{"id":416,"date":"2022-12-19T21:23:41","date_gmt":"2022-12-19T14:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/c2newsletter.wpcomstaging.com\/?p=416"},"modified":"2022-12-19T21:23:41","modified_gmt":"2022-12-19T14:23:41","slug":"merry-christmas-from-the-clouser-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/c2newsletter.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/19\/merry-christmas-from-the-clouser-family\/","title":{"rendered":"Merry Christmas from the Clouser Family"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c2newsletter.wpcomstaging.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/IMG_8467-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-418\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Merry Christmas from the Clouser Family<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Christmas break started last Friday afternoon; Stephani and the girls finished their first semester at Grace International School. It\u2019s also hard to believe that we\u2019ve been in Chiang Mai for six months now!&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We have many things to be thankful for over the last six months:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>The community at Grace welcomed Stephani and the girls with open arms. Zoey &amp; Jayden were lovingly welcomed into Christian fellowship by their peers.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>We\u2019ve been reconnecting with old friends and building new relationships since we arrived here.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>We were blessed by the Hill Family, who sub-let us their house and car for six months while they were on home leave.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>We\u2019ve been healthy.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Stephani has settled into a routine with her 6th-grade class and lesson planning; her workdays and school weeks have become shorter, and she\u2019s no longer going to work in her classroom on Saturdays.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>We\u2019ve enjoyed watching Zoey &amp; Jayden play soccer; this fall, Zoey also started running cross country.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>We\u2019ve found a home that we will move into sometime in the days after Christmas.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The weather has gotten less wet and much cooler in the last month.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>We\u2019ve also been blessed by many of you and wanted to let you know that we\u2019ve appreciated your emails, encouragement, and support.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/c2newsletter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/clouser2-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-419\" srcset=\"https:\/\/c2newsletter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/clouser2-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/c2newsletter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/clouser2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/c2newsletter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/clouser2-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/c2newsletter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/clouser2-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/c2newsletter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/clouser2-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Hill family, who sub-let us their apartment and car, will return to Chiang Mai on January 2<sup>nd<\/sup>, which means we had to rent a house, and we\u2019re still trying to figure out how to acquire a car. Our finances are better than they were a month ago: Stephani drew a salary from Crossworld this month, and Ken will also start drawing a part-time salary next month. We also started drawing from one of Ken\u2019s retirement accounts; hopefully, that will be temporary. We also know that the economic picture in the US isn\u2019t as good as it has been in previous years and that many of you have been impacted.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Moving here directly from China has really been shockingly expensive. When they join a sending organization, most missionaries spend a few years preparing and raising support. We know that God was directing us to move straight here; we know that God has consistently taken care of all our needs, but we still stress and worry about how He will answer our prayers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We\u2019ve prayed about how to meet our needs and feel that we\u2019ve been directed to ask you for your prayers of support and help in meeting those needs.&nbsp; We are at sixty percent of our monthly support budget and are still looking for support partners. Our biggest immediate need, at this moment, is a car, and they are not cheap here. To get one that is 7 to 10 years old without excessive mileage and a warranty to help us out if we have car trouble will cost us about $15,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please pray about how you might be able to assist us with purchasing a car. If you are interested in helping us specifically with a car, whether you can only help a little or if you can help with the whole thing, please contact Ken at kenclouser@gmail.com or Stephani at stephanicramer@gmail.com. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We appreciate you and wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We love you too!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stephani, Ken, Zoey, &amp; Jayden Clouser<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Merry Christmas from the Clouser Family Christmas break started last Friday afternoon; Stephani and the girls finished their first semester at Grace International School. It\u2019s also hard to believe that we\u2019ve been in Chiang Mai for six months now!&nbsp; We have many things to be thankful for over the last six months: The Hill family, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c2newsletter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c2newsletter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c2newsletter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c2newsletter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c2newsletter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/c2newsletter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c2newsletter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c2newsletter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c2newsletter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}