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Merry Christmas from our computer to yours!! I know that many of you recently received Jon’s ‘Bergen Bridge’, but I thought it would be fun to catch you up some on ‘family life’.

As we come to the close of 2009, we want to take time to reflect on all that God has done throughout this past year. We have so much to be thankful for, and so much to look forward to. At the beginning of this year God brought together the finances sufficient for us to proceed with our move to Mozambique. Bringing everything together for loading our container was an experience.

We will not have Awana or Bible Studies tonight on account of the continued blowing snow warnings.

Well it is here – the first predicted snow storm of the season. It is always a struggle to know what to do with scheduled events. Here is basically how we operate.

Mr Shaeffer is up early on school days to look at the weather. It is his goal to make a decision by 6:00 a.m. He will post any closing on the church website as well as tell the local media.

I want to thank you for praying for me last week as the trip to Cochabamba was very profitable. A national association for interpreters was set up (ILSB – Interpreters of Bolivian Sign Language), with the profile and ethics hashed out among 65 interpreters from all across Bolivia. Representatives were chosen among the nine departments and I was chosen to represent Sucre, Chuquisaca.