BMABC Christmas Chapel Service

Tuesday, December 14th, was the last chapel service of the year at the BMA Bible College. My Singers led in a service of celebrating our Savior's birth. If you scroll to the bottom of this post, there are videos of a couple of their songs plus one that our family sang that morning.

Whenever the kids are out at the school, they love to play with the baby goats!

"How Great Our Joy"

"Sing Hosannas"

"One King"

On Saturday, December 11th, we had the Christmas party for APRS (Asia-Pacific Resource Services). The party was held at the Caribbean Waterpark here in Bacolod. We enjoyed a wonderful lunch together, some gift exchanging, some games and some swimming! We are so blessed to be a part of the APRS family and are thankful for all the other staff and their families.

Andrew and MacMac

Kaira and Carly

Bro. Doug, Kaira, Carly and Caleb

Caleb and Nonoy planning something

Bro. Doug was giving Hannah a hard time in the pool!

Kaira and Carly

Now Caleb was giving Hannah a hard time!

Even Nonoy was splashing Hannah!!

Andrew just watching the show

Still chasing and splashing Hannah!

Here we come a caroling....

On Friday night, December 10th, I took my choir from the Bible College caroling. (It was a great way to practice for our upcoming performance in chapel!) We first went to the Moore's house and after singing, were treated with some yummy snacks!

Jirah, Jen, Hymn and Mia

Daniel, Brian, William and Eddieson

Andrew and Joemar

Carly loves Rusty!

What's wrong, Mia????

Just hanging out

Jen, Jirah, Jade & Andrew

Rusty trying to beg food from Hymn

Mia and Caleb - I have no idea what was going on! LOL

Hymn is giving Sarah a language lesson :)

Next, we went to the home of Bro. Chris and Mrs. Amy Murray and sang for them

Mia, what are you doing to Sarah???

Next we went to the home of Bro. Doug and Mrs. Myrna Kiper and enjoyed singing on their stairs!

And taking a couple of group photos!!

Thanks, Bro. Doug and Mrs. Nonoy, for the snacks!

Finally, we ended up at our house - not to sing but just to eat pizza and hang out for a little while.

Andrew, Wade, Mia and Hymn have a little jam session....

...while Caleb and Charie play sungka....

...while Brian and Esther play on the keyboard.....

....while William exercises!!

Carly showing Jade and Joemar some of her artwork

Group picture!!

Following are all the songs that we sang at the Kiper's house. I hope you enjoy listening to them as much as I enjoy working with these guys!

"Sing Hosannas"

"How Great Our Joy"

"Riu, Riu, Chiu"

"What Can I Give Him"

"We Wish You a Merry Christmas"

(Thank you, Carly, for recording these videos.)

A Gift of Encouragement

On December 8th, we were delivered a STACK of Christmas cards from our friends from Antioch Baptist Church in Conway, Arkansas. So much fun to get all these cards at once!!

Then two days later, we got ANOTHER stack of cards delivered!!

So much fun to read each one and the special messages you wrote just for us!

Caleb sure enjoyed picking out lots of names on this one!

"Like cold water to a weary soul

is good news from a distant land." Proverbs 25:25

Thank you, Antioch, for remembering us during this time of the year. You have no idea how encouraging these cards have been to us and how much we have enjoyed hearing from you all. We wish we could be with you all this Christmas, but we thank you for your prayers and support as we serve here in this place.

To Toya and the HS Girls - Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! This is a great idea!!

PS - Right after New Years' we got ANOTHER batch of cards!!