We hope this advent season finds you in reflection and contemplation as we prepare ourselves to celebrate the birth of our savior Jesus Christ. Estela's last day of class with the Haitian women was on Thursday. They celebrated by having a Bahamian Christmas dinner. … All in all, the class ended on a high note and the women are enthusiastic about returning in January. … Dan has finished the semester with his students at Atlantic College and is busy grading final exams and preparing syllabi for next semester's classes—Evangelism I and the Gospels.

We also spent this past week hosting Jamie Arthur, an American Baptist volunteer missionary. Jamie is a school nurse and a Red Cross certified HIV/AIDS trainer who comes here with significant volunteer missions experience with the Haitian community in the Dominican Republic. She spent the week giving HIV/AIDS workshops to the Haitian women in Estela's classes and was also able to spend time working with one of Dan's former students who works for the Bahamian Ministry of Health as a nurse and HIV/AIDS counselor.

• Pray for Jamie Arthur as she ministers to the Haitian women in the Bahamas.

At the invitation of a local pastor, we have recently gotten involved in the Bahamas Human Rights Network (BHRN), a newly founded organization that has made Haitian rights one of its major priorities. BHRN has recently received a sizeable grant to fund the translation of literature on immigration rights into Creole as well as to set up free legal aid clinics for Haitian immigrants. They have also initiated dialogue with Haitian community leaders on the island of Abaco about the reconstruction of a Haitian squatter settlement that is still suffering the effects of a major fire that struck the area a few years ago.

As always, we greatly appreciate your continued prayers and financial support, both of which make our ministry possible.

Merry Christmas,

Dan and Estela