Thank you to everyone who filled a shoebox with presents this year! Your prayers and your love for these children truly make a difference. Merry Christmas!

It was also fun to see the kids opening their presents in the classrooms. Some of the kids also made us some precious Christmas cards.

This morning, we had the blessing of giving shoeboxes to some dear kids at a local school. Caleb would give them a small book with Bible stories, and one of us would give them a shoebox. The kids were so happy to receive them; their faces just lit up with happiness.

Earlier this week, Tim and some of his friends went to a town nearby to pick up around 200 Operation Christmas Child shoeboxes. We're so excited about being able to help distribute these presents to some special children in Serbia!

Yesterday, Becky and I got together with some of our friends to talk about Christmas traditions and do a little scrapbooking. It was so fun to look at their pictures and watch them making their cards. How blessed we are to have these friends!

Samantha likes to play with the nativity scene, but she gets a little rough with the shepherds.

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas . . .