Christmas was here and gone but the message of "the free gift" is something we carry and share with us all year long. We had a wonderful time visiting with family over the holidays. My parents (Jerry and Rita Jamison) came for nine days and our son Nathaniel was with us for two weeks. The time went by too fast but we made some wonderful memories. The highlight was December 27th when we invited all the family to our house. We had my in-laws (Sam and Ellen Hornbrook) Sam's brother (Jim and Ruth and family) Sam's nephew (Brian and his wife Merari) my parents and us. We also invited our son's best friend and his girlfriend. There was lots of eating, fellowshipping and laughing.
Not long after our family left we welcomed a group from Faith Christian School in Lafayette, Indiana. They came and served at a Missionary school, held a youth activity, basketball clinics and got some site seeing in. We were busy. It was a lot of fun. In the middle of their visit we got word that my grandmother went home to be with the Lord. That same day we learned that Sam's mom had suffered a brain hemorrhage. Sam has been with his mom and dad in Veracruz since January 11th. Today they are transporting my mother in-law back to Poza Rica where they live. She is still in critical but stable condition. She is unable to respond at this time. She is breathing on her own which we are very grateful.
It's hard to think of my mother in-law being in such a fragile state. She has always been very active and the most hospitable person I know. She was getting ready to serve homemade icecream when her hemorrhage started. She and my father in-law have had a "swinging door" policy in their home. There has always been room at the table and if you needed a place to stay--the beds always had clean sheets waiting. We'd appreciate your prayers for the Hornbrook family at this time.
