Good morning, {First Name}!

2021 sure brought quite the mix, didn't it!!

As I reflect on the past calendar year, I'm sure many of you have experienced similar steps forward....steps back. Gains. Losses. Joys to celebrate. People to mourn. We've been sharpened, challenged, tried, and tested. We've been brought closer to fulfilling every piece of the vision in our hands. For that, we remain grateful. We've faced indescribable adversity and cause to reshape, reframe and restructure ALL of Ignite. From that our resolve is stronger.

We have gained clarity. And our vision, both for the long and short term, is in progress. Like a system update there are steps:

1. Search for the updates
2. Download the updates
3. Install the updates
4. Reboot the device

Isn't it amazing how sometimes those 4 steps can take SO long? Yet in order to upgrade a system, the process must take place and there must be a total shutdown in order to "restart" with the "new" to effectively meet the needs for which the device is designed to fulfill. To this process, we remain steadfast. As we get ready for 2022, we prepare to "install" and "reboot".

We are thankful for each of you who has journeyed through 2021 with us. Thank you for your prayers, your notes of encouragement, your calls, texts, and emails. We are forever appreciative on behalf of every life our hands have touched for His sake. And let's just be frank - without those who support monthly or who have come through with special gifts of time, skillset, and financially, we would not be able to do what we do. You are a part of this team and we are committed to stewarding your generosity well. In a year of very little, yet we have impacted many.....and greatly.

In just over a week we will welcome the new calendar year. Yet there is a stark reality too often ignored at this time of the year. That is, flipping the page from December 31 to January 1 changes a day. A month. A year. It by no means changes a season. So as we now rather eagerly bid farewell to 2021, we press on with thankfulness in all things - for lessons learned, wisdom and perseverance gained, conviction deepened, and vision born.

Our focus will always be: "Don't look back! You're not going that way!"

For today, we simply say thank you again for being a part of our Ignite impact.

Judy



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