A. “A long obedience in the same direction.”- Eugene Peterson

Hello Friends and Family,
Marry Christmas and Happy New Year. I hope this newsletter finds you and yours in a time of rejoicing and celebration of our savior’s birth. I know for us this year has been different and stretching but God is faithful and so we must be faithful to give him praise.
So to fill you in we have finished our 3 semester at Calvary Chapel Bible Institute New Zealand, and love it. This is exactly what Tecla and I want to do for the rest of our lives; praise the Lord He has allowed us to do this. We have spent our second Christmas in New Zealand and it has truly been better then the first, partly because we have an actual tree ☺. Jade’s first Christmas has been a lot of laughs. It was fun to have my parents (Jake’s parents), come out and visit us for Thanksgiving. It is become somewhat of a tradition to have some one come visit us at that time of year, we love it. I, Jake, was blessed by God (as always), but also by the Pastor’s here in New Zealand, to be ordained. It was a great timing because they ordained me when my parents were here, which was a huge blessing for all of us.
As far as next semester I will be teaching 3 classes, Galatians/ Ephesians (as one class), the Gospel of Luke, and Friday Lectures. Tecla will be overseeing the food and servant hood (m199) area again. Jade will continue to be Jade.
We have a couple of prayer request. Our visa, we are looking at the next step for us as a family and to get Residency would be best with Jade and all the benefits with health care. The only thing with that is we do not meet the minimum requirement financially to apply for residency. The other thing to be praying for is more housing for all of us as a school. As some of you know we live with the boys of the school, which has not been too bad. The thing is Jade is getting bigger as well as the school is getting an increase of people, so we will need get our own place as a family soon. But we know God is good and He is our portion, so praise him for that (Psalm 73:26).
So thank you all for your prayers and support. We love you all and miss you all. As always please feel free to email, or call us if you would like, or we can even skype. Thanks again Love Jake, Tecla and Jade Wilmoth

Psalm 84:11-12 “For the Lord God is a sun and shield, the Lord will give grace and glory, no good thing will He withhold from those who walk uprightly. O Lord of hosts, blessed is the man who trusts in You!”