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Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from the Little's here in 40' C Perth, Australia! Hoping that you've all been keeping well and have had time to relax with family and/or friends during the season.
We've had a different kind of Christmas this year. It's been one with new challenges with ministries and roles on base, but also with the family being sick over Christmas and beyond. It all started with MJ getting sick, then Kamryn, then Lauren, then Levi, then Kamryn again, then Aaron (that's me!) I feel slightly better today but I also said that yesterday before I felt rotten again. What doesn't kill us only makes us strong?
Despite the sickness we persevered to still enjoy our time together at home. The temperatures at Christmas were unseasonably low which was a huge relief for us. We didn't make it to all of the base events but we did our best to celebrate with our friends here at YWAM Perth. We were blessed this year with lots of people giving toward gifts for our family. Our most memorable ones would be a family Xbox as well as 5 tickets to go see The Lion King live production. Some are more excited about this than others, but I'm sure it'll be amazing. We've got a babysitter for Lauren that night!
As most of you may know I was asked to takeover the leadership of a DTS here at YWAM Perth. Sven, who led our DTS, needed to step back due to family health. He and his wife and daughter are dear friends of ours and we said to each other one night (and God), "We'll do whatever we can to help them to get through this time." Within two days I was asked to takeover leading Sven's Frontline Discipleship Training School. They were half way through their lecture phase when I was introduced to the class as their new leader. I was very nervous, and I'm sure they were uncertain too. However, they came together as a group and pulled our family into their family. They just recently left for outreach into Nepal and Northern India, and really I'm quite proud of all of them. As I stepped in I knew they needed someone to provide consistency and encouragement. Through feedback I learned that I was the man for the job. The class was amazing and will do so well on outreach. I learned a lot about God and how he prepares us for challenges that we never would've thought we could do. I felt like I was drowning at times with the administration and schedule but most of the time I felt like I was thriving and ended up really enjoying myself.
Due to the running of the school and then Christmas time I haven't had time to begin fundraising for this trip to Nepal. I've bought tickets however, trusting that I'll see the money come in. It's about $1750 each for Kamryn and I. Kamryn however has been on it for about a month now and has bravely asked people that she felt promoted to ask for support. So far she's seen a great response and has seen $850 come in! What a missionary kid!
Exciting events coming up for us as a family in January/February of 2016 is:
Kamryn turns 13 while on summer camp. It's her first birthday away from us and it's a special one:(
We go for a 5 day family camp with other YWAM Perth families in Albany (south of Perth)
Aaron and Kamryn travel to Nepal January 24 - February 10
Lauren's 2nd birthday!!
Needs as a family for January - March 2016:
Remaining $ for Aaron and Kamryn's outreach to Nepal ($2650 still needed)
Car repair; new rotors needed immediately (about $400)
Car repair; needing a large service done at 300,000k (about $1500-2000)
New Laptop as ours is six years old, it's slow and has recently lost some keyboard function ($750)
We're flying home for Christmas in 2016 and feel to purchase those tickets soon! ($10,000)
Please, would you pray about joining us financially on any one of these needs? When there's a need, it seems there are always several at a time! You can give by contacting myself at aaronlittleonssi@gmail.com or Robin at litrobin@gmail.com. We can easily forward you bank details.
Thanks for reading yet another update, we hope you find them somewhat interesting!
Lots of love,
The Littles
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from the Little's here in 40' C Perth, Australia! Hoping that you've all been keeping well and have had time to relax with family and/or friends during the season.We've had a different kind of Christmas this year. It's been one with new challenges with ministries and roles on base, but also with the family being sick over Christmas and beyond. It all started with MJ getting sick, then Kamryn, then Lauren, then Levi, then Kamryn again, then Aaron (that's me!) I feel slightly better today but I also said that yesterday before I felt rotten again. What doesn't kill us only makes us strong?
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| Lauren was amazed when she awoke one morning to a Christmas tree in her living room! It was adorable |
As most of you may know I was asked to takeover the leadership of a DTS here at YWAM Perth. Sven, who led our DTS, needed to step back due to family health. He and his wife and daughter are dear friends of ours and we said to each other one night (and God), "We'll do whatever we can to help them to get through this time." Within two days I was asked to takeover leading Sven's Frontline Discipleship Training School. They were half way through their lecture phase when I was introduced to the class as their new leader. I was very nervous, and I'm sure they were uncertain too. However, they came together as a group and pulled our family into their family. They just recently left for outreach into Nepal and Northern India, and really I'm quite proud of all of them. As I stepped in I knew they needed someone to provide consistency and encouragement. Through feedback I learned that I was the man for the job. The class was amazing and will do so well on outreach. I learned a lot about God and how he prepares us for challenges that we never would've thought we could do. I felt like I was drowning at times with the administration and schedule but most of the time I felt like I was thriving and ended up really enjoying myself.
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| Aaron's Frontline Discipleship Training School (DTS) |
During the Frontline DTS outreach I'll be joining them with Kamryn for 18 days. We're going to build a home in Nepal with them and my ministry Homes of Hope. We're going back to the same village that Homes of Hope worked in August this year. I'm really looking forward to continuing to develop relationship with the villagers there, seeing my Nepali friends and doing outreach with Kamryn! It should be so fun and I look forward to seeing the school again for some hard work. If you didn't get a chance to see it here's a video of the last time Homes of Hope was in Nepal:
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| Aaron Speaking about the DTS during Commissioning Night |
Exciting events coming up for us as a family in January/February of 2016 is:
Kamryn turns 13 while on summer camp. It's her first birthday away from us and it's a special one:(
We go for a 5 day family camp with other YWAM Perth families in Albany (south of Perth)
Aaron and Kamryn travel to Nepal January 24 - February 10
Lauren's 2nd birthday!!
Needs as a family for January - March 2016:
Remaining $ for Aaron and Kamryn's outreach to Nepal ($2650 still needed)
Car repair; new rotors needed immediately (about $400)
Car repair; needing a large service done at 300,000k (about $1500-2000)
New Laptop as ours is six years old, it's slow and has recently lost some keyboard function ($750)
We're flying home for Christmas in 2016 and feel to purchase those tickets soon! ($10,000)
Please, would you pray about joining us financially on any one of these needs? When there's a need, it seems there are always several at a time! You can give by contacting myself at aaronlittleonssi@gmail.com or Robin at litrobin@gmail.com. We can easily forward you bank details.
Thanks for reading yet another update, we hope you find them somewhat interesting!
Lots of love,
The Littles
