Merry Christmas 2015, from the McClures,

Well, this year can be summed up in one word, "CHANGE". We left MAF and Indonesia after 3.5 years after we had just planned on one year. We are humbled that we were entrusted to do even a small part in the lives of the people he put in our paths. We greatly miss and pray for our family and friends in Papua and encourage you to continue to pray for the ongoing ministry of the gospel there. "Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour." 1 Peter 5:8. The new believers, our brothers and sisters continue to need prayer for strength and growth and spiritual protection. Also pray for workers. They are in need of teachers, nurses, pilots, mechanics, IT people, maintenance oriented folks, any gifting that you are being led to share with a very loving and hungry people group. Whether that help comes through MAF or any other means for short or long term. "The harvest truly is great, but the laborers are few; therefore pray the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into His harvest’. Luke 10:2.

Valentine’s day gathering leaving Papua.

We got back to the states mid Feb. then promptly drove to CA. to see kids and Grandkids, Arizona to visit Dions’ mom and for Miles to have dental work done in Mexico, then back to the PNW by Mid-March. While staying at Miles’s dads place with his brother, we looked for housing and jobs in the Vancouver WA area but only saw jobs available in the Seattle / Tacoma area so we packed up and moved into an apartment in the Tacoma area in May to make job hunting easier. Dion got hired on with Express Personnel at the end of May and was assigned to Food Services of America where she had a 1 ½ - 2 hour commute each way daily. We have had several trips to CA to visit the family and are blessed to be so much closer. In early June our oldest grandchild, Jerrod Wagner graduated from High school and is now a soldier in the army. He is our daughter Jennifer and husband Johns’ son. John started a new business which is doing well. Jennifer is enjoying being a stay at home mom for a change.

Jennifer and Family from right, Johnny, John, Bryce, Jerrod, Jennifer, Gabby, and Dakota.

Trent photobombing when we meet Violet. Lady Vi.

Kristie with Danny and Vi.

In late June our youngest grandchild Violet Kathleen McClure was born to our son Trent and his wife Kristi bringing our total to 8 grandchildren. They moved back to San Diego in the spring after Trent was promoted in the Boy Scouts of America. Kristie has her hands full with an active 3 year old Danny, and sweet lady Vi.   


Miles about to go in for surgery

We visited them in early July. In early October we visited again to celebrate Daniels’ 3rd Birthday. We also slipped over to Mexico and Dion had her turn at some dental work and got in a short visit with her mom again, who turned 80 in October. After we got settled in Tacoma Miles’ DR. determined that he needed to have surgery to take care of the prostate cancer. The surgery was scheduled in early August and we wanted to be settled closer to Dion’s work in a place of our own before he went in. We found a condo in our price range just South of Seattle and moved once again mid-July. Miles’ surgery went well and he has mostly recuperated. He has accepted a part time position with an apprenticeship school beginning in January. He will be teaching the things he did for 36.5 years @ Boeing. In late October Miles went down to Arizona to help Dion’s mom out with several projects around the house so that she can put her house on the market and possibly move back to the PNW. He also stopped and helped Trent with some extensive yard renovating.

                                                                                                   

Josh and his wife Allyl and daughter Ainsley

Josh and Allyl are very busy in San Diego. Josh is a spokesperson for Pregnancy Resources clinics which are opposing new legislation in CA. This is on top of his regular dutes as CEO, husband and father. Allyl is busy as a nurse practitioner, learning french cooking and the french language, We are looking forward to a trip down there in January to celebrate Ainsleys’ 5th Birthday. We immediately got involved with a church up here that is pastored by some missionary friends from Chile’, Vic and Pam Deleon. They have embraced us, and are helping us to adapt to life back here in the states. God is, and has always been in control and we praise Him while we heal and wait for His leading into the next phase of life. This life looks so different from the one we left behind. We are excited for the healing and new direction he is taking us in, and marvel at His care for us in all of our transitions. "For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the LORD, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope." Jeremiah 29:11.