To the Church Family of White Rock Baptist…Merry Christmas 2004!

Thank you for your support in the past several months financially, spiritually, emotionally and faithfully in
prayer. You are blessings in my life. I am doing well at YWAM Penang, as we are finishing up our lecture
phase and preparing for outreach this week. I will be spending Christmas in Taiwan, and I have already
begun some mandarin classes. We will be working with a YWAM base there in Taipei, with their coffee
house ministry, as well as traveling to southern Taiwan to teach in some high schools. After a month of
ministry, we will fly to the Philippines where we are to teach a mini-DTS to high school-aged students in
several towns. This is a great opportunity to share how God is working in us and also to learn to teach
new knowledge and understanding which we have recently learned.

In November, God blessed me with the opportunity for my family to come visit me in Penang, and travel
with them to visit our former home in West Kalimantan, Indonesia. My life is not as much of a mystery to
me anymore! It helped so much to see my family and reconnect with their lives and also to revisit our
childhood together as sisters. There were unforgettable experiences in my life in just the past 3 months
and I cannot imagine what God has in store for the future!!

In the past few months I have had a real sense of peace about God calling me to stay here in Penang for
an extended study in missions and the Bible. There is a SBSCC, School of Biblical Studies Core Course,
being offered from April to June 2005 at the Penang base. I have felt God's guidance directing me to
attend this school and am currently in the middle of applying for it. The faith for God to provide has
increased as I see him providing for my outreach, however, I may need to borrow money from my parents
for SBSCC, which puts me behind in debt for my ambitions for fall 2005 post-secondary school. The course
costs about $900 USD for 3 months, not including any spending money for necessities or outings. I will
continue to pray for God's will to be done, and I would ask you to consider supporting me if you feel the
Holy Spirit's generosity and blessing. Again, I am delighted that He has given me the opportunity to stay
in Penang to further enrich my foundation in His word.

I am praying that the Christmas season is particularly focused on the true blessing of Jesus' birth and that
His favor will fall on the church richly. May God bless the Christmas programs and services and all the
preparation the people of the church are working on so that He may receive the glory for everything.
Please keep me in your prayers as I will be away from family, traditions, and familiar winter season in my
tropical Christmas experience this year. Please continue to pray for protection as our teams travel to
Taiwan and the Philippines, and our other half of DTS to Thailand, Cambodia and Laos. Thank you for your
sweet songs in prayer and your faithfulness and generosity. The church has been so kind to me and I
have felt so loved, even as I am far away.

God bless the church and its ministry. Love in Christ, Joanne