Dear Family & Friends; January 2008
Greetings and blessing in the New Year. Thank you so much for your cards and letters this past Christmas. We enjoyed each one, and love hearing how each of you are doing. Thank you for taking note of our new address and sending our mail there.
As we write this letter, we are in the midst of 2nd semester at our schools. Our teaching contracts will be completed this May. This sets into motion our countdown of returning to Liberia this summer. There is not a day or a week goes by that we don’t see God’s working and leading in training us for the ministry and work that lies ahead. We’ll give you more about that news in our next prayer letter.
This Christmas was precious for us to have Becky home from Indiana, and Ben home from the dorms at NMSU. This would be a very laid back and slow paced Christmas break, as we got ready for Matt to head into surgery for total knee replacement for both knees. December 17th, we walked into Mountain View Medical Center here in Las Cruces as a family. Matt would spend the next 5 days in the hospital in recovery. Matt’s Christmas gifts…two brand new knees.
We sent out no Christmas cards, nor did we make
the mad dash around to Christmas events or shopping.
We stayed home in our little apartment on campus and
took care of Matt. We enjoyed short walks around the
house that eventually turned into walks around the block, and then walks around the campus. We talked, walked, and just spent time together. Becky and I sewed a lot and just had a great time of togetherness.
It was not quite that easy for Matt. The surgery went well, as has the recovery. But if you’ve had knee replacement, you know the amount of work it takes to rehabilitate them. He is faithful to exercise, stretch, visit the Physical Therapist, and do all he needs to regain full use of his legs. He can do leg lunges now that he hasn’t been able to do in years!
Becky and Ben are back at college. Basketball season has started district play; Matt is still assistant coach for the varsity boys basketball team. Brenda is taking her last class at NMSU completing her Licensure Program. Matt is back in the preaching schedule at church now since his knee surgery. Today he had no problem going up to the pulpit, but needed a few helping hands getting back down after the sermon.
We would like to say a huge thank you to everyone who has joined in the work with us. It is our joy to see our support needs being met…we are presently at 75% of our monthly need! We feel confident God will supply all our needs by the time of our departure. If you are praying about it and want to support this ministry, please let us know the details, so we can indicate that to the mission and get to the field as soon as possible.
If you mail any checks please make them out to SIM USA and put in the memo: Support Account Matt & Brenda Carr #09654. You can mail them directly to the address below.
Joyfully Serving together with you,
Matt & Brenda Carr
SIM USA PO Box 7900 Charlotte, NC 28241
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