Winter 2019

Dear Friends,

What is anticipation? It involves looking forward to something, such as a person, a present, an event or a season. We anticipate the holidays. We anticipate people visiting and spending special celebrations at home and church.

Anticipation has an element of emotion. We may feel choked up because we finally get to see someone we have missed. Or, we may feel anxious at family gatherings.

Every year we anticipate communications from people via email, cards etc. We anticipate seeing new faces of babies and saying goodbye to older people.

As I look ahead to the future for Project Lost Sheep, I am anticipating new camps and new tutoring programs. However, beyond that, the people that God will tap, as He did the founding group, to sign up to help children.

Here in Idaho, we are working to form a core group and to see the change that God wants. There are gangs and drugs here. Poverty is real in parts of Idaho. There is an urgent need for our free tuitoring and mentoring programs that bless the families and bring hope. We soon expect to have a strong church base which I have been anticipating for some time.

Anticipation always involves waiting. We wait in hope, for what we do not yet see, because God always come through. It is in the fullness of time that he sent his son, Jesus Christ, in the flesh so we could experience and depend not on our efforts or resources, but on his GREAT LOVE AND MERCY for us all.

Merry Christmas!

Sincerely,

Joyce Dueker

Founder of Project Lost Sheep