Dear Praying Friend,

New Year Greetings from the Hobsons!

One administrative note before we jump into the prayer letter: We’ve found our long-standing email address of 13 years(!) HobsonSJ@JMF.org.ph to be more and more problematic. It’s time for a change. We are now using HobsonSJ2002@yahoo.com as our primary address. If you still have our old JMF address in your address book, would you make the change now? Thanks.

For those of you that like the “SHORTER VERSION,” of our prayer letter, here ’tis . . .

The Hobson family looks back on 2009 as a strange roller coaster year, full of gut wrenching challenges and amazing answers to prayer. The year started well. By the end of February, Steve had finished his class and helping lead a faculty retreat, while Jan had completed teaching her annual World Missions Seminar. But on Feb 23, 2009 we were notified that our 22 year old son David was in the hospital in North Carolina – his five year battle with chronic pain had hit a new low. We jumped on a plane as fast as we could, and have been based here in NC helping him since then. David is doing better now. We have made progress but it is slow. Thankfully we have new doctors that really understand his needs.

Even from the USA we both continued to contribute to the work at IGSL: supplying class notes and guiding substitute teachers, doing administration by email, mentoring via skype, etc. Praise God for the technology that makes a virtual presence possible!! In 2009 Steve also made three trips to Manila to oversee and/or teach in Doctoral program classes. During 2009 he spent a total of almost 5 months in the Philippines! The highlight of those trips was taking a group of Biblical Peacemaking students for onsite DMin classes in the conflict ridden island of Mindanao.

Be assured that you are continuing to have a major impact in Asia through us! We intend to return to living in Manila as soon as God opens the way. Thank you so much for your prayer!

Yours for the Training of Asian Harvest Leaders,

Steve & Jan

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