Merry Christmas!  Feliz Navidad

 The first kidzreach GO team - The Bedenkop and Klippenstein families

Friends and family,
We're sending all of you a warm and wet Christmas hug from Costa Rica. Even though we miss being with you this precious holiday season, it is a joy to serve our Lord by telling others of the best present ever, Jesus Christ! Many families have Christmas traditions, special ways to celebrate together and this year we continue in our family's tradition as well. Warm weather, wooden huts, indigenous smiles, rice and fish, and biting sand flies await us on the island of Bastimentos. We will be traveling there to share Jesus with the Ngobe indigenous people of Panama. Our hearts rejoice to be leading a different type of outreach this time as we launch our first kidzreach GO team. The adventurous Klippenstein family (Dean, Wendy, Colton, and Miranda) will be joining us as we build relationships, use our talents to share Jesus, teach the children on the island of the hope we have, minister in hands-on practical ways, and serve as a family. Most likely, our Christmas dinner will be a bit untraditional (rice, plantains, and fish), but celebrating Jesus' birth with new believers is the best tradition we could enjoy. It is our prayers that your Christmas season will be filled with the joy of Christ and that the world will know of His ultimate gift.

As we venture to Panama, we would love your prayers for
* God's guidance for absolutely everything involved in leading a family team to the jungles of Panama.
* That God would use all of us to share his love with the precious Ngobe people
* for the kidz on our team to realize and see God using them to reach the nations.

All our love,
Ryan, Sarah, Joshua and Caleb

If you would like to hear more about our upcoming trip and receive our monthly kidzreach email newz, send us a note. You can also learn more by visiting the new website http://www.kidzreach.com