Advent Greetings from California!
We are very grateful to the Lord our Keeper and
Companion, and to our gracious hosts. What a blessing to belong to the family
of the living God. Emmanuel!
Now we are in California sharing with supporters and churches that have kept us going in mission.
November 21 Biola Congregational Church, Biola, CA
December 5 New Life Presbyterian Church, La Mesa, CA
December 12 St. Luke’s Anglican
Church, Montrose, CA
We look forward to spending Christmas with our family
in Oregon!
January 2 Sierra Presbyterian Church, Nevada City, CA
January 16 Church of the Living Savior, McFarland, CA
January 23 Chinese Community Church, San Diego, CA
January 30 New City Church, El Segundo, CA
February 6 Carlsbad Community Church, Carlsbad, CA
February 13 Arise Presbyterian Church, Vista, CA
February 20 Valley Presbyterian Church, North Hills,
CA
March 20 Kauai Christian Fellowship, Kilauea, Kauai, Hawaii
It has been very encouraging to have so many friends
praying for the Lord to lead us. We have made two decisions; we will join IDEAS,
and we will explore living in Hawaii.
We have been invited to work with a new organization,
IDEAS.
From their
website: “IDEAS works…in over 13 countries to demonstrate love, holistically
serving among the forgotten and overlooked in order to see transformed lives in
communities of contagious hope…We offer professional opportunities in five
areas: agriculture, business, community development, education, and
health/well-being. These projects deliver tangible value in community and
provide for critical encounters and relationships that embody, inform and offer
true and lasting hope”
Our role will be pastoral care and coaching. We
are thankful for this great opportunity to remain involved in global mission.
We will need
travel funds for our new work with IDEAS. Once the world opens up – as we trust
it will! – we hope to visit IDEAS colleagues in their ministry locations.
As we have mentioned,
we will finish our current Home Assignment with Pioneers in February. We would
be grateful if you prayerfully consider on-going support for us through IDEAS.
In March we will be flying to Hawaii. We think our new
home is in the islands. We are still not sure where. But we want to encourage
the local church, pastors and leaders, and the work of global mission.
Mark has been writing the story of our life in mission
- Uganda, Hawaii, Kazakhstan, and China. He has finished the first draft of the
part one, Uganda. We’d love to share this first section with you.
Your feedback would be appreciated. We plan to offer
this work freely to any who may want to know more about the joys and challenges
of missions.
For those who want to know more about what God has
done in Hawaii, we recommend this one-hour documentary. It is a beautiful presentation
about the coming of the Gospel to Hawaii; celebrating the 200th
anniversary of the arrival of the missionaries from Boston in 1820. More people
need to know the amazing way God used Spirit-led workers proclaiming His
Spirit-inspired Word, then and now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p13qU7yKEm4
If all you have heard is the world’s bad rap against
the missionaries, you need to see this well researched and encouraging
presentation.
Ohana (‘family’) Update
Nathan and Heather and their sons Kekoa (6) and Makana (4) are thriving in Portland. Nathan continues to work for the www.bibleproject.org and Heather is their busy mom and homeschool teacher.
Josiah and his daughter Maylee (18, next month!) are
in Almaty, Kazakhstan. They ask for wisdom in navigating the challenges of life
there. Maylee graduates from high school in May in Moscow, Russia (she has been
on-line all through her high school years). We’d love to be there!
Aaron still lives and works in Eugene, Oregon. We are
glad he has a good community of family and friends there.
Advent means ‘Come’ – past, present, and future
As we enjoy another Advent season, we praise the Lord
for the ever-new wonder of the old, old story. Jesus our Lord and Savior has
come, is come, and will come again. Everything
this world offers will one day break, fade, die, or need a new operating
system! But God our Maker knows how we are made. God our Judge knows how we
have messed up. And the great news of Advent is God our Savior has come to
redeem and restore. He offers a new life that is abundant and eternal. We really
hope you have received this greatest of all Christmas gifts freely given
through faith in the Risen Jesus!
Mele Kalikimaka, Mark and Dayna
Blair
Emails blairstan2@gmail.com or blairstan@hotmail.com
Our Missions
Until the end of February
2022:
Pioneers - 10123 William Carey Dr - Orlando, FL 32832
Checks
to ‘Pioneers’ – with attached note: ‘Mark and Dayna Blair, Beijing.’
Electronic
transfers: https://give.pioneers.org/p-75-give-to-a-missionary-or-project.aspx (Our Account # is 110565, Mark and Dayna
Blair)
FUNDS
SENT TO PIONEERS AFTER FEBRUARY 2022 WILL BE RETURNED TO SENDER
Beginning March 2022: IDEAS
- 7852 S Elati St., Ste 202 Littleton, Colorado 80120
WE
WILL SEND MORE DETAILS ABOUT GIVING THRU IDEAS IN THE NEW YEAR
