{"id":1657,"date":"2018-12-11T15:59:16","date_gmt":"2018-12-11T22:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ibimi.com\/?p=1657"},"modified":"2018-12-31T15:59:52","modified_gmt":"2018-12-31T22:59:52","slug":"grammers-december-2018-letter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ibimi.com\/?p=1657","title":{"rendered":"Grammer&#8217;s December 2018 Letter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Nov &amp; Dec. 2018<br>Dear Friends in Christ,<br>\tEach November, we try to fly back to the east coast to spend Thanksgiving with our family. &nbsp;This is the only time we get to see each other for most of them and we always look forward to the visit. &nbsp;This year, our family surprised us with a surprise party to celebrate our 50th anniversary. &nbsp;It was actually this past August but they weren\u2019t able to get together at that time. &nbsp;We had 4 of our 6 children, their spouses, several of our grandchildren and even one great grandchild there! &nbsp;Sam jr.\u2019s family in Alaska even joined us by \u201cface time\u201d! &nbsp;We feel so blessed with the family that God has given us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\tWe are now back home in AZ and back into the routine of visitation and Bible classes. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The Sunday before Christmas, we will be on the Navajo Reservation for their Sunday services as well as their Christmas dinner. &nbsp;After this coming Sunday, the Bible College classes will be taking a break for the holidays and starting up again in January. &nbsp;It is a joy to us to see various students using their studies to serve the Lord. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\tWe have been asked about that earthquake in Anchorage and how Sam\u2019s family is doing. &nbsp;They were actually in Anchorage for dental appointments that day. &nbsp;Sam was even in the dentist chair and all numbed up for drilling when the quake hit. &nbsp;Amber and the 3 boys were in the hotel and experienced the shaking and power outage, but no-one was hurt. &nbsp;This will mean another trip for them to get their dental work done, but we are thankful for God protecting them.<br><br>\tWe want to wish each of you a Joyous Christmas as we remember that our Creator was \u201cpleased as man with men to dwell\u201d because He knew our need for salvation and was willing to pay the price for us! &nbsp;What love! &nbsp;(We don\u2019t send many Christmas cards outside of our family because of the cost of postage, so please accept this as our Christmas card to you.)<br>\tIf any of you are receiving this monthly letter by US mail but have an email address, please let us know so we can send it electronically. &nbsp;We were just informed that postage goes up again on Jan 1 by $.05. &nbsp;That isn\u2019t much for just one letter, but adds up when multiplied.<br><br>II Cor. 2:11 \u201cYe also helping together by prayer for us.\u201d<br>In Christ,<br>Sam &amp; Janet Grammer &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nov &amp; Dec. 2018Dear Friends in Christ, Each November, we try to fly back to the east coast to spend Thanksgiving with our family. &nbsp;This is the only time we get to see each other for most of them and we always look forward to the visit. &nbsp;This year, our family surprised us with a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"hide_page_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[57,26,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-57","category-grammers","category-missionary-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibimi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibimi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibimi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibimi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibimi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1657"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ibimi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1658,"href":"https:\/\/ibimi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1657\/revisions\/1658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibimi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibimi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibimi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}