December Update

Mailing address
Some of the items in this month's update will help you keep in touch with me. And I’m hoping as Christmas is just around the corner, you will include me in your holiday mailings. One of things I love about Christmas is receiving the cards, letters and photos that many of you send me each year. And this year I look forward to receiving them more than ever. It only costs 80 cents to send a regular sized card or letter to Spain.

If you need my mailing address, send me an email.

Denver phone #
Through an internet long distance company, I now have a Denver number you can use to call me. I have already shared this with some of you in Denver, but I realized that many of you may have nationwide long distance plans and you could use the Denver number from California or Michigan or wherever. The number is 303-242-5475. If I am not here, you can leave a message and I can call you back. Just remember that we are 8 hours ahead of Colorado and 9 hours ahead of California. I will let those of you in other parts of the country figure it out from there.

End of the year gifts
If you desire to make an end of the year gift to my “Ministry Account” or “Personal Gift Account”, you can send your checks to WorldVenture, 1501 W. Mineral Ave., Littleton, CO 80120-5612 and mark it for Pat Roseman - #639 - MA or Personal Gift. Funds in my MA are used for ministry needs (new equipment, car, software, etc.). Personal Gifts are given to me in their entirety (without the normal 16% administrative fee deducted) but they are not tax deductible.

This month’s quote:
As a Christian I believe that we live in parallel worlds. One world consists of hills and lakes and barns and politicians and shepherds watching their flocks by night. The other consists of angels and sinister forces and somewhere out there places called heaven and hell. One night in the cold, in the dark, among the wrinkled hills of Bethlehem, those two worlds came together at a dramatic point of intersection. God, who knows no before or after, entered time and space. God, who knows no boundaries took on the shocking confines of a baby’s skin, the ominous restraints of mortality....Never again need we wonder whether what happens on this dirty little tennis ball of a planet matters to the rest of the universe. Little wonder a choir of angels broke out in spontaneous song, disturbing not only a few shepherds, but the entire universe.
-- Philip Yancey, The Jesus I Never Knew

Praises:
1. My kids will be here in three weeks!
2. I had hoped to be able to tell you that I have passed my driver’s test, but I haven’t taken it yet. I am scheduled to take it on Monday, December 5.
3. I had a wonderful Thanksgiving with my teammates in Madrid. There were 13 of us and we had a traditional American meal. It was a good time to be together.
4. I am enjoying my weekly visits to a friend’s house as I learn to cook Spanish foods and practice my Spanish. One of the ladies shared today that it is a very special time for her as well.

Prayer Requests:
1. Pray for me as I take my driver’s test on Monday, December 5. There is a lot I need to remember.
2. Pray for healing of a bad cold. I have been fighting it for 2 weeks and I think I lost the battle. I woke up this morning with a stuffy head and a cough. I need to be able to concentrate between now and Monday.
3. Pray for the details to come together for a short trip to southern Spain that my kids and I will be taking while they are here.
4. Pray that the 10 days with my children at Christmas will be full of wonderful memory-making times.