Thank you to everyone who blessed us with a Christmas card or gift. We continue to feel extremely blessed to be a part of the family here at Rochester. It’s hard to believe that it was a little over four years ago that we moved here. In the time since, we have grown to love the people here and value the relationships we have developed.
In a time when hundreds of commercials tout the latest toys, gadgets, clothes, and more, you have given us the greatest gifts there are: love and family. We wouldn’t trade anything for the way you have welcomed us, embraced us, and made us part of the Rochester family.
In addition to celebrating the past, I am looking forward to an exciting future. When I think about everything God is up to, I can’t wait to see what He has in store for us in 2010! I continue to be amazed at the power of God’s grace and mercy.
Please allow me to share the words of Paul to express my feelings for you and as a prayer for you as we begin a new year together:
I thank my God in all my remembrance of you, always in every prayer of mine for you all making my prayer with joy, because of your partnership in the gospel from the first day until now. And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ. It is right for me to feel this way about you all, because I hold you in my heart, for you are all partakers with me of grace…in the defense and confirmation of the gospel. For God is my witness, how I yearn for you all with the affection of Christ Jesus. And it is my prayer that your love may abound more and more, with knowledge and all discernment, so that you may approve what is excellent, and so be pure and blameless for the day of Christ, filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God. (Philippians 1:3-11)
For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named, that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith—that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.
Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever. Amen. (Ephesians 3:14-21)
shine!
Jason
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