December 17, 2009

Merry Christmas 2009!



Merry Christmas from Matt, April & the girls!

We hope this finds you enjoying the holidays with your family and friends as we are with ours. Seeing Christmas through our girls’ eyes really brings the excitement back! They asked if we could bake a cake for Jesus’ birthday this year. I love it, but they could just be playing me for some extra sugar! Darby-Jewell turns eight right after Christmas. She and Maria (6, our poet & preacher) just finished their school work for this semester. Katherine (4) still speaks with her sweet mousey voice, but is changing from a toddler into a ‘big kid.’ Norah (18 mo.) is our mess maker. As soon as you catch her and stop the destruction, she runs off giggling to find a new target.

We would also like to announce that April is at the end of her 4th month of pregnancy. We heard the baby’s heart beat together last week. The girls are beyond excited! Darby-Jewell and Maria have “asked” for a brother, while Katherine prefers another sister.

As we wrap up this year, I think some of my highlights were: Helping form the new Latin American sending agency…Participating in the Spanish and English minister’s conferences…Teaching at our South & Central American seminaries in Ecuador, Honduras and Colombia…training local pastors and working with our U.S. teams in the orphanages, feeding centers, and clinics in those same countries…and ministering to our former colleagues and missionaries in Costa Rica, once God got me out of Honduras!

Next year promises to be even more exciting with returns to those countries plus some new seminaries and training conferences as well as Mexico’s recently founded missionary school. God has blessed us with so many new connections, friends, and open doors that I am overwhelmed. With more invitations than we have months, we need your support now more than ever. Thank you for your prayers and for helping us get there!

We have begun a new model of going out with local churches on their mission trips, and staying after they leave to teach at that country’s seminary. THIS REALLY IS WORKING! Please let me know if your local church is considering a mission trip this or next year. I’d love to go with you to help work, translate, or preach…then stay a week to help train the pastors and students of that same country.

Christmas Blessings! Matthew, April, Darby-Jewell, Maria, Katherine & Norah


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Matt & April Jett
101 Springfield Lane
Waxahachie, TX 75165

Phone: 817-764-0176
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