January 2026 Update

Greetings! We pray you had a grand and worshipful Christmas and a joyous New Year! We
have been on the road and struggling with colds, but otherwise have had a great time celebrating our Savior’s birth and bringing in the new year. To finish out the year of 2025, Oasis had a Christmas party as our last monthly event. We hosted 20+ students at the lovely home of one of our board members for games, delicious treats, and presents; we also did our yearly Christmas Challenge (which is a fun series of questions that helps us see how much of our knowledge of the Christmas story is biblical, and how much of it is informed by our culture and traditions), and one of our leaders then read the Christmas story from the Gospel of Luke to the teens. Two evenings later, at the same home, we held the last meeting of the Well for the year, which was also essentially a Christmas party where we watched A Charlie Brown Christmas
and the original How the Grinch Stole Christmas (original). The weekly Well will start back again on January 12 th at 6:30 PM. We will be meeting this month at Calvary Chapel in Holbrook. We will continue studying our identity in Christ. The Next Chapter also took a break for the holidays, but will begin meeting again on the night of January 15 th . We will continue to read aloud and discuss essays that deal with defending the Christian faith while enjoying good fellowship, coffee, and sweets. Our monthly event for January will be on the 23 rd . We are planning to take a group of students to Flagstaff to go snow tubing, which is always a frigid favorite.
This semester we will also be fundraising in order to take students to Worldview Academy
leadership camp this summer. Each student must raise approximately $800. Worldview Academy trains Christians to think and live in accord with a biblical worldview so they are better equipped to serve Christ and engage the culture. We have around 10 students signed up so far and look forward to how God uses their experience at camp to strengthen their faith in Christ and give them courage to share Jesus with others.

On a personal note, our daughter Abigail completed her first semester of college (she made
the Dean’s List!) and we got to spend several weeks with her. She is now back gearing up for the
spring semester. Please remember her (and us) in prayer, as she is far from home and dealing with all that goes into navigating college in today’s world. On another family note, Naomi, our second daughter, has been accepted at a gap year program this fall and we are looking forward to seeing how God uses this time in her life to direct her future.

As always, THANK YOU for your part in this ministry; we truly could not do it without your prayers and giving!

Blessings,

Jerad, Carrie

Abi, Naomi, & Sarah