Merry Christmas! :December 2016 Newsletter

         Lee and Dana Trotter

          Prescott Community     

                Outreach

             December 2016

Have a blessed Christmas!

Since we have been here in the Prescott neighborhood, we started a new yearly tradition.  We look forward to the Thanksgiving Community Event.  Every year, I cook 4 turkeys and have neighbors, friends, and the people of our church bring the rest.  This year, we decided that we would combine our Thanksgiving meal with a “Welcome Table” worship service.  We removed a number of pews at the front of the sanctuary to make room for tables.  We ended up with over 60 people attending.  We had a small worship and prayer service.  Then we ate (a lot) and finished with prayer and communion.  We were pleased to be able to take our Thanksgiving meal to the next level of including the spiritual life of our community and neighborhood in our celebration!

Now we head into the Christmas season, cold weather, and all of the end of the year stuff.  Overall we had a great year ministering here in our community.  We had countless opportunities to love, help, and counsel our neighbors and youth.  We had our share of struggles too, but we are looking forward to getting ready for next year.

One thing is certain.  We are blessed to be able to serve God in this neighborhood and community.  We are blessed by a great support team that God uses to meet our needs.  We appreciate each one of you and thank God often for you and your love for us and our outreach.  We are looking forward to what God has planned for 2017.

Thank you for your support this year! 

We pray that you have an awesome Christmas!  We love you much!     

   

       Lee & Dana

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We had a good break over Christmas.  We had a great Christmas Party with the La Paz kids.  Dana couldn’t be there as she has been recovering from Bronchitis. We made cookies for some of our neghbors and families we work with.  We had a great Christmas with our family. 

Over the break, we moved into our spare bedroom and the plan was to finally fix up our bedroom.  This has come to a complete halt after our sewer line completely clogged starting Christmas Day.  It took a week to get a plumber out to try to clear it and now we are waiting for the weather to clear up so he can dig it up.  Ah, the joys of owning a 90 year old house!   In the meantime, we are living in, “Let’s pretend we are still in rural Mexico” mode.

The good news is that La Paz House is going well with a lot of kids there everyday.  One 11 year old named Daniel said, “This church is the best thing that has ever happened to me!”  Later he was asking me a lot of questions about church. Yes!

We recently won a grant to make some improvements at La Paz House, help with utilities, send some youth to a youth conference this summer, and pay at least one assistant to work with the kids!  This is going to be a big help to Dana and me.  Often, I am there working with 15 kids by myself.

Another thing we are working on is hosting a group of young adults to start talking about how we can better reach out and meet the needs of people their age in our area.

Thank you for your prayers and support as we move forward to make a difference in our neighborhood and share God’s love!

                                                            We Love You!

                                                            Lee & Dana