[original email date of December 14, 2017]
Merry Christmas!!!
I am so blessed to include you in these updates. Thank you, thank you for your financial support and dedicated prayer during my time in Canada!! Your responses and interest were encouraging to me.
I am back in Wichita! It is good to be back in a place that means so much to me. It is also a different feeling as I process all the things that I have experienced these past 15 weeks. While in Canada (I only had 1 Wizard of Oz reference) it dawned on me that this is the longest I’ve ever lived outside the borders of Kansas. I’ve had a lot of “windshield time” to make sense of all this and I’m still chewing on it. As I try to find a new routine and schedule for my time in Kansas, I do hope to connect with you in a more meaningful way than just email.
GIVING
That being said, I do recognize we are approaching the end of the year. A part of our culture places importance on the tangible financial benefits of end-of-year giving. There’s no shame or guilt in it, that’s just a part of living in North America. I get it. I’ve done it. If you are still looking for a gift to be included in 2017 attached are a few links for my project with MB Mission. These are the cold, hard, transactional facts, but I would love to catch up with you in person in 2018.
I pray you have peace this Christmas and can enjoy one another (Ephesians 4:2),
Travis Jost
Project# 0780
