Merry Christmas from Paul & Pat  
  
Greetings!
  
MERRY CHRISTMAS!  Parties and concerts, I think I'm about to get in the mood for Christmas! Decorated the tree Saturday. Now Pat and I are beginning to anticipate the arrival of the kids and grandkids.
  
One of my prayers this Christmas is Lord help me to recapture the excitement of Christmas, like a little child. Let me sense anew the wonder of the coming of the baby, the King. That's my prayer for you too this Christmas season.
  

Ministry


Meanwhile there still is work to be done.

  • This is the busiest time of the year for Pat in the WGM accounting department. Every day there are hundreds of letters and checks with Christmas and year end giving to process and receipt.
  • I'm home from Haiti until January. But I have a news letter for the director to send out and work to do on the Radio Lumière web site with Edeline, the RL computer specialist.
  • And after my last couple of visits and dealing with the problems we've been having streaming Radio Lumière on the web and with our servers, I have to get an appeal out for some new equipment. More on that later, but we're going to have to buy two new servers in 2013.
Family
 

I mentioned the kids coming. Just a quick update on our girls. (That's always part of a Christmas letter!)

  • Laura & Bert  Both still working at Asbury University. Laura is almost two years into a Phd program at UK in chemistry! Busy gal and can use our prayers. Bert is head of the IT help desk at AU.
  • Linda & Josef  Linda is a stay at home mom and loving it. (Sara is 3.) She's learning how to do income tax returns of all things. I'd forgotten about her love for math. Josef is a machinist.
  • Lisa & Tim  Still in Wilmore as well. Lisa works semi-full time at Solomon's Porch and has started subbing in the public schools. Tim is a database programmer for Asbury.

 Grandkids

 I won't bore you with the details of all eight grandkids. All busy kids developing in so many different ways. The oldest, Will is already 16. Pat reports his Face Book says he's "in a relationship"!

 

Retirement
  
According to the Social Security office Pat and I are both officially retirement age! Somebody ask us the other day what retirement for us will look like? Answer: Probably a lot like what we're doing now! I'll still be going to Haiti, at least as long as the support comes in and I'm able. Pat plans to continue too at WGM for awhile.
  
I want to take this opportunity here at the end of the year to thank you, our champions, for going with us. Your contribution in prayer and giving make it possible for us together to serve Radio Lumière and WGM. And together we can keep doing it - until the Lord returns! (Besides, as I've told you before, I still can't find retirement in the Bible, or a Call that ends at 66. Sometimes the direction changes. But we're all still called to serve.)
Have a blessed Christmas,
  Paul
Paul Shingledecker
World Gospel Mission
World Gospel Mission