December 2014
To all our dear Family and Friends,
Merry Christmas! We’re SO blessed
to be home to spend the holidays with family again this year! Every year, God leads us to a different
situation in which to serve and, this year, we spent almost 7 months at
Nazarene Theological Seminary outside of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia!
We flew Down Under in early February,
and started work just before 2014 Semester 1 began, after several emails and
Skype sessions to determine some of the details of our assignment. We quickly settled into a suite in one of the
dorms (a bedroom and a kitchen separated by a bathroom). The campus is “in the bush” (wooded) and
“chockers” with (full of) wildlife, especially wallabies! We could see wallabies every day, as we’d walk
round the campus after work. Found a
koala too! We were wakened each day by kookaburras, curlews, magpies, and
crows. And we soon fell in love with the
Aussies’ accent and their quirky colloquialisms. The weather was wonderful as well; the suburb
of Thornlands is coastal and has a sub-tropical climate!