Hey everybody!!! Sorry it's been quite a while since I've been on here. Everything with Christmas break and then getting back into working again after Christmas and traveling has been too crazy. But here I am. My Christmas was wonderful. So good to get away for a bit and see family and friends and nature, and eat good food again. Thanks again to everyone. Love you all. On the other hand though, it is so good to be back home. I really missed this place over the holidays, more than I thought I would. I still have not gotten to see a lot of my kids yet. I saw a few on Saturday when I went to deliver a couple late Christmas Presents. Hopefully this week soon I'll get to go on a proper visitation again. For the off-semester a lot of the guys and I (and one girl) are doing work in the center with the renovations in there. We mostly smash down walls with hammers and break stuff. It's good work. A lot of the other side-walk staff are working in the finance department or working with the "Won by One" child sponsorship, helping get presents and letter delivered to our kids and get the thank-you cards back to the sponsors. We all keep busy enough during the off semester. Sunday School will start up again towards the end of March. During this time we do still visit our kids once a week, to deliver stuff from the sponsors and just to see them and hang out. But it will go by quick and Sunday School will be back soon enough for sure. Pray that the staff would take this time that is not so busy and stressful to really rejuvenate for the next semester. And that we would not loose the focus and vision even when it seems this work is not the ministry we are here for. Because the ministry does in fact fully depend on this kind of back-ground work. Thank you for the support. Love.

ryan.

ps. Thank You so much to all of those who took a profile and considering Sponsoring me financially, And especially to those who already are. I really do need you all.