2010

When our family moved to Brasil, in 2002, we made a five year commitment to stay.  When the five years were up we didn't feel like God wanted us to leave.  We felt He still had some things He wanted us to do here.  

Around that same time we decided to start a blog. What started off mainly as a way to keep our families up to date with pictures and stories has become something that quite a few people from, literally, around the world check.  

We don't really understand why people enjoy reading about the goofy stuff that goes on in our family but it's fun to see how the blog has grown.  It's also fun for us to see where people are who read our blog.  We have, obviously, people who follow us from our hometowns in the states as well as from the different places we've lived during our marriage and we love hearing from all of you guys.  

We've also been surprised by our new friends.  Through this blog we now have new buddies from across the globe (Hey Roberta in New Zealand!).  

We are thankful for everyone who reads our blog.  We are thankful for your comments but, more importantly, your prayers. 

2010 will be another interesting year for us.  We will have one child leaving our home and moving to the states to go to college.  We will have another one graduating from high school. Another will graduate junior high.  Two others will change schools this year.  One will start pre-school.  How's that for variety in our house?

God continues to morph and change our ministry.  The things we are doing today are not the things we were doing seven and a half years ago, or even last year for that matter.  Benay and I spent some time talking just last night about how He has already touched our hearts in some of the things He wants us to do in 2010. It's always been a pretty cool thing to see how God brings my heart and Benay's heart together on our ministry before we even talk about things.  I am very blessed to get to do what I love doing and getting to do it with my best friend.  It might be bragging, but I think we make a pretty good team for the kingdom. 

Benay and I still feel as if God is not done with us here yet.  We still feel like He has some things He wants us to do in Brasil for His kingdom.  

Until He speaks clearly to us about leaving (just as He spoke clearly to us about coming down here), we will continue to try and do exactly what He wants us to do here.  

So, as long as we are here you should have the opportunity to continue reading about our family, our ministry and, of course, more Andersonisms.  

Our prayer for anyone reading this is that God will bless you in 2010.  That 2010 will be a great year for you and your family as you serve God's kingdom.  

And if you are reading this and you don't know Jesus, then our prayer is that 2010 will be the best year of your life because you begin a relationship with God's son.  

Happy New Year everyone!