Newsletter of Thank YOUs

Thank YOU

to everyone who helped with 

our wedding!

Dear friends,

We want to continually say thank you to everyone of you that helped Roberta and me in the beginning of our life together.  We are forever grateful to each and every one of you.  We still think back on the day and the events surrounding it and we cannot believe how it actually happened.  We are so incredibly blessed to have amazing family and friends.  You are very dear to our hearts and we can only look back on the month of August in 2012 and see how amazingly blessed we are by all of YOU.  We say again, very humbly: Thank YOU.

Daily we are completely humbled by how God is working and using us.

Our wedding day was the best day of our lives.  On August 11th at around noon, Roberta and I were married!  Following the wedding we took some more pictures and headed to our reception at an amazing restaurant.  From California we flew to Washington for a reception and time to hang out with my(John's) family.  From Washington, we found a honeymoon in Mexico and spent a couple days there.  We are now in back in New York and living in East Northport in an apartment just 15 minutes from YWAM Metro NY.  God has blessed us with great landlords who are a lot of fun and we enjoy hanging out with each other and getting to know them.

Now that the festivities are all complete, we are in full swing of the 2012 Discipleship Training School (DTS).  We have a group of 18 amazing students.  God has blessed us with some very strong mature students who are ready to join Him in His work.  This DTS is studying who they are in God and, most importantly, who God is.  They are learning how to discover God more and how to make Him known to the people around them.  Roberta and I are so blessed to be a part of their journey in this season.  This January and February, we will be going to China and help lead the students!  We are excited to visit an amazing and beautiful country.  Please pray for us as we go and visit another country.

That's right! Roberta and I will be going to China with the rest of the DTS. We will help lead the team in China for several weeks.  We will be doing things from teaching english on college campuses and volunteering with local organizations.

God has been doing awesome things in our lives. He provided incredible landlords and a beautiful apartment for our first home together.  He has given us the privilege of knowing and leading great students.  He is guiding Roberta and I in new ways within our marriage.  We are very excited to see what He has planned for us.  Please pray for our students.  Pray for us, as staff of this DTS. Pray for us in getting the funds together for the trip to China.  We are still also raising our funds for life together in ministry. Pray about how you can support us financially.  Email me(John) at jolin@ywamny.org for more info or questions.

Thank YOU for all of your friendship and support. It means a lot to have so many amazing people around us.  Thank YOU again.

Your friends,

John and Roberta