One of our friends has graciously pointed out that we haven’t updated our website since August! Oh dear, how time does fly! We are very close now to leaving on our 3-month sabbatical so before we go, we’ll share some photos and news from the last few months. You should also be receiving a pre-sabbatical mini update in your inbox shortly. Please pray for us to be able to wrap everything up here and get ready to leave on Tuesday. If you would like more information about where we’ll be and what we’ll be doing over the next few months and how to pray, please email us and we can send you our itinerary and prayer requests.
Jessah turned 10 on the 1st of November!
Kaylah and Jessah are still the best of friends!
We had a fun Thanksgiving with the Mozingos and another family with a little boy near Owen’s age. Jessah coloured hats for Owen and his friend.
The school where Trinity Chippenham meets continues to be very full on Sundays and we are welcoming new people all the time.
Noah is on the welcome team and on this day he had a little helper!
How cute is this?!
Here we are at one of our favourite places – Bowood House. It’s so fun to introduce the next generation to this beautiful place!
At the start of December, Peter went to Hungary to meet with his European Leadership Forum year round mentoring group. They all had a great time together! Peter also did the morning Bible studies for the combined mentoring groups.
One of the highlights of our Christmas season was going to see the Getty’s Christmas concert in the Royal Albert Hall in London.
The music was absolutely beautiful!
Trinity Chippeham’s Christmas concert and nativity was also wonderful and we had many guests join us. Here’s Jessah as a wiseman.
One of our Christmas traditions is going ice skating on Christmas Eve with friends. This year we went on Christmas “Adam” (23rd!) and we learned it’s a lot less crowded than on Christmas Eve!
Trinity Chippenham Christmas morning service – held in a village hall.
Here’s all of us after the service. (Aliyah and Michael spent Christmas in Canada with his family. We did miss them very much!)
Christmas morning stockings! This year Mariah’s boyfriend, Drew, was with us. We missed Aliyah and Michael!
Kaylah crocheted Peter and I some beautiful Christmas stockings and she and Jessah filled them with some really thoughtful gifts. Here Owen is modelling the stockings!
Jessah made me a pillow! Their thoughtful handmade gifts were so meaningful to me.
Jessah made Peter a little jar full of encouragements.
I found an old-fashioned shape sorter for Owen at a charity shop.
Fun with Grandpa!
It was really great to meet Mariah’s boyfriend, Drew. He was with us for 3 weeks and we so enjoyed getting to know him.
We got a light dusting of snow one day after Christmas and Kaylah, Jessah and Drew collected what must have been most of the snow in our neighbourhood and made this snowman!!
It was awesome having Joel here over Christmas and Owen absolutely loved all the time he got with his uncle Joel.
God bless you as you continue into 2026! We’ll be in touch again after our sabbatical. Please do let us know if you’d like to receive our itinerary and prayer requests.
