A Ministry Update ~ February 2023

 

It's been awhile! So much has happened, it was hard to know WHAT to write about! If you sent us your Christmas news, Thank You! This was the first year we didn't even do that! But... We've got a new bio on the NOVO website. Click to read about our new roles, our history, and a nugget about the boys.

If you want to know more than what's there, I've added a little more here. Last month a praying friend sent us an email asking for an update on our boys and if I'm still writing to prisoners.  Kimberly & a New Team: Makers All these years I've been focused mostly where my "boots are on the ground." In this new chapter, I get the opportunity share what I've learned about adding creativity to gospel movements with missionaries around the world. About 10 years ago, Artists across CRM/Novo had found each other and started meeting virtually. Together they explored creative ways to partner in seeing the Kingdom of God come. I joined these Makers after returning to the USA. None of these missionaries live in the same place. Many of us have decades of residential cross cultural experience. The results of our coming together virtually has prompted Novo to invite us to create a team. Since the summer, and a reorgainization with NOVO, we now get to infuse creativity into all of Novo - to pass on what we've been learning. We are being invited as a team to go where other teams are and teach, inspire, and co-create with them.  February 16-26th I'm heading to Spain for SentWell's Storehouse retreat. With some others in new positions with Novo, we will have some time face-to-face for prayer, planning, and collaborating. Well, yes, and enjoying this opportunity to be in a beautiful place together seeking the Lord. Alice Collier in the photo with me is our team leader. We were together in Chattanooga last month to do some planning for the year. Lots of good ideas! Lord, when the sky is not the limit for ways to creatively serve you in this world, we look to you for guidance and clarity. We need to know the steps to go. At least the next steps! You have affirmed our strengths as creatives by forming this team. But you also know our weaknesses (ie. not so logically strategic)! Thank you for the chance to be together this month to hammer some of that out. Always humbled by your care, support, and partnership with us. Kimberly & Jim Creasman Instagram: @Spicetolife  (My feed includes a bit about getting our boots on the ground of continent #7 prior to Tyler's 30th birthday)

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