Greetings! To Our Friends & Family,
We hope everyone had a great Christmas and New Years! 2008 was an exciting year as God did many new things in our lives. 2009 promises to be even more adventurous!
In August, Lakeside Baptist Church blessed us and entrusted us to Antioch Community Church (ACC) in Waco, TX. So we sold or gave away many of our possessions and moved 1,215 miles, southwest, to begin Missions training through Antioch’s Training Schools. We are now half way through Elevate, ACC’s discipleship school, with another semester to go. And Lord willing, we will begin 24:14, ACC’s church-planting school, next fall. But, I’m getting ahead of myself!
Elevate has been amazing! God has done wonderful things in our hearts and blessed other people through us. Our semester final exam was a 5 page essay answering the question: “What are the 5 biggest changes God has brought about in your through Elevate.” (If you want the answers you can read our blog archives.)
Christmas was great, as we were able to spend 10 days with Katie’s family in sunny San Diego! Okay, so it wasn’t that sunny and it wasn’t very warm, it was pretty much the same as Waco (we sure do get spoiled fast!). But, we were able to be tourists and visit The San Diego Zoo, the Wild Animal Park and Sea World! We ate too much good food and had lots of fun with family. Uncle Chris came all the way from England! Our kiddos had a blast and enjoyed Nana, Grandpa, Gram, Grandad, Aunt Patty, Uncle Murray and all their Colunga aunts and uncles! Already, we miss them all.
As I mentioned this year should be quite adventurous…as we are planning to visit Uganda, Africa, on an exploratory missions trip to Restoration Gateway (RG). RG is a ministry and church plant from Antioch, which is serving orphans, widows and their community with the love and Good News of Jesus. By Summer of 2009 we hope to have visited RG to confirm God’s call on our lives to join Him in what He is doing in Uganda.
Please pray for us as we seek God’s will for our lives. We love Jesus and believe He has called us to join Him in Africa, but we desire confirmation on where and when.
We are thankful for you, our friends and family!
With love,
the Rounke Family
4 comments:
hooray! Thanks for keeping in touch! :) We can send you some snow if you like.
"May God Bless You and your family." And yes; I am still attending University of Phoenix Online and need 27 more credits for my Associate's Degree in Psychology after that I want to further pursue my online education and go for my Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Psychology to eventually become a Christian Counselor.
Enjoyed catching up on life with the Rounke's. Hope you continue to post so I can see what God is doing in and through you guys in the coming year! Be blessed!
Wow what a year! I'm excited for you guys and excited I've discovered your blog to follow along! However...you were in San Diego and we didn't see you???? Ok...next time... He he! Take Care, glad to hear things are well.
Dave and Steph Zyga
www.zyga.blogspot.com
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