November/December 2007 Vol.

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Family Updat e Prayer Requests

We greatly value your prayers
on our behalf for the
following:

That the Lord would continue

to direct our future steps in
our last 1½ years at Covenant
Seminary.

For the rest of our financial

support to come in.

For safety in travels over the

Christmas break and
refreshing times with family
and friends.

For continued strength and

endurance for Kelli in the
As many of you know, it was an extraordinarily difficult fall for our entire
midst of her pregnancy.
family. It was with great joy that we learned that Kelli is pregnant. We had
been praying for this for sometime. From the very beginning, one of our
That those we serve would
prayers was that Kelli would not struggle with morning sickness to the same
come to know Christ.
degree that she did when she was pregnant with Maia. However, as Kelli
entered into the fifth week of the pregnancy, our worst fears began to be
confirmed. It would be another 2½ months before Kelli would begin to feel
like herself again. We can honestly say that this has been one of the most difficult times in our lives. But God was
gracious to us. Both my (cont’d, p.2)

Book R ecom mendati on

“Jay, one of our church members, recently shared with me: ‘I was a Christian
for twenty-two years. But instead of being a twenty-two year-old Christian, I was
a one-year-old Christian twenty-two times! I just kept doing the same things over
and over and over again.’…Our problem revolves around misapplied biblical
truths that not only damage our closest relationships but also obstruct God’s
work of profoundly transforming us deep beneath the iceberg of our lives.”

–Emotionally Healthy Spirituality by Peter Scazzero

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 (cont’d from p. 1) mom and Kelli’s mom were
able to come and help out for a
span of a month and a half. We
felt lifted up by your prayers and
are so grateful for all the notes and
e-mails of encouragement that you
sent our way. Kelli’s sickness is
now regulated by her medications
and she is able to function now in a
mostly normal day-to-day manner. God
gave me the grace to finish my semester and our entire family is
looking forward to a break and some time with our families back on the east coast.
Through the recent challenges of life, the teachings of professors at school and
the community of our church, God continues to teach us much about his
faithful love for his people. We pray that you also will experience his
powerful grace in your life this Christmas season. And as you enter into
2008, may you encounter his love in life altering ways.

Ministry Updat e
This November, the Servant Ministry Team that I have
been working with helped to put together a
conference—titled Plotting Hope—to discuss how to
better serve the needs of the hurting in the
Maplewood/Richmond Heights area of St. Louis. On the first night of the conference we held a roundtable
discussion with the Mayor of Maplewood, the assistant superintendent of the MRH schools and several other key
community leaders. The following day, Professor Greg Perry, of Covenant Seminary, gave two talks on the
motives for serving others. As I continue my work with the SMT, we hope to carry on the dialog that has started
with our community in order to discover the best ways that we can help those around us who are hurting. For the
time being, we continue to do what we can to aid people meet their overdue rent bills and to help faciliate change
in their lives when they are out of work or in need of other forms of support (whether those needs be physical,
financial, emotional or spiritual).

Fund raising Video

To date, we have raised nearly 77% of our support. Watch the new Seilback Family Christmas special, O
However, in order to continue our work through the end Christmas Tree @ www.mattandkelliseilback.com.
of the 2008-2009 school year, we still need to raise Click on the link at the top of the page titled, Videos.
another $5,991. If you have not yet had an opportunity to
make a donation towards our work at Crossroads Church,
would you please consider us in your year-end giving?

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