Reflection and Expectation

New Year’s is a great time for naturally reflecting on the year we have just come through and focusing on the New Year we are entering.  Looking back, I see a year that has been filled with God’s faithful guidance, amazing grace and everlasting love. 

It has been a great year for our family.  We celebrated as our son, Brenden, married Serena! It was a beautiful wedding on the beach! We celebrated the birth of our new granddaughter, Sophia, born to Clair and Sonny.  Now, we are blessed with three beautiful granddaughters – Emma, Layla and Sophia!  Our oldest son, Drew, has continued his education at Academy of Art University in San Francisco.  He studies online and it is very extensive and time consuming.  Our youngest son, Cameron, attends Azusa Pacific University and is busy with his studies and football.  We are blessed with a wonderful family!  I am so thankful for all my children, my son in law, my daughter in law, my grandchildren, and of course, my wonderful husband!  

It has been a great year for our church.  We have seen many lives encouraged, helped and strengthened.  We have seen many people come to know Jesus as their Savior and receive his love.  Tom and I have enjoyed teaching LIFE 101, the foundation class for new believers.  We began our “Committed to the Cause” campaign drive for raising finances for the new campus. We have been moving forward with the building plans for the new campus.  The completed plans are beautiful!  

I am forever grateful for the people God has entrusted me to do life with!  We have a fantastic team of leaders that I am privileged to work side by side with.  My life is continually enriched by the lives of amazing people in our church, friends and family.

I am so thankful for God’s faithfulness in 2011 and I look forward to 2012 with great faith and expectation. I believe it will be a great year!  A year of seeing God’s people flourish!  We will flourish in spiritual growth, flourish in families, flourish in careers, flourish in relationships, flourish in reaching the world with God’s love, flourish in walking out the Vision God has placed in our hearts!