Chris writes: Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you all!! Christmas in a different place yet alone a different country sure is strange and i must admit i found it difficult to get into the 'Christmas mood' and to think of it as us celebrating it away from UK. In addition we have even had some of that white stuff! A white Christmas! How amazing!! Our struggle remains the language and will probably continue to be so. Despite having said that when we arrived here seven weeks ago it seemed such a mountain for us to climb in terms of adjusting and getting to know our roles and the people that it is amazing to think what we have done in such a short space of time. We now have our boxes from the UK and are enjoying seeing our personal stuff around us and the place becomes much more like home. We have many good friendships out here now and will enjoy spending some time with them especially over the next week or so. Dave & Cindy have now left us for around two and half months so this will be the testing time for us, though the nursery is closed at the moment until 12th January there are always jobs to be done. We hope that we will be able to get a few days away for a break the week after next. So almost two months in and we feel fairly settled and are even adjusting to the erratic electricity supply which is particularly strange tonight - on and off every ten minutes or so. It would never happen in the UK - but then we are in Kosova and consider it a privledge to be here. Looking at the vast array of stars the other night - a sight i have not seen in a little while - made me think of that verse in Psalms 8: "when i consider the heavens...the moon and the stars....what is man that You are mindful of him...." Wow!! What a God! That is the most important thing - not our ministries but our relationship with God. How amazing!!