Christmas Greetings from
Tom and Dennie at their new home in Prescott!
250 Lakewood Circle
Prescott, AZ
928.515.1934
"My grace is sufficient for you." Sometimes God's undeserved grace whispers, but in 2012, it descended upon us with great shouts of blessing! On April 22nd, Dennie fell while hiking in Austria, shattering two leg bones. God's providing grace: through an excellent Austrian surgeon, 5 days in a hospital there and dear Austrian and German Christian friends who cared for all our attending needs!
Arriving home on May 2nd after a memorable 15-hour trip in a cast and having to have her leg elevated during the flights (another story of God's grace), Tom checked himself into the ER on May 3rd because of pressure in his shoulders. He did not return home for 10 days since he had a 5-artery bypass, open-heart surgery on May 7th. God's intervening grace: to save his life!
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With Dennie completely immobilized and Tom
hospitalized, our local church home (Soma Bible), the CTOers of Phoenix, and
family members cared for her and then both of us during our long recovery and
rehab. So many prayed, sent cards and
called, extending words of encouragement.
God’s comforting, caring grace: in action through family, friends and
the body of Christ!
Unable to get to our upstairs bedroom for a very
long time and knowing that Tom is facing two hip replacement surgeries (now
bone-on-bone in both hips) and Dennie had broken two toes on her “good” foot,
(surgery needed for one; soft cast for the other), we saw the need to move to a
one-story dwelling before our next surgeries.
We decided to leave the heat and congestion of the metro area and move
to the cooler, quieter town of Prescott, AZ, located a couple hours north of
Phoenix…a place where the CTO ministry is thriving in two churches. Within weeks this fall, we bought a new abode
and sold our house. God’s enabling
grace: on the move!
Our church and other friends became the hands
and feet of Jesus to transport us up the mountain to our special new home on
November 21st. God’s loving
grace: through the prayers, time and energy of the saints! And for the two of us, His strengthening and
sustaining grace: to press on while literally limping, weak and weary!
(2 Cor. 12:9,10)
Merry Christmas!
No matter what your circumstances, may you see and savor God’s
outpouring of grace in this season and in the coming year.
Tom and Dennie
