Again, embarassing.  I'm averaging a month between blogs!  How sad!  I was hoping for one a week, but I guess some is better than none!

Some exciting things are happening here and in our ministry.  We just wrapped up our first homegroup session and it went pretty well.  We ended with a 'dinner party' and tonight we brought things to fill baskets for the Fire Stations here in our town (city, really).  We were able to get to know some of the people better and really connect with them.

Church is going great.  We have had one lady visiting for a while now and she and her son have so many questions.  They came to our homegroup party last week and seemed to have a good time.  It's just a matter of time, I think, that they'll both be saved and I'm looking forward to that.

My ladies ministries here at church are going well also.  We had a Christmas Brunch Gathering here at my house on Saturday and it was so much fun.  We didn't have any visitors come, but it was nice to get together with ladies from church and just have some food and Christmas fun.  We'll be reading "Hadassah, One Night with the King" together next year and everyone seems to be looking forward to that.

Nathan is hoping to start up a college ministry in the new year and there's a possibility that a spot at a new retail center going up right across from Durham College (5 minutes from our house) could be rented to us for a coffee house ministry and we may also have someone to underwrite it!  Nathan is really excited about that and we will be praying for God's direction in that.

We're hoping to have a great Christmas here.  We had a great Thanksgiving with Nathan's family and my family will be coming here for Christmas this year.  We're excited about that.  I finished my shopping yesterday and I feel so good about that.  It's all wrapped and everything...I'm so on top of things!!!  (not really, I'm usually done by now). 

We find out on January 4 what the baby is and we're so excited.  Everyone here is wondering why we're finding out, but I'm such a planner and stuff that I just have to know!  It's more of a surprise to me; it would be torture otherwise.  Everything seems to be going well there also.  Thanks for praying!

Well, that's about it for Affinity news.  We have a new website...www.affinitycares.ca.  We're hoping for great things this coming year!

Have a great week!

Melissa