Telling Friends and Family

Our Christmas letter is in the mail with our web address on it. Soon many people will be visiting our site and reading about our latest endevours...namely missions. If this is new to you, please read our first journal entry at the bottom to get caught up. After a year and a half of communication with Food for the Hungry, we have prayerfully accepted a missionary position in Lima, Peru set to begin in 2006. Our friends and family have truly shown some amazing love through this process. People of all spiritual backgrounds are accepting our news with love for us, even when they don't fully understand the decision. Their support means more to me than I can express. I have truly been blessed with amazing people in my life who can just love me for who I am, and what I've been called to do with my life with my family. While our respective parents have known all along, I just told my grandfather and his wife up in Minnesota, tonight I will tell my grandparents on my father's side, and Justin has already told his grandparents. Out of respect for the extended family, we felt it was best to start with the grandparents and work our way to the aunts and uncles. Our experience living 1200 miles away from my family tells us that technology goes a long way, and we will be able to keep in touch even from Peru. But technology doesn't replace the face to face contact with loved ones, and for that we will just have to trust that love truly spans the distance. I have to go cook up some spaghetti for dinner. The journey continues...

Love,
Gillian