

After the 25th, we would love to be able to connect with as many of you as possible. Breakfast, coffee, lunch, dinner, dessert, just hanging out, walking around, whatever...Rebecca and I just want to be able to see and talk with you; see how life is going with you and share what God is doing in Vienna.

Also, this is a "working" trip for us. We would appreciate any help in setting up dinners or dessert meetings when we could share our ministry to Third Culture Kids in Vienna with your friends and family who have a heart for missions.

We're really hoping that we have tons to do :) so please send me an email if you'd like to set something up...whether it is a huge deal, or just getting together to catch up, we want to get it planned.

Thanks and we look forward to seeing you all soon!!!

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