I’d love to introduce you to a new friend of mine. Her name is Hannah and she was born on October 12, 1999. Later this year Hannah will celebrate her eighth birthday, and on October 12, 2012 she will observe her thirteenth birthday. Hannah is a typical kid in many ways. She likes dolls and would love to ride horses someday. She enjoys school and has several friends in her church’s Sunday School class. Hannah would also like to be a missionary someday. She recently met a foreign missionary family and now claims that family as her pen pals. Hannah saves all of their missionary letters and e-mails in a journal her mom gave her, and she prays faithfully that someday she’ll be able to serve as a missionary too.

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Happy New Year from RBP Student Ministries! I admit that I’m not much for making New Year’s Resolutions. I know myself well enough to realize that I’m not all that resolute (which means stubborn, unwavering, and determined) to actually keep very many personal year-by-year commitments. After all, I’m old enough and have been in the ministry long enough to realize that I don’t exercise enough and that I really need to lose some weight. My doctor has already told me to cut down on salt and to watch my cholesterol intake. However, my ministry travels the past few weeks have made me realize that perhaps it’s time to take a fresh look at making some ministry commitments during the 2007 year. Since this is my newsletter, I’ll share my resolutions here with our readers. I know that each of you will undoubtedly come up with your own list, but here are a few things the Lord has been impressing on my heart recently.

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