We pray you all had a great Christmas and New Year! We had a great time with family and friends with our first holiday season in Chicago. We had another great fellowship time with people who are interested in the church plant. Derrick made some great chili and we had lots of yummy sweets. We had a fun time exchanging gifts with an exciting round of Dirty Santa!:) Nothing like getting to know people when they get competitive over a gift! We ended our night with a few songs celebrating our savors birth! It was a great time of hosting again and getting to know everyone more. Our special friends, the Jenkins are having everyone over at our house this weekend to celebrate baby Puckett with diapers and special blessings. Thank you Jenkins! We are looking forward to seeing everyone again for a time of fellowship before the baby arrives.
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| Enjoying our chili and fellowships with others. |
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| Singing and rejoicing over our Saviors birth with songs! |
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| Exchanging gifts around the tree! |
The church plant is definitely gaining momentum with more people committing to be apart of the church, which is so exciting and so encouraging to see God working! Derrick has continued to meet with pastors and leaders in the area to learn more about the city and its needs. We are still looking to find a place for our corporate meeting as a church by the United Center (where the Bulls and the Blackhawks play). We like that area because if you travel any cardinal direction away from the United Center you will find a different demographic of people. And we believe that if the United Center can gather people from all different walks of life then why can't the church. We are hoping and praying to find somewhere soon as we approach our prospective launch date in September. We plan to start our launch team soon in the next couple months.
We are exactly 9 days away from our due date to meet our mystery baby! We are so excited! We thought I would go into labor early since I have been having many contractions and back pain but like Ramiyah says God isn't done with the baby yet. Love it:) So we are just enjoying our last few days as a family of four. But we are definitely excited to meet our baby! Even little Elyana keeps asking when the baby is going to come out!:) Ramiyah says she will help change diapers and Ely is ready to hold the baby she says;) Please be praying that it is a smooth transition and that baby and I are healthy. We will be sure to update you all on baby Pucketts arrival!
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| Ready to pop!:) |
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| The girls after opening gifts Christmas morning. |
